How to look up the current weather conditions in the Weather API
Many weather data applications such as weather widgets, weather analytics tools and information displays find it useful to communicate the current weather conditions. These conditions include current temperature, wind speed and direction, recent precipitation and more. Looking up the current weather conditions for one or more locations is easy in the Visual Crossing Weather API. …
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What industries rely on Visual Crossing Weather data?
Weather data is essential to the management and planning of many different industries. Although the use cases vary, the basic requirements for a successful, valuable weather deployment are constant. The first ingredient is business data. Every business records data such as sales, customers, operation tempo, inventory levels, job site status, and energy consumption. The more …
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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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Weather Widget Install Guide
The weather forecast widget displays up to a 15-day weather forecast in a horizontal, scrollable layout. The widget can be added to most common web pages using only simple HTML editing. Sign up for a API key Please visit Weather Data Services to sign up for an free trial account and Weather API key. To …
How can I get bulk weather data?
For projects that don’t want to use a weather API and just need access to bulk weather history or forecast data, Visual Crossing now offers exactly the functionality that you need. You don’t need to be able to code or script in order to be able to use this functionality. Nor do you need to …
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 …
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Get Free Weather Data with our Weather Data Ambassadors Program
The Visual Crossing Ambassadors program is designed to get weather data and weather APIs into the hands of people who may not be able to pay but are willing to help spread the word about Visual Crossing Weather. If this sounds like a good arrangement to you, please read on and sign up below.
Weather data sources and attribution
This document describes the sources of the data used within Visual Crossing Weather Data Weather Forecast Information We combine multiple weather forecast models to create our 16 day weather forecast. When combining the models and forecast. Weather Forecast Sources National Digital Forecast Database (NDFD) : The National Digital Forecast Database provided by NOAA Global Forecast …
How does the wind blow?
In our previous article, we discussed how the sun powers the weather around us. By heating the Earth, the energy from the sun, radiates across space and is absorbed by the Earth. The energy of the earth is raised as therefore so is the temperature. In this article, we will discuss how this energy powers the …