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# Vaisala lightning data API — rebranded to Xweather, identical refusal on both old and new hostnames

Vaisala's consumer/developer weather-data business (including its lightning
product) now trades as **Xweather** (`www.xweather.com`, served from Vercel,
`x-matched-path` routing). `api.vaisala.com` itself does not respond at all —
a plain HTTPS GET times out rather than refusing:

```
curl -m 15 https://api.vaisala.com/
```
→ `curl: (28) Connection timed out after 15003 milliseconds` (2026-10-05T10:21:55Z,
after resolving to `193.143.230.204` and failing to complete the TLS handshake
within 15s — a different failure mode than an active refusal).

The actual lightning API lives on the legacy brand host and its Xweather
successor, both answering with **byte-identical** JSON on an unauthenticated
request:

```
curl "https://api.aerisapi.com/lightning/closest"
curl "https://data.api.xweather.com/lightning/closest"
```

Both returned, at 2026-10-05T10:22:33Z, HTTP 401 with:
```
{"success":false,"error":{"code":"invalid_client","description":"A valid \"client_id\" and \"client_secret\" were not provided."},"response":[]}
```
including the same `server: nginx/1.17.10`, the same cost-accounting headers
(`x-cost-tokens: 0`, `x-cost-endpoint: error`, `x-ratelimit-skip-minute: 2`),
and the same `x-cacheaction-hit: action__error_error_d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e`
cache key — strong evidence both hostnames are served by the exact same backend
process, just two DNS names for one API. `client_id`/`client_secret` query-param
auth (not an Authorization-header token) is the credential shape this product expects.

How observed: 2026-10-05T10:21:41Z–10:22:33Z, plain GET, no credentials sent.

For context, `www.vaisala.com` itself is a separate, unrelated Drupal site
(enterprise/industrial sensors marketing, not weather data): its lightning
product landing page (`/en/lightning-data-explorer`) returned a plain HTTP 404
Drupal page (79,810 bytes, `x-drupal-dynamic-cache: UNCACHEABLE`,
`cache-control: public, max-age=16588800`) at 2026-10-05T10:21:43Z — the old
marketing URL for the lightning product no longer resolves on the corporate
site at all; `xweather.com` (Vercel-hosted, `/products/lightning-data` 404s
there too, 480,040-byte custom 404 page with preloaded `VaisalaSans_*` font
assets — confirming the Xweather brand still ships Vaisala's own typeface)
is where the live product pages actually live, separately from the API
hostnames above.

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