10-minute nowcasting now covers the U.S., Africa and the Middle East

Until now, our 10-minute nowcast covered Europe. Africa got a satellite update every 15 minutes, and everywhere else the forecast updated less often. Starting today, sites in the U.S., Africa and the Middle East get the same 10-minute nowcast as Europe.

TL;DR

• New 10-minute area: The U.S., Africa and the Middle East, plus parts of Canada and Mexico.
• Africa moves from 15 to 10 minutes.
• No API changes. Sites in the new area get the faster updates automatically on a plan with 144 updates per day, like Plus.

Where exactly

The map shows coverage per country. Light green means at least 85 % of the country lies inside the 10-minute area, dark green means between 15 and 85 %. Sites outside the area keep the regular forecast, which updates less often. We plan to extend the 10-minute nowcast to more regions soon.

What you need to do

Nothing. It's the same endpoint and the same fields:

curl "https://api.pvnode.com/v2/forecast/{site_id}" \
     -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY"

If your site is inside the area and your plan has 144 updates per day (Plus), the forecast now draws on a new satellite image every 10 minutes. Your client keeps working as before, and next_poll_at in the response still tells it when to ask again.

Try it

Create a site in the dashboard and open its forecast. The forecasting page explains how the nowcast works, and the API docs cover next_poll_at and the response fields. All plans are on the pricing page.

If you want to know whether a specific location is covered, send us its coordinates through the feedback button in the dashboard.