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NWS Get Point Metadata

Get weather metadata for a geographic point (latitude/longitude) from the US National Weather Service. Returns the forecast office, grid coordinates, and URLs for forecast, hourly forecast, and observation stations. This is often the first step to get a weather forecast for a US location.

Livelast probed 2026-05-01 01:00Z· 448msCortexa

Status

The most recent probe succeeded. Safe to call from the agent today.

Last probed: 1d ago
Last success: 1d ago
Last latency: 448ms

Schema

JSON Schema the agent (or your API call) must match.

{
  "properties": {
    "latitude": {
      "description": "Latitude of the location (e.g., 38.8894 for Washington DC)",
      "type": "number"
    },
    "longitude": {
      "description": "Longitude of the location (e.g., -77.0352 for Washington DC)",
      "type": "number"
    }
  },
  "required": [
    "latitude",
    "longitude"
  ],
  "type": "object"
}

Examples (1)

Default NWS Get Point Metadata call

public-safeinput

{
  "latitude": 1,
  "longitude": 1
}

Expected response keys: success

Anonymous-safe example. Rate-limited; no sign-in required.

Identifiers

Catalog ID: tu_NWS_get_point_metadata
Tool name: NWS_get_point_metadata
Added: 2026-05-01 00:58Z
Tags: tooluniverse

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