WeatherTS
Public beta Free · Windows

WeatherTS is a free weather workstation for Windows. NEXRAD radar with the tilts each site is really flying, storm tracks and cross-sections, ten satellites sharp at every zoom, GOES lightning, forecast models from the HRRR to the ECMWF, a mesoanalysis archive back to 2005, SHARPpy soundings, tropical cyclones, rivers, space weather, station plots, NWS alerts and SPC outlooks, all on one timeline.

Always the newest build · Windows 10 and 11, 64-bit

NEXRAD radars
150+
Satellites
10
Models and analyses
41
Model products
300+

What works today

Everything below is in the app.

Every loop and picture here was captured from the app, with real data; the line under each one says what it shows. Satellite, stations, soundings, tropical cyclones and the global models cover the world, lightning covers the Americas, radar is the NEXRAD network, and most alerts and outlooks are US products.

KLZK 0.5° reflectivity from the archive: the Little Rock tornado of 31 March 2023, 19:01–19:40 UTC.

Radar

NEXRAD

Level II and Level III from the whole NEXRAD network, with the tilts each radar is really flying.

  • Super-resolution Level II and Level III from every NEXRAD radar, including the sites in Puerto Rico, Alaska, Hawaii, Guam and South Korea.
  • Each radar's real tilts, checked when you pick it and every five minutes after: cuts below 0.5° and upper tilts up to 19.5° where the radar flies them. A product the radar does not publish is greyed out.
  • Reflectivity, velocity, storm-relative velocity, normalized rotation, the dual-pol products, echo tops, VIL, and one-hour and storm-total precipitation.
  • Loops of every scan, and archive playback from any moment since March 2022, Level III and Level II alike; Level III also loads a whole day at once.
  • Press and hold on the map, or right-click and choose Radar here, to switch to the nearest radar.
  • VAD wind profiles as a full-screen time-height display with barbs, and their hodograph.
  • The value under the pointer, smoothing that follows the echo's outline, and units per product: kt, mph, m/s or km/h for velocity, kft or km for tops, inches or mm for rain.
  • Your own GRLevelX .pal colour tables, imported in Settings.
Two radar panes in WeatherTS: reflectivity and normalized rotation of the Matador, Texas supercell, with the NWS storm tracks and their forecast cones
KLBB 0.5° reflectivity beside normalized rotation, with the NWS storm tracks and their forecast cones: the Matador, Texas supercell, 22 June 2023, 01:13 UTC.

Storm tracks and rotation

NEXRAD

The radar's storm cells with their forecasts, and a rotation product that reads the same near the radar and far from it.

  • Each cell's track so far and its forecast positions at 15, 30, 45 and 60 minutes, with time ticks across the path.
  • Tornado vortex signatures marked with an inverted triangle; mesocyclones named in the cell's report.
  • A report for each cell: motion, range, hail probability and maximum size, top and base, maximum reflectivity and its height, VIL, and the trend of each across recent scans.
  • The towns in its path with their distance and arrival time, and the warnings over it.
  • Normalized rotation (NROT): the shear across 5 radials by 5 gates, divided by the shear that counts as significant at that range. 1 is significant, 2.5 extreme; positive is cyclonic.
  • NROT is made from the super-resolution velocity the NWS has already dealiased, so velocity folds do not read as rotation. At 0.5°, 0.9° and 1.3°, with loops and archive playback.
  • Checked on Rolling Fork (KDGX, 25 March 2023): the scan's strongest NROT, 4.3, sits 2 km from the tornado's reported position.
WeatherTS split into two radar panes: reflectivity beside correlation coefficient of the Greenfield, Iowa tornadic supercell, with a drop in correlation where the tornado lofts debris
KDMX 0.5° reflectivity beside Level II correlation coefficient on one camera: the Greenfield, Iowa tornado's debris signature, 21 May 2024, 20:31 UTC.

Dual-pol, side by side

NEXRAD

Split the screen into two, four or six panes on one camera and one timeline, each with its own product.

  • Correlation coefficient, differential reflectivity, specific differential phase and hydrometeor classification, at every tilt the radar flies.
  • Spectrum width, differential phase and clutter filter power from Level II.
  • The hydrometeor classification legend names each class, from biological and wet snow to graupel and small, large and giant hail.
  • Pan, zoom or play one pane and the others follow. Two panes sit side by side, four tile 2×2 and six 3×2.
  • NWS alerts on every pane, and drawings too.
A full-screen cross-section of the Rolling Fork supercell in WeatherTS: Level II reflectivity from all 13 tilts, with the beams' centre lines drawn over it
KDGX Level II super-resolution reflectivity from all 13 tilts, along a 50-mile line through the Rolling Fork, Mississippi supercell, 25 March 2023, 01:06 UTC.

Radar cross-sections

Level II

A vertical slice through every tilt of the radar's volume, along any line you draw.

  • Cross section, at the foot of the radar product panel: click two points on the map, then drag either end and the slice follows.
  • Reflectivity, velocity, storm-relative velocity, correlation coefficient, differential reflectivity, spectrum width or differential phase.
  • Opens full screen, with the centre line of each beam drawn over the slice and heights in kft or km.
  • The pointer reads the value and its height, and a dot on the map marks the same spot.
  • Sampled with the standard 4/3-earth beam geometry. The volume is read once, so moving the line after that is almost instant.
  • The timeline steps it through the scans, like the map.
GOES lightning flashes in WeatherTS, coloured by age, over radar reflectivity of storms across North Dakota, with the Lightning panel open
GOES-East lightning mapper flashes, coloured by age, over KBIS 0.5° reflectivity: storms across North Dakota, the 15 minutes to 03:00 UTC, 21 June 2025.

Lightning

GOES GLM

Every flash the GOES-East and GOES-West lightning mappers see, over the Americas and the oceans either side.

  • In-cloud and cloud-to-ground flashes alike, seen from orbit by the Geostationary Lightning Mappers.
  • Coloured by age: white for the last minute, then yellow, orange and red, to magenta for the oldest.
  • A window of 5, 10, 15, 30 or 60 minutes, from GOES-East, GOES-West or both: East east of 106°W, West the rest.
  • The panel counts the flashes in the window and in the last minute, and gives the newest one's time.
  • Live, from the files each satellite writes every 20 seconds; only flashes NOAA rates as good quality are drawn.
  • It follows the timeline: playing the radar shows the lightning of each scan's minutes, read ahead of the loop.
GOES-West 1-minute mesoscale sector in GeoColor: Hurricane Polo off Baja California, 27 September 2026, 48 minutes.

Satellite

Worldwide

Ten satellites, every region each one covers, sharp at every zoom.

  • GOES-East and GOES-West, NOAA-20 and NOAA-21, Himawari-9, Meteosat-12, Meteosat-9, Meteosat-11 (rapid scan), Metop-B and Metop-C.
  • CONUS, the 1-minute mesoscale sectors, the full disks and the regions cut from them: South and Central America, the Pacific, Japan, Australia, Southeast Asia, Europe, Africa, India, the Middle East and more, each with its own product list.
  • All 16 GOES bands, 28 RGB composites and 28 Level 2 products, from cloud top height and fire detection to CAPE and precipitable water, each with its colour legend.
  • A quick picture first, then the sharp one in its place. Loops play as soon as each frame's quick picture is in, and sharpen while they play.
  • Loops of 6 to 288 frames on the timeline, like radar and models, with their own playback speed.
  • GOES straight from NOAA's data on Google Cloud, with AWS as the fallback; Himawari from AWS; CIRA's SLIDER, EUMETSAT and NASA GIBS.
GFS 12Z run of 27 September 2026: 10 m wind and sea level pressure, five days in three-hour steps, with the Models panel open.

Models

41 sources

Forecast models, analyses and the MRMS mosaic, all in one Models panel.

  • Convection-allowing: the HRRR and RRFS, each also sub-hourly, the NAM Nest, the HRW ARW and FV3 runs, and the HREF and REFS ensembles.
  • Regional and global: the RAP, NAM, NDFD, GFS, AI GFS, ECMWF, ECMWF AIFS, ICON and GEM.
  • Ensembles: the GEFS, AI GEFS, HGEFS, ECMWF ENS, AIFS ENS and the NBM.
  • Over 300 products: temperature and wind, CAPE and shear, updraft helicity and hail, simulated reflectivity and infrared, precipitation type, rain and snow totals.
  • A run picker that opens on the newest long run, a strip of the runs that forecast the moment on screen, and one even pace through the whole run when it plays.
  • Compare models: a grid of up to nine maps, each with its own model and product.
  • The hurricane models HAFS-A, HAFS-B, HWRF and HMON, and every model's track from the NHC's ATCF decks.
  • MRMS: the 2-minute radar mosaic products, rainfall (QPE) and flash flooding.
  • Analyses up to a week back: the HRRR, RAP and RTMA every hour, the RTMA Rapid Update every 15 minutes, and the GFS, NAM and NAM Nest every six hours.
The mesoanalysis archive in WeatherTS: effective-layer STP over Oklahoma at 20Z on 20 May 2013, the hour of the Moore tornado, with the notable days listed beside the map
Effective-layer STP from the RAP archive, 20 May 2013, 20Z, the hour of the Moore, Oklahoma tornado: 6.7 at Oklahoma City and Shawnee.

Mesoanalysis archive

Since 2005

SPC's severe-weather parameters for any hour since January 2005, worked out the same way for every year.

  • NOAA's own analyses: the RAP's every hour, and the RUC's before May 2012, read from NOAA's archives on AWS and at NCEI.
  • Surface-based, mixed-layer and most-unstable CAPE and CIN, LCL, LFC and EL, Bunkers storm motion, 0–1 and 0–3 km helicity, and 0–1 and 0–6 km shear.
  • The effective inflow layer with its helicity and bulk shear, and SPC's effective-layer STP (with CIN) and SCP.
  • 94 products in the surface, upper-air and severe groups, with contours, wind barbs, places and values, the value under the pointer, loops and the compare views.
  • Checked against the RAP's own fields where it has them: MLCAPE and MUCAPE agree at 0.99, helicity and shear at 0.97.
  • 29 notable days one click away, from Greensburg in 2007 to 2025: the April 27, 2011 Super Outbreak, Joplin, Moore, El Reno, the 2012 and 2020 derechos, Rolling Fork, Greenfield and more.
  • A day plays as its convective day, 12Z to 11Z. On the notable days since March 2022, one button opens the radar that saw the storm at the same moment.
  • An hour takes a few seconds the first time and opens at once after that; up to 4 GB of hours stay on disk.
Hurricane Rachel's page in WeatherTS: the best track, NHC's forecast and the intensity models on one chart, the track guidance and the advisory
Hurricane Rachel's page in the Tropical dashboard: best track, NHC's forecast and the intensity models, 6 October 2026, 18Z advisory.

Tropical

Worldwide

Every tropical cyclone on Earth, with its forecasts, models, satellite and history, in a ten-tab dashboard and on the map.

  • NHC and CPHC cones, forecast tracks and coastal watches and warnings, JTWC forecast tracks, the track so far by category and the wind radii.
  • Click a storm for its card: Show on Satellite puts the best picture of it right now on the map, a 1-minute GOES or Himawari sector when one is on it; Show Spaghetti Models draws the models.
  • A storm page for each one: intensity, pressure and the 24-hour change against the models, the guidance, NHC's graphics and every advisory.
  • Wind speed probabilities, formation areas with their chances, and Hurricane Hunter flights live and back to 1989.
  • Any storm since 1842 in any basin, searchable by name; seasons ranked by ACE against the 1991-2020 normal, and the record books.
  • Sea surface temperature on any day since June 2002, ENSO back to 1870 and the MJO with its phase diagram.
The Outlooks panel in WeatherTS with SPC's Day 1 outlook of 31 March 2023 picked from the archive, two high risk areas on the map
SPC's Day 1 outlook of 31 March 2023, 16:30 UTC, picked from the archive: two high risk areas.

Outlooks

US

SPC, WPC, CPC and NHC outlooks in one panel, in their official colours.

  • SPC Days 1 to 8: categorical, tornado, wind, hail and significant severe, with conditional intensity drawn as a hatch over the probability.
  • SPC fire weather, and WPC excessive rainfall and winter storm severity.
  • CPC 6–10 and 8–14 day, monthly and seasonal outlooks, drought and hazards, and NHC tropical formation.
  • Past issuances by date and time, the one before drawn as an outline, the forecast discussion, and the risk at any point you click.
  • NadoCast tornado, wind and hail probabilities.
The station page of Oklahoma City's airport in WeatherTS: current conditions, 24 hours of charts and the raw reports
The station page of Oklahoma City's airport, KOKC: current conditions, 24 hours of charts and every report.

Surface stations

Worldwide

Airports, synoptic stations and mesonets as station plots, with a page for each station.

  • Every METAR airport in the Aviation Weather Center's file, WMO SYNOP stations worldwide, and the US mesonets and personal stations from MADIS.
  • Brazil's INMET automatic stations, with your own INMET token.
  • Plots follow the timeline: at a past frame each station shows the report it had made by then, back about 15 days for airports and 5 for mesonets.
  • The last hour's rain and the present weather on each plot, where a station plot puts them.
  • A station page with current conditions, meteograms, charts of temperature, wind, pressure, humidity, visibility and rain, and the raw reports.
  • Stations that are not airports show rain, cloud and maximum and minimum temperature instead of flight categories.
The hydrograph of the Wapsipinicon River near DeWitt, Iowa, in WeatherTS: stage and flow against the flood categories, the NWS forecast and the rain
The Wapsipinicon River near DeWitt, Iowa, in moderate flood on 6 October 2026, with the NWS forecast cresting in major flood.

Flooding

US and Brazil

River gauges in the US and Brazil, each with a full hydrograph.

  • Every NWS river gauge, coloured by the flood category its stage is in now, with a ring on the ones forecast to reach a worse one.
  • In Brazil, the Geological Survey's flood alert stations (SGB) with their attention, alert and flood levels, and ANA's telemetry stations with level, flow and rain.
  • A full-screen hydrograph for each gauge: stage against the flood levels and the NWS forecast, flow against the normal for the date, and the rain measured and forecast for the next 7 days.
  • The gauges up and down the river a click away, the highest crests, what floods at which stage, and the chance of flooding over the next three months.
  • A search over every gauge by river, town or code, and a list of everything in flood or forecast to be, worst first.
  • NWS flood warnings, watches and advisories by kind, and the National Water Model's high flows, rapid onset flooding and inundation on the map.
A SHARPpy sounding in WeatherTS: skew-T, hodograph, indices, analogues and the STP chart for Norman, Oklahoma
A forecast sounding at Norman, Oklahoma, in SHARPpy's SPC widget, valid 27 September 2026 18Z.

Soundings

Worldwide

SHARPpy soundings from radiosondes, model forecasts and aircraft.

  • Observed radiosondes, ACARS aircraft profiles, and a model forecast sounding for any point: right-click the map and choose Sounding.
  • Area sounding: the model profile averaged over a box you drag, instead of one grid cell.
  • The full SPC sounding display: skew-T, hodograph, indices, storm motion, SARS analogues and STP. Its hodograph and Bunkers motions match the SPC's.
  • Analyze, Risk, Compare and Trends views, the radar's VAD wind profile, and your own soundings by upload.
NWS alerts in WeatherTS: warning and watch polygons across the US and the alert rail listing each one
The alerts in force across the US on 27 September 2026, with the alert rail open.

Alerts and reports

US

NWS warnings, watches and advisories on every pane, with an alert rail.

  • Full VTEC decoding: the hazard, what to expect, the impacts and when each alert expires.
  • Alerts follow the timeline: play a loop and the map shows the ones in force at each frame.
  • A colour for each of 27 NWS products, fill strength, outline width and a dark edge under every outline, all in Settings.
  • Local storm reports, SPC mesoscale discussions and WPC precipitation discussions.
The Space Weather dashboard in WeatherTS: NOAA's scales, a day of X-rays, solar wind and protons, and a week of Kp
The Space Weather overview on 6 October 2026: NOAA's scales, the last 24 hours of X-rays, solar wind and protons, and a week of Kp with SWPC's forecast.

Space Weather

NOAA SWPC

From the Sun to the aurora, from NOAA's Space Weather Prediction Center and NASA, in an eleven-tab dashboard.

  • NOAA's R, S and G scales and the key numbers on top of every tab.
  • Solar wind, X-rays and flares, protons and electrons, Kp and Dst, the field at geostationary orbit, CMEs and the WSA-Enlil model, and the solar cycle.
  • SDO and SUVI images and loops of the Sun, with its active regions.
  • Charts you can zoom and pan, and that move the image loops to the time under the pointer.
  • The aurora forecast, radio absorption, ionospheric TEC and the geoelectric field on the map.
A GIF exported from WeatherTS: the Little Rock radar loop with the WeatherTS name in the corner and the info bar under it
The GIF the Export button made of the Little Rock loop, at half size: the WeatherTS name, the product, the radar and the time on every frame.

Workspace and export

One map and one timeline, and the tools around them.

  • Split screen into 1, 2, 4 or 6 panes on one camera and one timeline.
  • Export the view as PNG, or a loop of radar, satellite or models as GIF or MP4, with the WeatherTS name on every frame.
  • Draw on the map with a pen, lines, arrows, circles, rectangles and text, in any colour; drawings stay pinned to the ground, show on every pane and go into exports.
  • Eleven basemaps across vector, chart, imagery and terrain, and a globe projection.
  • Distance, area and radius measurements, and a place search.
  • Playback from 1x to 80x, with the time each product's frame stays on screen set in Settings.
  • One searchable Settings for every part of the app, and light, dark and automatic themes.
  • The workspace comes back as you left it: layers, the map, the radar and its options, and the dashboards that were open.
  • No account needed. Sign in to share your position with other chasers, see theirs and pin your home.
  • Updates install themselves on the next launch.

In practice

How the pieces work together.

Six ways a day goes in WeatherTS. Every step below is in the app today, named the way the app names it.

Before storms fire

US
  1. Open SPC's Day 1 outlook in the Outlooks panel, read the discussion, and click your target for its tornado, wind and hail risk.
  2. Put the HRRR analysis on the map and walk back through MLCAPE, helicity and STP hour by hour on the timeline.
  3. Open Compare models for the HRRR, NAM Nest and RRFS at the same forecast hour, side by side.
  4. Right-click the target and choose Sounding for SHARPpy's full display, or Area sounding for the mean over a box you drag.
  5. Turn on station plots for the dew points and winds coming in, and open the nearest airport's page.

When a storm goes up

Radar
  1. Press and hold near the storm to switch to the nearest radar.
  2. Split into four panes on one camera: reflectivity, storm-relative velocity, NROT and correlation coefficient.
  3. Open the cell's report: hail size, top and VIL with their trend, the towns in its path with arrival times, and the warnings over it.
  4. Switch on Lightning: the GLM flashes of each scan's minutes play with the loop.
  5. Draw a cross-section through the core, then export the loop as GIF or MP4.

Back to a historic day

Archive
  1. In the Models panel, pick Mesoanalysis archive 13 km on the Archive shelf, then Rolling Fork, 25 March 2023, from the notable days.
  2. The map flies to the Mississippi Delta and opens on 01Z on effective STP, worked out from that hour's own analysis; SCP and helicity are a click away.
  3. Radar from KDGX at this hour opens the radar's archive at the same moment; the analysis follows the radar on the timeline.
  4. Switch the radar to NROT and step through the couplet scan by scan.
  5. In the Outlooks panel, pick the SPC outlook issued that day from the archive.

A hurricane heading for land

Tropical
  1. Click the storm for its card. Show on Satellite puts the fastest scan over it on the map, a 1-minute sector when one is on it.
  2. Show Spaghetti Models draws the track models over the NHC cone; switch on the wind speed probabilities beside them.
  3. Open its storm page: the intensity against the models, the guidance table and every advisory.
  4. Follow the Hurricane Hunters live, coloured by flight-level wind, SFMR wind or pressure.
  5. Put the sea surface temperature under its path, and see where the season's ACE stands against the 1991-2020 normal.

Rivers after heavy rain

US and Brazil
  1. Put MRMS rainfall (QPE) on the map to see where the rain fell.
  2. Switch on Flooding: every gauge is coloured by its flood category, with a ring on the ones forecast to get worse.
  3. Open a gauge's hydrograph: stage against the flood levels and the NWS forecast, flow against the normal for the date, and the rain.
  4. Step to the next gauge up or down the river.
  5. In Brazil, SGB's alert stations against their own attention, alert and flood levels, and ANA's telemetry beside them.

A night with aurora in the forecast

Space
  1. Open the Space Weather dashboard: NOAA's G scale and Kp sit on top of every tab.
  2. Watch the solar wind and its magnetic field arrive in the Solar wind tab.
  3. Check the CME and the WSA-Enlil run that forecast it.
  4. Read the aurora forecast for tonight and tomorrow night, and the hemispheric power.
  5. Put the OVATION aurora forecast on the map, over the satellite's picture of the clouds.

Coverage and sources

Where each kind of data reaches, and where it comes from.

WeatherTS reads public data straight from the agencies that publish it. This is what each part covers in the released app.

Data Where How far back From
NEXRAD radar The US, Puerto Rico, Alaska, Hawaii, Guam and South Korea Any moment since March 2022, in Level III and Level II NOAA's NEXRAD data on AWS, the NWS
Satellite The world, from 10 satellites Loops of 6 to 288 frames NOAA GOES on Google Cloud and AWS, Himawari on AWS, CIRA SLIDER, EUMETSAT, NASA GIBS
Lightning The Americas and the oceans either side Live, and along the timeline The GOES-East and GOES-West lightning mappers (GLM)
Forecast models The world, North America or the CONUS, by model The newest run and the runs before it NOAA NCEP, ECMWF, DWD, Environment Canada, the NHC
Analyses North America and the CONUS; the GFS analysis is global Up to 7 days NOAA NCEP
MRMS The CONUS The radar mosaic: the last day, every 2 minutes NOAA NSSL, on AWS
Mesoanalysis archive North America Any hour since January 2005 NOAA's RAP and RUC analyses, on AWS and at NCEI
Surface stations The world About 15 days for airports, 5 for mesonets Aviation Weather Center, OGIMET, MADIS, INMET, Iowa Environmental Mesonet
Soundings The world Recent radiosondes and model runs Iowa Environmental Mesonet, University of Wyoming, Open-Meteo, MADIS aircraft
Alerts and reports The US In force, and following the timeline The NWS, SPC, WPC, Iowa Environmental Mesonet
Outlooks The US Past issuances by date and time SPC, WPC, CPC, NHC, NadoCast
Tropical cyclones Every basin Any storm since 1842; recon flights since 1989 NHC, CPHC, JTWC, IBTrACS, NOAA STAR, CPC
Rivers The US and Brazil Recent stage and flow, with forecasts The NWS, USGS, the National Water Model, Brazil's SGB and ANA
Space weather From the Sun to the aurora Live, with the solar cycle NOAA SWPC, NASA SDO

Why WeatherTS

Radar, satellite, analyses, soundings and alerts usually live in separate services, and much of the advanced part sits behind paid plans. WeatherTS reads public data from NOAA, the NWS, NASA, EUMETSAT, ECMWF and others, and puts it on one map and one timeline, with no paid plan and no usage limit.

In development

What is being built, and what comes after.

None of this is in the released app yet. The first group is built and being tested for the next release; the second is under way; the third is planned.

Coming in the next release

  • Aviation for every country: a page for each airport, with METAR and TAF charts and decoded METARs.
  • PIREPs, SIGMETs and G-AIRMETs, and the FAA's TFRs and airspace.
  • GFS winds, icing and turbulence aloft, and flight-level charts.
  • An Archive category: one date and time for the radar and the mesoanalysis together.
  • Brazilian dual-pol radar volumes with every product: Ponte Nova (São Paulo) and CEMADEN's Maceió cases from NASA's archive.
  • NWS alerts history back to 2002, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet.
  • A radar product menu that lists only what each radar has.

Being built

Radar in 3D

  • A 3D view of the whole radar volume to orbit the storm, in a sunlit-cloud style with rain shafts and GOES lightning, or in classic shading.
  • Above the highest tilt, the 3D volume filled in from the neighbouring radar.

Detections

  • WeatherTS's own detections on Level II: mesocyclones followed up through the tilts, with their base and top heights.
  • Velocity couplets and tornado debris signatures.

Radar data

  • Level II archive by date back to 1991, with notable tornado outbreaks and hailstorms one click away.
  • TDWR airport radars.
  • Your own radar files: Level II, Level III, DORADE, CfRadial, ODIM, IRIS/SIGMET and UF, from files, zips, folders or links.
  • Level 2 polling servers, for radars outside the US.
  • Live CEMADEN dual-pol radars in Brazil, once CEMADEN grants access.

Warnings and workspace

  • Warnings in damage-threat tiers, with optional sounds.
  • The 3D view and the cross-section in any pane, and dragged between panes.
  • PNG stills and exports of the 3D view and the cross-section.
  • Settings, colour tables and layouts synced through your account.
  • Surface fronts, back in the catalog.

Planned

  • Radar from more networks beyond NEXRAD and Brazil.
  • Warnings from other countries, through CAP.
  • Marine products.
  • Share links that reopen your exact view.
  • Notifications on thresholds you set.
  • A data API.
  • macOS and Linux versions.
  • A version for phones.

Download

Always the newest release.

The link is resolved when the page loads, and the app updates itself from then on.

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Release announcements, bug reports, feature ideas and weather talk.

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Each release as it goes out, and what is being built next.

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Support

Free for everyone, kept going by the community.

WeatherTS has no ads, no subscriptions and no paid features, and it never will. It has no income of its own: it runs on free services, careful optimization and donations from the people who use it. Sponsoring does not unlock anything in the app. It keeps it free for everyone.

What donations pay for

Domain
weatherts.tech, each year
Installer
Code signing, so SmartScreen stops warning
Accounts
Sign-in and live chaser sharing
Development
New features and data
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Questions

Is it really free?

Yes. There is no paid tier, no locked feature, no ads and no usage limit. Donations keep it going, and they unlock nothing.

What do I need to run it?

Windows 10 or 11, 64-bit, an internet connection, and graphics that support WebGL 2, which draws the map. Split screen and the Compare models grid draw several maps at once, so they ask more of the graphics chip. The Download section above shows the installer's size for the current release.

Is there a version for Mac, Linux or phones?

Not yet. WeatherTS runs on Windows only for now. macOS and Linux versions and a version for phones are planned.

Why might Windows warn me about the installer?

The installer is not code-signed yet, so Windows SmartScreen can show "Windows protected your PC" the first time. Choose More info, then Run anyway. Signing the installer is one of the things sponsorship is for.

Do I need an account?

No. The app opens straight onto the map, and everything that comes from a public feed works without one. An account, with email and password or with Google, is only for sharing your position with other chasers, seeing theirs, and pinning your home.

What does WeatherTS know about me?

Without an account, nothing: the app has no analytics, crash reporting, advertising or tracker. It reads public data straight from the agencies that publish it, and each of them sees your IP address, as any website does. With an account it keeps your email, display name and photo, and a home pin only if you set one, rounded to about a kilometre before it is stored. Your live position goes to other signed-in users only while you have sharing switched on, and it is never recorded. The full notice is shown before an account is created.

Does it work outside the US?

In large part. Satellite, station plots, soundings, tropical cyclones, space weather and the global models (GFS, ECMWF, AIFS, ICON, GEM and their ensembles, and the GFS analysis) cover the world, and lightning covers the Americas and the oceans either side. In Brazil, the rivers come from SGB and ANA, and INMET's stations come in with your own token. Radar is the NEXRAD network: the US, Puerto Rico, Alaska, Hawaii, Guam and South Korea. Alerts, storm reports, outlooks, MRMS, the HRRR, RAP, NAM and RTMA, and the mesoanalysis archive are US and North American products. Brazilian radar volumes come in the next release, and opening radar files from other networks is being built.

Can I open my own radar files?

Not yet. It is being built: Level II, Level III, DORADE, CfRadial, ODIM, IRIS/SIGMET and UF files, from zips, folders or links, and Level 2 polling servers for radars outside the US. Until then, radar is the NEXRAD network, live and from the archive.

How much data does it download?

Only what you open. Loops fetch the frames you play, satellite fetches the area on screen, and a forecast model fetches the hours you look at. The heaviest parts are a Level II cross-section, which reads the whole radar volume, and the mesoanalysis archive, which reads an hour whole the first time. What you have seen is kept on disk so it reopens quickly, in your temporary folder: up to 1.5 GB of satellite and lightning files, 3 GB of model fields and 4 GB of archive hours.

Does it work offline?

No. Every product is read from its public source when you open it, so new data needs a connection. What you have already looked at is kept on disk for a while and reopens without downloading again.

Where does the data come from?

Public sources, read straight from the agencies that publish them. Coverage and sources lists them by kind of data; in short:

  • Radar: NOAA's NEXRAD Level II and Level III data on AWS, and the NWS.
  • Satellite and lightning: NOAA's GOES data on Google Cloud and AWS, Himawari on AWS, CIRA's SLIDER, EUMETSAT and NASA GIBS.
  • Models and analyses: NOAA NCEP, ECMWF, DWD, Environment Canada, the NHC's ATCF decks, MRMS from NOAA NSSL, and the RAP and RUC archives on AWS and at NCEI.
  • Observations and soundings: the Aviation Weather Center, MADIS, OGIMET, INMET, the Iowa Environmental Mesonet, the University of Wyoming and Open-Meteo.
  • Alerts and outlooks: the NWS, SPC, WPC, CPC, the NHC and NadoCast.
  • Tropics: the NHC, CPHC and JTWC, ATCF and HURDAT2, IBTrACS, the Hurricane Hunters' archive, NOAA STAR, Coral Reef Watch and CPC.
  • Rivers: the NWS, USGS, the National Water Model, and Brazil's SGB and ANA.
  • Space weather: NOAA's SWPC and NASA's SDO.
How do updates work?

Installed copies check for a new release when they start and install it on the next launch. You only download the installer once. What changed in each release is in the app and on GitHub.

Where do I report a bug or ask for a feature?

On the WeatherTS Discord, or by email at contact@weatherts.tech. Say which version you have, what you had on the map, and what happened; a screenshot helps. Every release is announced on the Discord and on X as well.

Can I see the code?

The GitHub repository holds every release, the README and the MIT license. The source itself is not published there yet.

Will there be an API?

That is the plan, and it is still being defined.

Who is it for?

Meteorologists and forecasters first, and storm chasers, researchers and students too.

Credits

Made by Pablo Arzão

WeatherTS is built by Pablo Arzão, a Brazilian teenager with a deep passion for programming and meteorology, bringing the two together into a single free platform.

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Inspired by AguaceroWx — thank you for being a huge inspiration for this project.

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