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Weather & Environment

AE-230.10 Level 2 API Evangelist extension API Evangelist extension, CC BY-NC-SA 6 providers 19 API surfaces 3 rated strong or better

Forecasts, observations and air quality.

Weather & Environment (AE-230.10) is a level-2 business capability under Data & Reference Information Services in the API Evangelist extension model. The catalog holds 19 API surface(s) from 6 provider(s) that can perform some part of it, 3 of them rated strong or better. Reach is the vendor surface that lands on this capability — it is not a claim about what any particular organisation has deployed.

Where this capability definition comes from. This capability is part of the API Evangelist extension to the business-capability model, written by API Evangelist and licensed CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. API Evangelist capability extension — https://apievangelist.com Audience: b2bconsumer It extends, and never modifies, Turbo EA Capabilities by Vincent Verdet (CC BY 4.0). · Extension provenance and licence

Sub-capabilities

Personal Weather Station Networks AE-230.10.10API Evangelist extension, CC BY-NC-SA

consumerb2b

Uploading a home station's observations to citizen networks (Weather Underground PWS, PWSweather, Met Office WOW, WOW-BE, CWOP, AWEKAS from WeeWX).

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Providers that reach this capability

Ordered by rating band. Reach means a provider publishes an API surface that can perform some part of this capability — it is not a claim that any particular organisation has deployed it.

Strong 3 Solid coverage with minor gaps
SolcastAggregationsForecast DataLive Data3 APIs59.4EPA — U.S. Environmental Protection AgencyAnnual DataDaily DataMonitorsSample Data5 APIs59.1EquinorAllowed LocationsLocationsParametersWeather4 APIs54.7
Developing 2 Usable, with meaningful gaps to close
DTNEvent GeojsonEvent PredictionsHourly PredictionsPredictions5 APIs51.4NOAA — National Oceanic and Atmospheric AdministrationAlerts1 API40.9
Emerging 1 Early or largely undocumented
Leaf AgricultureWeather1 API25.9
This page carries no rating. Capabilities are not rated. A capability is a description of what a business does, not a thing a company publishes, so a Kin Score would have nothing to measure.
The edge table is a Pro feature. This page shows which providers and tags reach Weather & Environment. The underlying tag → capability edges — each with the quoted fragment of the provider's own OpenAPI that evidences it, a calibrated confidence score, and the contract-provenance gate it passed — are available through the API, along with company-level capability maps. Only edges at confidence ≥ 0.7 with evidence found verbatim in the source contract are published at all.

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