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Heavy rain and mountain snow have again impacted California, resulting in water rescues, enormous numbers of damaged trees, and power outages in the Bay Area. Rainfall on top of moist soil leads to flash floods and landslides. Weakly rooted trees in the wet soil are being blown over by the high winds, interrupting electricity and …
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Often when requesting weather data via the weather API we wish to request data for a fixed period based on the current data. For example, request the data for yesterday, today or the next seven days. The time period parameter of the weather API allows you to easily request data for dynamic time periods. Example …
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Visual Crossing is the perfect replacement for the Yahoo Weather API offering up to 1000 free results a day and full access to forecast and historical data.
Maritime weather data covering many of the world’s oceans and seas is available in Visual Crossing Weather Data Services for viewing, downloading and accessing via the Weather API. This article discusses the available data and the weather elements unique to maritime data. Available maritime weather data Maritime weather data in Visual Crossing Weather is sourced …
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On Friday, a powerful winter storm brought heavy rain over large areas of California. This increased the possibility of serious floods and prompted some cities to issue evacuation alerts. The storm began on Thursday and was known as an atmospheric river. According to the forecasters, heavy rainfall and snow were expected in some areas of …
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After days of rain caused flooding that affected thousands and claimed the lives of at least four people. Over the past day, the flood situation in Peninsular Malaysia has become direr. Over 30,000 people from the states of Johor, Pahang, Malacca, and Negeri Sembilan have fled to emergency shelters, according to the country’s disaster officials. …
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When watching a typical weather forecast, the TV meteorologist will often refer types of temperatures. In addition to simply stating the temperature, they will refer to other metrics such as the heat index, wind chill, feels like or RealFeel temperature. What is the difference between these values and why do we have them? Why make …
California has experienced a mix of storms and snowfall for the past few days, flooding some towns and snowing at higher altitudes. Wind gusts and freezing temperatures have been reported in certain areas, creating dangerous conditions across the state. The Associated Press reported flash flooding in Ventura County early Saturday morning after over 7 inches …
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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 …
In other documents we have show you how to use the Visual Crossing Weather Data Services capability to do Query API loading of weather data directly into Excel. There are three primary Excel use cases for Weather Data. 1) Load a fixed query set of data into a table and reference that table for …