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weather-observation-fetching

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Retrieve surface and upper-air weather observations from authoritative APIs and archives with station identity, time, units, and quality flags preserved.

When to use

• A task needs recent METAR observations for named stations or a small region.
• Historical hourly or synoptic surface data is needed from NOAA NCEI.
• A sounding workflow needs observed radiosonde profiles rather than model
• Station identifiers, relocations, instruments, or metadata must be resolved.
• A fetch returned duplicate, stale, unit-ambiguous, or quality-flagged values.

When not to use

• Provider schemas, retention windows, station inventories, and usage limits can
• Quality flags identify known conditions but do not guarantee that a
• This skill does not perform radar retrieval, satellite retrieval, model-data

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