Forecast

Get irradiance, weather and power forecasts from the present time up to 14 days ahead for the requested location, derived from satellite (clouds and irradiance over non-polar continental areas, nowcasted for approx. four hours ahead) and numerical weather models (other data and longer horizons). More information in the API docs.

The module forecast has 3 available methods:

Endpoint	API Docs
radiation_and_weather	details
rooftop_pv_power	details
advanced_pv_power	details

Example

from solcast import forecast

res = forecast.radiation_and_weather(
    latitude=-33.856784,
    longitude=151.215297,
    output_parameters='air_temp'
)

res.to_pandas().head()

period_end	air_temp
2023-08-18 04:00:00+00:00	16
2023-08-18 04:30:00+00:00	15
2023-08-18 05:00:00+00:00	15
2023-08-18 05:30:00+00:00	15
2023-08-18 06:00:00+00:00	15