Weather API – Page 3 – Visual Crossing Weather

January 30, 2023January 31, 2023

How to load weather data in JavaScript using Fetch API, jQuery, d3 or node.js

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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January 26, 2023

How to load weather data in PHP

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, …

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January 18, 2023February 1, 2023

Degree Days Weather API

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 …

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September 29, 2022

How to create or modify language files

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 …

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September 14, 2022February 3, 2023

Defining the icon set parameter in the Weather API

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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August 24, 2022August 25, 2022

How to retrieve hail, tornado, wind damage and earthquake events in the weather API

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 …

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July 25, 2022

Unit groups and measurement units

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 …

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July 5, 2022

Weather Data Conditions

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 …

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April 15, 2022September 15, 2022

HTTP Error Codes

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 …

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March 3, 2022May 3, 2022

How to change your Visual Crossing Weather API key

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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