# Weather

Weather observations, forecasts, alerts, radar, satellite, marine, tropical, hydrologic, and archive data.

## Access

- Kind: api
- Audience: public
- Access: open
- Authentication: No authentication is required for documented public read operations.
- Lifecycle: active
- Observed health: degraded

## Integration links

- Base URL: https://weather.datasourceapi.com
- Documentation: https://weather.datasourceapi.com/api/v1/docs
- OpenAPI: https://weather.datasourceapi.com/openapi.yaml
- Status: https://weather.datasourceapi.com/api/v1/status
- Repository: https://github.com/coopalliance/cca-weather
- Catalog metadata: https://services.datasourceapi.com/api/v1/services/weather

## Capabilities

- forecasts
- radar
- satellite
- severe-weather
- weather

## Provenance and freshness

- NOAA and National Weather Service: MRMS, NEXRAD, GOES and GLM, forecasts, alerts, buoys, HRRR, GFS, NHC, and hydrologic datasets. (https://www.noaa.gov/)
- Open-Meteo: ERA5 historical weather data. (https://open-meteo.com/)

Update cadence: Minute-level dispatcher with source-dependent refresh and daily retention maintenance.. Metadata last verified: 2026-09-03.


## Agent readiness

partial (62/100): OpenAPI and docs are available, but some published weather layers were stale during the last audit.

## Examples

### Service status

Inspect weather layer and source freshness.

```http
GET https://weather.datasourceapi.com/api/v1/status
```