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Typical tasks for home automation systems are monitoring and controlling tasks climate control and lighting. Both are tightly related to weather parameters. Climate control obviously to temperature, lighting by cloud cover or the astronomical values of sunrise / -set. In more advanced systems even photovoltaic systems can be connected to information about expected radiation. The …
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The Timeline Weather API allows you to easily retrieve hourly and daily historical weather data and weather forecast data in a single RESTful API call. In this article we demonstrate how to use the API in the Java programming language. For the full source of this example, download it from our GitHub repository: https://github.com/visualcrossing/WeatherApi/tree/master/Java/com/visualcrossing/weather/samples The …
Quick historical weather look up Find historical weather by searching for a city, zip code, or address. You can select a date or range of dates on the next page. Get Old Weather Data Full steps to look up weather history data for any location: Visit https://www.visualcrossing.com/weather-history Enter your location and your date range Click …
Many applications need reliable weather forecast data or historical weather data that can be directly accessed from JavaScript code. They may be as simple as a weather forecast widget, a sophisticated historical weather data dashboard built using a JavaScript library such as jQuery, d3 or even a server side JavaScript application using node.js. All of …
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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. …
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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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 …