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Lawyers, paralegals, and other members of the legal profession often need high-quality weather data to help them better understand and prove their cases. However, the requirements for this data are often somewhat different than in other weather data use cases. Unlike other data users who often need a large amount of data representing a broad …
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Although Google disabled their weather API some time ago (except on their Android platform), many developers continue to struggle to find a good replacement option that is both free for standard users and has a powerful forecast and rich history API. With the release of Visual Crossing Weather’s Timeline Weather API, there is now an …
One of the best utilizations of weather data in business is for ensuring that your shipment of sensitive materials will not be damaged due to heat or cold exposure. Everything from candy, wine, beer, plants, photographs and pharmaceuticals can all have their quality dramatically impacted from the weather. You will get an immediate return on …
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The Visual Crossing Weather API is a rich, restful API that you can use to get historical weather data, weather forecast data and even climate data sets into your database, analysis tool or coding project. The API has a rich set of parameters that may be overwhelming at first. In this blog, i describe the …
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Weather data is essential to the management and planning of many different industries. Although the use cases vary, the basic requirements for a successful, valuable weather deployment are constant. The first ingredient is business data. Every business records data such as sales, customers, operation tempo, inventory levels, job site status, and energy consumption. The more …
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While many weather data projects are well served with hourly historical weather records, some have the need for historical weather reports as close as possible down to an exact minute. If your project needs this extra level of finely-detailed data, you already know that it can be difficult and expensive to obtain. Luckily, Visual Crossing …
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Have you ever want to do more with weather data in your Excel workbooks? In this blog entry we are going to consider the tasks of a construction site manager and we want to create a workbook where we can easily monitor the weather at a large number of sites to evaluate many different weather …
Insurance professionals are often called upon to verify insurance claims to see if they make sense given the surrounding circumstances. Frequently those claims involve questions relating to weather. For example, the claimant may report that a heavy storm toppled a tree onto a shed. Did a storm with destructive winds likely come through the claimant’s …
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At its core weather data comes as the result of observing and recording the physical environment around us and around the world. Weather itself is a natural phenomenon that occurs due to various natural cycles on earth such as solar heating, ocean currents, and the chemical composition of our environment. Weather data, then, is just …
Filter and Alert on Large Volumes of Weather Forecast Data. The Weather Alert Workbook is designed for the end-user who wants to query a large number of site forecasts and be alerted to exceptional weather conditions at those locations. It is a free Excel Workbook for all of our users to download and use and/or …