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S: Save the map you're looking at as a JPEG (to your Downloads folder)
S + →: Hold S and step with ← → to save those frames as a GIF
← →: Previous / next hour or frame (or drag the tree along the time bar)
M V: Select the map or variable menu, then ↑ ↓ to change it, or type a shortcut below. On the Wildfire map, V opens its Layers
T: Select how much time the satellite or radar loop covers, then ↑ ↓ to change it
Space: Pause or play the satellite or radar loop (or drag its slider)
H: Hide or show the menu bar (or click the tree)
I: Open or close this info page (Esc also closes it)
Esc: Close an open list, a map popup, or a town's forecast
D: Switch 3D on or off (or the 3D button by the map's top-right switch)
Ctrl + drag: In 3D, tilt and turn the map (or drag with the mouse wheel pressed; two fingers on a phone)
/: Jump to the place search

Shortcuts: type the keys in order to jump straight to one.

Maps

Town Forecasts

NBM is NOAA's National Blend of Models: about 30 forecast models blended and corrected against years of real weather. It's usually the most accurate for a town, so it's the first tab.

Its rain chance is a true chance: 30% means rain about 3 times in 10 days like it. The ECMWF, GFS and RRFS and GFS tabs show each model on its own, and their rain chance is how much of the area around the town that model gives rain.

Using These Maps

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Important

Weather alerts here come straight from the National Weather Service and refresh every minute, but a website can lag or fail to load. Don't rely on this site alone when lives or property are at stake: get alerts from official sources (weather.gov, the emergency alerts on your phone, NOAA Weather Radio) and follow local officials.

Forecasts, observations and river data are shown as received and may contain errors. Everything is provided as is, with no warranty.

Data Sources

Alerts, radar, lightning (GOES GLM), rivers, satellite, GFS, RRFS and the National Blend of Models: NOAA and the National Weather Service. Climate averages and records: NOAA's Regional Climate Centers (ACIS). Air quality: EPA AirNow (preliminary data). Wildfire: perimeters and incidents from NIFC, details from InciWeb, MODIS and VIIRS detections from NASA FIRMS, GOES detections from NOAA, fuel moisture from gridMET.

Temperature Normals: 1991-2020 normals from the PRISM Group at Oregon State University (accessed November 2026). Outside the lower 48, ERA5 averages from Copernicus (contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information, 2026).

Observations: the Iowa Environmental Mesonet, NOAA MADIS, California's CDEC, and county flood-warning networks. Readings that fail our quality checks are left off.

ECMWF: based on data and products of the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF), under CC BY 4.0. Modified: regridded, converted to U.S. units, and used to derive some fields. ECMWF does not accept any liability whatsoever for any error or omission in the data.

Maps and place names: © OpenStreetMap contributors, OpenMapTiles, OpenFreeMap, Mapzen terrain, and GeoNames (CC BY 4.0).

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Because narrow is the gate and difficult is the way which leads to life, and there are few who find it.”

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