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The real-time weather connector allows you to ingest live weather data from a selected location into Eventstream. It provides real-time weather conditions such as precipitation, temperature, and wind for a specified set of coordinates. This data is updated every minute to ensure timely insights.
Weather data is powered by the Azure Maps Weather service. The cost of using Azure Maps is included in the connector's capacity consumption, so there's no need to set up a separate Azure Maps account or service within your Azure subscription. To learn more about Azure Maps, refer to What is Azure Maps?.
Prerequisites
- Access to a workspace in the Fabric capacity license mode (or) the Trial license mode with Contributor or higher permissions.
- Create an eventstream if you don't have one already.
Add a real-time weather as a source
If you haven't added any source to your eventstream yet, select Use external source tile.
If you're adding the source to an already published eventstream, switch to Edit mode, select Add source on the ribbon, and then select External sources.
On the Select a data source page, search for and select Connect on the real-time weather tile.
Configure real-time weather
On the Configured connection settings screen, you can select on the location you need on the map or search for a location.
Select Next.
On the Review + connect page, review the summary, and then select Add (Eventstream) or Connect (Real-time hub).
View updated eventstream
You see the real-time weather source added to your eventstream in Edit mode. Select Publish to publish the changes and begin streaming real-time weather data to the eventstream.
After you complete these steps, the source is available for visualization in the Live view. Select the real-time weather tile in the diagram to see the page similar to the following one.
Currently, this source doesn't support Data preview. You can preview data in the stream node.
Weather data fields
The Weather connector retrieves a structured set of fields for each weather update. Here's a description of the key fields:
| Name | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| dateTime | string (date-time) | Date and time of the current observation displayed in ISO 8601 format, for example, 2019-10-27T19:39:57-08:00. |
| description | string | Phrase description of the current weather condition. Displayed in specified language. |
| iconCode | IconCode (int32) | Numeric value representing an image that displays the iconPhrase. |
| hasPrecipitation | boolean | Indicates the presence or absence of precipitation. True indicates the presence of precipitation; false indicates the absence of precipitation. |
| temperature | WeatherUnit | Temperature being returned. |
| realFeelTemperature | WeatherUnit | RealFeel™ Temperature being returned. |
| realFeelTemperatureShade | WeatherUnit | RealFeel™ Temperature being returned. Describes what the temperature really feels like in the shade. |
| relativeHumidity | integer (int32) | Relative humidity is the amount of water vapor present in air expressed as a percentage of the amount needed for saturation at the same temperature. |
| dewPoint | WeatherUnit | The dewpoint temperature in specified unit. The dewpoint temperature is the temperature that the air must be cooled to in order to reach saturation. |
| wind | WindDetails | Wind details being returned including speed and direction. |
| windGust | WindDetails | Wind gust. Wind gust is a sudden, brief increase in speed of the wind. |
| uvIndex | integer (int32) | Measure of the strength of the ultraviolet radiation from the sun. |
| uvIndexDescription | WeatherUnit | Description of the strength of the ultraviolet radiation from the sun. |
| visibility | WeatherUnit | Visibility in specified unit. A measure of the distance at which an object or light can be clearly discerned. |
| obstructionsToVisibility | string | Cause of limited visibility. |
| cloudCover | integer (int32) | Percent representing cloud cover. |
| cloudCeiling | WeatherUnit | Cloud ceiling in specified unit. The ceiling is a measurement of the height of the base of the lowest clouds. |
| pressure | WeatherUnit | Atmospheric pressure in specified unit. |
| pressureTendency | PressureTendency | Atmospheric pressure change. |
| pastTwentyFourHourTemperatureDeparture | WeatherUnit | Departure from the temperature observed 24 hours ago in specified unit. |
| apparentTemperature | WeatherUnit | Perceived outdoor temperature caused by the combination of air temperature, relative humidity, and wind speed in specified unit. |
| windChillTemperature | WeatherUnit | Perceived air temperature on exposed skin due to wind. |
| wetBulbTemperature | WeatherUnit | Measures the temperature air can reach when water evaporates into it at constant pressure until it reaches saturation. |
| precipitationSummary | PrecipitationSummary | Summary of precipitation amounts over the past 24 hours. |
| temperatureSummary | TemperatureSummary | Summary of temperature fluctuations over the past 6, 12, and 24 hours. |
| daytime | boolean | Indicates the time of the day. True indicates 'day,' false indicates 'night.' |
To learn more about weather data fields and concepts, check out: