How do I find my nearest weather station?
Most weather data today is collected and stored by weather stations all over the globe. Weather stations are all around us; often residing at local airports or municipal locations. When you are looking for weather history data for your location, most weather systems will simply return data from your nearest station. More intelligent systems like …
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How Historical Weather Data Records are Created from Local Weather Station Observations
Visual Crossing Weather Data offers historical weather data coverage for most locations in the world. To provide as accurate a historical weather data picture as possible, the product looks at multiple nearby weather stations so that the most accurate weather picture is created. This articles explains the process used to create the historical weather records, how …
Weather Data Conditions
The Weather APIs include a ‘conditions’ field which represents a summary of the key weather features for a particular weather record (be it daily, hourly or subhourly record). How is the condition field calculated? The weather conditions field is created by examining the weather that will be or was experienced during that weather record. If …
Finding historical weather data for remote locations
This article describes the best methods to help find additional data sources when looking for historical weather data in remote locations. This article uses the weather data query builder to construct a query to request past weather and to view data and maps to help find data. Step one – check that your location address …
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How to Build a Weather Dataset for Download, Bulk Import or Scheduling
If you have ever tried to download weather data for your specific location(s), timeframe and format needs you will know that it is a challenging exercise. Most of the time the solution is for you use the API to build a script or using coding to create this set. This creates additional cost, time and …
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Timeline Weather API
The Timeline Weather API is the simplest and most powerful way to retrieve weather data. You can request data over any time window including windows that span the past, present, and future. The API will take care of the combining historical observations, current 15-day forecasts, and statistical weather forecasts to create a single, consolidated dataset …
How to load weather data using Python
In this article we load historical weather data and weather forecast data using Python
How to download weather forecast data as a Microsoft Excel Workbook
In this article, I’m going to show how to download weather forecast data as a standard Microsoft Excel file. The estimated time to complete this exercise is less than 5 minutes. Step 1 – Open the Weather Data Query Page We’ll start by going to the Weather Data Services page. Then we need to click …
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How can I load weather forecast data into Google Sheets?
In this article, I’m going to show you how to easily load weather forecast data into Google sheets. We’ll walk through the process step-by-step showing you how to construct the query in Visual Crossing Weather and then use the query URL to import the weather results into Google Sheets. Also see our companion article that …
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What forecast weather measures are available?
When you are exploring forecast weather data for business and personal use, it is important to know what weather measures are available. In this article we’ll provide a overview of the available weather metrics (also known as weather variables and weather parameters) grouped by theme. In addition, we’ll supply links to more detailed information where …
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