Noaa Climate MCP Server

@cyanheads/noaa-climate-mcp-server Search NOAA climate stations and datasets, fetch historical weather observations via MCP. STDIO or Streamable HTTP. 10 Tools • 2 Data Resources • 1 Skill

Public Hosted Server: https://noaa-climate.caseyjhand.com/mcp

Overview

Historical weather and climate records from NOAA: station observations from Climate Data Online, the Storm Events Database, and Billion-Dollar Weather and Climate Disasters. Find stations, pull observations in the units you want, and look up storm damage or disaster costs.

Tools

Resources

Agent skill

noaa-climate-guide covers historical comparisons, coverage checks, observation quality, and storm-to-station investigation. It ships with plugin, npm, Docker, and MCPB installs and is served through the MCP Skills extension and a skill resource alongside the two data resources.

Capability reference

Every stationId input, including the station resource, trims surrounding whitespace and uppercases IDs. Bare 11-character GHCN IDs (USW00024233) become GHCND:USW00024233. Namespaced IDs such as COOP:454769, NEXRAD:KATX, and unfamiliar nonempty namespace/payload pairs remain accepted; ambiguous bare IDs are rejected. Tools disclose changes in a notice; the resource returns the canonical station ID. Syntax does not establish that a station exists.

noaa_climate_list_datasets tool

• No required inputs; optional data type, location, station, and date-range filters; limit 1–1000 (default 25) with offset, sortable by id, name, mindate, maxdate, or datacoverage
• Returns each dataset's ID, name, and date span — GHCND (daily, 1763–present), GSOM (monthly), GSOY (annual), NORMAL_DLY/MLY/ANN/HLY (1981–2010 normals)
• Date filters use inclusive coverage overlap: maxdate >= startDate and mindate <= endDate for each supplied bound. The complete catalog matching the other filters is retrieved before filtering and pagination; totals describe that filtered view.

noaa_climate_list_data_categories tool

• Optional dataset, location, station, and date-range filters; limit 1–1000 (default 25) with offset, sortable by id or name
• Returns the 42 measurement categories (Temperature, Precipitation, Wind, Pressure, Sunshine, and more), whose IDs narrow noaa_climate_list_data_types as datacategoryId

noaa_climate_list_data_types tool

• Filter by datasetId (e.g. GHCND) or datacategoryId (e.g. TEMP); limit 1–1000 (default 25) with offset
• Returns the datatype IDs noaa_climate_fetch_data takes — common GHCND types are TMAX, TMIN, PRCP, SNOW, SNWD, AWND — with coverage and date range when CDO carries them

noaa_climate_list_location_categories tool

• Pagination and sort only: limit 1–1000 (default 25) with offset, sortable by id or name
• Returns the 12 category IDs noaa_climate_find_locations accepts as locationCategoryId: CITY, ST, CNTY, CNTRY, ZIP, US_TERR, CLIM_REG, CLIM_DIV, HYD_ACC, HYD_CAT, HYD_REG, HYD_SUB

noaa_climate_find_locations tool

• locationCategoryId scopes the search (e.g. ST returns all 51 states); optional datasetId, datacategoryId, and date-range filters; limit 1–1000 (default 25) with offset
• Returns the location IDs noaa_climate_find_stations and noaa_climate_fetch_data take — FIPS:37, CITY:US530018, ZIP:98101
• nameContains adds a case-insensitive name match within one category of at most 4,000 locations (every category but ZIP); it fails as name_filter_requires_category without a category and name_filter_category_too_large past the cap

noaa_climate_find_stations tool

• Filter by locationId, extent (lat/lon bounding box), datasetId, datatypeId (array), and date range; limit 1–1000 (default 25) with offset
• extent is minLat,minLon,maxLat,maxLon: four finite signed decimal or scientific numbers, with surrounding whitespace allowed, latitude within ±90 and longitude within ±180. Equal coordinates work; reversed axes return no matches and are forwarded unchanged, without antimeridian wrapping.
• Returns station IDs (GHCND:USW00024233, COOP:010008), names, coordinates, elevation, and data-coverage dates — the IDs feed noaa_climate_fetch_data as stationId

noaa_climate_get_station tool

• Single required input: stationId, from noaa_climate_find_stations; the tool form of the noaa://stations/{stationId} resource
• Returns name, coordinates, elevation, and the full data-coverage date range; fails as not_found when a well-formed ID resolves to nothing

noaa_climate_fetch_data tool

• Requires datasetId, startDate, endDate; optional stationId, locationId, datatypeId arrays. The span cap is 1 year for GHCND, PRECIP_15, PRECIP_HLY, NORMAL_DLY, NORMAL_HLY, NEXRAD2, NEXRAD3 and 10 years for GSOM, GSOY, NORMAL_MLY, NORMAL_ANN; any NORMAL_* dataset takes startDate=2010-01-01 / endDate=2010-12-31
• Returns flat observation records plus an effectiveQuery echo; date_range_exceeded names the latest maxEndDate CDO will accept. The encoded query ceiling is 4000 characters; longer queries fail as validation_error before any request. Reduce stationId, locationId, and datatypeId filters and make separate calls. Filters are never discarded or automatically split.
• Request units: "metric" or "standard". Omission preserves NOAA's raw values and adds dataset-specific guidance, including on empty pages. Examples: GHCND TMAX/TMIN use tenths °C, PRCP tenths mm, and SNOW/SNWD whole mm; GSOM/GSOY temperature and precipitation use °C/mm; NORMAL_* temperature normals use tenths °F and precipitation normals hundredths inches; PRECIP_HLY HPCP and PRECIP_15 QPCP use hundredths inches. Units and scale depend on datatype; these examples do not describe wind, direction, counts, percentages, or every snow datatype. See NOAA's dataset documentation.
• PRECIP_HLY HPCP and PRECIP_15 QPCP missing sentinels become missing: true with value omitted: 99999 without units, 999.99 standard, or 25399.75 metric. Rows, raw attributes, order, totals, and offsets remain intact. Zero, trace, and accumulation-end measurements remain values; flags alone do not mark a row missing. A notice counts missing observations on this page.
• GHCND attributes remain raw and are also decoded as flags: { measurement, quality, source, observationTime }. Explicit blank slots and leading-zero times are preserved; absent trailing positions remain omitted. A nonblank quality means the observation failed a quality check. A notice counts those rows on this page; numeric values remain available for callers to decide how to aggregate them. Other datasets retain their raw attributes without GHCND decoding. See GHCND's flag layout.

noaa_climate_search_storm_events tool

• No token required; year selects one export (1950 through the current partial year); filter by episodeId (exact digit string from a returned event; whitespace is trimmed, blank means unset, leading zeros remain significant), state (the full NCEI name, e.g. "FLORIDA"), eventType, month, startDate/endDate, and minDamageInUsd; page ceiling 100 (default 50) with offset
• Optional startDate/endDate are real YYYY-MM-DD dates and match inclusive event-span overlap before damage accounting, totals, and pagination. One-sided, equal, and cross-year intervals work; only year selects the export. Active date bounds exclude missing, invalid, or reversed source spans; without bounds those rows remain visible. appliedDateRange echoes supplied bounds on both surfaces. Reversed request dates fail as invalid_date_range before downloading.
• Each distinct episode narrative appears once in `episodeNarrati