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Hurricane Ida intensified late in August and made landfall west of New Orleans as a category 4 hurricane with sustained winds of 150mph. With it brought a tremendous amount of damaging winds and rain. Over the next few days it went through the middle of the United States from Louisiana, Mississippi, and all the way …
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Open Source software has become a critical component of our daily lives. From robust operating systems and servers, such as the software stack serving your this article, to client applications such as browsers and helpful desktop widgets, nearly everyone benefits from Open Source software daily. With Visual Crossing Weather, we are proud to give back …
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As the world of travel begins to open up again, the planning for the summer vacations will also rise sharply. Where better to go than Universal Studios in either Florida or California? One of the utmost concerns when travel planning is understanding the climate and specific weather forecast so that we can properly prepare clothing, …
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If you are creating a web page that needs to display weather data using client side code such as JavaScript, you may find that your browser blocks the request to the Weather API. Today we discuss how the Timeline Weather API makes solving this easy and painless. How? Because the API supports reading the weather …
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If you are a keen campers or RV-ers like our family, you are looking forward to a summer of exploration. Exploring beaches, cities and mountains around the country is what makes camping and RV-ing such as wonderful experience. However camping is inherently weather-based. Extremely hot or cold weather or strong storms, hurricanes (and blizzards if …
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It is often useful to know weather or not it rained on a specific date in the past at a location. And beyond that, it can be important to know how much rain fell. What is a downpour or just a trace? This article will show you how to get the answer to your question …
It is often useful to know what the temperature was on a specific date in the past at a location. This article will show you how to get the answer to your question in just a few seconds. There are several easy ways to do this, and we’ll start with the most simple. Using the …
This articles describes how to quickly view past weather data in the browser, download past weather information as a data set or access the historical data programmatically via a weather API. Finding past weather can seem daunting depending upon the type and volume of data as well as the format you need it in. Whether …
The recent February 2021 cold weather disaster in Texas highlights the value of weather information and forecast alerts. But how cold did it get and how far was this from historical norms? Let’s take a look using a dashboard that can show us historically low temperature ranges. Here are graphs that shows bands of normal, …
How Do I Get a 7-day Forecast? There are many types of forecasts and many lengths of forecasts. However, as we choose from our myriad of options the one thing that is clear is that the longer the forecast, the less accurate. However the one that stands out as the most-used on a daily basis …