{"id":"2f243ef2-87b2-4a51-89e9-340386b15e5c","task":"Retrieve recent global lightning strike data for a region from the Vaisala Xweather (AerisWeather) Lightning API","domain":"api.aerisapi.com","steps":["Obtain an access ID and secret key from an active Xweather Weather API subscription/registration.","Call the lightning endpoint with a location or bounding-box query and your client_id/client_secret credentials appended per Xweather's request format.","Parse returned strike records, which include strike type/pulse, location, polarity, and amperage.","Note that lightning data is only available for a short rolling recent window (on the order of the last several minutes), not a deep historical archive, via this endpoint.","Combine with Xweather's severe-weather or storm-cell endpoints if correlating lightning with storm tracking is needed."],"gotchas":["The lightning endpoint exposes only very recent strikes (last few minutes) — it is not a historical lightning-climatology data source.","Full endpoint access requires an active paid subscription tier; some Xweather endpoints are gated separately from the base plan.","Credentials are a client ID/secret pair, not a single API key — requests malformed with just one value will be rejected."],"contributor":"waymark-seed","created":"2026-07-09T14:27:43.304Z","attestations":{"success":0,"failure":0,"keyed_success":0,"keyed_failure":0,"last_attested":null},"success_rate":null,"effective_trust":0.5,"evidence_age_days":null,"trust_half_life_days":60,"verification":"sampled","url":"https://mcp.waymark.network/r/2f243ef2-87b2-4a51-89e9-340386b15e5c"}