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
ADD - general - crossdomain.xml support for flash users
ADD - advisories/summary - new tornado filter option
FIX - observations/archive - closest action not always allowing past dates
FIX - various other minor fixes and improvements.
ADD - general - !NULL query string operator = not null
FIX - observations - Improved handling of NSC, NCD
FIX - observations/recent - Improved handling of NSC, NCD
FIX - observations/archive - Improved handling of NSC, NCD
FIX - various other minor fixes and improvements.
ADD - observations - estimated solar radiation added to observations if observed not available.
ADD - observations/recent - estimated solar radiation added to observations if observed not available.
ADD - observations/archive - estimated solar radiation added to observations if observed not available.
MOD - foreacasts - filter=xxxx model name now returns forecatss based on specific model. supports hrrr, nam, gfs, gefs, ndfd, hrdps
FIX - observations - visibility with a fraction were not always parsed correctly.
FIX - observations/recent - visibility with a fraction were not always parsed correctly.
FIX - observations/archive - visibility with a fraction were not always parsed correctly.
FIX - observations - some new zealand stations reporting clouds with “///” causing parsing error
FIX - normals - profile.tz always being set to UTC vs proper timezone name
FIX - normals - monthly/annual filters work if either passed via filter or pfilter parameters
FIX - various other minor fixes and improvements.
MOD - threats - threats endpoint now part of Premium API level
MOD - stormcells - threats endpoint now part of Premium API level
MOD - stormcells/summary - threats endpoint now part of Premium API level
MOD - convective/outlook - now part of the Premium API level
MOD - fires/outlook - now part of the Premium API level
MOD - phrases/outlook - short phrase simplified from 20 degrees below zero to just -20 degrees
FIX - phrases/outlook - not including negative/below zero for around -20 phrase type
FIX - forecasts - incorrect spacing for partly cloudy with isolated showers phrasing
FIX - various other minor fixes and improvements.
MOD - phrases/outlook - English snowfall rounded to nearest .25 inch
MOD - phrases/outlook - metric snowfall rounded to 1 decimal place in centimeters
FIX - phrases/outlook - Not properly handling metric temperatures below zero
FIX - phrases/outlook - Metric temperatures being incorrectly rounded
FIX - forecasts - US snowfall forecasts would sometimes return null vs 0 for days 4 - 7
FIX - observations/archive - Improved support for Historical addon
FIX - observations/summary - Improved support for Historical addon
FIX - various other minor fixes and improvements.
MOD - observations - remove any potential unprintable characters from the raw attribute
MOD - general - Latest public zone / fire zone updates.
FIX - various other minor fixes and improvements.
MOD - forecasts - improvements to chance of precip (POP) values
MOD - forecasts - the #hr filter now allows using h,hr, hrs, hour, hours for consistency
FIX - observations - areas of fog improperly being returned as scattered fog
FIX - various other minor fixes and improvements.
ADD - advisories - Advisories endpoint now available to API Basic subscribers
ADD - Observations - new allownosky filter can be used to override the default query behavior
MOD - Observations - Default queries use observations that have temps, sky information and pass QC
FIX - forecasts - Corrected issue for potential of mostly sunny with rain phrasing
FIX - various other minor fixes and improvements.
ADD - observations - QC and QCcode properties available
MOD - observations - Enhanced QC, by default stations with an observation set to Caution or Failed QC will be ignored.
FIX - observations - Some METARS that did not provide cloud/sky/weather information improperly stating sunny/clear vs null
FIX - forecasts - In some instances the extended forecast would improperly set POP to 0 when no coverage available.
FIX - various other minor fixes and improvements.
ADD - observations - hassky mapping available to requesting pws stations with clouds/weather
MOD - general - Improved integration for upcoming single AMP / API developer account
FIX - observations - Some PWS with no sky/weather improperly reporting sunny/clear vs null
FIX - observations - By default stations not reporting sky/weather are ignored.
FIX - various other minor fixes and improvements.
ADD - headers - X-Aeris-Auto set to 1 if user used :auto as the place
ADD - places - Add support for IP as a supported place
MOD - observations - allow past day to go back -25 hours vs -24 hours for plus level.
FIX - various other minor fixes and improvements.
ADD - stormreports - tropical category
ADD - stormreports - filter=tropical to limit results to tropical related reports
ADD - stormreports/summary - tropical category
ADD - stormreports/summary - filter=tropical to limit results to tropical related reports
ADD - caching - Support for s-maxage within cache-action
ADD - sunmoon - sun.polarnight = true if sun never rises above the horizon
ADD - sunmoon - sun.midnightsun =true is sun never goes below the horizon
ADD - stormcells - traits object allows quickly verifying if stormcell has hail, tornadic, rotating, potential threat
ADD - stormcells - isgeneral, ishail, istornado, isrotating query mappings 0= no, 1 = yes
ADD - stormcells - isgeneral, ishail, istornado, isrotating sort mappings
ADD - stormcells - rainmoderate, rainheavy, rainintense filters to limit results
ADD - stormcells/summary - traits object with count of storms that are general, have hail, rotating, tornado or a potential threat
ADD - stormcells/summary - rainmoderate, rainheavy, rainintense filters to limit results
ADD - stormcells/summary - isgeneral, ishail, istornado, isrotating query mappings 0= no, 1 = yes
ADD - stormcells/summary - new filter=bystate to return summary of storm cells for each state that cells exist in
ADD - stormcells/summary - new sumXXXXX sort filters that can be used with filter=bystate to sort results by state based on number of storms potentially tornadic, with hail etc.
FIX - sunmoon - issue with timezone offset when requesting info for single day for location during polar night
FIX - sunmoon - sun.rise, sun.set not being set for location in polar night. Now properly set to null
FIX - various other minor fixes and improvements.
ADD - indices - New outdoor activity indices: swimming, golf, biking, campfires and bees
ADD - stormreports/summary - Now supports within action
ADD - stormcells/summary - Now supports within action
ADD - advisories/summary - BETA endpoint for receiving summary of active advisories
ADD - observations - support for ceilingFT / ceilingM when available
MOD - advisories - includes.zipcodes now only include zip codes whom’s centroid lies within small polygon, when available.
MOD - normals - Allow plimit=31 so can fetch 1 month in a single query
MOD - forecasts - Improved prob of precipitation values
MOD - forecasts - Daily forecasts now give less precedence to early morning fog
MOD - forecasts - Improved forecast speed performance.
MOD - stormreports/summary - returns states in alphabetical order
MOD - stormreports/summary - now include report category
FIX - observations - Query with :id and filter=allstations, pwsweather stations may be ignored
FIX - observations/archive - Correct API error with PWS data if location not available
FIX - advisories - Whey query by zip code the filter=county would be ignored
FIX - various other minor fixes and improvements.
ADD - stormreports - add dust reports filter
ADD - stormreports - add marine filter and category
ADD - lightning - new recTimestamp and recISO attrributes which note the receipt time of the lightning strike information
ADD - places - population provided if available via profile.pop attribute.
ADD - observations - ceilingFT and ceilingM added for cloud ceiling. null if not available in observartion
MOD - general - improve warning message for invalid_param
MOD - forecasts - improvements for chance or precip (pop)
MOD - observations - improvements for feelslike temperature when below 50 and windy
MOD - places - improved profile.tz handling to prevent occassional default of UTC
FIX - forecasts - profile.tz incorrectly set to UTC is query by lat/lon in non populated areas.
FIX - stormreports - add coastal flood reports to flood category and filter
FIX - various other minor fixes and improvements.
ADD - forecasts - forecast snow amounts available globally
MOD - from/to - support fractional relative times, such as -1.5hours
MOD - forecasts - plimit or limit can be used, for backward compatibility limit is used if both provided.
MOD - records - adjustments for speed improvement when querying
MOD - tides - adjustments for speed improvement when querying
MOD - observations - hassky filter on by default
MOD - observations/summary - efficiency improvements providing speed improvements when querying
MOD - forecasts - Improved POP values (chance of precip), especially hourly requests.
MOD - route action - support hwne “+” not included in from attributes for relatives i.e. “from: 20minutes” will be treated as “from=+20minutes”
FIX - forecasts - Improvements for edge cases for global forecasts
FIX - various other minor fixes and improvements.
ADD - various - new route action
ADD - route action - new mindist parameter for route action
ADD - observations - hassky filter & query option, to only use observation stations that report sky and weather info
ADD - observations/recent - hassky filter & query option
ADD - observations/archive - hassky filter & query option
ADD - observations/summary - hassky filter & query option
ADD - snowdepth - new snow depth endpoint, daily snowdepth, coverage US & Canada
ADD - convective/outlooks - new filters for sigtorn, sighail, sigwind
MOD - CORS - support for CORS post requests for new route action
MOD - various - Allow hr in place of hour in from/to parameters. Matches AMP offset usage.
MOD - precip/estimate - Now allows fetching up to 31 days at a time
FIX - within action - Some polygon requests failing when requesting GeoJSON output
FIX - indices - bug with health indices handling of the Feb 29th leap day.
FIX - precip/estimate - days with 0 precip being displayed out of order
FIX - observations/archive - sunrise/set times were in GMT instead of localized to location.
FIX - other minor bug fixes, improvements, db adjustments and schema updates
ADD - winter/snowdepth - new endpoint in Beta
ADD - precip/estimate - new endpoint in beta
MOD - cache - Cache-control header now includes private/public
FIX - within action - within action using too large of a circle radius
FIX - forecasts - UVI returning a value of NULL in areas it should be zero
FIX - within action - If user provides incorrect geometry (polygon) API error incorrectly returned
FIX - advisories - Searching by zip code now always using the zip code centroid vs an associated town center.
FIX - normals - timestamp/dateTimeISO could be a day off in some cases though data was correct.
FIX - places - correct issue with capitalization after an apostrophe in a location name
FIX - other minor bug fixes, improvements, db adjustments and schema updates
ADD - advisories - new ‘added’ query / sort mapping.
ADD - advisories - new ‘loc’ query / sort mapping.
ADD - droughts/monitor - us drought monitor endpoint beta
ADD - lightning - support for intra-cloud lightning: Lightning requires additional licensing
ADD - observations - new ‘solrad’ query / sort mapper. Useful for PWS that report Solar radiation.
MOD - threats - Phrasing improvements
FIX - geojson - Fix bug with IDs not always returned in geojson format
FIX - observations - Improved handling of FZUP
FIX - stormreports - details for precip incorrectly set to tempC/F vs rainMM/IN
FIX - stormreports/summary - rain min/max/avg corrected to MM, not CM
FIX - other minor bug fixes, improvements, db adjustments and schema updates
ADD - GeoJSON - For most endpoints, passing format=geojson or Accept header with ‘application/vnd.geo+json’ returns geojson
MOD - GeoJSON - Updates to documentation with GeoJSON examples
ADD - stormreports - New cat attribute, provides common attribute for common storm report types. See documentation for cats.
ADD - stormreports - fires filter to filter on fires based storm reports.
ADD - droughts/monitor - New US Drought Monitor endpoint
ADD - fires/outlook - New Fires Outlook endpoint
ADD - convective/outlook - New Convective outlook endpoint. Added to Storm Threats API add-on
ADD - threats - Endpoint providing near by storm threats. Added to Storm Threats API add-on
ADD - stormcells/summary - New storm cells summary endpoint. Added to Storm Threats API add-on
ADD - stormreports/summary - New endpoint providing storm report summary information. Added to Storm Threats API add-on
ADD - batch - batch requests now support global fields parameter. For use when all requests are the same endpoint.
ADD - indices/coldflu - Health index endpoint for weather relating to cold and flus. Current and forecasts
ADD - indices/arthritis - Health index endpoint for weather relating to arthritis pain. Current and forecasts
ADD - indices/sinus - Health index endpoint for weather relating to sinus headaches. Current and forecasts
ADD - indices/migraine - Health index endpoint for weather relating to migraines. Current and forecasts
ADD - indices/outdoors - Weather related index for outdoor activities. Current and forecasts
MOD - forecasts - Improved higher resolution point forecasts for Canada
MOD - forecasts - forecasts improvements
MOD - observations - Improved sky/weather support for Personal Weather Stations
FIX - observations - improved handling of errant weather types
FIX - advisories - filter=all not always returning expected results
FIX - other minor bug fixes, improvements, db adjustments and schema updates
MOD - lightning - additional improvements
MOD - indices - added to premium bundle
MOD - observations/summaries - take out of beta
FIX - observations/summaries - precip calculation corrections for specific PWS
FIX - other minor bug fixes, improvements, db adjustments and schema updates
MOD - forecasts - improved handling for models that do not provide RH or dew point
MOD - lightning - various improvements
FIX - other minor bug fixes, improvements, db adjustments and schema updates
ADD - forecasts - dateTimeISO to codedWeather array
ADD - forecasts - UVI support (out 5 days)
ADD - stormcells - new rainmoderate, rainheavy, rainintence filters
MOD - advisories - improved handling of small polygon.
MOD - observations/summary - improvements for total precip
MOD - stormcells - affects action now supports population
MOD - sunmoon - improved moon calculations
FIX - observations - metar wx code DZSN and SNDZ not handled properly
FIX - other minor bug fixes, improvements, db adjustments and schema updates
MOD - Places - Improved handling of Canadian Locations
FIX - general - API error if slash in namespace
FIX - observations - incorrect handling of some PWS weather codes
FIX - forecasts - precip output as null instead of zero if actually zero
FIX - observations/summary - intermittent DST bug in output
FIX - other minor bug fixes, improvements, db adjustments and schema updates
ADD - normals - hastemp, hasprecip, hassnow,hassnowd filters
MOD - places - improvements for location searching
FIX - observations - improved support for PWS that do not send weather
FIX - forecasts - API error if requested international forecast outside of the next 15 days
FIX - other minor bug fixes, improvements, db adjustments and schema updates
ADD - observations - new filter=hasprecip, utilizes only stations known to return precip
ADD - observations - new filter=allstations - utilizes official and expanded observation network
ADD - observations - new filter=pws - utilizes stations from pwsweather only
ADD - observations/summary - new filter=hasprecip, utilizes only stations known to return precip
ADD - observations/summary - new filter=allstations - utilizes official and expanded observation network
ADD - observations/summary - new filter=pws - utilizes stations from pwsweather only
ADD - observations/archive - new filter=hasprecip, utilizes only stations known to return precip
ADD - observations/archive - new filter=allstations - utilizes official and expanded observation network
ADD - observations/archive - new filter=pws - utilizes stations from pwsweather only
ADD - normals - add timestamp and datetimeISO to represent the date requested
ADD - stormcells - added hail.maxSizeMM value
MOD - forecasts - filter=day, avgtempF/C now supported
MOD - forecasts - improved phrasing for cloud / weather combinations
MOD - within - improved date line wrapping support
MOD - stormcells - improved caching
MOD - observations - Stations known to return precip will now default to 0 if non provided. Other stations null
MOD - observations/summary - Stations known to return precip will now default to 0 if non provided. Other stations null
MOD - observations/summary - many improvements for precip.total calculations
FIX - forecasts - improvements for filter=daynight and low temperature support
FIX - forecasts - correct forecast json schema
FIX - forecasts - ensure calculated values are rounded to proper decimal places
FIX - Sunmoon - fix localization bug causing data to skip to next day after Midnight UTC
FIX - general - query API with bad controller now returns proper error
FIX - other minor bug fixes, improvements, db adjustments and schema updates
ADD - observations/summary - New precip query/sort mappings
ADD - records - US Daily records through 1800s now supported
MOD - forecasts - Updated forecasting platform, now supporting higher resolution
FIX - observations/summary - Several fixes and improvements for total precip
FIX - records - API error if a record did not have a previous date
FIX - forecasts - Ensure pop and wind direction are integers
FIX - forecasts - Corrected “sunny with hazy” phrase
FIX - observations - Corrected “sunny with hazy” phrase
FIX - general - API error if UTF-8 country passed.
FIX - observations/summary - Correction for using local timezone during date change when no from parameter provided
FIX - observations/summary - Now sorts by date ascending by default
FIX - other minor bug fixes, improvements, db adjustments and schema updates
FIX - General - Prevent caching of endpoint requests that have warn_no_data warning
ADD - Forecasts - Support for min/max/avg FeelsLike and dewpoint
FIX - Observations - solradWM2 defaults to null if not provided.
MOD - Observations - removed deprecated windMPH, windKTS, windKMH (listed as deprecated in 2011)
MOD - Observations/summary - return summary for station with temp for general query
ADD - Observations/summary - add new precip and precipc query / sort mappings
FIX - Observations/summary - summary.datetimeISO not using localized time.
ADD - Observations/summary - add min/max/avg solrad query/sort mappings
FIX - Observations/summary - average values now null if none available
FIX - other minor bug fixes, improvements, db adjustments and schema updates
MOD - stormcells - increase limit for enterpise level
FIX - Observations/summary - actions not always working properly
FIX - Observations/summary - pressure inches should be rounted to two decimals
MOD - Observations/summary - return summary for station with temp for general query
MOD - Observations/summary - avg values should be null if count = 0
MOD - Advisories - Firezones now fully supported
MOD - General - Firezones can be a place id / location
FIX - Indices - radius and filter parameters supported
FIX - Indices - occassional api error if extreme temperature
FIX - Records - Support latest daily record information
FIX - other minor bug fixes, improvements, db adjustments and schema updates
ADD - Observations - new ob.solradWM2 for stations that provide
MOD - Observations - Default using obs with a temperature for general queries
MOD - Obsevations - improvements for ob.light calculation. Uses solar radiation is available
ADD - Observations/recent - new obs.solradWM2 for stations that provide
ADD - Observations/summary - solar radition support for stations that provide
FIX - Observations/summary - api error if no summary available
ADD - Indices - new health indices for migraine, arthritis, sinus, coldflu
FIX - General - Correct caching issue when max daily hits occur
FIX - Places - UTF-8 characters sometimes escaped in output
FIX - other minor bug fixes, improvements, db adjustments and schema updates
FIX - General - Within queries now verify coords & return an INVALID_COORD error vs api error
MOD - General - Batch requests will capture individual request errors and include in result.
MOD - Stormreports - Support for report.detail.sleetIN and report.detail.sleetCM
MOD - Stormreports - Support for query by storm report id
ADD - Fires - new fire ID attribute
ADD - Fires - Support query by ID
FIX - Fires - Occasional API error based on fire type
ADD - Lightning - new ID attribute in result
ADD - Lightning - Support query by ID
MOD - Forecasts - Improvements for primary weather determination
ADD - Indices - New indices endpoint
ADD - Observations - ob.precipIN and ob.precipMM now available for stations that report.
ADD - Observations - profile.elevM and profile.elevFT added
ADD - Observations - ob.sky provides estimated cloud coverage percentage 0= clear, 100 = overcast
ADD - Observations - ob.light provides estimated light level percentage (0-100)
ADD - Observations - ‘elev’ query mapping (elevation)
ADD - Observations - ‘precip’ query mapping (elevation)
FIX - Observations - Blowing Spray properly using code BY
FIX - Observations/archive - Localization for dates not always adhered too
FIX - Observations/archive - For unknown stations API error occassionally occurred
FIX - Observations/recent - For unknown stations API error occassionally occurred
ADD - Observations/recent - ‘elev’ query mapping (elevation)
ADD - Observations/recent - ‘precip’ query mapping (elevation)
ADD - Observations - filter=allstations add support for many new observation stations
FIX - Observations/recent - filter=allstations add support for many new observation stations
ADD - Observations/summary - New endpoint for obtaining daily summaries
FIX - other minor bug fixes, improvements, db adjustments and schema updates
FIX - General - Modification for improved handling of bug in iOS SDK using within queries
FIX - General - Capitalize place names after a period i.e. D.C. vs D.c.
FIX - Caching - Improved cache handling of bad locations
FIX - Caching - Improved caching of batch requests
FIX - Observations - If no cloud over CL (Clear) sometimes returned improperly
FIX - Observations - Heat index now calculated based on >= 80F
MOD - Observations - Improved handling of unknown weather codes
MOD - Observations - Additional QC handling of invalid humidity, temperatures and wind
ADD - Observations - Support for additional observation stations
FIX - Observations/Recent - API error returned if no place set for station
MOD - Forecasts - Additional weather combination phrases
MOD - Forecasts - Improvements for primary weather determination
FIX - other minor bug fixes, improvements, db adjustments and schema updates
MOD - earthquakes - report.location output now includes units
MOD - stormcells - Improvements for tornadic storm cells
MOD - forecasts - Support for skip / pskip parameter.
MOD - forecasts - Support for plimit parameter as alternative to limit
MOD - forecasts - Improvements to weather phrasing
MOD - fields Parameter - Improvement for supporting dot notation.
MOD - tiles - Improvements for improve speed on tile requests.
MOD - cache improvements - Cache-Control header in response.
FIX - normals - RelativeTo object incorrectly returned as “relative”
FIX - forecasts - Correct intermittent bug with night temperatures when using filter=daynight
FIX - forecasts - Under rare circumstances fitler=daynight may show sunny at end of day
FIX - observations - RADZ not being coded properly
FIX - caching - Improvements for callbacks that include periods.
FIX - other minor bug fixes, improvements, db adjustments and schema updates
ADD - stormreports - new detail mapping for query / sort parameters
ADD - tropics - new tropics/outlookprobs endpoint. In Beta until 1.3 release
ADD - places - new places/postalcodes endpoint.
ADD - tiles - New Hires Visible Satellite tile set
ADD - tiles - New radar / satellite combined tileset (radsat)
ADD - tiles - New radar / adv combined tileset (radalerts)
ADD - tiles - Ability to fetch image based on bounding box and custom width / height
ADD - tiles - Ability to fetch image based on lat/lon center, radius and custom width/height
ADD - tiles - Ability to pass a custom callback when requesting time meta data
ADD - tiles - Ability to request tiles / image with “latest” in place of timestamp.
ADD - tiles - Ability to request tiles / image with an offset from the latest.
FIX - forecasts - occasional issue with hourly forecast and GMT crossover for international
FIX - general - Correct occasional API error if namespace includes slash
FIX - places - If Location passed & not found in city list, check postal code db could be institution
FIX - sunmoon - Date duplicated when crossing from DST to no DST
FIX - sunmoon - Start Date incorrect if in DST & from parameter is not in DST
MOD - general - Warning returned if requesting fields that do not exist with fields parameter
MOD - forecasts - Speed improvements
FIX - other minor bug fixes, improvements, db adjustments and schema updates
ADD - fires - include ID and can search by fire id, i.e. /fires/:id
ADD - stormreports - added ID attribute and search by id
ADD - records - added ID attribute and search by id
MOD - fires - added additional elements for large / critical fires
MOD - stormreports - increased max limit per request from 250 to 1000.
MOD - records - increased max limit per request from 250 to 1000.
MOD - fires - speed improvements
MOD - stormcells - :id query, the stormcell ID can use dash in place of undescore if needed
FIX - stormreports - wind filter now includes marine wind reports
FIX - stormcells - limit did not work with the stormcells/affects action
FIX - fires - correct issue with areaAC (acres) sometimes being returned in KM.
FIX - observations/archive - when passing from=2013/01/01 some locations were returning data for 2012/12/31
FIX - if user used fields parameter with dot notation on element that didnt exist caused API error. Now will return with invalid_param warning.
FIX - other minor bug fixes, improvements, db adjustments and schema updates
ADD - all endpoints - 3 character IATA airport codes as search option. ie: /observations/MSP
ADD - places/airports - new endpoint returns information based on airports, heliports, etc.
ADD - observations - added snowDepthIN, snowDepthCM for estimated snow depth. US only, international coming in 1.3
MOD - lightning - lowered lightning endpoint cache times to 60 seconds
MOD - lightning - improved lightning request speed
FIX - lightning - added missing relativeTo attribute when performing closest/with queries
FIX - observations - corrected some weather codes not being parsed correctly. Also added code to log these for faster correction
FIX - advisories - “or” filters (separated by semicolon) not being used.
FIX - other minor bug fixes, improvements, db adjustments and schema updates
Last modified: January 13, 2020