Built a little test script to show how many gridpoints are off the lat/lon coordinates : ~13%, usually by a mile

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Saw the bug reports on old data and coordinates not giving back the right grid box

Wrote a little python notebook to test it on the top 1000 cities in the USA by population

The notebook can be found here https://github.com/benghunt/nws_api_testing

The output of 250 cities was

Did not find any data older than 2 days

lat lon not in grid:28
lat lon successful:188
error rate : 0.12962962962962962
average distance to grid 1.224765751862562 miles

Here is a little scatter plot