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Current Lightning
    Radius
      🔒 Lightning strikes by time interval, point, and distance radiusget
    Bounding Box
      🔒 Lightning strikes by time interval and bounding boxget
Historical Lightning
    Historical Lightning
      🔒 Historical daily lightning strikes by point and distance radiusget
Schemas
Lightning
Lightning

Historical Lightning

Endpointhttps://dataservice.accuweather.com

🔒 Historical daily lightning strikes by point 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 point 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 point 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 point and distance radius › Responses

OK

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
lightningStrikes
circular
GET/lightning/v1/historical/geoposition/radius
curl --request GET \
  --url 'https://dataservice.accuweather.com/lightning/v1/historical/geoposition/radius?q=%3Cstring%3E&startDate=%3Cstring%3E&offset=%3Cnumber%3E&distanceRadius=5' \
  --header 'Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY'
shell
Example Responses
{
  "pageCount": 0,
  "totalCount": 0,
  "resultsCount": 0,
  "lightningSummary": {
    "positiveStrikes": 0,
    "negativeStrikes": 0,
    "icStrikes": 0,
    "cgStrikes": 0,
    "closestStrike": {
      "type": {},
      "features": {}
    }
  }
}
json
application/json
Bounding Box