Weather Forecast Data - Preston
Included in Point forecast API
Available for all plans
Weather forecasts are provided by Meteosources's machine learning technology, which uses a multitude of different weather models but minimises their errors, resulting in extremely high accuracy (read about our AI weather forecasts). Predictions are available for any location on Earth.
- minute-by-minute forecast for the next hour
- hourly forecast out to 7 days
- daily forecast out to 30 days (including text summaries)
- average weather statistics and astronomy data
- severe weather data in the US, Canada, and EU
Example of weather forecast API usage
| (Now) | 21:00 | 22:00 | 23:00 | 00:00 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Air temperature | 9 °C | 8 °C | 7 °C | 6 °C | 6 °C |
| Feels-like temperature | 8 °C | 6 °C | 5 °C | 4 °C | 2 °C |
| Cloud cover | 10% | 10% | 10% | 10% | 10% |
| Precipitation | 0 mm | 0 mm | 0 mm | 0 mm | 0 mm |
| Wind speed | 9.1 mph | 7.2 mph | 7.1 mph | 9.2 mph | 10.2 mph |
| Wind direction | WSW | SSW | S | SSW | S |
| Wind gusts | 17 mph | 11 mph | 15 mph | 17 mph | 18 mph |
| Atmospheric pressure | 1006 hPa | 1007 hPa | 1008 hPa | 1008 hPa | 1008 hPa |
| Humidity | 57% | 85% | 84% | 82% | 81% |
| Dew point | 2 °C | 5 °C | 4 °C | 4 °C | 3 °C |
| Irradiation | 8 W/m2 | 0 W/m2 | 0 W/m2 | 0 W/m2 | 0 W/m2 |
Best-in-class accuracy
Our data are approximately 5% more accurate for a 2-day forecast and 12% more accurate for a 7-day forecast. Forecast accuracy is based on temperature, clouds, and precipitation forecasts errors. A higher percentage means better forecast accuracy (100% -forecast without error- is unachievable).
Available data
Weather forecast API includes the following variables (depending on your subscription plan):
- weather icon and description
- temperature (measured, feels-like, wind-chill) in °C or °F
- wind forecast (direction, speed, gusts)
- precipitation (amount, type and rate, precipitation in the neighborhood)
- total cloud cover, including different levels of cloud
- text weather summaries in 13 languages (English, German, Spanish, French, Czech, Russian, Arabic, Hindi,...)
- probabilities of rain, thunderstorms, frost,...
- average weather statistics and astronomy data
- weather warnings (in the EU, USA, Canada)
- atmospheric pressure
- humidity and dew point
- sunshine duration
- irradiation
- visibility in m or mi
- UV index
- ozone
- snow depth in cm or in
- special variables like soil temperature, surface temperature, evaporation, etc.
- weather predictability and uncertainty of forecast
For more information see Point Weather Forecast API documentation.
