What I need is exactly what I get from the "Event Planning Dashboard". For example, typical (daily or hourly) precipitation for San Francisco on May 13th, but in JSON format.
I am still trying to construct the query in the query builder, but I think I need a little help, as it is not quite clear to me...
Thank you so much!!
Martine
Thank you for your question. To include the typical weather, you can use the 'stats' include property to add the normal range of most weather elements:
"normal": { "tempmax": [ 74.2, 80.9, 91.1 ],...
The normal arrays are the daily minimum, average and maximum values for the weather element.
The weather api request will add the 'include' parameter. In this case, we include the forecast, historical observations and the daily statistics:
https://weather.visualcrossing.com/VisualCrossingWebServices/rest/services/timeline/Miami%20Beach%2C%20FL?unitGroup=us&include=stats%2Cobs%2Cfcst&key=YOUR_API_KEY&contentType=json
For more information on the include parameter, please see https://www.visualcrossing.com/resources/documentation/weather-api/timeline-weather-api/
Regards
Visual Crossing Support
Thank you so much!!
But how do I add a date to the query, (like May 13 - no year since it is typical weather for May 13 in this particular location) to have an idea of typical weather - precipitation, wind - through the years on that day of the year in a particular location 
(as you have in the "event planner dashboard"). Is this possible via a query, or do you add code to select one day of the year throughout history to get the results for the dashboard?
Thank you again for any help :)
Martine
You have the option to add a date or a date range in the query itself.
please check the API documentation under https://www.visualcrossing.com/resources/documentation/weather-api/timeline-weather-api/
in there look for the parameters date1 and date2. you find examples query as well in the sections
"Date Range Request Example" and "Specific Time Request Example"
Regards
Visual Crossing Support
Got it! Thank you so much :)
Martine
