Xweather Weather API
Commercial credentialed 65-endpoint Weather API. For `/lightning`, standard access returns global real-time pulse records from the past five minutes, with a 100 km maximum radius and up to 1,000 records per query. The s…
Questions this answers
4 · best fit firstThe credentialed Xweather Weather API returns U.S. NWS storm reports since 1950 with report identity, coordinates, time, type/category, reporter, and reported wind speed in mph. This directly establishes damaging-wind location, time, and reported severity; it is human/agency report evidence rather than station measurement or continuous footprint.
Xweather's /lightning endpoint returns global pulse-level observations with timestamp/ISO time and fit-confidence metric; standard queries cover the past five minutes within up to 100 km, while the Enterprise add-on supports polygons, circles up to 500 km, up to 24 hours, and archive access from 2016. The cited output does not document detecting-network identity, pulse/strike classification semantics, retrieval timestamp, archive completeness, or network/product version.
The credentialed Xweather Weather API returns U.S. NWS storm reports since 1950 with identity, coordinates, time, type/category, reporter, and hail size. Its separate latest-only NEXRAD storm-cell module supplies observation time, radar/cell identities, position, and maximum hail size. Reported and radar-derived modes and the latest-only limit must remain distinct.
Credentialed location-queryable Lightning API supplies exact strike times and enterprise historical access; it proves no building contact or damage.
Fields it delivers
13 fieldsXweather documents global real-time lightning coverage for the lightning endpoint, subject to query radius and recency limits.
Xweather offers a standing pay-as-you-go Weather API tier whose first 15,000 accesses are free and requires no credit card; standard and premium endpoints, including endpoint multipliers, share that allowance. Usage beyond the allowance and enterprise/high-volume service are paid alternatives.
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