As far as I know, the weather.gov api is hosted out of a single facility (the NCEP NCO), and if that building has any sort of network issue, the api goes down.

As far as I know, the weather.gov api is hosted out of a single facility (the NCEP NCO), and if that building has any sort of network issue, the api goes down. At the very least it seems like using some sort of CDN would provide a bit more resiliency, but maybe there are infrastructure constraints that make this difficult.