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The Timeline Weather API includes elements that are designed for use by the agricultural and horticultural industries. These elements are designed to providing weather data that influence those who grow plants or raise livestock. The elements on this page are available only to certain subscription levels. For more information, please see our pricing page. The …
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The Timeline Weather API includes elements that are designed for use by the solar and wind energy industries. These weather elements include measurements of the solar radiation at the earth’s surface and wind speeds and directions. The elements on this page are available only to certain subscription levels. For more information, please see our pricing …
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The Visual Crossing Weather API is a RESTful API that provides historical and forecast weather data. API queries are secured by the use of an API key which uniquely identifies the account. This account is associated with billing information, plans and feature level permissions. You should change your key if you suspect that your API …
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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 Timeline Weather API is the simplest and most powerful way to retrieve weather data. You can request data over any time window including windows that span the past, present, and future. The API will take care of the combining historical observations, current 15-day forecasts, and statistical weather forecasts to create a single, consolidated dataset …
If you are getting an expired certificate error running Visual Crossing Weather API queries, this article will explain the likely cause and how to fix it. The problem On September 30, 2021, an old version of the Let’s Encrypt “intermediate” certificate expired. While our servers have been delivering the updated version of this certificate for …
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The Visual Crossing Weather API provides access to both historical and future, forecasted weather data. Wherever possible, we use official, physical weather station observations to provide the historical weather data. This ensures that the observations are of the highest quality. However in some cases, such as remote locations away from official weather stations or stations …
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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 …
In this article we describe how to create a new Jupyter notebook that retrieves weather data from the Visual Crossing Weather API. We will use Python for our development language but you can choose any language that Jupyter supports including C++ and R. We will be using JupyterLab to create the notebook. JupyterLab is a …
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The MATLAB language built into the MATLAB numeric computing environment is a powerful tool that powers all type of data science and numerical analysis across many different fields. So, it is natural that MATLAB developers would want to load weather data for use in their calculations. Luckily, MATLAB has built-in functions make it extremely easy …