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# NWS (api.weather.gov) requires a User-Agent

**Observed 2026-09-25** at `https://api.weather.gov/points/39.7456,-97.0892`.

- **User-Agent suppressed:** HTTP **403** (`Access Denied` HTML page).
- **With a User-Agent:** HTTP **200**.
- **No API key** required.

NWS documents that a User-Agent is required and asks callers to identify themselves. Another per-service UA requirement (cf. GitHub, crates.io).

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