Articles, videos, and documentation to help you get the most from Visual Crossing Weather
Documentation for Weather Data, the Weather API and its uses in code, programming, data science and other applications.
For those who love to see and use their weather data embedded in other applications, Visual Crossing Weather extensions bring that experience directly into some of your favorite environments. Whether you are into content management, ecommerce, or just placing a weather widget on your own website, Visual Crossing’s ever-growing library of weather extensions will help …
Google Go, also referred to as Golang, is an open-source programming language developed by Google. Launched in 2009, Go was designed with a focus on simplicity, efficiency, and readability. It especially excels in building networked and distributed systems and is particularly known for its fast compilation speed. With a growing community and support from major …
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To analyze and manage your API usage it can be helpful to have a quick and basic overview of the usage. 1. Open the Visual Crossing Weather Data Services page. 2. Log in to your account using the email account associated with the subscription you would like to cancel. 3. Hit the ‘Account’ button 4. …
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The Timeline Weather API permits a single location for each API request. In some situations, it is convenient to submit multiple locations in the same request rather than as separate API calls. This article describes how to use the Multiple Timeline Weather API endpoint to request weather data for multiple locations in the same call. …
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The weather data returned by the Visual Crossing Weather API and Data Query Builder includes both the amount of precipitation and also the type of precipitation that occurred or is forecast to occur. In this article, we discuss the exact difference between the possible precipitation types that you may encounter. Where to find the precipitation …
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The goal of this short article is to give you the tools to submit a technical support case that is actionable from the very first submission. This will help us provide the quickest and best response possible while minimizing the chance that we misunderstand your question or need to ask you for more information.
For trouble shooting purposes it is often helpful and sometimes needed to have the exact query string at hand, which is send to Visual Crossing when using the Graphical User Interface of the Web Query Builder. This helps, amongst others, with identifying connectivity problems or interface compatibilities. Moreover it is needed by our data quality …
Analyzing historical weather forecast data is an important facet for many weather data users beyond standard forecasts and historical observations. Historical forecasts are often more important for business analysis than traditional historical observation data because customers in many cases base their decisions on future forecast and not the actual weather on a given day. Consider …
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You may cancel your subscription to Visual Crossing Weather Data at any time through the Visual Crossing Weather Data Services page. When cancelling your subscription, your current plan will be available until the end of the current subscription period. You may restart your subscription or change plans at any time. How to cancel using the …
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Your private and confidential data is a very important asset, and Visual Crossing takes great care to ensure that any confidential data entrusted to us stays completely confidential. A key tenet of our data protection regimen is that we always work with the minimum amount of confidential data possible and use it only for the …
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