100+ forecast models
HRRR, GFS, ECMWF, NAM, RAP, RRFS, ICON, UKMET, GDPS, ARPEGE and more in one picker, with new runs as they land. 26 models are free, including HRRR, GFS, NAM, RAP and RRFS.
Features
Everything in AguaceroWx, feature by feature.
Every model, radar product, sounding, alert, archive and broadcast tool we have shipped, in one place. Search for what you need, or browse by area.
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17 features
Forecast models
125 entries in the model picker: global, regional, convection-allowing, ensemble, AI, ocean, air-quality and seasonal guidance. Free has 26 models; Enthusiast and up have every one.
AI models
ECMWF-AIFS, WeatherNext 2, AI-GFS, AI-GEFS, AICON, GEM-L, Aurora and Pangu-Weather, several with precipitation type and snowfall. AI-GFS, AI-GEFS and WeatherNext are on the Free plan.
Ensembles
GEFS, GEPS, ECMWF EPS, ECMWF-AIFS-EPS, ICON-EPS, NAEFS, HREF, REFS, MOGREPS, REPS and more for probabilistic guidance.
NBM and NDFD
The National Blend of Models every hour, and the official NWS NDFD forecast grids at 2.5 km.
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Air quality and smoke
AQM, RAQDPS, CAMS Global and Regional, ICON-ART, GEFS-Aerosols, SILAM, HYSPLIT dust and WRF-Chem, plus smoke on supported models.
Ocean, wave and surge models
GFS Wave, ECWAM, AIFS Wave, GLWU and RTOFS, plus ETSS, P-Surge and STOFS storm surge guidance.
Severe weather parameters
Effective SRH, SHERBE, the Violent Tornado Parameter, the non-supercell tornado parameter, DCAPE, microburst composite and hail on supported models.
Winter weather fields
FRAM ice accumulation, precipitation-type reflectivity, snow depth change and dendritic growth zone depth.
Stratospheric fields
10, 50 and 100 mb temperature, height and wind on global models, with anomalies against 1990–2019 ERA5, for watching the polar vortex.
Anomalies
2 m temperature, 500 mb height, PWAT and MSLP anomalies against a 1991–2020 climatology.
Convection-allowing models
HRRR and RRFS (sub-hourly too), NAM 3 km, HRDPS, NSSL MPAS, HRW FV3, WRF-ARW, ICON-D2, AROME and HRRR and NAM for Alaska.
Global and regional models
GFS, ECMWF, ICON, UKMO, GDPS, ARPEGE and NAVGEM worldwide, plus regional models such as UKV, HARMONIE, MEPS, AROME-Arctic, ICON-EU and CPTEC.
Fire weather fields
Hot-Dry-Windy Index and its anomaly, the Red Flag Threat Index and vapor pressure deficit.
Dynamics and isentropic analysis
Vorticity, Q-vectors, theta-e advection and moisture transport, plus wind, RH and PV on the 290–330 K surfaces.
Model search and availability
Type a name, id or category to jump to any model. Green, yellow and red dots show which models can draw your bundle.
Trend and Compare modes
Trend steps through runs at one valid time. Compare steps through models at the same time.
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Radar
NEXRAD Level II and III, TDWR, MRMS and European radar, flat on the map or in 3D.
NEXRAD Level II and III
Every WSR-88D and TDWR site with all tilts: reflectivity, velocity, ZDR, CC, KDP and Level III products, with dealiased velocity. Loops run 1 hour on Free and up to 12 on Professional.
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3D NEXRAD volumes
Draw a box (or Alt + drag) to fly around a storm in 3D. Lit, max, solid and cloud renders, velocity, model isotherms and a kft height scale.
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Radar cross sections
Slice through any cell for a vertical cross section that stands on the map, with smoothing.
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Multiple NEXRAD sites
Up to 5 sites on one layer with the same product, tilt and colormap. The closest site wins where they overlap.
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Frame blending
Smooth transitions between radar and model frames as a loop plays.
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VWP hodographs and winds
A VAD wind profile for any NEXRAD site as a hodograph with shear and storm motion, VWP barbs on the map, and a VWP time-height chart.
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MRMS precipitation type
Precipitation-type reflectivity that separates rain, snow, sleet and freezing rain.
MRMS mosaics
Multi-Radar Multi-Sensor reflectivity, rotation tracks, hail, QPE and 100+ more products, with switchable tilts and point readouts, on every plan.
Storm tracker
Track a storm with its forecast path (or hold T and drag), pin tracks to NWS warnings, keep several on the map and see TVS detections.
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Satellite and lightning
GOES-East and West, Himawari-9 and EUMETSAT at native resolution, plus GLM lightning. Every band and RGB is on every plan; your plan sets how long loops run.
GOES-East and GOES-West
Every ABI band over CONUS, the full disk and the mesoscale sectors.
Himawari-9
The western Pacific, Asia and Australia, with the same bands and products as GOES.
EUMETSAT: Europe, India and Rapid Scan
Meteosat over Europe and Africa, the Indian Ocean and Rapid Scan, with the products you know from GOES.
Native-resolution satellite
Imagery loads at native resolution as you zoom, down to 0.5 km for GOES visible.
Custom IR and water vapor color tables
Restyle infrared and water vapor bands with your own colormaps.
GeoColor and RGB recipes
GeoColor, Air Mass, Sandwich, Day Cloud Phase Distinction, Day Convection, Nighttime Microphysics, Dust, Fire Temperature, Day Snow-Fog and more.
Satellite recipe builder
Build your own composite from the bands, with day and night stacks, stretch and RGB mix, then load it on the map.
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GLM lightning
GLM lightning over the past 24 hours, filtered by time, intensity and energy, with an optional strike counter.
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Soundings, cross sections and charts
Click, drag or draw on the map for a vertical look at the atmosphere, or follow one point through time.
Model soundings
Right-click anywhere for a Skew-T with hodograph, parcels, ECAPE and severe and winter parameters, from any model or the SPC Mesoanalysis.
Area-averaged soundings
Draw a box with the toolbar, or hold B and drag, for a sounding averaged over the area.
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Archived soundings
Load archived RAOB and, for select models, BUFKIT soundings for past events.
Model cross sections
Draw a line (or Ctrl + drag) for a cross section with presets and overlays. It stands on the map as a curtain, and can subtract one model from another.
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Model time-height plots
Right-click for a model run at one point over time, with the same fills, barbs and contours as cross sections.
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Meteograms
Temperature, dew point, wind, pressure and precipitation through the run, with multi-model plumes, means and box plots on Professional.
RAOB soundings
Global radiosonde launches on the map. Click a station for its observed sounding.
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Hover soundings
A model sounding that follows your cursor, or that you drag across the map. The profile updates as it moves.
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Ocean cross sections
Temperature to 500 m, its anomaly, 7-, 15- and 30-day change and the 20 °C isotherm along any line.
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Dock, float and resize charts
Soundings, meteograms, cross sections and VWP plots open full screen, docked under the map or in a window you can move and resize.
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Observations and hydrology
Surface stations, storm reports, river gauges and precipitation analyses on the same map as everything else.
ASOS and METARs
Surface station plots with raw METARs, wet bulb and RH, RAWS stations and your own colormaps.
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Local storm reports
Hail, wind, tornado, flood and snow reports, plus CoCoRaHS gauges, clustered by zoom.
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River and stream gauges
NWPS gauges by flood category. Click one for the observed and forecast hydrograph.
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Flash flood guidance
River Forecast Center 1-, 3- and 6-hour guidance for CONUS, and 12-hour for the Mid-Atlantic.
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National Water Model
Short-, medium- and long-range streamflow, soil, snow and runoff for 2.7 million river reaches.
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Stage IV precipitation
NCEP multisensor precipitation at about 4.8 km, with sums from 3 hours to a week.
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Sea surface temperature
SST, tropical cyclone heat potential, SST change and anomalies.
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Alerts and NOAA products
Watches, warnings and outlooks from the NWS, SPC, WPC and CPC, plus Canadian and European alerts.
Watches and warnings
Every NWS alert with your own colors, flashing, sounds and popups that show the population covered. Filter by type, office or state; alerts arrive over NWWS.
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SPC Mesoscale Analysis
Hourly convective diagnostics on the 3 km HRRR grid. 12 hours back on Free, 24 on Enthusiast and 72 on Professional.
CPC outlooks
6–10 day, 8–14 day, 1-month and 3-month temperature and precipitation outlooks.
NADOCAST
Machine-learning severe weather probabilities, including Day 2 for 12z runs, with run switching.
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Canadian and European alerts
ECCC and MeteoAlarm warnings with the same styling and time slider, and a toggle for each region.
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SPC outlooks, watches and discussions
Convective and fire weather outlooks out to day 8, with watches and mesoscale discussions in the alerts layer. Outlooks can follow the time slider.
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WPC products
Surface fronts, QPF with point readouts, winter weather products such as the WSSI, and the NWS HeatRisk map.
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Tropics
Hurricane models, ensembles, recon and NHC products, gathered in the tropical cyclone hub.
Ensemble tracks
Spaghetti plots from GEFS, GEPS, ECMWF EPS and Google DeepMind’s ensemble, with a name and color for each model.
Intensity graphs
Ensemble maximum wind, intensity distribution and pressure for each storm.
Tropical cyclone hub
Active storms, forecasts, models, ensembles and recon in one place.
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Hurricane models
HAFS-A, HAFS-B, HWRF and HMON with every nested domain and hurricane diagnostics such as MPI and shear, plus an option that keeps the map on a moving nest.
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NHC and JTWC
Forecast cones and tracks you can restyle, labels you can drag, and a storm popup with the fields you pick. JTWC covers the Pacific.
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Archive and reanalysis
Switch from Live to Archive and replay past events with the tools you use every day.
Archive mode
Flip the time bar from Live to Archive, pick an event in the Archive Builder and replay it. Professional loads 24 hours of radar and 5 days of reanalysis at a time.
ERA5 back to 1940
Full ERA5 reanalysis since 1940, including anomaly fields against climatology.
20CR back to 1836
The Twentieth Century Reanalysis, for storms long before satellites and radar.
HRRR, GFS and SPC outlook archive
Historical HRRR and GFS runs, with the SPC convective outlooks issued at the time.
Saved archive events
Save an event to come back to: 1 on Free, 5 on Enthusiast, unlimited on Professional.
Observations archive
ASOS back to 1900, storm reports from 2003, NWS alerts from 1986, ACARS from 2019, and historical RAOBs.
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Workspace and workflows
Panels, boards, bundles and workflows that keep your whole setup one click away.
Synced panels
Split the map into panels that share time, pan and zoom: 1 on Free, 2 on Enthusiast, unlimited on Professional.
Globe and polar projections
Mercator, a globe, and north and south polar stereographic views.
Pop-out controls
Move the toolbar, sidebar and time bar into their own window, in the browser or the desktop app.
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Click-through tutorials
Guided tours of every part of the app, plus FAQs and info boxes in Help.
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Bundles
Save layers, styles, settings, the model and the viewpoint together, and reopen them in a click: 1 on Free, 10 on Enthusiast, unlimited on Professional.
Bundle editor
Add, reorder and restyle layers, and search every model for the layer you need.
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Library
Default, personal and public bundles, workflows and map styles, searchable, with favorites and your own categories.
Shortcuts, toolbar and right-click menu
Remap any keyboard shortcut, choose which toolbar tools appear, and trim or reorder the right-click menu.
Settings
Units, time zone, 12- or 24-hour time, language, performance, defaults and appearance in one place.
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Find a feature
Search every feature from the toolbar or the Help menu. The app points at the control and shows the steps.
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Map styling
Colors, contours, readouts, basemaps and your own layers. Most styling is on every plan.
Custom colormaps
Your own breakpoints, opacity at each stop and smooth or hard steps. Import .pal files or color tables from Wx Tools.
Barbs, vectors, particles and streamlines
Show wind as barbs or vectors on a grid or at cities, or as animated particles and streamlines.
Map styles
Streets, 3D buildings, terrain and hillshade, county names, lat/lon lines, day and night and zoom rules. Save 1 style on Free, unlimited from Enthusiast.
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Satellite basemap
Imagery under your data, with saturation, contrast, shadow and highlight sliders.
Highlight areas
Highlight countries, states or counties anywhere, with drop shadows, and crop readouts and cities to the area.
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Custom layers
GeoJSON and shapefiles with your own colors, points and labels, loaded once or kept live from a URL.
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Drawing and analysis tools
Draw forecasts, measure, follow your location and read values straight off the map.
PGEN forecast drawing
Draw forecast maps with polygons, hatching, fronts, highs and lows, storm icons and text, then save them as products.
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Drawing
Draw freehand on the map with a pen and eraser to circle storms, sketch arrows or mark paths.
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Ruler
Measure distance and bearing, with range circles and your own units, colors and line styles.
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Mouse readouts
Values under the cursor for every layer, with elevation. Pin one with a click combo (Alt+Shift+click by default).
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Name markers
Your own labeled points with icons and automatic readouts. Import them from JSON and save them in bundles.
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My location
Your position and heading on the map. The desktop app can also read a GPS receiver.
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Broadcast and presentation
Creator tools that turn the workspace into on-air graphics, from headers and tickers to scenes.
Broadcast mode
Turn the workspace into on-air graphics: a banner with your title, colors and fonts, your logo and the valid time. Save looks as presets.
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Custom headers
Import your own upper thirds and logos, stack several, animate them with WebM and add text boxes.
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Alert headers
A TV-style title for the warning, cone or outlook you click, in the alert’s color, with an icon that stays readable.
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On-air popups
Broadcast-style popups for warnings and features. Show several at once.
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Scenes
Step through bundles, viewpoints and media with transitions and holds, then export the whole scene to GIF or MP4.
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Viewpoints and tours
Save camera views to bundles and workflows, then play them back as a tour.
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Layouts
Change how the text on the map looks: titles, legends, the valid time and more. Adding custom headers to a layout needs Creator.
Floating board toolbar
A draggable toolbar that stays on the map, in place of the top toolbar.
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Canvas aspect ratio
Lock the map to 16:9, 9:16 or another ratio, so screenshots and exports match your graphics.
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Export and sharing
Get maps, loops, charts and whole setups out of the app.
Download or share the board
Save the board as an image, or send it through your device’s share sheet or to social platforms.
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Apps, APIs and teams
Use it in a browser or on the desktop, build on the same data with our APIs, and bring the whole team.
Broadcast API
KML and KMZ weather layers for television graphics systems, quoted per station.
Browser and desktop apps
Runs in any modern browser. Desktop apps for Windows, macOS and Linux update themselves and use native compute for radar, contours and 3D.
Weather, Image and Visualization APIs
Data as JSON, GeoJSON and NetCDF, saved bundles rendered to images and video, and our layers in your own Mapbox, MapLibre or React Native map. Each has a free monthly tier.
Team seats and a shared library
Commercial licenses cover every device your team uses, with one shared library of bundles and workflows.
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Your data on the map
Customer locations and proprietary datasets as private layers, plus custom integrations.
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University site licenses
Professional and Creator features on every device for meteorology departments, at a discount.
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