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Forecast for Unknown Site (122.300 W 47.584 N)


Icon Definition

Icon Meaning Technical Definition
Clear Total cloud cover less than 20%
Partly Cloudy Total cloud cover between 20%-60%
Cloudy Total cloud cover between 60%-80%
Very Cloudy Total cloud cover over over 80%
Foggy Relative humidity over 90% with total cloud cover less than 60%
Light rain or showers Precipitation rate less than 4mm/hr with cloud cover more than 80%
Occasional showers Precipitation rate less than 4mm/hr with cloud cover between 60%-80%
Isolated showers Precipitation rate less than 4mm/hr less than 60%
Light or occasional snow Precipitation rate less than 4mm/hr
Rain Precipitation rate over 4mm/hr
Snow Precipitation rate over 4mm/hr
Mixed Precipitation type to be ice pellets or freezing rain
Thunderstorm possible Lifted Index less than -5 with precipitation rate below 4mm/hr
Thunderstorm Lifted Index less than -5 with precipitation rate over 4mm/hr
Windy Sustained wind speed over 10.8m/s (force 6 or above)

For more details, please refer to the corresponding chapter in the Documentation.



Application Programming Interface (API)

Graphical API

The graphical API will display the forecast diagram as seen at the 7Timer! website, this is useful for website makers who wish to include the forecast diagram in their websites. The graphical API address for this location would be

http://www.7timer.com/v4/bin/civil.php?lon=-122.3&lat=47.584&lang=en&ac=0&unit=metric&tzshift=0

The graphical API, when properly called, will return a PNG-type image, so you may use <img> tag to include the forecast diagrams in your website.

Machine-readable API

The machine-readable API will produce a set of data that can be used directly by application. We now offer API in both Extensible Markup Language (XML) and JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) standard. The API address for this location is:

XML: http://www.7timer.com/v4/bin/api.pl?lon=-122.3&lat=47.584&product=civil&output=xml
JSON: http://www.7timer.com/v4/bin/api.pl?lon=-122.3&lat=47.584&product=civil&output=json

A brief explanation of the parameters is given below:

lon, lat – Geographic coordinates of the specified site.
ac – Altitude Correction, only applicable in ASTRO forecast. Should be 0 (default), 2 or 7. Not applicable to the machine-readable APIs.
lang – Language. Not applicable in METEO forecast and the machine-readable APIs..
unit – Metric or British. Not applicable to the machine-readable APIs.
output – should be xml or json (for machine-readable APIs).
tzshift – Adjustment of timezone. Not applicable to the machine-readable APIs.
product – Product selection for machine-readable APIs. Should be astro, civil, civillight, meteo or two.

A successful call of the API will return sets of values. For exact meaning of these values, please refer to the corresponding chapther in Documentation.


Term of Use

You may use these data freely as long as the purpose is noncomercial. Program developers are asked to notify me when using the service so I can track the server workload. Please remember that weather forecast is one of the most highly challenging problems in our times, so using these data is at your own risk.


Find a Location by Coordinates

If you have already know the geographic coordinates of a location, you may enter them to get forecast. Coordinates must be input as "dd.ddd/-dd.ddd", like "113.190,23.094 or -113.190,-23.094", with precision up to 0.001.

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