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Weather Gov Observation Example

WeatherGovernmentUnited StatesForecastingAlertsOpen Data

Weather Gov Observation Example is an example object payload from Weather.gov, with 9 top-level fields. It illustrates the shape of data this provider's APIs accept or return.

Top-level fields

@id@typestationstationIdstationNametimestamprawMessagetextDescriptionpresentWeather

Example Payload

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{
  "@id": "https://api.weather.gov/resource/example",
  "@type": "wx:ObservationStation",
  "station": "https://api.weather.gov/resource/example",
  "stationId": "KTOP",
  "stationName": "KTOP",
  "timestamp": "2026-05-03T14:30:00Z",
  "rawMessage": "Example weather description text.",
  "textDescription": "Example weather description text.",
  "presentWeather": [
    null
  ]
}