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NOAA climate data

Historical climate observations and normals from NOAA’s National Centers for Environmental Information.

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About this source

Browse datasets and data types, find stations and locations, and pull daily or monthly climate records worldwide (GHCN).

Questions you can ask NOAA climate data

Type them into Kahubi’s chat once the source is connected.

Compare an indicator across three countries over ten years, naming the dataset and unit.

What comes back: Values with dataset codes, units and time coverage.

What the assistant can do with it

The 10 tools this server offers to Kahubi. The assistant picks the right one for each question.

  • noaa_climate_list_datasets

    List available NOAA CDO datasets with their IDs, names, and temporal coverage.

  • noaa_climate_list_data_categories

    List data categories that group related data types - Temperature, Precipitation, Wind, Pressure, Sunshine, Sky cover, Weather Type, and more.

  • noaa_climate_list_data_types

    List available data types (measurement labels like TMAX, TMIN, PRCP, SNOW) for a given dataset or category.

  • noaa_climate_list_location_categories

    List the location categories that scope noaa_climate_find_locations - CITY, CLIM_DIV, CLIM_REG, CNTRY, CNTY, HYD_ACC, HYD_CAT, HYD_REG, HYD_SUB, ST, US_TERR, and ZIP.

  • noaa_climate_find_locations

    Search for geographic locations by category (CITY, ST, CNTY, CNTRY, ZIP, CLIM_REG, etc.).

  • noaa_climate_find_stations

    Search for weather observation stations by location, bounding box, dataset, and data type.

  • noaa_climate_get_station

    Fetch full metadata for a single weather station by its ID (e.g., "GHCND:USW00024233", "COOP:010008").

  • noaa_climate_fetch_data

    Fetch historical observation records from a NOAA CDO dataset for a given date range.

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  • noaa_climate_search_storm_events

    Search the NCEI Storm Events Database for one calendar year - tornadoes, hail, floods, hurricanes, winter storms, heat, and every other NWS Storm Data event type, with magnitude...

  • noaa_climate_get_billion_dollar_disasters

    Query NOAA/NCEI’s Billion-Dollar Weather and Climate Disasters - the curated record of US disasters whose damage passed $1 billion, with CPI-adjusted and unadjusted costs, death...

Good to know

  • Community server. An open-source server maintained by the MCP community. Kahubi tests it with live queries before listing it and health-checks it regularly.
  • Cited, checkable answers. Results are treated as retrieved material and cited with the source’s own identifiers, so you can open every record the answer relied on.
  • Your files stay private. Only the search the assistant writes for your question is sent to NOAA climate data.

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