Appreciate the response. Do you know of any services that provide what I described in the previous comments? I'm specifically interested in extreme weather conditions and their visual representation (hurricanes, tornados, hails etc.) with API capabilities
Go to:
nhc.noaa.gov/gis
There's a list of data and products with kmls and kmzs and geojsons and all sorts of stuff. I haven't actually used the API for retrieving these, but NOAA has a pretty solid track record with data dissemination.
