Aviation Weather

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METAR / TAF / PIREPs / AIRMET / SIGMET / winds aloft / station info from aviationweather.gov. Keyless.

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Tools

metarrequired: ids

Real-time airport weather station observations (METAR report): current temperature, dew point, wind, visibility, cloud ceiling, altimeter, straight from that airport's own sensor. For airport-station

Parameters
NameTypeDescription
idsreqstring—
hours_beforeoptnumber—
formatoptstring—
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tafrequired: ids

Terminal Aerodrome Forecast (TAF) for one or more ICAO airport codes (e.g. KSFO,EGLL); returns forecast periods covering wind, visibility, and cloud ceilings for the next 24–30 h.

Parameters
NameTypeDescription
idsreqstring—
hours_beforeoptnumber—
formatoptstring—
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pirep

Pilot reports (PIREPs). Call with no args for recent US-wide reports (default CONUS box), or pass a station `id` for reports within `distance_nm` of it, or a custom `bbox`.

Parameters
NameTypeDescription
idoptstring—
ageoptnumber—
distance_nmoptnumber—
leveloptnumber—
formatoptstring—
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sigmet

Fetch all currently active SIGMETs (significant en-route weather hazards: convection, turbulence, icing, volcanic ash) from the US Aviation Weather Center; no inputs required.

Parameters
NameTypeDescription
formatoptstring—
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airmet

Fetch all currently active AIRMETs (moderate turbulence, icing, IFR/mountain-obscuration advisories for general aviation) from the US Aviation Weather Center; no inputs required.

Parameters
NameTypeDescription
formatoptstring—
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gairmet

Fetch Graphical AIRMETs from the US Aviation Weather Center; optionally filter by type (turb, ice, sfc_winds, lifr, ifr); returns GeoJSON-style hazard polygons.

Parameters
NameTypeDescription
typeoptstring—
formatoptstring—
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windsaloft

Winds and temperatures aloft forecast from the US Aviation Weather Center; specify US region (us/bos/mia/chi/dfw/slc/sfo/alaska) and level (low/high); returns an ASCII table or JSON.

Parameters
NameTypeDescription
regionoptstring—
leveloptstring—
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stationinforequired: ids

Aerodrome metadata — lat/lon, elevation, country.

Parameters
NameTypeDescription
idsreqstring—
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Test with curl

The gateway speaks JSON-RPC 2.0 over HTTP POST. You can test any pack directly from the terminal.

List available tools
bash
curl -X POST https://gateway.pipeworx.io/aviation-weather/mcp \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":1,"method":"tools/list"}'
Call a tool
bash
curl -X POST https://gateway.pipeworx.io/aviation-weather/mcp \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":2,"method":"tools/call","params":{"name":"metar","arguments":{"ids": "example"}}}'

Use with the SDK

Install @pipeworx/sdk to call tools from any TypeScript/Node project.

TypeScript
import { Pipeworx } from '@pipeworx/sdk';
const px = new Pipeworx();
const result = await px.call("metar", {"ids":"example"});
ask_pipeworx
// Or ask in plain English:
const answer = await px.ask("metar / taf / pireps / airmet / sigmet / winds aloft / station info from aviationweather");