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).
• Fishing — live USGS water conditions (temperature, dissolved oxygen, pH, clarity) for the waters people fish near Crosby: Lake Houston, the San Jacinto forks, the Trinity River, and nearby bayous.
• Tropics — the Atlantic tropical outlook: named storms plus the areas NHC is watching for development from the National Hurricane Center.
• Air Quality — the measured U.S. Air Quality Index for the Houston-Galveston-Brazoria area (which includes Crosby) from EPA/AirNow monitors, with a per-pollutant breakdown and health guidance.
• Pollen & Mold — the Houston Health Department's measured daily tree, weed, grass, and mold count for the Crosby area, published weekday mornings.
• Traffic — road incidents and lane closures on the Crosby-area corridors, from Houston TranStar.
• News — local headlines for Crosby and nearby communities.
• School Calendar — Crosby ISD calendar (holidays, early-release, testing, athletics) with one-tap subscribe links.
• Burn Ban Status — the current outdoor- burning ban status for Harris County, TX (which includes Crosby) from the Texas A&M Forest Service, countywide only.
• 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.
• Privacy — no cookies, no trackers, no personal data; Contact — general and security addresses; Sitemap — every page and endpoint.

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, /api/water, /api/tropics, /api/air, /api/pollen, /api/burn-ban, /api/traffic, /api/fishing, and /api/health (site liveness, when each feed last tried to refresh and whether it worked, and when its data last actually changed). 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_tropical_outlook, get_air_quality, get_pollen, get_burn_ban, get_river_levels, get_fishing, get_traffic, get_crosby_news, get_school_events, get_emergency_contacts, and get_radar (a live radar image, inline). 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 framework and no runtime dependencies — the Worker imports nothing. The source under src/ is bundled by Wrangler (esbuild) at deploy time, which CI exercises on every pull request via wrangler deploy --dry-run. wrangler.jsonc is the config.
• A 15-minute cron refreshes the cached NWS forecast and alerts, plus river gauges, fishing-water conditions and road incidents on every tick — and, on a slower cadence, the tropical outlook (~1h June–November hurricane season, ~24h the rest of the year), the pollen count (weekday mornings only, once that day's count posts), the burn-ban status (~4h) and the school calendar (~24h). Local news is the exception: it is written out-of-band, because Google News blocks Worker IPs.
• Data: U.S. National Weather Service (public domain), NOAA NWPS and NHC, EPA (UV), EPA/AirNow (measured air quality, Open-Meteo modeled fallback), the Houston Health Department (pollen & mold), the Texas A&M Forest Service (burn-ban status), the U.S. Geological Survey (fishing-water conditions), Houston TranStar (traffic), Crosby ISD, and Google News.

Develop

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

License

MIT — the code is free to reuse. The live site's DATA is not: it's sourced from NWS, NOAA, EPA/AirNow, HHD, USGS, Houston TranStar, Crosby ISD, and Google News under each provider's own terms, and com.crosbynews/weather (the published MCP listing) is this project's own namespace, not something a fork inherits.

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