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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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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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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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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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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. Does the query run in a browser? If your Weather API query doesn’t …
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