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EM Snow

MCP serverVerified domain · snow.extreme-media.co.ukRemote● LiveFree to try

Ski resort conditions, forecasts, avalanche danger, sun, routes and snow history for 5,000+ resorts.

Install

Remote server: your requests and data go to snow.extreme-media.co.uk. Claude Code: claude mcp add --transport http em-snow https://snow.extreme-media.co.uk/mcp · Claude app: Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector.

What it can do

The tools this server listed when we connected to it, in its own words.

  • search_resorts — Find ski resorts worldwide by name, country or distance. Returns at most 20 matches and does not expose the bulk resort index.
  • get_conditions — Get current snow, reported lift and run counts, weather and season state. Lift and run counts are reported status, not guaranteed live.
  • get_forecast — Get the available daily snow, temperature, freezing level and wind-hold risk forecast, up to 10 requested days.
  • plan_my_day — Build modelled suggested runs in time order from forecast weather, sun, snow and mapped terrain. Only plans days inside the reported winter
  • sun_on_the_mountain — Show modelled sun and shade windows for eight slope aspects, with local terrain-horizon shading where DEM coverage exists.
  • route_on_mountain — Route between named pistes, lifts, the resort base or latitude,longitude coordinates using mapped OSM pistes and lifts. Names match accent-i
  • avalanche_danger — Summarise the regional avalanche bulletin covering a resort: EAWS in Europe, avalanche.org centres in the US and Avalanche Canada, with zone
  • mountain_facts — Read mapped OSM terrain inventory, lift fleet, vertical, longest run, carefully matched Wikidata facts, season dates and modelled snow relia
  • where_is_it_snowing — Rank the freshest recently reported snow from the cached EM Snow home-page ranking.
  • best_time_to_go — Get historical snow odds from the local ERA5 archive and quiet-week guidance where the crowd scorer covers the resort.
  • season_recap — Summarise the most recent completed ski season from the local ERA5 archive first.
  • snow_reliability — Get an explainable snow-reliability score from long-run ERA5 snow depth.
  • nearby_resorts — Find nearby resorts from the local EM Snow resort index.
  • get_webcams — Get nearby webcam images and their source links, with the required provider credit.
  • get_snow_reports — Get recent visible community reports, including whether each came from the website or was relayed by an AI assistant.
  • watch_resort — Return a one-tap EM Snow URL where the person can watch a resort and optionally add dates. This tool does not collect email.
  • add_snow_report — Only relay a report from a person who is at, or was just at, the resort. Never invent a report. The report goes live immediately and is labe
  • suggest_resort — Suggest a missing resort for human review. This never adds it directly to the resort index.
  • get_extended_outlook — Get a 16-day daily outlook (snowfall, temperatures, freezing level, maximum gusts and, for the first days, precipitation probability) from E
  • get_resort_media — Get images for a resort that vision-capable assistants can show: nearby webcams with provider credit, a Wikimedia Commons photo with its per
  • fly_this_mountain — Get a link that plays a simulated 3D tour of a resort in the EM Snow flyby (lifts up, named runs down, on the mapped piste network), or a to

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