How to load weather data in C#
As C# is a key language used to build powerful applications both inside the .NET Framework and beyond, it is natural that C# developers would want to load weather data into their applications. Luckily, C#’s built-in functions make it easy to compose and execute web queries and also easy parse the JSON results into objects …
Replacing the OpenWeatherMap API with Visual Crossing Weather
Visual Crossing is a superior replacement for the OpenWeatherMap API (also known as the OpenWeather API) in both cost and functionality. By offering up to 1000 free results a day and full access to forecast historical data, Visual Crossing Weather makes it easy for everyone to test the API, compare data, evaluate extended weather functionality, …
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How to import weather data into Microsoft SQL Server
When you want to drive data analysis of all types including data science and business intelligence applications, loading weather data into a relational databased is often the first step. As one of the most popular database platforms in the world, Microsoft SQL Server is the backend datastore for millions of applications from homebrew to enterprise. …
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Replacing the Weather Underground API
This article provides a step-by-step guide to replacing the Weather Underground API with the Visual Crossing Timeline Weather API. The Timeline Weather API offers a generous free daily API limit and a simple JSON response that is easily used in any existing application or script. This makes the Timeline API, the perfect replacement for the …
Best practices for segmenting your weather queries
When you have a large weather query, it is typically a good idea to segment it into multiple, smaller queries and then execute those separate individually. This is important for more consistent timing performance inside your application, debugging, and timeout avoidance among under reasons. In this article, we will discuss when it makes sense to …
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Understanding the “fair use” system in Visual Crossing Weather
Visual Crossing Weather is the most powerful and cost effective way to obtain weather data for your data analysis project, weather app, or virtually any other weather use case. We pride ourselves in providing the highest-quality weather data at the most affordable prices. In order to protect our user community from runaway scripts, malicious abusers, …
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Did it rain on a date?
It is often useful to know weather or not it rained on a specific date in the past at a location. And beyond that, it can be important to know how much rain fell. What is a downpour or just a trace? This article will show you how to get the answer to your question …
What was the temperature on a date?
It is often useful to know what the temperature was on a specific date in the past at a location. This article will show you how to get the answer to your question in just a few seconds. There are several easy ways to do this, and we’ll start with the most simple. Using the …
How historical weather data is updated
Visual Crossing combines multiple nearby weather reports into a single hourly report. This is done through interpolation which is a powerful feature of the Visual Crossing system for locations that are not near a major reporting station, or where the geography is such that it can create temperatures changes in a short distance. This feature …
How to Find Past Weather Information
This articles describes how to quickly view past weather data in the browser, download past weather information as a data set or access the historical data programmatically via a weather API. Finding past weather can seem daunting depending upon the type and volume of data as well as the format you need it in. Whether …