Category: Weather API

The Visual Crossing Weather API supports requesting data using OData requests. This makes it easy to integrate weather data into tools that support the ODATA specification. In this article we discuss how to extend the basic ODATA requests to create dynamic queries using ODATA filters. The basic ODATA request As the introductory article discusses, the …

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Many weather data applications such as weather widgets, weather analytics tools and information displays find it useful to communicate the current weather conditions. These conditions include current temperature, wind speed and direction, recent precipitation and more. Looking up the current weather conditions for one or more locations is easy in the Visual Crossing Weather API. …

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Google Apps Script also known as Apps Script or sometimes Google Script, is a scripting language based on JavaScript and used within Google’s G Suite applications. Although it started life as a side project within Google Sheets, today it is used as a scripting language within all of the Google apps family including Google Sheets, …

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I am currently investigating the relationship between weather conditions and accidents by using a dataset of road accidents in Fairfax County, Virginia obtained from the Virginia Department of Motor Vehicles. The first step to perform the analysis is to combine the accident data with the historical weather conditions. In this article, we will discuss how …

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The above error indicates that the servers have identified that the account is attempting to execute more weather requests at a single time than is allowed by the current plan. When a request above the permitted limit is executed, the HTTP response code returned will be “429 Too Many Requests”. In the case of plans …

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Some more complex weather API requests such as history summary requests can take longer times to execute. In those cases, we offer the ability to execute the requests asynchronously. In these cases, the same weather API request is made but, rather than waiting for the full request to complete and return data, the request will …

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The Visual Crossing Weather API provides a simple way to import weather data and climate information into applications and back end systems. In addition, the web services allow developers to easily integrate weather data into web sites and other development projects. This document explains the usage of the available web services including the input parameters …

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