visual_crossing_mcp
Basic MCP server for Visual Crossing historical weather data
Enables retrieval of historical weather data from Visual Crossing.
The Visual Crossing api is described here: https://www.visualcrossing.com/resources/documentation/weather-api/timeline-weather-api/
The MCP server can retrieve the following data for a specified location for a date or date range:
- temperature
- max temperature
- min temperature
- preciptitation
- solar radiation
- cloud cover
- snow depth
- weather type
- weather conditions
- heat index
- wind chill
First install the requirements:
pip install -r requirements.txt
Create or modify the .env file in the project root to read as follows:
API_KEY=XXXXXXXXXXX
...where XXXXXXXXXXX is your API key from Visual Crossing
To enable in the Claude client, add the following to the claude_desktop_config.json file:
"weather": {
"command": "C:\\Programs\\Python\\Python311\\python.exe",
"args": ["C:\\Path\\To\\Server\\Python\\File\\visual_crossing_mcp.py"]
}