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Is it able to provide data on extreme events. Say, the current and potential path of a hurricane? similar to .kml that NOAA provides

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Extreme weather is predicted by numerical weather models. Correctly representing hurricanes has driven development on the NOAA GFS model for centuries.

Open-Meteo focuses on providing access to weather data for single locations or small areas. If you look at data for coastal areas, forecast and past weather data will show severe winds. Storm tracks or maps are not available, but might be implemented in the future.

Appreciate the response. Do you know of any services that provide what I described in the previous comments? I'm specifically interested in extreme weather conditions and their visual representation (hurricanes, tornados, hails etc.) with API capabilities

Go to: nhc.noaa.gov/gis There's a list of data and products with kmls and kmzs and geojsons and all sorts of stuff. I haven't actually used the API for retrieving these, but NOAA has a pretty solid track record with data dissemination.

I would love to hear about this centuries-old NOAA GFS model. The one I know about definitely doesn't have that kind of history behind it.

Some of the oldest data may come from ships logs back to 1836

https://www.reuters.com/graphics/CLIMATE-CHANGE-ICE-SHIPLOGS...

Sorry, decades.

KML files for storm tracks are still the best way to go. You could calculate storm tracks yourself for other weather models like DWD ICON, ECMWF IFS or MeteoFrance ARPEGE, but storm tracks based on GFS ensembles are easy to use with sufficient accuracy

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