About crosbynews.com
crosbynews.com is a fast, ad-free front page for Crosby, Texas — live National Weather Service conditions and forecast, river and bayou flood levels, local news, and the Crosby ISD school calendar, all in one place. No ads, no trackers, no sign-up.
Where the data comes from
Every forecast, conditions reading, and alert on this site comes directly from the U.S. National Weather Service (api.weather.gov) for Crosby, TX (latitude 29.9119, longitude -95.0608). NWS data is in the public domain. The UV index is the one weather number sourced elsewhere — the U.S. EPA's public UV forecast for Crosby's ZIP code (77532). Road incidents and lane closures come from Houston TranStar (the region's official traffic agency, a TxDOT partnership), republished as facts with attribution from the RSS feeds TranStar publishes for public subscription.
The air quality index (AQI) comes from EPA/AirNow — the official measured monitors — for the Houston-Galveston-Brazoria reporting area, the nearest official area, which includes Crosby. There's no monitor in Crosby itself, so it's a real reading for the metro rather than a Crosby-pinpoint value, and we label it that way. When the AirNow monitors aren't reporting, we fall back to Open-Meteo's modeled forecast for Crosby's coordinates, labeled "modeled" so you always know which you're seeing. The full breakdown lives on the air quality page.
We don't editorialize or adjust the numbers — the site is a clean presentation layer over the official government forecast for the Crosby area. Two values we compute ourselves: "feels like" temperature (the heat index or wind chill, using the National Weather Service's own published formulas applied to its temperature, humidity, and wind data — shown only when it's meaningfully different from the air temperature) and sunrise/sunset times (standard astronomical formulas; the NWS forecast API doesn't provide them).
How often it updates
The forecast and alerts are refreshed every 15 minutes from the National Weather Service. The page you load is served from a cached copy at the edge for speed, and an open browser tab reloads itself every 15 minutes to stay current.
For developers & agents
The same data powering this site is available as a free, public, no-authentication JSON API — plus an OpenAPI spec, a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server, RSS feeds, and a Markdown version of every page. It's all documented on one page:
Developers & agents— the API, MCP server, feeds, and agent integrations
Privacy
No cookies, no ads, no trackers, no personal data. crosbynews.com doesn't set cookies, show ads, or run third-party tracking or advertising networks, and it never asks for or collects personal information about you.
Page visits are counted anonymously and in aggregate — without cookies, without fingerprinting, and without anything that identifies you or follows you across other sites.
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Contact
Questions, corrections, or a local news tip? Email us:
contact@crosbynews.com— general questions, corrections, and news tipssecurity@crosbynews.com— security issues and vulnerability reportsContact page— all contact information
Disclaimer
crosbynews.com is an independent project and is not affiliated with the National Weather Service, NOAA, or any government agency. Always rely on official sources and local authorities for life-safety decisions during severe weather.