MOD - Conditions and archive infrastructure improvements
FIX - minor bug fixes and improvements
ADD - air quality - support for new air quality calculations: UK, DE, EAQI, CAQI
ADD - road weather - Analytics add-on now includes weather conditions
ADD - conditions - Snowdepth is now available for current and future times.
ADD - conditions/summary - Snowdepth now available for the current and future times
MOD - general - wind Speeds and movement now include MPS (Meters Per Second)
MOD - air quality - Initial support for upcoming AQ Add-on
MOD - conditions - improved caching headers for archive conditions requests.
FIX - air quality - mindist parameter bug
FIX - air quality - filter=china using the incorrect O3 timeframe for AQI calculation
FIX - air quality - improvements in AQI calculation biased by nearby observations
ADD - roadweather - Vaisala Xweather Road Weather Forecasts
ADD - energy/farm - Vaisala Xweather Renewable Power output endpoint
FIX - general - Other general bug fixes and improvements
ADD - threats - Lightning counts to the threats endpoint
MOD - general - Update to latest global timezone data
FIX - general - Other general bug fixes and improvements
ADD - maritime - New maritime endpoint available to all flex subscribers
ADD - airquality - Integrate new Vaisala Xweather high-resolution global Air Quality forecast model. Updated every 3 hours.
MOD - indices - Improved global support, now utilizing conditions vs observation stations.
FIX - conditions - Biasing not integrating nearby weather information in select cases.
FIX - stormreports - comments not properly returning null if no comment
FIX - stormreports - query:type not forcing upper case
FIX - general - other general bug fixes and improvements
ADD - lightning - New lightning/flash endpoint available to all Flex Subscriptions
ADD - lightning - New regional-based Lightning Add-On available
ADD - lightning - New regional-based Lightning Analytics Add-On available
MOD - lightning/summary - Now available to all Flex Subscriptions
MOD - mapsgl - Improved mapsgl integration support
FIX - airquality - Ignoring QA value on observation station reporting inaccurate carbon monoxide
FIX - alerts - Combining filters not working as expected
FIX - forecasts - Improved handling of bad model data returning null sky conditions
FIX - observations - MADIS observations returning partly cloudy vs. cloudy under unique conditions
FIX - general - Other general bug fixes and improvements
FIX - conditions - negative 0 returned in some cases
FIX - forecasts - negative 0 returned in some cases
FIX - places - large places/search queries based on pop are timing out
FIX - stormreports - tropical filter not returning all storms in storm reports
FIX - minor bug fixes and improvements
ADD - Lightning/threats - New lighting threats endpoint utilizing Vaisala Xweather's global lightning nowcast, providing access to forecast lightning threats for up to 60 minutes.*
MOD - conditions - solar radiation formula improvements, initially available when using filter=awsolradv2
MOD - forecasts - solar radiation formula improvements, initially available when using filter=awsolradv2
MOD - route actions - mindist=0 now supported for routes that may have mobile asset pause over time.
FIX - alerts - Improved support for 4-digit EU alert zone codes (Poland)
FIX - conditions - plimit not being honored in a specific to/from combination
FIX - places - improvements for lat/long-based queries
FIX - observations - Ice Pellets incorrectly returning code PL vs. the proper IP.
FIX - general - Other general bug fixes and improvements
*The new lightning/threats endpoint only applies to customers with an active Lightning Add-On subscription.
ADD - lightning - Expanded Vaisala Xweather Lightning integrations
ADD - general - closest action now support a new minradius parameter. When combined with the radius parameter allows donut-style queries.
MOD - lightning - Maximum requested radius increased from 40km to 100km*
MOD - lightning - Available time frame extended beyond the last 5 minutes. Now can request up to 24 hours per API request.*
MOD - lightning - Access to Vaisala Xweather lightning archive.*
FIX - forecasts - Forecast model improvements for Canada.
FIX - minor bug fixes and improvements
*Expanded lightning functionality (100km radius, beyond last 5min) only applies to customers with an active Lightning Add-On subscription.
FIX - forecasts - DST issue in Chile when using filter=mdnt2mdnt
FIX - minor bug fixes and improvements
MOD - general - increase max batch size from 25 to 31 to allow monthly queries
MOD - fires - update default range from 24 hours to one week, allowing fires that do not update daily to be returned
FIX - observations - observation weather code FC weather code now properly returns funnel cloud or tornado
FIX - minor bug fixes and improvements
MOD - general - performance improvements for places/postal codes queries
FIX - alerts - query in Canada with no nearby city returning invalid_loc
FIX - normals - fix to allow :id query without default filter
FIX - general - improved error message for invalid coords in route requests
FIX - minor bug fixes and improvements
ADD - conditions - new enhanced solar radiation information
ADD - forecasts - new enhanced solar radiation information for hourly requests
ADD - batch - speed improvement for batch requests
MOD - conditions/summary - now supports dates up to 15 days into the future.
FIX - forecasts - DST bug with isDay incorrectly set to false with filter=daynight in unique circumstances
FIX - lightning/summary - within request with an invalid polygon now returns invalid_coord error vs generic api_error
FIX - stormreports/summary - within request with an invalid polygon now returns invalid_coord error vs generic api_error
FIX - observations/summary - pagination bug returning different number of results with different limit and skip values
FIX - general - other minor bug fixes and improvements
ADD - alerts - heat filter for heat-related alerts
MOD - conditions - improved error handling
MOD - conditions - daily requests for March 29, 2016 - April 2, 2016, now return a warn_no_data versus an api_error. The team is working to backfill these dates.
FIX - forecasts - correct weatherPrimary phrase when windy and a chance of Snow showers.
FIX - lightning/summary - within action with a bad polygon now returns invalid_coord error versus an api_error
FIX - general - other minor bug fixes and updates
ADD - observations - new envca filter for observations from environment Canada
ADD - alerts - new frostfreeze filter for limiting to frostfreeze advisories, watches, and warnings.
MOD - conditions - sub-hourly improvements
MOD - conditions - expand data sources in Canada and Australia
MOD - conditions - the probability of precip (POP) added for now & forecast requests. Null for archive requests
FIX - general - other minor bug fixes and improvements
MOD - airquality - improved support for India air quality observations
MOD - conditions - various data quality and accuracy improvements
MOD - general - daily, monthly or yearly subscription overage errors will return a 429 error vs 200
FIX - earthquakes - earthquakes with negative magnitudes missing category
FIX - general - other minor bug fixes and improvements
MOD - conditions - allow up to 4 decimals for precipIN and snowIN
FIX - conditions - bias improvements
FIX - conditions/summary - bias improvements
FIX - alerts - marine filter returning EU thunderstorm alerts
FIX - fires - api error for some within queries
FIX - general - other minor bug fixes and improvements
FIX - minor bug fixes and improvements
ADD - alerts/summary - Add alert type hex color to types
FIX - conditions - API error on some requests on the dates of Dec 31 and Jan 1
FIX - conditions/summary - API error on some requests on the dates of Dec 31 and Jan 1
FIX - general - Minor bug fixes and improvements
ADD - fires - US fire perimeter support with filter=geo
ADD - fires - new hasperimeter and hasnoperimeter filters
ADD - fires - new Canadian fires locations
MOD - alerts/summary - include priority with the alert types
MOD - normals - updated to 1990-2020 climate normals
MOD - normals - new dataSource attribute
MOD - conditions - minutelyprecip now utilizes 4 decimal places
MOD - conditions - snowRate in cm/hour and in/hour added
MOD - conditions - sub-hourly requests snowCM/IN is now the estimated snowfall over the period.
FIX - conditions - quality improvements for sub-hourly requests
FIX - general - Other general bug fixes and improvements
FIX - general - other minor bug fixes and improvements
MOD - tropicalcyclones - added profile.maxStormName
MOD - alerts - Canadia Special Weather Statements are now returned by default.
MOD - fires - add dataSource attribute
MOD - conditions - minutely precip improvements
FIX - places - can query places using Québec or Quebec (with or without accent)
FIX - forecasts - Improved handling of thunderstorms within forecasts
FIX - fires - startDate always null
FIX - earthquakes - Allow querying by earthquake ID via search action, without specifying a date
FIX - general - other minor bug fixes and improvements
ADD - alerts - dataSource attribute now included
ADD - conditions - precipRateIN / precipRateMM added to conditions / minutelyprecip requests
MOD - airquality - general improvements for calculated airquality, especially near fires
MOD - conditions - several improvements for daily requests
MOD - places - Improved handling of place name capitalization
FIX - conditions - minutely queries (filter=1m) not returning the proper solradWM2 value
FIX - alerts - Extreme Rain incorrectly included in flood filter
FIX - observations/summary - improved handling of Fog/Mist with other weather types
FIX - within - improved error message if bad polygon provided to within action
FIX - general - invalid or disabled apps now return HTTP code 401 vs 200
FIX - general - other minor bug fixes and improvements
MOD - alerts - support for the enhanced MeteoAlarm European alerts
MOD - airquality - improvements for European AirQuality
MOD - conditions - relative humidity improvements
MOD - forecasts - relative humidity improvements
MOD - general - improved speed for client sub and app modifications
FIX - alerts - some fire weather warnings missing title
FIX - earthquakes - sort param not working with search action
FIX - general - update icon usage for VL:RS code
FIX - general - correct issue with solar radiation when sky coverage = 1
FIX - general - api_error returned with bad lat / long using within
FIX - general - minor bug fixes and improvements
ADD - earthquakes - updatedAt parameter for /earthquakes
ADD - places - improved ranking system for locations sorting
MOD - alerts - update a few Italian translations for severe wx
MOD - observations - Return nearby ob when querying by lat/lon even if no nearby city
FIX - airquality - from parameter not being applied to queries
FIX - normals - bug causing the incorrect date to be returned
FIX - general - minor bug fixes and improvements
MOD - observations - Improved sky/wx support for PWS & MADIS stations in Canada and Australia
FIX - conditions - Minutely precip improvements.
FIX - general - minor bug fixes and improvements
ADD - conditions - Next hour of minutely precip (filter=minutelyprecip)
ADD - conditions - sub hourly intervals (1min, 5min, 15min, etc.) for up to 1 hour
MOD - routes - significant route action speed improvements
MOD - conditions - improved decimal precision
MOD - conditions/summary - improved decimal precision
FIX - alerts/summary - :id and closest action not honoring filter
FIX - conditions - profile.elevFT/M always
FIX - conditions - improved sanity checks for calculated values
FIX - conditions/summary - some date formats in from/to being misinterpreted
FIX - conditions - resolve potential api_error that could occur under specific conditions.
FIX - conditions - improved pskip support
FIX - places - improved caching when using POI filters
FIX - general - minor bug fixes and improvements
ADD - webhooks - support for fires, storm cells, tropical cyclones, and storm reports
ADD - alerts - German translations for alerts
MOD - alerts/summary - update supported filters to match alerts
MOD - conditions - improve formulas for calculated weather attributes
MOD - places - profile.code added, defining the place type.
FIX - conditions - locations with a tz offset > +12hours returning isDay=false all day
FIX - observations - locations with a tz offset > +12hours returning isDay=false all day
FIX - forecasts - intermittent caching bug causing some unexpected
ADD - conditions - Conditions now available for any lat/long globally from today through 2011. Note: Historical add-on may be required.
ADD - conditions/summary - Conditions now available for any lat/long globally from today through 2011. Note: Historical add-on may be required.
ADD - conditions - Improved global satellite integration for current conditions.
MOD - alerts - UK alerts now from the UK Met Office, as no longer available from MeteoAlarm
MOD - normals - hastemp filter by default now. Ensures normals with temperature information are returned
FIX - places - Several bug fixes and improvements related to the recent implementation upgrade
FIX - airquality/forecasts - plimit parameter not working properly
FIX - conditions - Improved handling of false radar echoes (i.e., spikes) when interpreting current weather.
FIX - forecasts - First interval of hourly precip/weather unavailable for some global locations.
FIX - forecasts - When querying past forecasts (up to last 24 hours), forecast snow values are now correctly returned.
FIX - forecasts - Apparent / feels like temperature improvements within Canada.
FIX - general - Other minor bug fixes and improvements
ADD - alerts - Support for US offshore alerts from NOAA
ADD - places - European Zones now a supported place format
MOD - places - query by lat/lon now verifies if within city polygon vs closest city only.
MOD - places - place db upgrades
MOD - precip/summary - deprecated. Now duplicates conditions/summary. Please migrate to conditions/summary
FIX - observations - filter=hfmetar failing in some instances
FIX - alerts - updated time occasionally being incorrectly set
FIX - general - other minor bug fixes and improvements
FIX - conditions - error with some historical conditions requests
ADD - alerts - Italian support, lang=it
ADD - alerts - new offshore / nooffshore filters
MOD - airquality - now returns results offshore
MOD - forecasts - precipitation and POP improvements
FIX - forecasts - snowfall being incorrectly rounded to whole value in centimeters
FIX - forecasts - improvements for australian highs/lows
FIX - forecasts - improved error message for forecast requests out of allowed range
FIX - observations/archive - PWS precip calculation improvements
FIX - observations/summary - ensure stations have summaries for each day of requested period
FIX - other minor bug fixes and improvements
ADD - observations/summary - add min/max/avg altimeter values
MOD - conditions - improvements with biasing from local observations
MOD - forecasts - phrasing improvements for weather, weatherPrimary
MOD - earthquakes - Default to last 24 hours if no from parameter
MOD - general - Oct 2020 US & Canadian Postal codes
FIX - alerts - corrected Hurricane Local Statement color / category support
FIX - earthquakes - api error if no magnitude available
FIX - observations - occasional api error for PWS missing location information
FIX - general - update to the latest time zone changes
FIX - general - other minor updates and improvements.
FIX - forecasts - DST bug with filter=daynight and filter=mdnt2mdnt
ADD - conditions - Expanded global archive support.
ADD - conditions - Improved radar integration for current weather.
ADD - conditions - Expanded observation sources
MOD - conditions - General speed improvements
MOD - conditions/summary - Now supports beyond the last 24 hours
MOD - conditions/summary - General speed improvements
FIX - general - improved weather code handling with FW clouds
FIX - general - within polygon queries now return ad invalid_coordinate error for a bad polygon vs. an api_error.
FIX - alerts - alert filters now support Europe alerts
FIX - batch - weather zone, county info missing from places requests within a batch query
FIX - conditions - occasional negative wind speed/gust values corrected
FIX - conditions - improved weather coding, correcting random wx/intensity in the incorrect order
FIX - conditions/summary - for parameters being ignored
FIX - observations/archive - improved handling of request dates outside of available timeframes
FIX - stormreports - occasional api_error when querying by 24 character id
FIX - sunmoon - api_error when querying by PWS station with bad lat/long
FIX - general - other minor general bug fixes and improvements
FIX - forecasts - DST bug with daily forecasts
MOD - forecasts - Improved Australian forecast model coverage
MOD - forecasts - Improved POP (probability of precip) resolution within the US
FIX - general - other general improvements and bug fixes
ADD - conditions - support for new for parameter to request conditions for a specific date/time
MOD - places - European locations will now include a profile.wxzone value, matching the zone used for alerts
MOD - places - improvements for profile.wxzone to be available when querying by PWS station ID or latitude/longitude.
FIX - alerts - ensure active = false for expired alerts vs just canceled ones
FIX - conditions - improvements for winds and feels like temperatures
FIX - forecasts - improvements for forecast temperatures
FIX - stormreports - sort parameter being ignored
FIX - convective/outlook - fixes occasional api error when using the contains action
FIX - general - other general improvements and bug fixes
FIX - alerts - route action will return an array for all locations vs object if only 1
FIX - alerts - filter=county not working within the US
FIX - conditions - default radius for interpolated historical
FIX - conditions - warn_no_data warning not being generated properly
FIX - conditions - historical sometimes returning more than 24 intervals
FIX - indices - occasional API error for road conditions index
FIX - observations/archive - empty periods returned without plimit parameter when using filter=calcprecip
FIX - general - other general improvements and bug fixes
ADD - conditions/summary - initial public beta
ADD - conditions - initial historical support
MOD - earthquakes - Archive expanded back to 1945
MOD - stormreports - general updates and improvements
FIX - earthquakes - Can now query by location, earthquakes/san diego,ca
FIX - conditions - psort parameter returned API error
FIX - conditions - relative from/to parameter values using UTC vs local timezone
FIX - conditions - plimit/pskip being ignored
FIX - alerts - Canada Special Statements should not be returned by default
FIX - alerts - filter=geo&format=geojson was returning the polygon twice, doubling the bandwidth
FIX - alerts - Improved expiration of Canadian alerts.
FIX - forecasts - Occasionally returning 1 less than expected hourly results (23 vs 24)
FIX - forecasts - general extended forecast improvements
FIX - general - other general improvements and bug fixes
ADD - alerts - European alerts
ADD - alerts - Polygon support with filter=geo
ADD - forecasts - Improved European forecast model coverage
MOD - alerts - Improved support for querying by latitude/longitude
MOD - alerts - Query alerts by weather station ID (ICAOs, PWS, etc)
FIX - general - other minor bug fixes and improvements
FIX - forecasts - various bug fixes and improvements
FIX - general - other minor bug fixes and improvements
ADD - conditions - new conditions endpoint in a public beta
ADD - forecasts - filter=#min for intervals by the minute for up to 2 hours. Example filter=5min&limit=12 will return the next hour forecast in 5-minute intervals
ADD - forecasts - forecast visibility using the periods.#.visibilityKM and periods.#.visibilityMI attributes
MOD - forecasts - general forecast improvements
FIX - general - other minor bug fixes and improvements
ADD - alerts - route action support
FIX - places - api error for some PWS stations with incorrect lat/lon (i.e. in ocean)
FIX - observations/summary - potential API error if archive summary has bad visibility info
FIX - stormcells - potential API error for within requests with incorrect bounding box request
FIX - general - other minor bug fixes and improvements
ADD - observations - add dataSource attribute
MOD - places - lower cache time from 1 day to 1 hour
FIX - observations/summary - correct api_error for queries to far into past or future
FIX - observations/archive - correct api_error for queries to far into past or future
FIX - precip/summary - correct api_error when using sort=dt:-1
FIX - precip/summary - use local relative time for from=midnight
FIX - general - other minor bug fixes and improvements
FIX - stormcells - correct api_error response for some search action queries
FIX - stormcells - improvements for the forecast cone polygons
FIX - general - Other minor bug fixes and updates
MOD - stormcells - general improvements, including metric values for ob.top and ob.hit
FIX - general - Other minor bug fixes and updates
ADD - point data - new level of detail feature. For observations and most other point data endpoints, can now pass new lod parameter (level of detail) corresponding to map zoom level or mindist to help ensure data separation when displaying on a map.
ADD - observations/archive - new periods.precipSinceMidnight and precipSinceLastOb for observations stations that provide the data.
ADD - observations - new precise filter will return attributes with increased decimal precision.
ADD - observations/archive - new precise filter will return attributes with increased decimal precision.
ADD - observations/summary - new precise filter will return attributes with increased decimal precision.
MOD - general - NOT query element (!) now works with both string and numeric attributes. Previously, worked with strings only.
FIX - within queries - Improved support for within rectangular queries that cover large global areas across the dateline.
FIX - storm reports - correct inconsistencies with hail reports. If no size included in the report, then set hailIN and hailMM to null.
FIX - observations - PWS stations with no weather or sky information, occasionally defaulting to fair / mostly sunny or mostly clear.
FIX - observations - api_error returned for rare instances when a new observation may not yet have an associated place attribute.
FIX - general - Other minor bug fixes and updates
ADD - observations - New strict filter will limit results to observations passing QA that include temps, dewpt, humidity, pressure, winds and sky/weather information.
ADD - observations/summary - New strict filter will limit results to observation passing QA that include temps, dewpt, humidity, pressure, winds and sky/weather information.
MOD - alerts - windchill advisories, watches, and alerts moved to winter category vs winds
MOD - observations - hasprecip filter now limits to stations that are known to report precip and pass QA.
FIX - observations - improvements for the handling of IN (intermittent), DU (Dust), S (Sand) and PO METAR weather codes
FIX - observations - Ensure ob.uvi attribute is included in the output, even for stations that do not report (null is the default)
FIX - observations - passing query parameter would override default observation trust factor verification.
FIX - general - Other minor bug fixes and updates
ADD - observations - Implementation of new xWeather Platform for Observations
ADD - observations - Addition of new observations from Australia Bureau of Meteorology
ADD - observations - Addition of new observations from Environment Canada
ADD - observations - trustFactor attribute - from 0 - 100, combination of individual observation QC * station confidence.
ADD - observations/summary - trustFactor attribute - Provides the minimum, maximum and average trust factor received from the observations
ADD - observations - new ausbom filter option, to limit to observations from the Australia Bureau of meteorology
ADD - observations/summary - new ausbom filter option, to limit to observations from the Australia Bureau of meteorology
FIX - observations/summary - Requesting summaries over a date range, now limits results to stations that reported on every day within the requested date range.
FIX - general - Other minor bug fixes and updates
FIX - places - elevation values displaying when querying by airport id
FIX - stormreports - error when querying by storm report id
FIX - fires - error when querying by fire report id
FIX - forecasts - improved precipitation forecast for mid and long-range forecasts
FIX - general - Other minor bug fixes and updates
ADD - forecasts - new periods.solradWM2 provides estimated solar radiation, normally used with filter=1hr
ADD - forecasts - new periods.solradMinWM2 and periods.solradMaxWM2 provide the min / max hourly values across a forecast interval
ADD - observations - filter=interp returns interpolated observation if an actual observation is not nearby. (Currently beta)
FIX - tropicalcyclones - distanceNM missing for wind radii
FIX - forecasts - For some Canadian locations, the day 1 pressure returned as station pressure vs the documented MSLP
FIX - general - Other minor bug fixes and updates
ADD - tropicalcyclones - support for wind radii for active storms
ADD - tropicalcyclones - current position and forecast wind field polygons
ADD - pws - Add support for new PWS Contributors Access
MOD - observations - added recTimestamp and recDateTimeISO, denoting when an observation was received
MOD - observations - new adt query mapping, allowing to query or sort based on received/added time of an observation
MOD - observations - add tzname and tzoffset (in seconds) to the profile object
MOD - places - Sept 2019 US zip code update
MOD - places - Sept 2019 CA postal code update
FIX - stormreports - hail size not properly rounded to a max of 2 decimals
FIX - observations - API returning no error in rare instances of an observation pressure received as NaN
FIX - general - Other minor bug fixes and updates
FIX - general - Other minor bug fixes and updates
MOD - alerts - Support for Environment Canada Squall Warnings/Watches
FIX - general - Other minor bug fixes and updates
ADD - tropicalcyclones - support for invest test storms
ADD - tropicalcyclones/archive - Active invests are available using the filter=invests. Archive invests are not available at this time.
MOD - places - July 2019 US zip codes update
MOD - places - July 2019 CA postal codes update
FIX - observations - wxsnow filter no longer returns observations with hail for international locations
FIX - general - Other minor bug fixes and updates
MOD - general - Improved logical OR support for filters. i.e. for stormreport, can now use filter=hail;wind to return storm reports that are either hail or wind reports.
FIX - observations - API not properly handling when GS utilized for hail vs. snow pellets in METAR observations.
FIX - stormreports - corrected within query when bounding box crossed the international dateline AND had a positive east and west longitudes.
FIX - general - Other minor bug fixes and updates
ADD - lightning - adt sorting parameter allows sorting based on the time the lightning strike was received and added
ADD - lightning - adt filter to allow forcing the from/to parameters to filter on the recTime (added time) vs. the lightning observation time.
MOD - tropicalcyclones - lower cache / expires headers from 10 minutes to 1 minute
MOD - tropicalcyclones/archive - lower cache / expires headers from 10 minutes to 1 minute
FIX - alerts/summary - corrected issued with occasional empty document vs. warn_no_data when no alerts
FIX - stormreports/summary - corrected issued with returning invalid_request vs. warn_no_data when no stormreports within the request
FIX - general - Other minor bug fixes and updates
MOD - Infrastructure / Stack upgrades, improving API performance and latencies.
MOD - places - May 2019 US zip codes and CA postal codes
MOD - forecasts - Update the maximum limit from 360 to 384 for hourly forecasts
MOD - places - March 2019 US zip codes and CA postal codes
FIX - precip/summary - Correct a DST bug returning incorrect daily results for dates prior to DST.
FIX - general - Other minor bug fixes and updates
MOD - forecasts - General Improvements
MOD - places - Feb 2019 US zip codes and CA postal codes
FIX - general - Other minor bug fixes and updates
MOD - forecasts - Improvements for mid term forecasts (days 3-7)
FIX - general - Other minor bug fixes and updates.
MOD - places - Jan 2019 US zip codes and CA postal codes
FIX - phrases/summary - improvements with multiple precipitation types and period placement
FIX - CA alerts missing profile.tz for some Canadian Location codes (CLCs)
FIX - general - Other minor bug fixes and updates.
ADD - alerts - french support for Canadian alerts with a new lang=fr parameter. For Canadian alerts, returns the title and body in French vs English.
MOD - observations - Improved support for UP precipitation type.
FIX - observations - Variable winds were being returned with a direction of 0 degrees / N (North). Now properly returns -1 / VRB
FIX - forecasts - Route action not utilizing the from/to parameters within the POST body.
FIX - places/postalcodes - Correct id/zip/postalcodes query mappings and allow mixed case values to be provided for Canadian postal codes
FIX - general - Other minor bug fixes and updates.
FIX - tides - Ensure tides type are returned in lower case per the docs
FIX - observations/summary - improved handling of DST for locations that change at midnight vs a later hour.
FIX - general - minor bug fixes and improvements
ADD - lightning - add route action support for lightning endpoint
ADD - alerts - support for the new NWS Snow Squall Warning
MOD - tides - Update to include latest 2018, 2019 and 2020 tide predictions
MOD - route - skip empty locations i.e. p=24060;30301;;10001 vs returning an error
FIX - route - resolve API error with some route GET queries
FIX - general - minor bug fixes and improvements
ADD - general - Ability to enable/disable applications/namespaces from the member area
MOD - Tropicalcyclones - Default Sort by cyclone ID if no sort provided
MOD - Tropicalcyclones - Support for NHC special updates that can occur between normal updates
MOD - Various - For endpoints that support GeoJSON, if requesting in GeoJSON and providing fields=xxx without including the location field name, it will automatically be added by the API
MOD - places - Oct 2018 US zip codes and CA postal codes
MOD - rivers - Update river gauges with the latest crest and impact information as of Oct 10, 2018
MOD - places/airports - Improve type query mapping. Now allows any casing for value.
FIX - observations/summary - summary date off by an hour with NZ and AU DST timezone changes
FIX - minor bug fixes and improvements
ADD - tropicalcyclones - new currentbasin query element to query against the basin an active storm is within.
ADD - general - new filter=centroid option to force using a US zip code polygon centroid latitude/longitude vs the corresponding city latitude/longitude
ADD - phrases/summary - new filter=noob option for no observations. Forces the phrasing to use the short-term forecast only.
MOD - places - Update US zip codes support to latest Sept 2018 data.
MOD - places - Update CA postal code support to latest Sept 2018 data.
MOD - places - Update GeoIP to City database with latest Sept 2018 data, used for the :auto functionality.
FIX - tropicalcyclones - when filter=geo applied and user passing fields parameter, automatically add errorCone field if not set.
FIX - sunmoon - adjust the illumination values used for determining the moon phase at midnight local time. Some locations display full moon for two days.
FIX - threats - removed unused/undocumented lightning property from the API response
FIX - tropicalcyclones - various archive data updates
FIX - minor bug fixes and improvements
ADD - precip/summary - public beta of new precip/summary endpoint
MOD - tropicalcyclones - improved support when crossing the international dateline / 180 longitude
MOD - tropicalcyclones - improved support for test storms, now using event numbers 80 -89
MOD - general - improve the warn_no_data description
MOD - forecasts - improve the mdnt2mdnt filter functionality for locations outside of the US
FIX - forecasts - isDay would display false for some areas within longitude 176 - 180 longitude
FIX - minor bug fixes and improvements
ADD - wizard - New API Wizard: https://www.aerisweather.com/wizard/api/
ADD - tropicalcyclones - support for invests with the new filter=invests option. Invests are areas under investigation for potential future tropical development.
ADD - tropicalcyclones and tropicalcyclones/archive - new profile.basins is an array of all basins the cyclone has tracked within
ADD - tropicalcyclones and tropicalcyclones/archive - new origin query parameter option that queries the profile.basinOrigin
ADD - tropicalcyclones - query storms that traveled within multiple basins with query=basin:ALL:ep:cp
ADD - tropicalcyclones - new profile.basinCurrent attribute which defines the current basin the storm is within. Null for nonactive storms
ADD - observations - new filter=qcok option. Can be combined when using the query parameter, and overriding the default of rejecting stations with failed QC
ADD - observations/summary - new filter=qcok option, which will only return summaries for stations that all observations for the day passed QC.
MOD - tropicalcyclones and tropicalcyclones/archive - update profile.basin to be profile.basinOrigin
MOD - tropicalcyclones and tropicalcyclones/archive - update basin filters to query the profile.basins vs. profile.basinOrigin
MOD - tropicalcyclones and tropicalcyclones/archive - querying basin no longer case sensitive
MOD - observations/summary - hasprecip filter now limits results to stations known to provide precip AND have a passing precipitation QC.
MOD - postalcodes - Update US zip codes to Aug 2018 data
MOD - postalcodes - Update CA postal codes to Aug 2018 data
FIX - observations/summary - summary.precip.QC would return incorrect code in some circumstances
FIX - observations/summary - in some rare cases, a new observation station could return a summary without profile.hasprecip attribute
FIX - minor bug fixes and improvements
ADD - tropicalcyclones - Added profile.tz for timezone support
ADD - tropicalcyclones/archive - Added profile.tz for timezone support.
ADD - tropicalcyclones/archive - Added West Pacific, Southern Hemisphere and Indian Ocean archive, 1945 - 2018.
ADD - tropicalcyclones/archive - Added East Pacific / Central Pacific archive, 1949 - 2018.
ADD - tropicalcyclones/archive - Added Atlantic archive, 1851 - 2018.
MOD - tropicalcyclones/archive - No longer requires a from/to when using query=year:####
FIX - forecasts - Hourly forecasts isDay incorrectly set to false around sunrise/set for some locations.
FIX - tropicalcyclones - Correct profile.name issue with Indian ocean and southern Pacific tropical cyclones
FIX - observations - Observed visibility incorrectly returning null for some mesonet stations that are reporting visibility.
FIX - Other minor updates and bug fixes.
ADD - tropicalcyclones/archive - Access to archive tropical cyclones for all basins in public beta
MOD - tropicalcyclones - querying test storm 2017-AL-16-TEST no longer requires filter=test
FIX - tropicalcyclones - various bug fixes with the output.
FIX - FIPS:##### queries not working properly
FIX - other minor improvements and bug fixes
ADD - new tropicalcyclones endpoint in public beta
MOD - update to July 2018 US zip codes
MOD - update to Jul 2018 CA postal codes
MOD - QC improvements for Official observations
FIX - NWS marine alerts incorrectly setting place.country to null
FIX - minor bug fixes and updates
MOD - fires - allow :id style queries
MOD - observations/summary - now limits search based on plimit if no to parameter
MOD - convective/outlook - no longer require filter=geo when using format=geojson
MOD - fires/outlook - no longer require filter=geo when using format=geojson
MOD - droughts/monitor - no longer require filter=geo when using format=geojson
FIX - minor bug fixes and updates
ADD - lightning - new negative and positive filter to limit results to corresponding pulse polarity information
ADD - lightning/summary - new negative and positive filter to limit results to corresponding pulse polarity information
ADD - lightning/summary - addition of count of negative / positive polarity lightning strikes/pulses
ADD - lightning/summary - addition of min/max amperage for negative / positive polarity lightning strikes/pulses
MOD - lightning/summary - No longer in Beta, available to all subscription levels
MOD - general - Update with 2018-06 US & Canadian postal codes
FIX - lightning/summary - round average values (peakAmp, numSensors)
FIX - lightning/summary - closest action limiting to 100 max strikes in the response
FIX - lightning/summary - correct default time range for the last 5 minutes
FIX - Other minor bug fixes and updates.
ADD - airquality - periods.method attribute defining the AQI calculation method
ADD - airquality/forecast - periods.method attribute defining the AQI calculation method
FIX - observations - isDay improperly being set to false during the midnight sun
FIX - forecasts - hourly intervals improperly setting isDay to false during the midnight sun
FIX - alerts - improved handling of NWS alerts with malformed headers
FIX - various other minor fixes and improvements.
ADD - lightning - lightning API endpoint now available to all weather API premium subscriptions
FIX - lightning/summary - /search action incorrectly returned an array vs an object
FIX - general - /endpoint/searchlight,nv queries failed because API attempted search query
FIX - various other minor fixes and improvements.
MOD - alerts - add fire weather to nonprecip filter
MOD - alerts/summary - add fire weather to nonprecip filter
MOD - postalcodes - Update to 2018-05 Canadian Postal codes
MOD - postalcodes - Update to 2018-05 US zip codes
MOD - general - Update to 2018-05 IP to city DB for use with :auto
MOD - general - namespace verification improvements
FIX - airquality/forecasts - plimit parameter ignored
FIX - various other minor fixes and improvements.
ADD - AirQuality - New airquality endpoint provides global observations
ADD - AirQuality - New airquality/forecasts endpoint provides global airquality forecasts (BETA)
ADD - forecasts - mdnt2mdnt filter returns daily forecast using local midnight to midnight
ADD - Observations - new weather filters, wxrain, wxsnow, wxice, wxfog allow filtering based on occurring weather
MOD - places - support for AirQuality stations to be used in queries
MOD - phrases/summary - many phrases tweaks and improvements
MOD - phrases/summary - support for the limit parameter to control the number of hourly intervals used to make the summary. Default = 6
MOD - phrases/summary - publically available (English only) as part of basic
MOD - alerts - rename advisories endpoint to alerts (advisories now alias to alerts)
MOD - alerts - improve default sorting. Emergency Flag, significance/priority (desc), issue time (desc)
MOD - alerts/summary - rename advisories/alerts endpoint to alerts/summary (advisories/summary now alias to alerts/summary)
MOD - observations/summary - new qcmin, qcmax filters to query qc codes that occurred in the summary.
MOD - general - Update to 2018-04 US zip code and CA Postal codes
FIX - observations/summary - improved handling of observations quality control
FIX - alerts - details.color incorrect for tornado warning
FIX - alerts - details.color incorrect for severe thunderstorm warning
FIX - forecasts - the oddity of temp value of -0 now returns as 0
FIX - other minor updates and bug fixes
MOD - general - Update to 2018-02 US zip code and CA Postal codes
FIX - forecasts - in some instances, hourly snowfall would not match day totals beyond 72 hours
FIX - other minor updates and bug fixes
ADD - advisories - new nonmarine filter option
ADD - advisories/summary - new nonmarine filter option
FIX - observations/summary - Improve speed for archive summaries, when no to provided
FIX - earthquakes - Improve speed for archive summaries, when no to provided
FIX - stormreports - Improve speed for archive summaries, when no to provided
FIX - records - Improve speed for archive summaries, when no to provided
FIX - fires - Improve speed for archive summaries, when no to provided
FIX - other minor updates and bug fixes
ADD - advisories - new airquality filter limits to smog, smoke, and air quality alerts
FIX - advisories - support for Canadian Freezing Drizzle advisory
FIX - advisories - corrections for Canadian Freezing Rain warning
FIX - advisories - support for Canadian Smog Warning
FIX - other minor updates and bug fixes
MOD - general - support for EMPTY and !EMPTY to test for empty string EMPTY != NULL
MOD - postcalcodes - Update with Jan 2018, US & Canadian Postal Codes
MOD - places - improvements for the location determinations
FIX - forecasts - iceaccum should be iceaccumIN and iceaccumMM
FIX - other minor updates and bug fixes
ADD - forecasts - hourly intervals for up to the next 24 hours now available in API Basic, use filter=1hr&limit=24.
ADD - forecasts - new precise filter option. When used celsius temperatures will include 1 decimal point vs rounding to next whole number (tempC, maxTempC, minTempC, dewptC, feelslikeC, etc)
ADD - phrases/summary - move out of beta and add phrases/summary endpoint to premium
MOD - general - locations with Saint in the name can now use Saint, Sainte, St or St.
MOD - postalcodes - Update with Dec 2017, US and Canadian Postal Code updates
FIX - general - Return API warning is user supplies invalid parameter
FIX - phrases/summary - place.state field would not always have proper state
FIX - other minor updates and improvements
ADD - countries - added place.continentFull to match places endpoint
MOD - countries - update with latest population data
MOD - general - Update to Nov IP to city DB for use with :auto
FIX - places - Update to use proper continent names/abbreviations matching countries endpoint
FIX - other minor updates and improvements
ADD - airquality - limited public beta
ADD - airquality/forecasts - limited public beta
MOD - general - API will not support old / non active US zip codes and CA postal codes
MOD - places/postalcodes - new profile.active property set to true if the zip code / postal code is still active. false if no longer active
MOD - postalcodes - Update to 2017-11 Canadian Postal codes
MOD - postalcodes - Update to 2017-11 US zip codes
FIX - forecasts - sunrise/sunset off by 1 day with longitude >= 176
FIX - observations - sunrise/sunset off by 1 day with longitude >= 176
FIX - sunmoon - sunrise/sunset off by 1 day with longitude >= 176
FIX - other minor updates and improvements
FIX - advisories - hard free watch color code not correct
FIX - other minor updates and improvements
FIX - observations - Some queries/filter combinations could improperly return results without sky information
FIX - places - City, XX where XX was a country abbreviation that matched a China province would fail to search the country
FIX - other minor updates and improvements
ADD - lighting/summary - new endpoint that provide summary information (total lighting pulses, etc) for use with lightning API subscriptions
MOD - general - NULL is now a valid query value. i.e. /observations/search?query=rh:NULL
MOD - general - NULl and !NULL are no longer case sensitive.
MOD - threats - storm cell query parameters cannot be used with the threats endpoint. i.e. obtain threats based on storms with a 90% chance of hail
FIX - rivers - filter=lowwaterecord not working properly
FIX - advisories/summary - intermittent API error when using the wind or nonprecip filters
FIX - observations/summary - intermittent API errors for some observations prior to 2013
FIX - places/airports - query=name:xxxx improperly querying against the airport city name vs airport name
FIX - other minor updates and improvements
FIX - observation/archive - closest action not properly accounting for timezone.
FIX - observation/summary - closest action not properly accounting for timezone.
FIX - other minor updates and improvements
ADD - rivers - New rivers endpoint providing access to AHPS river and lake gauge information
ADD - rivers/gauges - New rivers/gauges endpoint provide access to AHPS river gauage information
ADD - places - profile now includes wxzone, firezone, fips and countyid information when available (US & Canada)
ADD - places/postalcodes - profile now includes wxzone, firezone, fips and countyid information when available (US & Canada)
ADD - places/airports - profile now includes wxzone, firezone, fips and countyid information when available (US & Canada)
MOD - advisories - support for querying issued, begins, expires and added timestamps via query parameter
MOD - advisories - can now sort by begins timestamp
ADD - advisories - new beach filter option (for rip currents etc)
MOD - advisories/summary - support for querying issued, begins, expires and added timestamps via query parameter
MOD - earthquakes - support for querying observed time via query parameter
MOD - general - !NULL is a valid query parameter value. i.e. /observations/55403?qury=rh:!NULL will only return values where humidity is not null
MOD - lightning - support for height and number of sensors. in output and new query/sort options
MOD - forecasts - now calculating F temperatures prior to rounding C temperatures
FIX - advisories - support for Storm Surge watch/warning categories and colors
FIX - advisories - support for rip current statement category and color
FIX - observations/archive - correct date localization globally
FIX - observations/summary - correct date localization globally
FIX - sunmoon - corrected date localization
FIX - sunmoon - skip parameter ignored
FIX - other minor updates and improvements
MOD - General - August 2017 US zip codes & Canadian postal codes update
MOD - General - Latest US fips, weather zone and fire zone updates
MOD - places - fips:##### location support is no longer case sensitive. Can use fips:###### or FIPS:#####
MOD - observations/summary - add default psort=dt:1 if no psort provided, so individual obs are sorted
MOD - observations/summary - increase plimit max allowed to 1500 to support stations that report once per minute
FIX - observations/summary - pskip support not always working properly
FIX - advisories - Add improved support for Canadian Tropical Cyclone Statement, Weather Advisory
FIX - other minor updates and improvements
ADD - advisories - new country specific filters: canada, usa and allcountries
ADD - advisories - new hassmallpoly filter limit queries to alerts with a small polygon
ADD - advisories - new distinct filter returns a single copy of alerts. For use at the country level
ADD - advisories/summary - support for Canadian alert summaries
FIX - forecasts - improved support for smoke weather type
FIX - forecasts - improved phrasing for haze weather type
FIX - other minor updates and improvements
ADD - advisories - Support for Canadian Alerts
ADD - advisories - details.cat now set to the category the alert type is part of. i.e. flood, winter, heat, wind etc.
ADD - places - Support for Canadian Location Codes (CLC-######) as a supported place format
MOD - lightning - previously no guaranteed order by time, now defaults to descending matching other endpoints
FIX - other minor updates and improvements
ADD - advisories - details.cat will contain the general category/grouping of the alert type
MOD - lightning - improved lightning addon support
MOD - general - improved HTTP OPTIONS support
MOD - general - update Canadian Postal Codes
FIX - other minor updates and improvements
ADD - advisories - new id attribute
ADD - advisories - details.color attribute now contains the alert 6 character hex
ADD - advisories - details.emergency attribute. Set to true if Tornado Emergency or Flash Flood Emergency issue as part of the respective warning, false otherwise
ADD - advisories - new geoPoly attribute. If small polygon is set in the poly, geoPoly will be a GeoJSON version of the small polygon
ADD - advisories - loc attribute. The location (lat/long) of the weather zone centroid or county centroid now included
ADD - advisories - GeoJSON support via format=geojson. Will return points or if there is a small polygon, the feature will be of type polygon
ADD - advisories - Query by advisory ID. i.e. /advisories/:id
ADD - advisories - Affects action support
ADD - lightning - Support for new developer, basic and premium lightning API subscriptions
ADD - lightning - ob.age attribute contains the age in seconds from lightning observation to API request
MOD - general - query parameters for the name, state and country are no longer case sensitive. i.e. query=name:MinnEap will work correction
MOD - advisories - query by weather zone or county no longer case sensitive. i.e. query=wxzone:MnZ014
MOD - advisories/summary - query by weather zone or county no longer case sensitive. i.e. query=wxzone:MnZ014
MOD - batch - now returns API error if more than 25 requests in a single call. Previously only used the 1st 25.
MOD - lightning - speed improvments for querying cloud to ground strikes
MOD - stormcells/summary - summary.range now includes from/to atrributes
MOD - advisories/summary - summary.range now includes from/to attributes
MOD - stormreports/summary - summary.range now includes from/to attributes
FIX - stormreports - query parameter with code:# now working properly.
FIX - normals - filter=hasprecip not working properly in all use cases
FIX - observations/archive - psort=dt:1 not working properly
FIX - general - update latest US and Canadian Postal Codes
FIX - general - update latest ip to city database for :auto functionality
FIX - general - maxhits errors will now cache for 60 seconds
FIX - other minor updates and improvements
MOD - general - Update with latest US and Canadian postal codes
FIX - advisories - Intermittent errors when querying by US weather zones (i.e. MNZ001)
FIX - other minor bug and database updates
MOD - batch - Increase the maximum batch request endpoints from 10 to 20
MOD - places - Update population values
MOD - places - Improvements for the China province support
FIX - other minor bug and database updates
ADD - places - Chinese province names and abbreviations returned in places output
ADD - general - can include Chinese province name or abbreviation in query Guangzhou, Guangdong or Guangzhou,GD or Guangzhou,GD,CN
ADD - general - can query data with Chinese province, return up to 100 observations from Guangdong, China /observations/search?query=country:cn,state:gd&limit=100
MOD - threats - several threats endpoint improvements
FIX - other minor bug and database updates
ADD - stormreports/summary - new range.fromTimestamp and range.toTimestamp elements correspond to the requested data range
MOD - general - latest IP to City DB Update
FIX - stormreports - occasional API error with some older storm report data
FIX - stormreports - details query not working properly. Can now use filter=hail&query=detail:1 to filter storm reports for hail with a size >= 1 inch
FIX - stats - Correction for hourly API stats display within members area
FIX - other minor bug and database updates
MOD - general - improved support for alternate city names. Example: nyc,ny
MOD - general - registered app namespaces may now support wildcard asterisk at the end. Example: com.aerisweather.*
FIX - observations/summary - Improved precipitation total QC handling
FIX - forecasts - weather phrase correction SleetSnow to Sleet/Snow
FIX - other minor bug and database updates
Last modified: April 06, 2021