Category: Weather API

If you are running, or submitting an entry to, a hackathon, you may find yourself needing a weather API to retrieve weather data. The Visual Crossing Weather API is the perfect API for hackathons as it provides free access and rich features. The Weather API offers hourly historical weather data, 16-day weather forecasts and future …

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Historical precipitation data is an important weather measure that is very useful for many types of personal analyses and business use cases. Whether you are looking for precipitation data to plan a trip, schedule a conference, or optimize agriculture, a weather data service such as Visual Crossing Weather can provide precipitation data easily using global …

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All types of development environments need access to weather data. From command-line tasks such as database ETL, to scripts that drive websites and priority alerts, to mobile apps and complex business applications, weather data drives insight, decisions, and revenue. A good weather API is flexible enough to span all of these use cases, bringing a …

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In this article, we are going to build a simple Microsoft Outlook add-in that shows weather data in an ‘task panel’. Where possible, it will extract location information from the currently open email. It will show the weather history when the email was sent and the weather forecast for the same location. Whenever a message …

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In this article we are going to create a simple web app that displays weather data using the Visual Crossing Timeline Weather API. The output will be a simple HTML page that displays daily and hourly weather history data or weather forecast data (or even beyond) in a table. To download the source code for …

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In this tutorial we will create a simple frost alert using a Raspberry PI and the Visual Crossing Timeline Weather API. The aim of the simple circuit is to use colored LED lights to inform the user if frost or low temperatures are expected. A red light indicates below freezing temperatures are expected, yellow light …

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