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Hurricane Ida intensified late in August and made landfall west of New Orleans as a category 4 hurricane with sustained winds of 150mph. With it brought a tremendous amount of damaging winds and rain. Over the next few days it went through the middle of the United States from Louisiana, Mississippi, and all the way …
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The Visual Crossing Weather API provides access to both historical and future, forecasted weather data. Wherever possible, we use official, physical weather station observations to provide the historical weather data. This ensures that the observations are of the highest quality. However in some cases, such as remote locations away from official weather stations or stations …
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Open Source software has become a critical component of our daily lives. From robust operating systems and servers, such as the software stack serving your this article, to client applications such as browsers and helpful desktop widgets, nearly everyone benefits from Open Source software daily. With Visual Crossing Weather, we are proud to give back …
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The Weather API and Weather Data Services page allows the user to request weather data by a location value. The location value includes the ability to specify an address or partial address. The location value can also be a latitude and longitude value, a US zip code or weather station ID. When specifying the address, …
The MATLAB language built into the MATLAB numeric computing environment is a powerful tool that powers all type of data science and numerical analysis across many different fields. So, it is natural that MATLAB developers would want to load weather data for use in their calculations. Luckily, MATLAB has built-in functions make it extremely easy …
This article provides suggestions on how to troubleshoot and resolve some of the common problems we see people when people attempt to run weather API queries in code. The suggestions are listed in order that you should use to troubleshoot any problems. Does the query run in a browser? If your Weather API query doesn’t …
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Natural Language Processing (NLP) is an artificial intelligence process used to by computer systems to find the meaning of text content. This allows the human users to ask questions using sentences written in a natural way using normal sentences. Successful NLP systems will allow users to ask questions in different ways and still be able …
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Swift is the key development language on Apple platforms replacing the older Objective-C as the goto language for Apple’s desktop and mobile platforms. Given its importance especially on mobile platforms, it is natural that Swift developers would want to load weather data into their applications. Luckily, frameworks available in Swift’s make it easy to compose …
As the world of travel begins to open up again, the planning for the summer vacations will also rise sharply. Where better to go than Universal Studios in either Florida or California? One of the utmost concerns when travel planning is understanding the climate and specific weather forecast so that we can properly prepare clothing, …
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At Visual Crossing, we are proud to be a trusted source of weather data to the academic and research communities. To help support students and members of the research community obtain accurate weather information, we offer our Academic plan to individuals who need historical weather data and weather forecast data. I’m a student, how do …
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