# NWS Point Forecast

> NWS Point Forecast is a paid API for AI agents from fittings.sh, paid per call via x402, $0.00346/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-14).

Returns National Weather Service temperature, wind, precipitation, and narrative forecasts for a US latitude/longitude, with optional hourly resolution

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://fittings.sh/v1/nws/point-forecast
- Price: $0.00346/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-09-14
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/nws-point-forecast-1ea9a888
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_yoK8GulAL3JkMkKt0u7fx

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 nws-point-forecast-1ea9a888
```

Example prompt: What's the NWS weather forecast for the next 12 periods at latitude 40.7128, longitude -74.0060? Give me the twice-daily breakdown with temperatures, wind, and precipitation chances.

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need structured, period-by-period NWS weather forecast data (temperature, wind, precipitation, narrative) for a specific US coordinate. Prefer this over general weather APIs when you specifically need the official NWS forecast text and data. Use `weather.nws-point-forecast` instead if you also need active watches and warnings bundled in the same call, or `nws.active-alerts` if you only need alerts.

## Known failure modes

- Coordinates outside the contiguous US or US territories return an error (NWS only covers US locations)
- Invalid latitude/longitude values outside -90 to 90 or -180 to 180 return a validation error
- NWS API downtime or rate-limiting may cause upstream failures
- Periods parameter out of 1-24 range returns an error
- Ocean or offshore coordinates with no NWS grid coverage return an error

## How this service works

National Weather Service forecast for a US latitude and longitude: temperature, wind, precipitation chance and narrative per period, switchable to hourly resolution. Forecast only — `weather.nws-point-forecast` bundles the active watches and warnings into the same call, and `nws.active-alerts` returns those alone.

## Output

A list of forecast periods (up to 24), each containing a period name (e.g. 'Tonight', 'Monday'), temperature in Fahrenheit, wind speed and direction, precipitation probability percentage, and a human-readable narrative description of expected conditions.

## 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"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string",
     "const": "http"
    },
    "method": {
     "enum": [
      "GET"
     ],
     "type": "string"
    },
    "queryParams": {
     "type": "object",
     "required": [
      "lat",
      "lon"
     ],
     "properties": {
      "lat": {
       "type": "number",
       "description": "Latitude, -90 to 90"
      },
      "lon": {
       "type": "number",
       "description": "Longitude, -180 to 180"
      },
      "hourly": {
       "type": "boolean",
       "description": "Hourly periods instead of the twice-daily forecast"
      },
      "periods": {
       "type": "number",
       "description": "1-24, default 12"
      }
     }
    }
   },
   "additionalProperties": false
  }
 }
}
```

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/nws-point-forecast-1ea9a888/health.json
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