How do we create our multi-location weather forecast?
We have recently expanded our weather forecast up to 15 days into the future for the entire world. But how do we construct this weather forecast? This article describes the data sources we use and the analysis and processing that we perform to provide you with the weather forecast data. The datasources – global and …
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Announcing Real-Time Historical Weather Data Using the MADIS Observational Weather Database
We are pleased to announce that the Visual Crossing Weather History Database now includes real-time weather observations. You can now get up-to-the-minute weather history data including temperature, rainfall, wind, humidity and heat index if you are using the Weather API, downloading historical weather data or using reports and dashboards. MADIS observation weather database The MADIS data feed is the primary source …
Historical Weather Data for Everyone
The Historical Weather Data Dashboard provides a simple way to view historical weather observations. The dashboard gives easy access to a deep history of weather records around them. The data is presented in dashboard form to give you the most optimal weather data consumption available in the business world today. If you then need to …
How We Process the NOAA Integrated Surface Database Historical Weather Data
We use a lot of sources for our weather data. One of the richest sources of historical weather data is the Integrated Surface Database (ISD) from NOAA. The amount of data available is impressive. Hourly or sub-hourly weather records for 1000s of weather stations that are, in some cases, over 100 years old. However obtaining and manipulating …
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Using Microsoft Excel to Analyze Gardening Weather – Part 3, Growing Degree Days
PART 3 – CREATE A GROWING DEGREE DAYS CALCULATOR USING HISTORICAL AND FORECAST WEATHER DATA Download the free Degree Day Excel workbook (no add-in required) Learn more In our previous gardening weather blog, we have learned how to use Microsoft Excel to analyze the historical and forecast weather data of a location. We can now identify the …
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Using Microsoft Excel to Analyze Gardening Weather and Climate – Part 2
PART 2 – CREATING AN MICROSOFT EXCEL GARDENING WEATHER FORECAST In our previous gardening weather blog, we set up a Microsoft Excel workbook that displays a summary of the historical weather information for a location targeted towards the gardener. With the historical Excel workbook, we can understand the climate that they can expect for a particular …
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A Mountain of Weather Data
Does the number of people who visit Mount Rushmore depend on the weather? In this blog I investigate the correlation between the daily Mount Rushmore visitor counts and the weather that occurred on those days. I was in the process of considering a trip to visit Mount Rushmore, and being a data guy, I decided …
Using Microsoft Excel to Analyze Gardening Weather and Climate – Part 1
PART 1 – CREATING AN HISTORICAL WEATHER DASHBOARD It’s hard to think of an activity that depends on the weather and climate more than gardening. How cold does my location get? When is the last frost date? Is it too hot for this kind of plant? Do I need to water, or will it rain …
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Weather Data in Microsoft Excel
Does weather affect my business? This seems like a simple question but as many of us have quickly learned, it is not a simple task. I have performance data for a set of stores and I am pretty certain that weather has been affecting my business, but I need create an analytical sheet to be …
Where can I find historical weather data?
If you have spent some time looking for historical weather data, you will have found that finding a reliable source can be a time consuming and lengthy affair. In this blog, we are going to use Microsoft Excel to find the historical weather and climate information for a location. We also provide weather history and …
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