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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. Weather alerts are …
Fort Lauderdale and the surrounding cities in southeast Florida are working to return to normal after devastating flooding forced the closure of schools, government buildings, and other essential services. On Wednesday, the area experienced an extraordinary amount of rainfall, equivalent to a month’s worth, in just one hour, resulting in streets in Fort Lauderdale resembling …
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While it is very easy to run weather queries using HTTP GET requests, there are times when it is preferable or even necessary to use HTTP POST requests instead. While HTTP POST requests are a little more complicated to configure and execute, they are well within the reach of any modern script or language. Also, …
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From January 1st through April 5th, Orlando is experiencing one of its driest periods since the late 1800s, with less than 2 inches of rainfall. This has also been the warmest season ever recorded in the city. The U.S. Drought Monitor, a collaboration of universities and federal environmental agencies, has identified a severe drought expanding …
At least 32 people were killed last weekend as a series of tornadoes ripped across the South and Midwest of the United States. Homes were severely damaged, and hundreds of people lost electricity due to the violent storms. Almost 80 tornadoes have been recorded by the National Weather Service since March 31. The states of …
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On Friday night, severe storms and at least one tornado hit the Southeast, shredding off roofs, demolishing houses, and leaving millions without electricity. At least 26 people were killed, and dozens more were injured due to the devastating tornado and severe thunderstorms. On Sunday, severe storms affected over 20 million people throughout the southern United …
Aliaba Cloud DataWorks is an end-to-end big data development and governance platform that provides data warehousing, data lake, and data lakehouse solutions based on big data compute engines. Weather data is widely used in a variety of scenarios in data analytics and AI applications and hence often to be integrated in your data load scenarios. …
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A weather API is an Application Programming Interface that allows weather data to be queried from scripts and code. Good weather APIs provide both historical weather data and forecast data via an easy-to-use, well-defined programming interface. The best APIs have dozens of weather measures, near-real-time current conditions reporting, and decades of worldwide historical weather reports. …
The Timeline Weather API includes elements that are designed for use by the agricultural, farming and horticultural industries. These elements are designed to providing weather data that influence those who grow plants or raise livestock. The elements on this page are available only to certain subscription levels. For more information, please see our pricing page. …
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The Weather API uses a set of standards to include date time information. This article describes the standards used. Date formats in the Weather API Visual Crossing uses ISO 8601 based date formats for both date and times. Dates are formatted according to YYYY-MM-DD format (2022-06-15 for June 15th 2022). Times are formatted according to HH:mm:ss. The hours are specified in …