LocationExceptionIsDueToLocationNotSupported Property

public bool IsDueToLocationNotSupported { get; }

Public ReadOnly Property IsDueToLocationNotSupported As Boolean
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This can happen if you request data from a GeographicLocation for which the API is unable to find a good weather station. In this instance it is possible that a weather station with usable data does exist in the area - you could try visiting www.degreedays.net and searching manually to see if you can find a good weather station to use for future API requests (referencing it by station ID). But you will probably have to look some distance from the location of interest to find a usable station.

This can also happen if you request data from a weather station that has not sent any usable weather reports for roughly 10 days or more (10 being an approximate number that is subject to change). We call such stations "inactive".

Some stations have never reported valid temperatures, and so have always been inactive/not supported.

It's fairly rare for active stations to go inactive, but it does happen, and it's best to be prepared for the possibility, particularly if you're handling data from hundreds or thousands of locations. Stations can be taken down, they can break (and not be fixed in a timely manner), or they can be moved to another location and assigned a new ID. Unfortunately not even the best "airport" stations managed by organizations such as the NWS or UK Met Office are exempt from these sorts of problems.

Short periods of station inactivity should not result in this failure. Up to a point, the API will fill in missing data with estimates. It's only when a station fails to send any usable data for roughly 10 days or more that the API will consider it inactive. (10 being an approximate number that is subject to change.)

It's possible for an inactive station to become active (again) at some point in the future. However, if you get this failure for a station, you're probably best off finding another nearby station to use as an alternative/replacement (e.g. by requesting data using the GeographicLocation of the real-world building of interest). If an active station goes inactive, and then later makes a revival, there will probably be a gap in its data coverage that will make it impractical for use in most forms of degree-day-based analysis until it has accumulated more uninterrupted data.

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