crosbynews.com

Live weather and local news for Crosby, Texas — fast, ad-free, no trackers. The whole site is a single Cloudflare Worker with no framework and no runtime dependencies.

→ crosbynews.com

What it does

• Weather — current conditions, a 12-hour strip, a 7-day forecast, and any active alerts for Crosby, TX (northeast Harris County), refreshed every 15 minutes from the U.S. National Weather Service (api.weather.gov). The homepage is a hub with the highlights of everything below.
• Hourly — the full 48-hour forecast table.
• Radar — the NWS KHGX (Houston-Galveston) radar loop, which covers Crosby.
• Alerts — active NWS alerts plus a plain-language severe-weather guide, with opt-in push notifications for life-threatening warnings.
• Water Levels — live river/bayou flood gauges for the waters around Crosby (NOAA/NWS NWPS).
• Tropics — the Atlantic tropical outlook from the National Hurricane Center.
• News — local headlines for Crosby and nearby communities.
• School Calendar — Crosby ISD calendar (holidays, early-release, testing, athletics) with one-tap subscribe links.
• Emergency — emergency numbers, alert channels, flood tools, and hurricane-prep resources for NE Harris County.
• About — what the site is and where the data comes from; Developers — the API/agent surface on one page.

Every page is also available in Mexican Spanish (es-MX) under an /es prefix — e.g. /es, /es/hourly, /es/alerts.

Built for agents, too

Every page is content-negotiated — send Accept: text/markdown (or add ?format=md to any URL) for a clean Markdown rendering. The site also exposes:

• REST API — /api/weather: JSON with current conditions, hourly, 7-day forecast, and alerts. Plus /api/news, /api/calendar, and /api/water. Public, no auth.
• OpenAPI 3.1 — /openapi.json
• MCP server (Streamable HTTP) — https://crosbynews.com/mcp, with tools get_current_conditions, get_forecast, get_alerts, get_crosby_news, get_school_events, and get_river_levels. Discovery card at /.well-known/mcp/server-card.json.
• llms.txt — plain-language site summary for LLMs.

Connect the MCP server from Claude Code:

claude mcp add --transport http crosbynews https://crosbynews.com/mcp

Stack

• Cloudflare Workers (ES modules) + Workers KV for the cached forecast.
• No build step and no dependencies — src/index.js is the entire app and wrangler.jsonc is the config.
• A 15-minute cron refreshes the cached NWS forecast and alerts (and, on a slower cadence, the school calendar, river gauges, and tropical outlook).
• Data: U.S. National Weather Service (public domain), NOAA NWPS and NHC, EPA (UV), Open-Meteo (modeled air quality), Crosby ISD, and Google News.

Develop

npm install
npx wrangler dev      # run locally
npx wrangler deploy   # deploy (CI also deploys on push to main)

Independent project — not affiliated with the National Weather Service, NOAA, or any government agency. Weather data courtesy of the U.S. National Weather Service.