Documentation – Page 3 – Visual Crossing Weather

July 12, 2023May 17, 2024

How to query weather forecasts from the past – Historical Forecasts

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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May 26, 2023June 12, 2023

How your data is used within Visual Crossing

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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May 17, 2023

Requesting sub-hourly weather data using the Weather API

Sub-hourly historical weather data, or historical weather data with minute-by-minute resolution can be retrieved by users of the weather API. Please see the weather data editions page for details on which weather API plans include sub-hourly data access. Requests for sub-hourly data mirror the same requests for hourly or daily uses however there are some …

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May 16, 2023May 28, 2024

Bulk Weather Alerts API

The bulk weather alerts API endpoint allows authorized users to retrieve all the active weather alerts for a region or area. Please note: The Bulk Weather Alerts API is currently in testing and open to invited users only. If you would like to be considered for this testing, please send the details of your use …

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May 9, 2023May 9, 2024

Free Weather Tools and Dashboards

One this page you will find a list of our free weather tools and dashboards. These are all accessible without cost and typically without even needing to sign up for a Visual Crossing Weather account. (Of course, we highly recommend that you do sign up as some features are only accessible when logged into our …

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May 2, 2023January 18, 2024

Air Quality Elements in the Weather API

The Timeline Weather API offers optional air quality index elements. This article describes how to include them with your API request. Air Quality Elements are currently available globally with limited history and five day forecast (hourly or daily). Please note: The Air Quality Elements are currently in testing and open to all users to provide …

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April 25, 2023December 5, 2023

Modifying the weather station search parameters

The Weather Data Downloads and Weather API retrieves historical weather data from ground based weather stations, in addition to remote dat The Weather Data Downloads and Weather API retrieves historical weather data from ground based weather stations, in addition to remote data such as satellite and radar. Where possible, we bias the results towards the …

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April 19, 2023April 20, 2023

Weather Alerts

In addition to basic weather forecast information, we also support retrieving weather alerts for many locations. Weather alerts are alerts, warnings and other high priority information issued by local weather organizations that indicate severe weather or other weather conditions of note that the population should take action on or be aware of. Weather alerts are …

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April 13, 2023June 1, 2023

How do I run a weather API query using HTTP POST?

While it is very easy to run weather queries using HTTP GET requests, there are times when it is preferable or even necessary to use HTTP POST requests instead. While HTTP POST requests are a little more complicated to configure and execute, they are well within the reach of any modern script or language. Also, …

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March 23, 2023

How to load Visual Crossing weather data into Alibaba Cloud DataWorks

Aliaba Cloud DataWorks is an end-to-end big data development and governance platform that provides data warehousing, data lake, and data lakehouse solutions based on big data compute engines. Weather data is widely used in a variety of scenarios in data analytics and AI applications and hence often to be integrated in your data load scenarios. …

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