Au Weather MCP server

au-weather-mcp

mcp-name: io.ausdata/au-weather-mcp

Ask Claude about Australian weather and air quality and get real, current numbers — not "I don't have access to that data." This MCP server gives Claude (and other MCP clients like Cursor) live access to Australian weather + air-quality data via Open-Meteo, which aggregates Bureau of Meteorology observations under licence. 45 curated locations (every state capital + every regional centre over ~25k), postcode and place-name lookup, current observations, 16-day forecasts, 80+ years of historical data, and multi-location comparison.

Hosted access? For cross-source queries, webhooks, an always-on REST API, and a uniform response envelope across all 9 sources, see ausdata.io — free tier available (500 calls/mo, no card).

Companion to abs-mcp (ABS macro stats), rba-mcp (Reserve Bank), and ato-mcp (tax + charity register) — together the four cover Australia's most-asked public data.

What you can ask

Once installed, your LLM can answer questions like:

Every response carries a CC-BY 4.0 attribution string and a direct Open-Meteo URL the agent can cite back to the user.

Why Open-Meteo (not BOM directly)

BOM publishes their own JSON/XML endpoints, but they actively 403 non-browser User-Agents and have no documented commercial-use path below their ~$5k/yr Registered User Service. Open-Meteo:

• Aggregates BOM data under their existing licensing arrangements with national meteorological services
• Free tier is explicit and generous; commercial use is $30/mo with public terms
• Returns clean, versioned, schema-stable JSON with units alongside every value
• Covers historical data back to 1940 via their archive endpoint
• No API key, no User-Agent gymnastics

We attribute both Open-Meteo and BOM in every response.

Install

# After publish:
uvx au-weather-mcp

# Local dev:
uv pip install -e .

Claude Desktop

Add to ~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claudedesktopconfig.json:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "weather": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": ["--upgrade", "au-weather-mcp"]
    }
  }
}

The --upgrade flag makes uvx re-check PyPI on each Claude Desktop launch, so bug fixes propagate without manual cache refresh. Costs ~100ms at startup.

For a local checkout (before PyPI publish):

Shortened. The full README is on GitHub.