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Weather Conditions:
-Forecasts and current conditions
-Global coverage
-Historical data
-Severe weather alerts
Languages:
The lang parameter can take any of the possible values:
- ar: Arabic
- az: Azerbaijani
- be: Belarusian
- bg: Bulgarian
- bs: Bosnian
- ca: Catalan
- cs: Czech
- da: Danish
- de: German
- el: Greek
- en: English (which is the default)
- es: Spanish
- et: Estonian
- fi: Finnish
- fr: French
- he: Hebrew
- hr: Croatian
- hu: Hungarian
- id: Indonesian
- is: Icelandic
- it: Italian
- ja: Japanese
- ka: Georgian
- ko: Korean
- kw: Cornish
- lv: Latvian
- nb: Norwegian Bokmål
- nl: Dutch
- no: Norwegian Bokmål (alias for nb)
- pl: Polish
- pt: Portuguese
- ro: Romanian
- ru: Russian
- sk: Slovak
- sl: Slovenian
- sr: Serbian
- sv: Swedish
- tet: Tetum
- tr: Turkish
- uk: Ukrainian
- x-pig-latin: Igpay Atinlay
- zh: simplified Chinese
- zh-tw: traditional Chinese
If you require a language not listed here, please consider contributing to our API translation module on Github.
Units:
The units field can take the following options:
- auto: automatically select units based on geographic location
- ca: same as si, except that windSpeed and windGust are in kilometers per hour
- uk2: same as si, except that nearestStormDistance and visibility are in miles, and windSpeed and windGust in miles per hour
- us: Imperial units (the default)
- si: SI units
SI units are as follows:
- summary: Any summaries containing temperature or snow accumulation units will have their values in degrees Celsius or in centimeters (respectively).
- nearestStormDistance: Kilometers.
- precipIntensity: Millimeters per hour.
- precipIntensityMax: Millimeters per hour.
- precipAccumulation: Centimeters.
- temperature: Degrees Celsius.
- temperatureMin: Degrees Celsius.
- temperatureMax: Degrees Celsius.
- apparentTemperature: Degrees Celsius.
- dewPoint: Degrees Celsius.
- windSpeed: Meters per second.
- windGust: Meters per second.
- pressure: Hectopascals.
- visibility: Kilometers.