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GOES-East & GOES-West MRMS radar GLM lightning NWS warnings SPC / WPC outlooks RTMA / RAP model fields 9 RGB composites & all 16 ABI channels Full Disk ~10 min CONUS ~5 min Regional sub-CONUS sector 1-minute mesoscale

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Our backend calibrates all 16 ABI channels around the clock and layers real-time weather data on top — radar, lightning, warnings, and model fields.

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All 16 ABI channels plus 9 RGB composites — GeoColor, Sandwich, AirMass, Fire Temperature, Dust, and more — from hemispheric full-disk to 1-minute mesoscale.

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NWS tornado, severe, and flash-flood warnings, SPC convective outlooks, WPC excessive-rainfall outlooks, and ProbSevere storm probabilities.

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MRMS multi-radar composite reflectivity overlaid on the image, plus GLM lightning straight from the satellite — flash points, density, and minimum flash area.

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Model & surface data

RTMA temperature, dewpoint and wind; RAP upper-air fields at five pressure levels; METAR station plots with standard symbology.

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Front drawing, pixel inspector with real channel values, distance measurement, time-series charting, and screenshot / animated-GIF export.

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NWS-targeted sectors aimed at active severe weather & fires.

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Numerous regional to local sectors from the Full Disk and CONUS datasets.

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Raw GOES ABI data is pulled from NOAA's buckets and all 16 channels are calibrated to real radiances and brightness temperatures.

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8 model families · updated every cycle

Seasonal & sub-seasonal models, weeks to seasons ahead.

CFS, CanSIPS, ECMWF S2S and GEPS — monthly and tri-monthly anomalies for temperature, precipitation, wind and heights. The long-range guidance forecasters actually argue about, plotted the way you'd plot it yourself.

Open Seasonal Models

Examples

A few of the things you can pull up

CFS minus CFS 10-Run Mean, 500 hPa height anomaly over North America — **Model difference** — CFS minus its 10-run mean, 500 hPa height over North America, with contours overlaid on the difference fill.

2 m temperature anomaly, global — **2 m temperature anomaly** — global monthly mean; scroll to zoom into any region.

**Precipitation anomaly** — monthly, alongside percent-of-normal.

Sea-surface temperature anomaly over the Pacific — **Sea-surface temp anomaly** — over the Pacific. Europe, Asia, North America and both poles are a click away, or scroll to zoom to your own view.

What's in there

Built for the long range

Temperature & precipitation

2 m and 850 hPa temperature anomalies, precipitation anomaly and percent-of-normal, monthly or tri-monthly.

Heights & pressure

500 hPa height anomaly and MSLP anomaly — the pattern behind the sensible weather.

Wind

Zonal, meridional and velocity-potential fields at 200 and 850 hPa, as streamlines or barbs.

Compare them

Difference one model against another on the same field, or overlay them on the same map.

Animate & save

Play the run forward month by month, then save the loop as an animation or grab any single frame as an image.

Coverage

Global, with the regions you actually work in

Every model runs on a global grid. Jump straight to North America, Europe, Asia, the Pacific or either pole, or scroll to zoom anywhere in between — the domain buttons are shortcuts, not separate products.

Pricing

Free while we build it out

Seasonal models are open to everyone right now, no account needed.

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Daily OISST · a year of history

Sea Surface Temperatures, Sea Ice, and Oceanic Indices

Global 0.25° SST, anomaly, normalized anomaly and sea-ice — plus the climate indices that drive a seasonal forecast, computed off the same field you're looking at.

Open Ocean Plots

Examples

A few of the things you can pull up

SST anomaly zoomed to the Indian Ocean — **Indian Ocean** — scroll to zoom anywhere on the map and drag to pan. One global field; every basin is just a view of it.

Normalized SST anomaly zoomed to the equatorial Pacific — **Normalized anomaly, zoomed** — domain-mean removed, over the equatorial Pacific.

SST anomaly change over the last 30 days — **Change plot** — anomaly now minus anomaly 30 days ago: where the ocean is warming or cooling.

Arctic sea-ice concentration with extent and area — **Sea ice** — North Pole view, with hemispheric extent and true-area figures.

Equatorial Pacific subsurface temperature anomaly depth section — **Equatorial subsurface** — ARMOR3D temperature anomaly down to 500 m along 2°S–2°N, with the 20 °C isotherm against its 1993–2020 normal. Watch warmth move east under the surface weeks before it reaches the SST map.

Sea-surface temperature over the Atlantic — **Atlantic SST** — raw temperature rather than anomaly, zoomed to the basin.

What's in there

More than a pretty map

Six analyses

SST, anomaly vs 1991–2020, 30-day anomaly change, domain-mean-removed normalized anomaly, sea-ice concentration, and an equatorial subsurface depth section.

Change over time

Difference any date against 30, 60 or 90 days back — with the true value under the cursor.

Indices, live

The ENSO and basin indices update with the field, so the number and the map can never disagree.

Basins & poles

Global, Pacific, Atlantic, Indian, Maritime, Equatorial Pacific and both poles.

Animate & save

Play a year of daily fields as a loop, then save the animation or grab any single day as an image.

Coverage

The whole ocean, every day

One global 0.25° field per type, updated daily, with about a year of history behind it. Global, Pacific, Atlantic, Indian, Maritime, Equatorial Pacific and both poles are views of that same field — scroll to zoom anywhere.

Pricing

Free while we build it out

Ocean plots are open to everyone right now, no account needed.

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Rebuilt every hour · graded against RTMA

Grade model forecasts against what actually happened.

Compare model forecasts against what actually happened every hour. This is done by differencing NCEP's 2.5 km RTMA analysis against the forecast. Error maps for 8 parameters across multiple models are created, as well as run-by-run trends for every point in the CONUS.

Open Verification

Examples

A few of the things you can pull up

HRRR 2 m temperature error zoomed to the southern Plains with recomputed statistics — **Zoom with live statistics** — scroll into the southern Plains and the bias, MAE, RMSE and p90 recompute for exactly the area on screen. County lines and city labels appear as you go tighter.

Run-to-run overlay of every model run's 2 m temperature forecast for Denver against the observed trace — **Run-to-run overlay** — every run's full forecast for one place and one hour, newest brightest, over the observed trace. Here: a 12 °F daytime bust at Denver, and which model missed by least.

Forecast by run: each initialization's forecast for one hour against the RTMA actual — **Forecast by run** — one dot per initialization. Watch successive runs walk toward reality, or away from it.

GFS 500 hPa height error at 48-hour lead against the HRRR analysis — **Upper air too** — 500 hPa height, 850 hPa temperature and MSLP, graded against the HRRR analysis where RTMA has nothing to offer — with that caveat stated right on the plot.

What's in there

An honest scoreboard

Hourly error maps

Forecast-minus-RTMA for 8 surface and upper-air parameters and 6 models, rebuilt every hour on a common 0.05° CONUS grid.

Lead-time slider

The same verifying hour from runs launched 1 to 48 hours earlier — watch the error grow with lead.

Live zoom, live stats

Bias, MAE, RMSE and p90 recompute for exactly the area on screen, not the whole country.

Point trends

Run-to-run overlay and forecast-by-run views for any of 400 cities — or any point you click — across 10 models.

Valid-hour rewind

Step back through the day's hourly analyses to see how the models handled this morning.

Share & save

The whole view lives in the URL, and Save exports the map with its zoom and its numbers.

Coverage

CONUS, hourly, about an hour behind real time

Truth is RTMA — NCEP's hourly 2.5 km observation-fused analysis — for the surface fields, and the HRRR analysis for 850 hPa temperature, 500 hPa height and MSLP, labelled as such on every plot. The newest verifying hour lands roughly an hour behind real time; maps are kept through the day and point trends reach back 30 analyses.

Pricing

Free while we build it out

Verification is open to everyone right now, no account needed.

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26 indices · computed in-house daily

Examine Multiple Climate Indices to Find What Is Driving the Pattern

Daily climate and teleconnection indices computed straight from OISST and NCEP analyses — with seasonal and subseasonal model forecasts appended, full ensemble plumes, an MJO phase diagram, and Hovmöllers that carry observations into the forecast.

Open Indices

Examples

A few of the things you can pull up

Daily Niño 3.4 index as bars with CanSIPS, CFS and ECMWF seasonal forecasts appended — **Indices with forecasts** — daily observed Niño 3.4, drawn as bars colored by sign, with CanSIPS, CFS and ECMWF Seasonal appended as dashed curves out to a year.

Niño 1+2, 3, 3.4 and 4 compared on one chart over the last year — **Compare regions** — Niño 1+2, 3, 3.4 and 4 on one chart: watch an event build in the east and spread west. Any indices can be stacked together this way.

NAO ensemble plume: GEFS Extended and ECMWF EPS members with means and spread bands — **Ensemble plumes** — every member of GEFS Extended and ECMWF EPS behind the ensemble mean and 10–90% band, on the observed NAO. Six ensembles, up to 101 members each.

MJO phase diagram in density view with the GEFS ensemble-mean forecast track — **MJO phase diagram** — RMM1/RMM2 phase space with Track, Scatter and Density views, sliders to replay any window of the record, and the GEFS forecast track.

200 hPa velocity potential Hovmöller across the tropics, observations extended by GEFS — **Tropical Hovmöllers** — 200 hPa velocity potential across the tropics, six months observed and extended by GEFS. MJO propagation at a glance; OLR and zonal wind get the same treatment.

10 hPa mean zonal wind at 60°N over the last year with SSW dates highlighted and ensemble forecasts — **Polar vortex & SSW** — 10 hPa mean zonal wind at 60°N with this year's sudden-stratospheric-warming dates highlighted in red, the climatology band behind, and GEFS and ECMWF Extended ensemble forecasts appended.

QBO time-height section: twelve years of equatorial zonal-mean wind on a log pressure axis — **Stratosphere** — twelve years of QBO regimes descending a log-pressure axis, plus polar-vortex wind and temperature in the same group.

What's in there

The whole pattern toolkit

26 daily indices

ENSO (Niño regions, ONI, TNI, RONI, Modoki), PDO, AMO, IOD, PMM, NAO, AO, PNA, EPO, WPO, AAO, QBO and polar-vortex metrics — computed in-house from OISST and NCEP analyses.

Model forecasts appended

Dashed CanSIPS, CFS and ECMWF curves out to a year on the SST indices; extended-range models on the teleconnections.

Ensemble plumes

Six ensembles drawn member by member behind the mean and spread band, with a box-and-whisker alternative.

MJO, three ways

Phase-space track, scatter and density views, a sliding window to replay any stretch of the record, and the GEFS forecast track.

Hovmöllers

ENSO evolution — observations continuing straight into a seasonal model — plus OLR, velocity potential and zonal wind across the tropics.

Stack, share, save

Plot indices together, smooth them, add a climatology band — then share the exact view as a link or a branded image.

Coverage

Computed here, every day, from primary data

Ocean and ENSO indices come from NOAA's 0.25° OISST against a 1991–2020 baseline; teleconnections are daily projections onto CPC's own loading patterns; MJO and the stratosphere come from GFS analyses. Observations run through yesterday, refreshed daily, with forecasts reaching out to a year.

Pricing

Free while we build it out

Indices are open to everyone right now, no account needed.

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10 forecast models · observed soundings · 48 hours of runs

Pull a full sounding from any point on the map.

Click anywhere in North America and read the vertical profile from numerous models such as the HRRR, NAM, ECMWF's IFS and AIFS, ICON, UKMET, and more on the way. They include a full suite of parameters and the ability to filter by your interest such as severe, winter, fire, or aviation.

Open Soundings

Examples

A few of the things you can pull up

The full analysis column — ALL mode adds 3 km and 6 km CAPE, the effective inflow layer, storm-relative winds and streamwise-vorticity fraction by layer, profile mini-charts and layer moisture to the core parcel, stability and composite tables.

Storm-relative hodograph for Omaha with Bunkers movers, mean wind and deviant tornado motion marked — **Storm-relative hodograph** — subtract the Bunkers right-mover and read the wind profile from the storm's frame. Right and left movers, 0–6 km mean wind and deviant tornado motion are marked, with SRH and critical angle alongside.

Winter tab active: precipitation type, partial thickness, freezing-drizzle route, dendritic growth zone and lake-effect ingredients replace the convective kinematics — **Tabs for the question you're asking** — nobody needs streamwise vorticity in an ice storm. The Winter tab swaps the convective tables for precipitation type, partial thickness, the freezing-drizzle route, dendritic-growth-zone depth and ascent, snow-squall parameter and lake-effect ingredients. Fire, Heavy rain and Aviation do the same for their problems.

NAM and ICON profiles overlaid on the HRRR skew-T for Oklahoma City, paired by valid time — **Compare on one diagram** — overlay up to two more profiles: another model, another run, or the nearest rawinsonde within 250 km. Here NAM and ICON against the HRRR — always paired by valid time, never by forecast hour.

701 km HRRR cross-section from near Guymon to near Texarkana: relative-humidity fill, theta-e contours and wind barbs — **Cross-sections along any path** — click two points and get a vertical slice. Relative humidity, θe and barbs here; or switch the fill to temperature advection, frontogenesis, vorticity, divergence or potential vorticity, computed on the model grid. Zooming re-samples the visible span at finer resolution.

Time-height section at one point: relative-humidity fill with theta-e contours, wind barbs and diagnosed cloud through the full HRRR forecast — **Time-height at a point** — hold the point and cut the section through time instead: the column above one place across the whole forecast, with the same presets, fills and overlays as the spatial section.

Observed 00Z rawinsonde for Norman, Oklahoma with RAOB and aircraft sites marked across the map — **Observed soundings too** — SPC rawinsondes at 00Z and 12Z with the last five ascents per site, and MADIS aircraft profiles at about sixty airports. This Norman ascent is labelled 3 hours old — ages are always stated.

Three successive HRRR runs drawn on one skew-T for the same valid hour — **Run-to-run** — the same valid hour from successive runs on one diagram: watch the forecast converge, or not, ahead of an event.

What's in there

More details on what you can do

Ten models, one page

Hourly HRRR, plus NAM, GFS, ICON, IFS, AIFS, GraphCast and UKMET over North America, and HRRR/NAM Alaska nests. The roster is read live from what's actually published, so a stalled upstream feed drops out instead of serving stale profiles.

Point, box, path or time

A click gives the profile at that point. Drag a box and every number becomes the mean over the grid points inside it. Click two ends for a cross-section along the line, or hold one point and take the section through time.

Five analysis tabs

Convective, Winter, Fire, Heavy rain and Aviation — each shows only the quantities that answer its question, from snow growth and the freezing-drizzle route to icing, low-level wind shear and sub-cloud evaporation.

Choose the layers

Eleven section fills — relative humidity, temperature, dewpoint depression, θe, wet-bulb, wind speed, vertical velocity, temperature advection, frontogenesis, potential vorticity, divergence — with overlays for wind and ageostrophic barbs, θe and omega contours, the dendritic zone, diagnosed cloud, the 0 °C line and isotherms. Seven presets, or build your own combination.

Zoom and hover everywhere

The map, the diagrams and the sections all zoom — sections re-fetch at finer resolution as you go in. Hovering reads out values under the cursor, and every table carries a small info button explaining what the numbers are and how they're computed.

Lift it yourself

Lift a parcel from any level you click, lift a whole layer by a chosen depth, or drag the temperature and dewpoint traces directly — every card, index and the hodograph recompute live.

See Observed Data too

Rawinsondes and aircraft profiles are shown as-is with their age stated.

Two days of runs

Every run from the last 48 hours stays loadable and the run list refreshes itself every five minutes. Save exports the current diagram as a PNG.

Coverage

North America, on the models' own levels

HRRR and NAM cover the CONUS; GFS, IFS, AIFS, GraphCast, ICON and UKMET cover North America; two nests cover Alaska. Profiles are sampled from each model's own pressure-level output on a 0.5° mesh and drawn to 100 hPa — levels above that feed the stratosphere and index products instead. New forecast hours appear within seconds of the maps.

Pricing

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