Where can I find historical wind data?
Learn how to find historical wind data for any location using a weather data service such as Visual Crossing Weather. Start analyzing wind patterns & trends!
How do I find old weather data?
Quick historical weather look up Find historical weather by searching for a city, zip code, or address. You can select a date or range of dates on the next page. Get Old Weather Data Full steps to look up weather history data for any location: Visit https://www.visualcrossing.com/weather-history Enter your location and your date range Click …
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 We Built the Winter Energy Calculator
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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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 …
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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How historical weather data is updated
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 …
Weather Data and Weather APIs for Nonprofit Organizations
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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Finding historical weather data for remote locations
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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