Articles, videos, and documentation to help you get the most from Visual Crossing Weather
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 …
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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In our previous articles about integrating Weather History data into Power BI and Microsoft Excel, we have used the Visual Crossing Weather API to retrieve historical weather data. In this article we discuss how to make those weather data queries automatically read the latest weather conditions using Microsoft Power Query. If you would like to …
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Dark Sky have recently announced the termination of their Dark Sky Weather API. In this article, we describe the steps to convert an existing application from the Dark Sky API to the Visual Crossing Weather API. API Differences Both the Dark Sky API and the Visual Crossing Weather API offer weather data APIs however there …
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In addition to basic weather forecast information, we also support retrieving weather alerts for many locations. Weather alerts are alerts, warnings and other high priority information issued by local weather organizations that indicate severe weather or other weather conditions of note that the population should take action on or be aware of. Geographical availability We …
This article describes how dates and times are described in the Weather API output results. Most weather information includes a date or date and time to indicate the time period for the weather information. It is possible to retrieve the date and time information in different formats depending on the usage of the data. API …
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.
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 ICON: icosahedral …
Visual Crossing Weather is the perfect alternative to the Dark Sky API. We not only have a superior weather API solution, but we can help you migrate your application to our API before Dark Sky turns off its API.
Finding historical weather data for any time range using Visual Crossing Weather is very easy. However, a common question we get is how to use the date chooser calendar control to quickly jump months, years, or even decades. This short video will show you how to become a master of the calendar widget in just …