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Degree Days are a way to help determine how much warmth or cold there has been, typically over a season such as winter, summer or a plant’s growing season. Degree Days are used to determine a building’s typical heating or cooling requirements over a season. They are used in agriculture, farming and gardening to plan …
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Visual Crossing provides the ability to retrieve up to 16 day forecasts for any world wide location based on address, zipcode/postcode or latitude and longitude. In this article we discuss how to retrieve the full weather forecast for multiple locations in a single request. This makes it easy to import weather forecast information for many …
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In this article we will describe how to use add the weather forecast to your web page. If you want to quickly add the weather forecast to your website with minimal code, then our free widget will give your website a weather forecast with almost no coding at all. If you are looking for a …
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We use a lot of sources for our weather data. One of the richest sources of historical weather data is the Integrated Surface Database (ISD) from NOAA. The amount of data available is impressive. Hourly or sub-hourly weather records for 1000s of weather stations that are, in some cases, over 100 years old. However obtaining and manipulating …
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PART 3 – CREATE A GROWING DEGREE DAYS CALCULATOR USING HISTORICAL AND FORECAST WEATHER DATA Download the free Degree Day Excel workbook (no add-in required) Learn more In our previous gardening weather blog, we have learned how to use Microsoft Excel to analyze the historical and forecast weather data of a location. We can now identify the …
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PART 2 – CREATING AN MICROSOFT EXCEL GARDENING WEATHER FORECAST In our previous gardening weather blog, we set up a Microsoft Excel workbook that displays a summary of the historical weather information for a location targeted towards the gardener. With the historical Excel workbook, we can understand the climate that they can expect for a particular …
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PART 1 – CREATING AN HISTORICAL WEATHER DASHBOARD It’s hard to think of an activity that depends on the weather and climate more than gardening. How cold does my location get? When is the last frost date? Is it too hot for this kind of plant? Do I need to water, or will it rain …
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Does weather affect my business? This seems like a simple question but as many of us have quickly learned, it is not a simple task. I have performance data for a set of stores and I am pretty certain that weather has been affecting my business, but I need create an analytical sheet to be …