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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Where can I find historical heat index and wind chill data?
Historical heat index and wind chill data are very important “feels like” weather measures for use in measuring the comfort level of people and animals outdoors. Whether you are using these metrics to plan events, predict attendance levels, or plan heating and cooling for large groups or your personal outdoor activities, a weather data service …
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Where can I find historical humidity data?
Historical humidity data is an important weather measure that is needed in various business tasks as well as being key for human comfort. Whether you are looking for humidity data to analyze moisture’s effect on a product, understand human comfort levels, or plan tasks for a building project, a weather data service such as Visual …
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Where can I find historical precipitation data?
Historical precipitation data is an important weather measure that is very useful for many types of personal analyses and business use cases. Whether you are looking for precipitation data to plan a trip, schedule a conference, or optimize agriculture, a weather data service such as Visual Crossing Weather can provide precipitation data easily using global …
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Where can I find historical temperature data?
Historical temperature data is one of the most requested weather measures. Whether you are looking for temperature trends for your neighborhood, seasonal temperature changes to manage an outdoor business, or the exact temperature at the time and date of a specific event, a weather data service such as Visual Crossing Weather can provide temperature data …
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How do I run a weather API query using HTTP POST?
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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In what environments can I run weather API queries?
All types of development environments need access to weather data. From command-line tasks such as database ETL, to scripts that drive websites and priority alerts, to mobile apps and complex business applications, weather data drives insight, decisions, and revenue. A good weather API is flexible enough to span all of these use cases, bringing a …
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How to create a Raspberry PI frost alert using a weather api
In this tutorial we will create a simple frost alert using a Raspberry PI and the Visual Crossing Timeline Weather API. The aim of the simple circuit is to use colored LED lights to inform the user if frost or low temperatures are expected. A red light indicates below freezing temperatures are expected, yellow light …
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How to use cURL to fetch bulk weather data
The standard Visual Crossing Weather query page makes it easy to create weather API queries and download CSV data for multiple weeks or months and multiple locations. However, sometimes you need to retrieve more weather data than can easily be fetched via simple browser query. If you need thousands of rows of results, many locations, …
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How to Import Weather Forecast Data and Historical Weather Data into a MySQL Database
In this article, we are going to import weather data into a MySQL database. In addition to setting up the database tables, we will demonstrate techniques to import both historical weather data and weather forecast data. We will include the ways to retrieve the weather data and how to set up a script so the …