Smarter Weather

Name: Smarter Weather
Author: smarterweather

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Smarter Weather MCP: forecasts, alerts, outlooks, observations, AQI, grids, and map imagery.

Listed on its own since 2026-09-25. Until then it was part of smarter-weather-developer-onboarding, where its earlier checks remain.

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get_forecast — Complete weather overview for a location: current conditions, daily forecast (day/night periods, SPC threats, severity, CAPE, UV), active alerts, and convective
get_hourly_forecast — Blended hourly forecast: temperature, feels-like, humidity, wind, precipitation probability/amount, conditions, and icon per hour. Snapped to the current hour s
search_locations — Resolve a place query to candidate locations with coordinates. Accepts city names ("Denver"), city+state ("Portland, OR" via query), ZIP codes ("50219"), or par
reverse_geocode — Resolve coordinates to a human-readable place (city, state, county, timezone). Use when you have lat/lon but need a display name or the local timezone. Example:
get_alerts — NWS watches, warnings, advisories. Point (city/ZIP/lat+lon): containing polygons. BBox or US state/DC/CONUS (codes, full names, US/national): intersecting polyg
get_time_context — Complete temporal context for a location: local time, timezone, 14-day calendar with day names and Today/Tomorrow offsets, sunrise/sunset/solar times (from the
get_period_totals — Aggregate a weather variable over one or more time periods. Returns server-computed totals, maxima, minima, or averages per period. Period start/end times shoul
compare_locations — Compare forecast variables across multiple locations side-by-side in one batched call. Returns a distilled per-location series matrix for direct comparison -- p
find_best_window — Find the optimal time window for an activity based on weather criteria. Scans the forecast and returns daylight-aware periods matching all conditions. Criteria
get_outlooks — Hazard outlooks affecting a location. severe: SPC convective (day 1-8 categorical + tornado/wind/hail probabilities); fire: SPC fire weather; rain: WPC Excessiv
get_forecast_discussion — Expert forecaster text products. type=afd: Area Forecast Discussion. type=hwo: Hazardous Weather Outlook. type=now: WFO short-term NOW. type=fwf/hls/esf: local
get_storm_reports — Recent NWS Local Storm Reports (LSRs) -- verified reports of tornadoes, hail, damaging winds, flooding near a location. Use to confirm severe weather occurrence
get_lightning_activity — Real-time lightning near a location: GLM satellite flash count (30km/10min) and MRMS ground-truth lightning density + 30-minute probability. The summary field i
get_sounding — Nearest RAOB (radiosonde) vertical soundings to a point. Each sounding carries: profile (pressure-indexed thermodynamics: pressure_hpa, height_m, temperature_c,
get_forecast_distribution — NBM probabilistic guidance for one weather aspect: percentiles (p10-p90), exceedance probabilities and ensemble spread. Use this for any question about odds, ra
get_current_conditions — Current weather right now at a location from two independent sources in one call: the RTMA gridded analysis (exact-point values, updated sub-hourly) and the nea
get_observations — METAR surface observations from weather stations: temperature, wind, visibility, ceiling, flight category, raw METAR. Nearest mode (default) returns the closest
get_observed_precipitation — How much rain fell: observed precipitation totals at a location. Use for "did it rain", "how much rain fell", "rain in the last 24 hours / since yesterday". Sou
list_datasets — Discover the datasets (model grids, analyses, observations) available at a location, keyed by dataset_id, with per-dataset freshness where tracked (latest model
describe_dataset — Variables available in a dataset, with standard names, units, descriptions, and the time range of available data. Use before query_dataset to discover valid var
query_dataset — Raw time series from a specific dataset for specific variables at a point. Power-user access to any gridded product (NBM, HRRR, RRFS, GFS, RTMA, MRMS, air quali
search_catalog — Find which dataset answers a weather question when no dedicated tool fits: ranks the data catalog (model grids, radar, satellite, outlooks, observations) by the
get_growing_degree_days — Growing Degree Units (GDU / GDD) for a US location (CONUS, Alaska, Hawaii), computed from daily max/min temperatures. Pass a crop id (e.g. "corn", "soybean", "w
get_climate_normals — Day-of-year climate normals (NCEI 1991-2020 30-year averages) for a US location, from the nearest station with a record. Returns normal high, normal low, and no
get_forecast_skill — How accurate our forecasts have actually been near a location, measured against observed analysis truth. Returns bias (positive = the model runs high), mean abs
get_forecast_skill_map — Measured forecast skill as a map of res-4 hexes inside a bounding box, sliced from the public skill map. Use this when the question is spatial ("where is NBM te
get_tropical — Active NHC (National Hurricane Center) tropical systems: forecast cones, track lines, forecast points, coastal watches/warnings, and 7-day Tropical Weather Outl
get_tropical_observations — Hurricane Hunter aircraft reconnaissance for active tropical systems: vortex data message (VDM) center fixes — pressure, max flight-level wind, eye — and high-d
get_population_exposure — National population-exposure headline for a risk-zone outlook product: how many people are inside risk bands at or above min_level. Powers headlines like "~57M
get_path_exposure — Civic POIs (schools, hospitals, airports, …) inside a caller-supplied GeoJSON Polygon or MultiPolygon. Clip first — do not pass a CONUS HeatRisk dissolve. For a
get_climate_records — NWS daily climate data: type=reports returns CLI daily climate reports (observed high/low/precip vs normals per station); type=records returns RER record event
get_storm_cells — Radar-identified storm cells near a location, merging NEXRAD Level III algorithm output from the nearest radar site: storm tracks (cell position, movement, fore
get_air_quality — AirNow air quality at a location (CONUS): current overall AQI plus per-pollutant detail (PM2.5, ozone, PM10 concentrations) and the AirNow AQI forecast. AQI sca
get_map_snapshot — Render a weather map image for visual analysis. Simple form: pass `product` (a viz-catalog product_id like "mrms_qpe_01h_pass2_conus", "goes_truecolor_conus", "
get_sounding_chart — Render the nearest RAOB (radiosonde) sounding as a Skew-T log-P + hodograph chart image for visual analysis: temperature/dewpoint traces, wind barbs, height-ban
get_platform_status — Current data-freshness status of the weather platform: overall state, per-source states (ok / degraded / outage / no_signal), open incidents with cause attribut

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38 min ago	mcp initialize	ok	200	103 ms	server sw-mcp 0.0.0.174 · protocol 2025-06-18 · 36 tools
8 h ago	mcp initialize	ok	200	103 ms	server sw-mcp 0.0.0.174 · protocol 2025-06-18 · 36 tools
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2 d ago	mcp initialize	ok	200	215 ms	server sw-mcp 0.0.0.165 · protocol 2025-06-18 · 36 tools
2 d ago	mcp initialize	ok	200	106 ms	server sw-mcp 0.0.0.165 · protocol 2025-06-18 · 36 tools
3 d ago	mcp initialize	ok	200	267 ms	server sw-mcp 0.0.0.165 · protocol 2025-06-18 · 36 tools

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