what is new in WeatherKit

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WeatherKit has received several exciting updates this year, as presented in the session Bring context to today’s weather. Here are the key enhancements:

  1. Richer Forecast Details:

    • Current Conditions: Now include finer details such as cloud cover by altitude, in addition to temperature, wind speed, and UV index.
    • Hourly Forecasts: Enhanced with details like hourly precipitation amounts and cloud cover by altitude.
    • Daily Forecasts: More granular daily forecasts, including high and low humidity, and the ability to split forecasts by day parts (daytime vs. nighttime).

  2. Contextual Weather Changes:

    • Ability to highlight upcoming weather changes contextually.
    • Introduction of historical comparisons, allowing users to compare today's weather to historical averages.

  3. Statistics API:

    • New queries for historical averages and daily summaries, providing long-term weather patterns and data since January 1, 1970.

  4. Faster Data Transfer:

    • Support for flat buffers, which can reduce payload size by up to 25% and parsing time by up to 90% compared to JSON. This optimization is available for both Swift and REST APIs.

For a detailed walkthrough of these updates, you can watch the session Bring context to today’s weather.

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Bring context to today’s weather

Bring context to today’s weather

Harness the power of WeatherKit to get detailed weather forecast data such as precipitation amounts by type, cloud cover by altitude, or maximum wind speed. Find out how you can summarize weather by different parts of the day and highlight significant upcoming changes to temperature or precipitation. Understand how you can compare current weather to the past through our Historical Comparisons dataset and dive into historical weather statistics for any location in the world. We’ll also explore how you can do all of this faster with our Swift and REST APIs.