How do I get data from weather.gov through my nftables firewall?

I’m writing a python script that grabs data from weather.gov (the NDFD SOAP service and current observations XML) to draw a screensaver picture. The script works on my regular computer but not on my pi zero w, which leads me to believe nftables might be blocking the traffic.

When I run the script on my pi, it hangs. When I stop the script by keyboard interrupt, it gives me this traceback:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "makeimage.py", line 121, in <module>
    weather = fetch_weather(latitude, longitude, current_observations_url)
  File "makeimage.py", line 78, in fetch_weather
    weather_xml = minidom.parseString(urllib.request.urlopen(current_observations_url).read())
  File "/usr/lib/python3.9/urllib/request.py", line 214, in urlopen
    return opener.open(url, data, timeout)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.9/urllib/request.py", line 517, in open
    response = self._open(req, data)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.9/urllib/request.py", line 534, in _open
    result = self._call_chain(self.handle_open, protocol, protocol +
  File "/usr/lib/python3.9/urllib/request.py", line 494, in _call_chain
    result = func(*args)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.9/urllib/request.py", line 1389, in https_open
    return self.do_open(http.client.HTTPSConnection, req,
  File "/usr/lib/python3.9/urllib/request.py", line 1346, in do_open
    h.request(req.get_method(), req.selector, req.data, headers,
  File "/usr/lib/python3.9/http/client.py", line 1255, in request
    self._send_request(method, url, body, headers, encode_chunked)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.9/http/client.py", line 1301, in _send_request
    self.endheaders(body, encode_chunked=encode_chunked)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.9/http/client.py", line 1250, in endheaders
    self._send_output(message_body, encode_chunked=encode_chunked)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.9/http/client.py", line 1010, in _send_output
    self.send(msg)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.9/http/client.py", line 950, in send
    self.connect()
  File "/usr/lib/python3.9/http/client.py", line 1417, in connect
    super().connect()
  File "/usr/lib/python3.9/http/client.py", line 921, in connect
    self.sock = self._create_connection(
  File "/usr/lib/python3.9/socket.py", line 831, in create_connection
    sock.connect(sa)

If this is a firewall issue, how do I tell nftables to accept these connections?