# ForgeMesh Hurricane Tracker

> ForgeMesh Hurricane Tracker is a paid API for AI agents from x402.forgemesh.io, paid per call via x402, $0.005/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-15).

Returns all tropical cyclones currently tracked by the US National Hurricane Center, including name, basin, classification, position, wind intensity, and pressure as normalized JSON.

## Facts

- Endpoint: POST https://x402.forgemesh.io/hurricane-tracker
- Price: $0.005/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-09-15
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/forgemesh-hurricane-tracker-d8bd9f73
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_yW5xTt-wjNGGGHJFI5NS4

Status and success rate cover calls made through Zero and Zero's own probes. Third-party monitors may report differently.

## How to call it through Zero

Zero handles the 402 payment challenge and records the run. With the Zero CLI installed (`npm i -g @zeroxyz/cli`):

```sh
zero fetch --capability forgemesh-hurricane-tracker-d8bd9f73 -d '<json body>'
```

Example prompt: What tropical storms or hurricanes is the National Hurricane Center currently tracking? Give me the name, classification, position, wind speed, and pressure for each active storm.

## When to prefer this

Use this endpoint when you need a normalized, machine-readable snapshot of all currently active tropical cyclones from the authoritative US government source (NHC). Ideal for logistics rerouting agents, maritime and aviation risk planners, and safety-notification pipelines that need structured storm data without scraping NHC directly. Prefer over raw NHC feeds when you need clean JSON rather than XML/advisory parsing.

## Known failure modes

- Empty storm list returned outside of active tropical season (not an error — expected behavior)
- Payment failure if USDC balance is insufficient (x402 payment required at $0.005 per call)
- Stale data if NHC source feed is delayed beyond the 5-minute cache window
- Network timeout if upstream NHC data feed is unavailable

## How this service works

Hurricane tracker API: every tropical cyclone the US National Hurricane Center is currently tracking — name, basin, classification, position, wind intensity, and pressure — as normalized JSON. Use for logistics rerouting, maritime/aviation risk planning, and safety-notification agents. Public-domain government data, cached 5 minutes. Legitimately returns an empty storm list outside of active tropical activity — this is not an error.

## Output

A JSON list of all tropical cyclones currently being monitored by the US National Hurricane Center. Each storm entry includes its name, ocean basin, classification (e.g. tropical depression, tropical storm, hurricane category), current latitude/longitude position, maximum sustained wind speed, and central barometric pressure. Returns an empty list when no storms are active — this is a valid, expected response outside of tropical storm season.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
 "required": [
  "input"
 ],
 "properties": {
  "input": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type",
    "method",
    "bodyType",
    "body"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "body": {
     "type": "object",
     "properties": {}
    },
    "type": {
     "type": "string",
     "const": "http"
    },
    "method": {
     "enum": [
      "POST"
     ],
     "type": "string"
    },
    "bodyType": {
     "enum": [
      "json",
      "form-data",
      "text"
     ],
     "type": "string"
    }
   },
   "additionalProperties": false
  },
  "output": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string"
    },
    "example": {
     "type": "object"
    }
   }
  }
 }
}
```

## Response schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "json",
 "example": {
  "data": {
   "activeStorms": [
    {
     "name": "Elida",
     "intensity": "50",
     "classification": "TS",
     "latitudeNumeric": 15.6,
     "longitudeNumeric": -116.5
    }
   ]
  },
  "attribution": "NOAA National Hurricane Center (public domain)"
 }
}
```

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/forgemesh-hurricane-tracker-d8bd9f73/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
- [Other services from x402.forgemesh.io](https://www.zero.xyz/host/x402.forgemesh.io/llms.txt)