Unsolved Questions about the Point forecast API for Solar Power Plants
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Firstly (1),
Can I get the value of forecast clouds in percent with Point Forecast API?
Or maybe someone can explain how to calculate it for ICON-EU forecast model?
How to combine low, medium, and high clouds to get the same result?
Because
- It often corresponds with satellite imagery. ECMWF forecast model has the +-same effect. And the GFS forecast model often has a bad result.
- In my work we used clouds to generate forecasts for Solar Power Plants. We need to have as reliable as possible data on forecast clouds.
Secondly (2),
Which timestep interval for the Point forecast API ?
Is it 1 hour like 00:00, 01:00, 02:00 .. 23:00 ? Or Is It 3 hours like 00:00, 03:00, 06:00 .. 21:00?
Can I today (on Tuesday) get the forecast for Friday?Simple question (2), but I don't see information about it in API docs topic.
Sincerely,
Viktor Piven -
@Viktor-Piven-2 Firstly, Clouds are calculated on our end in a certain way from low, medium, and high clouds. I am sorry, but I am not able to share this with you.
In general, API offers only 3-hour timestep interval and Forecast API offers only realtime forecasts, there is no option to get values for a week for example.
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@Ondřej-Šutera Well, I understood.
But Windy should write all it in API docs. Because this information is very important.
And it looks weird: In Windy Premium and even in a free account I can see more information than I can get in Windy Premium API Point.
It shouldn't be like this.
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@Viktor-Piven-2 Windy, as an app, is still our main product compared to our API.
