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Live snow reports, SNOTEL measurements, webcams and powder rankings for 150 ski resorts.
Remote server: your requests and data go to www.peakcam.io. Claude Code: claude mcp add --transport http peakcam-snow https://www.peakcam.io/api/mcp · Claude app: Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector.
The tools this server listed when we connected to it, in its own words.
search_resorts — Find PeakCam resorts by name (or part of one, or a region) and get their slugs with a one-line snow summary each. Call this first when the uget_resort_conditions — The latest snow report for one resort with provenance, inside the conditions contract v2 envelope: `data.status` is the derived operating stget_resort_cams — The resort's webcams as links: PeakCam page URL, the operator's stream or page URL, a still-image URL when one exists, and health (live / dofind_powder — Rank resorts by new snow in the last 24 or 48 hours, optionally within one state/province and above a minimum. Pass sourceOnly="snotel" to acompare_resorts — Side-by-side latest snow, today's Snow Score (0–100 with a rating; get_score explains it), season status and cam counts for 2–6 resorts. Eveget_forecast — Fourteen-day blended snow forecast for a resort: per day the median snowfall across the weather models that reach that day (ECMWF IFS, GFS, get_snow_history — Daily snow depth, snow water equivalent, precipitation accumulation and temperatures for the last 1–30 days at the resort's station (SNOTEL get_opening_dates — Season opening and closing dates with status (open / closed / unknown) for every resort, or those in one state/province, soonest opening firget_resort_profile — Who and where a resort is, without the snow numbers: location and elevations, website and social links, PeakCam's cam page, the SNOTEL statiget_percent_of_normal — SNOTEL-fed resorts ranked by snowpack relative to normal: snow water equivalent against the station's own 1991–2020 median for today's date,list_regions — Every state, province and country PeakCam covers, with resort, reporting, measured (SNOTEL) and cam counts and the hub page URL. Call it to get_alert_options — How to be told when it snows, without this server writing anything: the powder-alert threshold and schedule, the e-mail, webhook (Standard Wget_cam_timeline — Archived still frames for a resort's webcams (or one cam) over the last 1–48 hours, as links with capture times, plus the newest storm frameget_stations — What the instruments near one resort measured, by elevation band (summit / mid / base): up to three stations within 25 km with the network ncompare_models — How each weather model has verified at a resort over the trailing 90 days, graded against measured snow (SNOTEL depth change, clipped at zerask — One natural-language question in, one tool result out, deterministically: the router resolves the resort by name or nickname, picks an intenget_season_stats — Season-to-date for one resort from PeakCam's own daily station record: measured snowfall since the season start (daily new snow = the positiget_monthly_climatology — Average snowfall, snow days (≥ 1 in), depth and the biggest storm per calendar month at the resort's SNOTEL station, over the 30 most recentget_leaderboard — Resorts ranked on one of four season boards: best-powder-this-week (measured new snow in the last 7 days), season-powder-days (days with ≥ 8get_timelapses — Rendered timelapse clips for a resort's webcams (or one cam), as links: the rolling 24-hour MP4 per cam (H.264, 7 fps, 720p max, at most 3 Mget_score — PeakCam's 0–100 Snow Score for one resort, scored once a day by a fixed formula (scoredBy is always `algorithmic`): `today` carries the scorNot tested by KitScout yet. When our harness runs it, pros, cons and the tasks we tried appear here, with the date and evidence.