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• You now get one notification per weather event. You're notified again only if it becomes more dangerous or a warning or watch is extended. Settings > How alerts are sent explains how it works. • The app tells you when a newer version is available. • Radar, satellite, lightning and Storm Center refresh on their own. • Watches are no longer labeled as warnings. • The most serious alert is listed first, in the app and in widgets. • Current conditions skip weather stations that have stopped reporting. • Alerts follow your location when you travel. • Climate records say whether they're from today or yesterday. • Sunrise and sunset times are more accurate. • The rain chance on forecast icons matches the forecast text. • Dragging the map tools panel up and down works better. • Widgets retry within minutes after a failed update. • The Details screen loads faster. • Fixes for UV readings in other time zones, quiet hours starting at midnight, Storm Center products that fail to load, and coastal flood and extreme heat alert colors. • Clearer wording throughout the app.
NOAA Weather Radar: Unofficial shows you the forecasts, radar and alerts the National Weather Service issues. That includes live NEXRAD Doppler radar, watches and warnings for your area, and the Area Forecast Discussion your local NWS office writes twice a day. No ads, no account, no tracking. Free. HIGHLIGHTS • The full Area Forecast Discussion from your NWS office • Radar loops up to 3 hours long • Lightning, hurricane tracks and winter storm severity from NOAA • Climate records for your city, going back to the 1800s in many places • 12 NWS text products and SPC storm outlooks in one Storm Center SEVERE WEATHER ALERTS • Push notifications when the NWS issues a warning, watch or advisory for your area: tornado, severe thunderstorm, flash flood, winter storm, hurricane, heat and more • One notification per event. You're notified again only if it becomes more dangerous or a warning or watch is extended. • Set your own minimum severity and quiet hours • Alerts for your saved location and, if you allow location access, for where you are now LIVE DOPPLER RADAR • NOAA RIDGE2 NEXRAD radar • Base Reflectivity, Storm Layer, Storm Tops and Precipitation Type, which shows rain, snow and mixed precipitation separately • 1, 2 or 3-hour loops with ½× to 4× playback, a timeline you can drag, and warning outlines on the map LIGHTNING • NOAA lightning strike density in 15-minute frames, from U.S. and global detection networks • A separate lightning loop HURRICANES & TROPICAL STORMS • National Hurricane Center forecast cones, forecast tracks and past tracks • Hurricane and tropical storm watches and warnings along the coast • Category, wind speed, pressure and movement for each active storm • NHC's 7-day outlook for areas where new storms may form WINTER STORMS • Expected snow and ice for each of the next 7 days • WPC's Winter Storm Severity Index, which rates how disruptive a storm will be and whether snow, ice or wind is the main threat • Chances 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 products, flood outlooks and more, as your NWS office issued them FORECAST & CONDITIONS • 7-day NWS forecast, hourly forecast and current conditions • NOAA's 6–10 and 8–14 day outlooks: the chance of warmer, cooler, wetter or drier than normal • A 14-day outlook, labeled as computer model output rather than an NWS forecast • Air quality from EPA AirNow SATELLITE • Animated GOES-East GeoColor, Infrared, Visible, Air Mass, Dust and Fire Temperature imagery, including smoke and wildfire hot spots CLIMATE & RECORDS • Today's temperatures compared with the 1991–2020 normal and the record, with the year it was set • Rain and snow totals for the month, year and season, compared with 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 get your forecast and alerts. It is never sold or shared for advertising. WHO IT'S FOR Storm spotters and chasers, weather hobbyists, farmers, boaters, and anyone who wants to know why the forecast changed. DISCLAIMER This is an independent app. It is not affiliated with, created by or endorsed by NOAA, the National Weather Service or any U.S. government agency.