This course is a practical guide on using the OpenWeatherMap APIs to retrieve current and forecast weather data for a specific location.

In this course, you’ll learn how to get weather forecasts for five days, with data after every 3-hour interval. You’ll learn to get the current, forecast, and historical air pollution data for a specific location. This course also introduces the Geocoding API, a simple tool to get geographical coordinates using the location’s name. Also, you’ll integrate the OpenWeatherMap APIs into a functional web application using the React framework and Express backend. Lastly, this course provides recommendations and resources to explore the OpenWeatherMap APIs further.

This course holds relevance in various web applications that utilize weather API to display weather data on their dashboards and machine learning applications that rely on weather data. The Geocoding API is highly valuable in developing location-aware applications, a trend that is currently very popular.