NOAA Weather Radar: Unofficial

Most weather apps show you a model's guess. This one shows you what the National Weather Service actually issued: live NEXRAD Doppler radar, tornado and severe storm warnings for where you are, and the forecast discussion your local meteorologist wrote by hand, twice a day. No ads. No account. No tracking. Free. WHAT YOU GET HERE AND ALMOST NOWHERE ELSE • The Area Forecast Discussion in full: your NWS office's own reasoning, unedited • Up to 3 hours of radar history in one loop, so you can watch a line of storms organize instead of guessing from one frame • Live lightning, hurricane tracks and winter storm severity, straight from NOAA • Climate records for your city, in many places back to the 1800s • 12 raw NWS text products and SPC storm outlooks in one Storm Center TORNADO, STORM & SEVERE WEATHER ALERTS • Push notifications when NWS issues a warning, watch or advisory for you: tornado, severe thunderstorm, flash flood, winter storm, hurricane, heat and more • Your own severity threshold and quiet hours — no waking up for a dense fog advisory • Alerts follow where you actually are, not a city you looked up LIVE DOPPLER RADAR • NOAA RIDGE2 NEXRAD — the same feed meteorologists use • Base Reflectivity, Storm Layer, Storm Tops and Precipitation Type — rain, snow and mixed precipitation shown separately • 1, 2 or 3-hour loops with ½× to 4× playback, a drag-to-scrub timeline and warning polygons on top LIGHTNING • NOAA lightning strike density from U.S. and global lightning detection networks, in 15-minute frames • Its own loop, so you can watch storms electrify — and fade HURRICANES & TROPICAL STORMS • National Hurricane Center forecast cones, tracks and past tracks • Coastal hurricane and tropical storm watches and warnings • Category, winds, pressure and movement for every active storm, plus NHC's 7-day outlook for where new storms may form WINTER STORMS • Snow and ice expected for each of the next 7 days • WPC's Winter Storm Severity Index: how disruptive a coming storm will be, and whether snow, ice or wind is the main threat • The odds of 4, 8 or 12 inches of snow, or a quarter inch of ice STORM CENTER • SPC convective outlooks (Marginal through High) and mesoscale discussions • Area Forecast Discussion, Hazardous Weather Outlook, Local Storm Reports, fire and winter weather, flood outlooks and more — the raw text from your office FORECAST & CONDITIONS • 7-day NWS forecast, hourly timeline and full current conditions • NOAA's 6–10 and 8–14 day outlooks: the odds of warmer, cooler, wetter or drier than normal • A 14-day outlook, clearly marked as model guidance rather than an NWS forecast • Air quality from EPA AirNow SATELLITE • Animated GOES-East GeoColor, Infrared, Visible, Air Mass, Dust and Fire Temperature — follow smoke and fire hot spots, not just clouds CLIMATE & RECORDS • Today against the 1991–2020 normal and the all-time record, with the year it was set • Rain and snow so far this month, year and season, against normal MARINE & TIDES • NOAA tide predictions, buoy observations and the Coastal Waters Forecast WIDGETS • Six sizes, including three Lock Screen widgets PRIVACY • No account, no ads, no tracking, no analytics • Your location is used to fetch your forecast — never stored, never sold WHO IT'S FOR Storm spotters and chasers, weather hobbyists, farmers, boaters, and anyone who has ever wanted to know why the forecast changed — not just that it did. Built for people who read the discussion before they trust the icon. DISCLAIMER This is an independent third-party app. It is not created, endorsed, or affiliated with NOAA, the National Weather Service, or any U.S. government agency.