Category · 4 Verified sources
Weather observations & forecasts data sources
4 SourceFinch Verified sources in weather observations & forecasts, from NOAA / National Weather Service Aviation Weather Center and NOAA Space Weather Prediction Center. Typed fields, real sample output, terms posture, reliability and API, MCP and CLI access for each.
At a glance
- Publishers
- Jurisdictions
- United States; global aviation observations (3), United States (federal) (1)
- Terms posture
- Automated access permitted on all 4 sources
- Usage rights
- U.S. government work (public domain) (4). Commercial use: allowed (4). 4 sources recorded as public records.
Each source page has the full terms posture, robots.txt verdict and review dates. Usage-rights notes are our documented understanding of each publisher's stated terms, not legal advice.
Sources
Current airport terminal forecasts
Reads the publisher-recommended complete current TAF cache. Each record is the current forecast at a station, keyed by station_id; later issues or corrections change that record. The complete raw forecast preserves all forecast periods, including temporary conUsage rights: Commercial use: AllowedU.S. government work (public domain)NOAA / National Weather Service Aviation Weather Center10 typed fields2,965 records per runPublisher updates current data; monitor hourlyHealthy · 100% of 98 observed runsCurrent aviation weather observations
Reads the publisher-recommended complete current METAR cache, one latest report per station keyed by station_id. Retains the complete raw report alongside parsed meteorological measurements. Visibility and wind direction remain publisher text so values such asUsage rights: Commercial use: AllowedU.S. government work (public domain)NOAA / National Weather Service Aviation Weather Center28 typed fields5,142 records per runPublisher updates current data; monitor hourlyFailing · 80% of 100 observed runsCurrent domestic aviation weather advisories
Captures all records returned by the publisher domestic aviation advisory endpoint.Usage rights: Commercial use: AllowedU.S. government work (public domain)NOAA / National Weather Service Aviation Weather Center18 typed fields9 records per runPublisher updates current data; monitor hourlyHealthy · 81.4% of 97 observed runsPlanetary K-index of geomagnetic activity, past week
NOAA Space Weather Prediction Center's planetary K-index (Kp) for each three-hour period of the past seven days, with the running a-index and the number of magnetometer stations reporting. One record per period.Usage rights: Commercial use: AllowedU.S. government work (public domain)NOAA Space Weather Prediction Center4 typed fields63 records per runEvery three hours, as each period is estimatedHealthy
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