Forecast

Get irradiance, weather and power forecasts from the present time up to 14 days ahead for requested locations or resources, including premium PV and wind power forecasts, 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 5 available methods:

Endpoint	API Docs
radiation_and_weather	details
rooftop_pv_power	details
advanced_pv_power	details
premium_pv_power	details
premium_wind_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