Please for the love of god be gentle on the NWS infrastructure - and also ask yourself "do I really need to set up something that hits NWS public APIs every X minutes, or can I just get a $5 dongle to decode ISM band transmissions and read a $10 temp and humidity sensor stuck to a tree outside my house?"
Private weather companies have been lobbying Congress for decades to keep the NWS underfunded and hamstrung in what weather services they can offer. That's why we've seen an explosion in the number of companies offering things like forecast "products" for farmers, fleet operators, and so on.
The NWS is like the post office- invaluable, something the government should provide as a service to all, and constantly under attack and hamstrung by people with privatization agendas.
Private weather companies have been lobbying Congress for decades to keep the NWS underfunded and hamstrung in what weather services they can offer. That's why we've seen an explosion in the number of companies offering things like forecast "products" for farmers, fleet operators, and so on.
The NWS is like the post office- invaluable, something the government should provide as a service to all, and constantly under attack and hamstrung by people with privatization agendas.