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Documentation for Weather Data, the Weather API and its uses in code, programming, data science and other applications.
NOTE This Article refers to the legacy query interface. if you are already logged in , you can access the legacy page by clicking the link to the ‘legacy version’ as shown in the screenshot below Overview This article describes how to create annual, monthly and daily climate summaries for any location in the world …
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When you create a simple historical summary, the weather variables are summarized by their default aggregation method for all time periods in question. For example, the maximum temperature is the maximum temperature for all the selected time intervals. Precipitation is the mean across the same time time intervals. In many cases, we don’t want the …
The Weather API includes a unitGroup parameter that allows you to specify the units that will be used when returning weather data. This article describes the units within each group. The API uses four group ids to indicate the units that will be used – us, metric, uk and base. us – United States Weather …
Occasionally when reviewing weather data you come across a weather record that simply doesn’t seem right. Perhaps the precipitation is too high based on what you know about the location or perhaps the temperature is too low, and you know because you live there. At other times you may find missing data within your weather …
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Visual Crossing combines multiple nearby weather reports into a single hourly report. This is done through interpolation which is a powerful feature of the Visual Crossing system for locations that are not near a major reporting station, or where the geography is such that it can create temperatures changes in a short distance. This feature …
The Weather APIs include a ‘conditions’ field which represents a summary of the key weather features for a particular weather record (be it daily, hourly or subhourly record). How is the condition field calculated? The weather conditions field is created by examining the weather that will be or was experienced during that weather record. If …
As a part of our commitment to our community, Visual Crossing is pleased to offer free access to our data and APIs for qualifying nonprofit organizations. If you work with or know of a nonprofit in need of weather data or a weather API, please let us know and we will work with you to …
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In this article, I’m going to show you how to easily load historical weather data for any worldwide location into Microsoft Power BI for further analysis. We’ll walk through the process step-by-step showing you how to construct the query in Visual Crossing Weather web interface and then use the query URL to import the weather …
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This article describes the best methods to help find additional data sources when looking for historical weather data in remote locations. This article uses the weather data query builder to construct a query to request past weather and to view data and maps to help find data. Step one – check that your location address …
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The following HTTP response codes can be returned : 200- OK– request was successful. 400 – BAD_REQUEST – if you requests is invalid in some way (invalid dates, bad location parameter etc). 401 – UNAUTHORIZED – when the API key is incorrect or your account status is inactive or disabled. In this case, check your …