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api.weather.gov

National Weather Service data, explained

The NWS publishes everything. Almost none of it is labelled.

Two things live here: a plain-English tour of all 69 endpoints on the public API, and a translator for the Senior Duty Meteorologist’s operational messages. Start with what you’re trying to do.

Start with a task

Get a forecast for a place Turn a latitude and longitude into the day-by-day or hourly forecast. Start at /points, then the gridpoint forecast. Forecasts → See active alerts & warnings Every watch, warning and advisory in effect, filterable by state, zone, severity and event type. Alerts → Check current conditions The latest observation from a station near you — temperature, wind, visibility and present weather. Observations → Read a text product Forecast discussions (AFD), statements and hundreds of other bulletins — the hidden library under the JSON. Product codes → Follow NWS operations The Senior Duty Meteorologist’s status messages, translated: model runs, balloon reports, satellite moves. SDM messages → Understand how it fits together The points→grid→forecast chain, WFOs, zones, GeoJSON and the User-Agent rule — read once, stop being confused. Concepts →

NWS operations, right now

All SDM messages →

Critical Weather Day

No CWD

NWS is not currently restricting changes to its forecast systems.

Open alerts

1 outstanding

Pairing is a heuristic — NWS messages carry no tracking ID.

Satellite sectors

3 active

  • GOES-East sector 1 about 20 mi ENE of Charleston, WV until
  • GOES-East sector 2 about 95 mi WSW of Oklahoma City, OK until
  • GOES-West sector 2 about 115 mi WNW of Dodge City, KS until

3-day outlook

  • Saturday Caution...Tropical Cyclone
  • Sunday None
  • Monday None

Latest messages

All SDM messages →

Last checked .

Routine ADM Satellite sector moved Satellite moves Routine ADM 12Z model run on time, 33 balloon reports flagged Model statusBalloon reports Routine ADM 12Z model run on time, 33 balloon reports flagged Model statusBalloon reports Routine ADM Satellite sector moved Critical Weather DayCWD outlookSatellite moves Routine ADM 2 balloon reports flagged Notices & outagesBalloon reports Routine ADM 00Z model run on time, 17 balloon reports flagged Model statusBalloon reports

For developers

No key. No registration. One header.

Every request is a plain GET against https://api.weather.gov. The only rule: send a User-Agent that identifies you.

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