Lightning
Lightning

Radius

🔒 Historical daily lightning strikes by latitude/longitude and distance radius

GET
https://dataservice.accuweather.com
/lightning/v1/historical/geoposition/radius

Get historical lightning strike data within a circular area. The response is in JSON format with GeoJSON elements.

🔒 Historical daily lightning strikes by latitude/longitude and distance radius › query Parameters

q
​string · required

A string that identifies the central location from which to search. Provide the coordinates as latitude,longitude in decimal format.

Example: 40.779,-73.969
startDate
​string · date-time · required

The starting date-time value for search results in ISO 8601 format (yyyy-mm-ddThh:mm:ss+hh:mm).

offset
​integer · int32 · required

A numerical value representing the first result to return. Results will be returned in sets of 5000. Offset=0 will return the first 5000 results, Offset=1 will return the second 5000 results, etc.

distanceRadius
​integer · int32 · required

The distance, in miles, from the center of the search area to the circle's outer edge. The maximum radius is 60 miles.

Default: 5
strikeType
​string

A code to filter by lightning strike type. Valid values are: intra-cloud (cloud-to-cloud): ic; cloud-to-ground: cg.

Default:
details
​boolean

A boolean value that specifies whether or not to include extended information.

Default: false

🔒 Historical daily lightning strikes by latitude/longitude and distance radius › Headers

Authorization
​string · required

The Authorization header is used to authenticate using your API key. Format is Bearer YOUR_API_KEY.

🔒 Historical daily lightning strikes by latitude/longitude and distance radius › Responses

OK

AccuWeather.API.Lightning.Entities.HistoricalLightning
pageCount
​integer · int32

An integer that indicates which set of results are displayed. Results are returned in sets of 5000. Offset=0 indicates the first set of 5000 results, Offset=1 indicates the second set of 5000 results, etc.

totalCount
​integer · int32

An integer that indicates that total number of lightning strikes available with this query.

resultsCount
​integer · int32

An integer that indicates that total number of lightning strikes returned with this query.

​object

An object that contains an overview of the lightning strike results included with this response.

​object

An object that contains information about each individual lightning strike.

Bounding Box