Easy Weather Forecasts for Shipping & Delivery
One of the best utilizations of weather data in business is for ensuring that your shipment of sensitive materials will not be damaged due to heat or cold exposure. Everything from candy, wine, beer, plants, photographs and pharmaceuticals can all have their quality dramatically impacted from the weather. You will get an immediate return on …
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Understanding and optimizing the Visual Crossing Weather Pay-as-you-go plan
The Visual Crossing Weather Pay-as-you-go plan (also known as the Metered plan) is one of the easiest-to-use and the most cost-effective weather data plans available today. It is designed to meet the needs of many different types of weather data users and also be a great way for new users to get started using weather …
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Bulk Weather Data in Visual Crossing
Weather Data users typically have a varied systems, datasets and techniques they can work with to download the weather data they need. One common request is where they need extremely large datasets that would either take too long to generate, is unwieldy to download/transfer or it is just tedious to do daily, hourly or in …
How to add historical weather data to Qlik Sense
This article shows the necessary steps to quickly and easily load historical weather data for any location of the world into the cloud solution ‘Qlik Sense’ for further analysis. The tutorial shows step-by-step how to construct the query in the Visual Crossing Weather web interface, how to access the automatically generated connection string and then …
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How to load weather forecast data into Qlik Sense?
This article shows the necessary steps to quickly and easily load weather forecast data for any location of the world into the cloud solution ‘Qlik Sense’ for further analysis. The tutorial shows step-by-step how to construct the query in the Visual Crossing Weather web interface, how to access the automatically generated connection string and then …
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How to make a WordPress plugin that uses shortcodes to show the weather forecast
Note – If you want to use this plugin right away, you can download the ready-to-install version from the WordPress plugins directory. WordPress is a hugely popular content management system used by hundreds of millions of sites across the internet to build websites and blogs. In fact, it bills itself as “the world’s most popular …
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How can I load historical weather data using Google Apps Script?
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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How to use cURL to fetch bulk weather data
The standard Visual Crossing Weather query page makes it easy to create weather API queries and download CSV data for multiple weeks or months and multiple locations. However, sometimes you need to retrieve more weather data than can easily be fetched via simple browser query. If you need thousands of rows of results, many locations, …
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Construction Weather Management Workbook
Have you ever want to do more with weather data in your Excel workbooks? In this blog entry we are going to consider the tasks of a construction site manager and we want to create a workbook where we can easily monitor the weather at a large number of sites to evaluate many different weather …
How can I use weather to verify insurance claims?
Insurance professionals are often called upon to verify insurance claims to see if they make sense given the surrounding circumstances. Frequently those claims involve questions relating to weather. For example, the claimant may report that a heavy storm toppled a tree onto a shed. Did a storm with destructive winds likely come through the claimant’s …
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