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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 …
This article provides suggestions on how to troubleshoot and resolve some of the common problems we see people when people attempt to run weather API queries in code. The suggestions are listed in order that you should use to troubleshoot any problems. Is the query being constructed correctly? Weather API requests are typically created by …
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Natural Language Processing (NLP) is an artificial intelligence process used to by computer systems to find the meaning of text content. This allows the human users to ask questions using sentences written in a natural way using normal sentences. Successful NLP systems will allow users to ask questions in different ways and still be able …
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Swift is the key development language on Apple platforms replacing the older Objective-C as the goto language for Apple’s desktop and mobile platforms. Given its importance especially on mobile platforms, it is natural that Swift developers would want to load weather data into their applications. Luckily, frameworks available in Swift’s make it easy to compose …
As C# is a key language used to build powerful applications both inside the .NET Framework and beyond, it is natural that C# developers would want to load weather data into their applications. Luckily, C#’s built-in functions make it easy to compose and execute web queries and also easy parse the JSON results into objects …
The Weather API enables you to return a icon name for each row of weather data. This icon field provides a high level summary of the weather that for that time period and is designed to present a simply view of the weather, such as providing the basis for icon names. You may specify different …
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