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.
How to find historical weather for maritime, sea and ocean locations
Maritime weather data covering many of the world’s oceans and seas is available in Visual Crossing Weather Data Services for viewing, downloading and accessing via the Weather API. This article discusses the available data and the weather elements unique to maritime data. Available maritime weather data Maritime weather data in Visual Crossing Weather is sourced …
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What exactly is a weather record?
A weather record is the smallest unit of weather data that is used in the Visual Crossing Weather accounting process for our plans. Whether you have unlimited data access or are limited to 1000 records per day as a member of our Free plan, it is useful to understand the accounting behind weather records What …
Parameter Based, Web Queries in Excel
In other documents we have show you how to use the Visual Crossing Weather Data Services capability to do Query API loading of weather data directly into Excel. There are three primary Excel use cases for Weather Data. 1) Load a fixed query set of data into a table and reference that table for …
How to schedule weather data queries
In many cases, it is very useful to be able to schedule a weather query to run for you periodically and then deliver the latest data directly into your analysis. Imagine having the forecast for all of your business locations updated fresh each morning in your Excel sheet right before your planning meeting? Consider a …
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 …
What will my weather data cost?
Trying to get an exact price on weather data can be a bit confusing but we have some tools and resources that can help you. In this document we will cover the usage of the Cost Calculator: https://www.visualcrossing.com/weather-data-cost-calculator Also we will cover the reasons why you would choose one plan over another. There are several …
How to Load Weather Data into Microsoft Excel using a Web Query Data Connection
One of the powerful features of the Visual Crossing Weather Service is the ability to query data via a Web Service or URL. This benefits not only coders but rather can be utilized to import data into most Business Intelligence Systems including Excel. When you include your data into Excel, you can refresh the data …
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How to use cURL to download weather data
Visual Crossing’s weather Query Builder makes it easy to build weather API queries and download result data for any date or time period. However, in some use cases you need to move beyond a web-based interface and automate your weather data retrieval. While this is easy to do if you are a coder or scripter, …
How to include sunrise, sunset, moon phase, moonrise and moonset data into your API requests
In addition to providing historical weather observations and weather forecast data, the Weather API also provides astronomical information. This astronomical information includes sunset, sunrise and moon phase data. Why is astronomical information useful? Sunset, sunrise and moon information goes hand-in-hand with weather data in many use cases. The information can help answer some basic questions: …