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name: Air Quality description: AQI values, primary pollutant, and detailed pollutant breakdowns for monitoring and reporting. - name: Maritime Weather description: Marine weather including waves, swell, sea-surface temperature, and sea state. - name: Wildfire Data description: Active wildfire incident records and perimeters for situational awareness. - name: Tropical Cyclones description: Active tropical cyclone tracks, intensity, and forecast cones. - type: UseCases data: - name: Construction Lightning Safety description: Automatically pause and resume outdoor construction work using lightning threat nowcasts. - name: Aviation Ground Operations description: Drive ramp closures and re-openings around lightning, severe weather, and visibility thresholds. - name: Outdoor Sports and Events description: Manage stadium and event evacuations and re-entries based on lightning and severe weather. - name: Energy and Utilities description: Plan grid operations, crew dispatch, and storm restoration around forecasts and alerts. - name: Logistics and Routing description: Optimize routing and dispatch decisions using maritime, road weather, and severe weather feeds. - name: Insurance and Risk description: Use historical and real-time storm and lightning data for claims and underwriting. - name: Environmental Reporting description: Aggregate AQI and pollutant feeds for ESG and regulatory reporting. - type: Integrations data: - name: AerisWeather Mapping description: Tile and overlay services for visualizing Xweather data on web and mobile maps. - name: Vaisala Lightning Network description: Underlying global lightning detection infrastructure feeding the Xweather lightning APIs. - name: Common Alerting Protocol description: Severe-weather alert payloads align with CAP severity, urgency, and certainty fields. - name: METAR description: Surface observations are derived from the international METAR observation standard. - type: Blog url: https://www.xweather.com/blog maintainers: - FN: Kin Lane email: kin@apievangelist.com