WeatherKit

Generated on 8/4/2024

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WeatherKit received several updates at WWDC 2024, as detailed in the session titled Bring context to today’s weather. Here are the key enhancements:

  1. Richer Forecast Details:

    • Addition of finer details to current, hourly, and daily forecasts, such as cloud cover by altitude, richer precipitation data, humidity, and visibility.
    • Example: You can now access hourly precipitation data and cloud cover details by altitude (Richer forecast details).

  2. Highlight Weather Changes:

    • Introduction of the ability to contextually highlight upcoming weather changes, helping users stay informed about significant weather changes (Highlight weather changes).

  3. Statistics API:

    • A new statistics API designed to provide broad and narrow historical weather statistics, including historical averages and daily summaries (Richer forecast details).

  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 (Faster data transfer).

These enhancements aim to provide developers with more detailed and efficient ways to integrate weather data into their applications.

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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.