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How do I find my nearest weather station?

Visit https://www.visualcrossing.com/weather-history Enter your location and any date range Scroll down to the “Location and station map” section to find your nearest station Background Most weather data today is collected and stored by weather stations all over the globe. Weather stations are all around us; often residing at local airports or municipal locations. When you are looking for weather …

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Visual Crossing Weather Data Availability Guide

This guide has been created to document the date and geographic ranges available for the various Visual Crossing Weather Data offerings. Please note, however, that much of our data is collected from weather stations and other physical resources. Because of the limitations of these resources, not every weather measure is available for all locations and …

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How to create annual or monthly climate summaries and normals for a location

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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How do I create daily statistics for historical weather summaries and climate reports?

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 …

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I think that I’m seeing bad weather data. What should I do?

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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