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Documentation for Weather Data, the Weather API and its uses in code, programming, data science and other applications.
Our 15-day weather forecast is a blended forecast of many of the world’s leading weather models including ECMWF, GFS, ICON and more. We use these models along with real time observations and post-processing to create a forecast for the whole world. Numerical Weather Prediction Our forecast data uses numerical weather predication to create a forecast. …
If you are creating web pages or other applications using PHP, then you may find the need to include weather data directly on your page. When incorporating weather data, you can use a pre-built widget or maybe even a WordPress plugin, however if you want full control over how the data is retrieved and displayed, …
Degree days are a standardized method to calculate the total heat or warmth a location has experienced. They are used in agriculture and gardening to estimate the growth stages of plants and phenology. Degree days can be also be used in building construction and maintenance as a way to estimate the heating and cooling needs …
This guide has been created to document the date and geographic ranges available for the various Visual Crossing Weather Data offerings. Please note, however, that much of our data is collected from weather stations and other physical resources. Because of the limitations of these resources, not every weather measure is available for all locations and …
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Weather plays a crucial role in many planning processes. May it be outdoor work tasks, shipping challenges or production related processes. This article shows the necessary steps to load weather forecast data for any location of the world into Microsoft Planner using Microsoft Power Automate. A new Task will be added showing the needed weather …
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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 …
We have recently released our new Winter Energy Calculator that uses the weather data for any chosen location to calculate how much energy you will use. By combining the calculated usage with historical energy prices, we then calculate how your bill will change based both on how cold the winter is and how energy prices …
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The Visual Crossing Weather Data platform is designed to provide global weather data coverage for both historical weather data and weather forecast information. We want to offer the data in as many languages and locales as possible to help users throughout the world use the data. To facilitate this, we offer our language descriptors information …
The Visual Crossing Weather API has an option to return a icon name for each row of weather data. This icon field provides a high level summary of the weather conditions for that time period and is designed to present a simple view of the weather. You can use these icon names to display visually …
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The Timeline Weather API includes the ability to include storm reports and other significant weather and environmental events that have occurred near to a place of interest. These events can include earthquakes, hail, tornado and wind damage. When found, events are are included in the daily results of the Weather API. What kind of reports …