Weather Geek Tools

Some of the main things weather forecasters take into consideration are satellite images and different forecast models from various meteorological agencies. Here are some of the free tools that I found weather experts use daily in their work.

  • You can choose to view any HD satellite images globally or in a specific country
  • Forecast, Model charts, Observation, Radar & Lightning
  • Great and easy to understand visualization for wind, precipitation, cloud and etc.
  • Can select any point on the map and compare the weather forecast between 3 models; ECMWF, GFS, NEMS
  • Has iOS app and customizable notification
  • This is the only one website that give you multi forecasting model graphs globally for free
  • It will suggest you to see multimodel report if the reliability is low
  • Animated precipitation map, easy to understand
  • Support 78 countries, update every 5-10 minutes
  • Has free application with ads and rain notification features
  • Typhoon information and historical database
  • Himawari satellite images
  • AMeDAS data and statistical data
  • Historical global weather observation data from SYNOP station
  • GFS / ECMWF Forecast 8 days, 6 hours interval (no historical data)

One thing that you will be amazed is that some of these tools above are actually made by only one or a few makers. They are all weather lover and want to make it easier for people to understand and have access to weather information. So why not give it a try it could be a lot easier than you think.

If I know more I’ll keep adding it here. Thanks for reading and don’t forget to use these tools before you go out.

  • Uses neural network to classify/approximate cloud types and estimate amount of rainfall
  • Grid size: 4x4 km global, Time step: 1 hourly, 3 hourly, 6 hourly, Daily, Monthly, Yearly
  • Data Period: January 2003 — Present
  • Support visualization on website and data download
  • GHCN (Global Historical Climatology Network)
  • Covers all WMO weather stations globally
  • Can filter data by country/city and dataset to download
  • Output format: PDF, CSV, Text
  • FTP download(.dly file type) at ftp://ftp.ncdc.noaa.gov/pub/data/ghcn/daily/ with readme and pdf documentation
  • Radar, Satellite observation
  • Many atmospheric data options overlay on the map
  • Global weather data visulization
  • Both present and historical data from weather station and airports (METAR)
  • Multiple features: temperature, precip, cloud cover, wind, pressure, etc.

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Software Engineer turned Climate Data Analyst

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