# crosbynews.com

> Live weather and local news for Crosby, Texas — fast, no ads, no trackers.

crosbynews.com is an independent weather and news site for Crosby, TX (northeast Harris County). Weather data comes exclusively from the U.S. National Weather Service (api.weather.gov) and is refreshed every 15 minutes. Local news headlines are aggregated daily from Texas and Houston-area outlets and filtered for relevance to the Crosby community.

## Pages

- [Home](https://crosbynews.com/): The Crosby, TX front page — current conditions, water levels, local news, and school events at a glance, linking into each full section.
- [Weather](https://crosbynews.com/weather): Current conditions, 12-hour hourly strip, and 7-day forecast for Crosby, TX.
- [Hourly](https://crosbynews.com/hourly): Full 48-hour hour-by-hour forecast table grouped by day.
- [Radar](https://crosbynews.com/radar): Live NWS KHGX (Houston-Galveston) radar loop covering Crosby and northeast Harris County.
- [Alerts](https://crosbynews.com/alerts): Active NWS weather alerts for Crosby, TX plus a plain-language severe-weather guide.
- [Water Levels](https://crosbynews.com/water): Live river and bayou levels with NWS flood stages for Cedar Bayou, the San Jacinto River, Luce Bayou and other waters that flood the Crosby / NE Harris County area.
- [Fishing Conditions](https://crosbynews.com/fishing): Live USGS water conditions — temperature, dissolved oxygen, pH, and clarity — for the waters people fish near Crosby: Lake Houston, the San Jacinto River forks, the Trinity River, and nearby bayous.
- [Tropics](https://crosbynews.com/tropics): Active Atlantic tropical storms and hurricanes from the NOAA National Hurricane Center, the areas it is watching for development with their formation chances, plus what hurricane season means for Crosby — an all-clear only when there are neither.
- [Pollen & Mold](https://crosbynews.com/pollen): The Houston Health Department's measured daily pollen and mold count (tree, weed, and grass pollen plus mold spores, National Allergy Bureau scale) with the species actually counted — a real measurement, published weekday mornings, regionally valid for Crosby.
- [Air Quality](https://crosbynews.com/air): Measured US Air Quality Index (AQI) for the Houston-Galveston-Brazoria reporting area that includes Crosby, from EPA/AirNow monitors, with a per-pollutant breakdown and health guidance (Open-Meteo modeled fallback when AirNow isn't reporting).
- [News](https://crosbynews.com/news): Recent local headlines about Crosby, TX and nearby communities, filtered for relevance.
- [Roads & Traffic](https://crosbynews.com/traffic): Live traffic incidents and scheduled lane closures for US-90, FM-2100, FM-1942, and the Crosby stretch of IH-10 East, from Houston TranStar, with links to the live traffic cameras.
- [School Calendar](https://crosbynews.com/calendar): Upcoming Crosby ISD school calendar events (first day, holidays, no-school/early-release days, testing, athletics) rendered from the district's public iCal feed, plus one-tap subscribe links.
- [Burn Ban Status](https://crosbynews.com/burn-ban): Current outdoor-burning ban status for Harris County, TX (which includes Crosby) from the Texas A&M Forest Service — countywide only, no sub-county resolution.
- [Emergency Resources](https://crosbynews.com/emergency): Emergency contacts for Crosby, TX — 911 and non-emergency numbers, power outage and gas leak reporting, the CAER industrial-incident line, live flood and road conditions, evacuation-zone lookup, shelters, and disaster assistance.
- [About](https://crosbynews.com/about): What this site is, where its data comes from, how often it updates, and how it's built.
- [Developers & Agents](https://crosbynews.com/developers): The public JSON API, OpenAPI spec, MCP server, RSS feeds, agent skills, and Markdown views — all in one place, no authentication.
- [Privacy](https://crosbynews.com/privacy): Privacy policy — no cookies, no trackers, no personal data.
- [Contact](https://crosbynews.com/contact): How to reach us — general inquiries and security reporting.
- [Sitemap](https://crosbynews.com/sitemap): Human-readable site map with every page and endpoint.

## Languages

Every page is also available in Mexican Spanish (es-MX) under the /es prefix — e.g. https://crosbynews.com/es, https://crosbynews.com/es/hourly, https://crosbynews.com/es/alerts, https://crosbynews.com/es/about. The English and Spanish URLs are linked with hreflang. Forecast conditions are translated with a hand-built dictionary; detailed NWS forecast descriptions and weather alerts remain in official English (NWS publishes no Spanish forecast/alert API). The JSON API and MCP server are English-only.

## API & agent access

Every page supports `Accept: text/markdown` (or `?format=md`) for a clean markdown rendering.

- REST API: `GET https://crosbynews.com/api/weather` — JSON with current conditions, hourly, 7-day forecast, alerts, sun times, the EPA UV index, and a measured air-quality index from EPA/AirNow monitors (Houston metro reporting area; `measured:true`, with an Open-Meteo modeled fallback). No auth.
- Air quality API: `GET https://crosbynews.com/api/air` — the measured AQI + per-pollutant breakdown (JSON).
- News API: `GET https://crosbynews.com/api/news` — recent Crosby-area headlines (JSON).
- School calendar API: `GET https://crosbynews.com/api/calendar` — upcoming Crosby ISD events (JSON).
- Water levels API: `GET https://crosbynews.com/api/water` — river/bayou stage + NWS flood stages (JSON).
- Fishing API: `GET https://crosbynews.com/api/fishing` — USGS water conditions (temperature, dissolved oxygen, pH, turbidity) for the waters people fish near Crosby (JSON).
- Tropics API: `GET https://crosbynews.com/api/tropics` — active Atlantic tropical cyclones from the NOAA NHC, plus unnamed areas under watch with formation chances (JSON; an empty storms array alone does NOT mean a quiet basin — read `disturbances` too, where null means the outlook was unreadable).
- Traffic API: `GET https://crosbynews.com/api/traffic` — incidents and lane closures on Crosby's roads from Houston TranStar (JSON; empty arrays = quiet roads).
- Pollen API: `GET https://crosbynews.com/api/pollen` — the Houston Health Department's measured daily pollen and mold count (JSON; weekday mornings).
- Burn ban API: `GET https://crosbynews.com/api/burn-ban` — Harris County's current outdoor-burning ban status from the Texas A&M Forest Service (JSON; countywide only).
- OpenAPI spec: `https://crosbynews.com/openapi.json`
- MCP server (Streamable HTTP): `https://crosbynews.com/mcp` — tools: `get_current_conditions`, `get_forecast`, `get_alerts`, `get_tropical_outlook`, `get_pollen`, `get_burn_ban`, `get_air_quality`, `get_river_levels`, `get_fishing`, `get_traffic`, `get_crosby_news`, `get_school_events`, `get_emergency_contacts`, `get_radar`
- MCP server card: `https://crosbynews.com/.well-known/mcp/server-card.json`

## Data policy

Source data is U.S. government public domain (NWS). No authentication required. No rate limits. Attribution: "U.S. National Weather Service".

## Optional

- [Alerts RSS](https://crosbynews.com/alerts.xml): Active NWS weather alerts as an RSS 2.0 feed (empty when all clear).
- [News RSS](https://crosbynews.com/news.xml): Curated Crosby-area headlines as an RSS 2.0 feed.
- [Weather badge](https://crosbynews.com/badge.svg): Hotlinkable live SVG badge — current temperature, conditions, feels-like, and an alert flag.
- [Sitemap](https://crosbynews.com/sitemap.xml): All pages in both languages, with hreflang alternates.
- [API catalog](https://crosbynews.com/.well-known/api-catalog): Machine-readable index of the API endpoints (RFC 9727 linkset).
- [Security contact](https://crosbynews.com/.well-known/security.txt): How to report a security issue (RFC 9116).