Articles, videos, and documentation to help you get the most from Visual Crossing Weather
Visual Crossing Weather enables users to integrate weather into their every day data processing to help identify trends based on weather and prepare for the effects of the coming weather.
The Weather API and Weather Data Services page allows the user to request weather data by a location value. The location value includes the ability to specify latitude and longitude value. This will allow the weather data to be found for any point in the world whether it’s a city with an address or a …
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We have recently released our new Winter Energy Calculator that uses the weather data for any chosen location to calculate how much energy you will use. By combining the calculated usage with historical energy prices, we then calculate how your bill will change based both on how cold the winter is and how energy prices …
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The Visual Crossing Weather Data platform provides the ability to easily access weather data sets including weather forecast data, weather history data and historical weather summary data. The data is available for download through the Weather Data Query Page and the Timeline Weather API. Core weather columns These columns are common to most weather data sets unless disabled. …
NOTE This Article refers to the legacy query interface. if you are already logged in , you can access the legacy page by clicking the link to the ‘legacy version’ as shown in the screenshot below Overview This article describes how to create annual, monthly and daily climate summaries for any location in the world …
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When you create a simple historical summary, the weather variables are summarized by their default aggregation method for all time periods in question. For example, the maximum temperature is the maximum temperature for all the selected time intervals. Precipitation is the mean across the same time time intervals. In many cases, we don’t want the …
Occasionally when reviewing weather data you come across a weather record that simply doesn’t seem right. Perhaps the precipitation is too high based on what you know about the location or perhaps the temperature is too low, and you know because you live there. At other times you may find missing data within your weather …
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Visual Crossing combines multiple nearby weather reports into a single hourly report. This is done through interpolation which is a powerful feature of the Visual Crossing system for locations that are not near a major reporting station, or where the geography is such that it can create temperatures changes in a short distance. This feature …
As a part of our commitment to our community, Visual Crossing is pleased to offer free access to our data and APIs for qualifying nonprofit organizations. If you work with or know of a nonprofit in need of weather data or a weather API, please let us know and we will work with you to …
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This article describes the best methods to help find additional data sources when looking for historical weather data in remote locations. This article uses the weather data query builder to construct a query to request past weather and to view data and maps to help find data. Step one – check that your location address …
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A weather record is the smallest unit of weather data that is used in the Visual Crossing Weather accounting process for our plans. Whether you have unlimited data access or are limited to 1000 records per day as a member of our Free plan, it is useful to understand the accounting behind weather records What …