Using remote data sources in the Weather API
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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How to look up weather by latitude and longitude
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 latitude and longitude value. This will allow the weather data to be found for any point in the world whether it’s a city with an address or a …
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How to look up weather by address
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, …
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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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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How To Load Weather Data into Google Sheets using JSON
While it is very easy to load weather data into Google Sheets via CSV, loading JSON can seem a bit more challenging. However, for the savvy Google Sheets user, loading JSON weather data from the Visual Crossing Timeline Weather API is almost as easy as using CSV and offers additional benefit and functionality that CSV …
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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 …
Replacing the Yahoo Weather API
Visual Crossing is the perfect replacement for the Yahoo Weather API offering up to 1000 free results a day and full access to forecast and historical data.
Where can you find high quality Historical Weather Data at a low cost?
Finding weather data on the internet is easy. While finding historical weather data is a little more difficult, there are various places to find data including free consumer sites, government data feeds, and commercial services and APIs. However, the easiest data sources to find tend to be the hardest to use and the least complete. …
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