Replacing the Yahoo Weather API
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.
How to find historical weather for maritime, sea and ocean locations
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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Another Winter Storm in California: Flooding, Landslides, and Power Outages
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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Devastating Malaysia Floods: Worst Affected Areas and Impact on Communities
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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What is the difference between temperature, heat index, wind chill, feels like temperature, apparent temperature and RealFeel Temperature?
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’s Record-Breaking Snow And Rain
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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What exactly is a weather record?
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 …
Parameter Based, Web Queries in Excel
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 …
How to schedule weather data queries
In many cases, it is very useful to be able to schedule a weather query to run for you periodically and then deliver the latest data directly into your analysis. Imagine having the forecast for all of your business locations updated fresh each morning in your Excel sheet right before your planning meeting? Consider a …
Replacing the Weather Underground API
This article provides a step-by-step guide to replacing the Weather Underground API with the Visual Crossing Timeline Weather API. The Timeline Weather API offers a generous free daily API limit and a simple JSON response that is easily used in any existing application or script. This makes the Timeline API, the perfect replacement for the …