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Although Google disabled their weather API years ago (except on their Android platform), many users and developers continue to struggle to find a good weather API option that is both free for basic and personal use cases and has the power of a full 15-day forecast and rich history API that can pull from decades …
Convective storms, and their products, thunder, lightning, heavy rains, hail, and tornadoes cause up to $17 billion dollars of damage each year in the United States. The factors influencing this figure include damage to property, deaths and injuries sustained. In addition, these storms cause disruption in farming and industrial activities. With the frequency of severe …
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Every year runners descend on London, England for the annual London Marathon. Can weather change the race? In this blog we investigate whether London Marathon finishing times vary with the weather. Were previous marathons affected by weather? First, let’s take a look at the previous results and if they were affected by weather. Here I …
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With the Dark Sky API shutting down in a few months, now is the ideal time to convert your weather application to use a more stable provider. The Visual Crossing Timeline Weather API provides the direct replacement that you need to minimize your conversion effort and ensure that you data costs remain stable. Both the …
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Many fruit plants and trees do not produce an optimal crop unless they experience a dormant period with lower temperatures. These dormant periods help the plant rest during the winter period. They also may regulate the plant’s development including the budding time. Unlike a plant hardiness zone, which indicate the coldest temperatures that a plant …
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Visual Crossing has introduced a new Query Builder tool scheduling service for creating bulk, scheduled datasets that can be downloaded at any time. We have updated Weather Workbook to download these datasets directly into Excel. In this blog we will show you how to get the Weather Workbook, enable it with your own link and …
Does your business depend upon knowing when freezing temperatures may occur? Shipping temperatures sensitive items, water pipes/pumps, pouring concrete or outdoor employee safety are just a few areas where businesses can benefit by knowing exactly when a freezing temperature is predicted. Typically, systems like this can be a very expensive IT undertaking but in this …
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For those of you familiar with the original Weather Workbook, this is the original mode of operation for users to connect Excel to the Visual Crossing Weather Server and retrieve, live, parameterized queries. This version differs from the new version that focuses on retrieving scheduled CSV datasets built using the new QueryBuilder and producing downloadable …
Hurricane Ida intensified late in August and made landfall west of New Orleans as a category 4 hurricane with sustained winds of 150mph. With it brought a tremendous amount of damaging winds and rain. Over the next few days it went through the middle of the United States from Louisiana, Mississippi, and all the way …
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Open Source software has become a critical component of our daily lives. From robust operating systems and servers, such as the software stack serving your this article, to client applications such as browsers and helpful desktop widgets, nearly everyone benefits from Open Source software daily. With Visual Crossing Weather, we are proud to give back …
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