ForecastSpread: Pixel Weather

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About this app

ForecastSpread turns the forecast into a living pixel-art town. Rain brings out umbrellas, snow builds a snowman, storms flash over the rooftops, and the seasons and holidays change the scenery. Underneath the art is a serious forecast: up to 17 weather models compared side by side, so you can see when they agree and when they don't.

THE TOWN
• Hand-made pixel scenes for clear skies, fog, rain, storms, snow, hail, dust and smoke, by day and night
• Seasonal trees and holiday dressing through the year

THE FORECAST
• Hour-by-hour and daily forecasts with a spread bar that shows how much the models agree
• Track this day: follow a trip, game or wedding and get told when its forecast changes
• Outdoor Windows: find the best stretches of the week for what you like to do
• Air quality, pollen, sunrise, sunset and moon

THE MAP
• Live radar, satellite and lightning
• Future radar and model rain maps from HRRR, GFS and ECMWF
• Temperature, wind, clouds, snow, smoke and more
• Warnings, SPC severe outlooks, WPC excessive-rain outlooks and forecaster discussions
• Hurricane cones and tracks, wildfire perimeters

FOR WEATHER NERDS (Pro+)
• Pick your own models, 16-day range, ensembles and plumes, soundings, a storm page, climate history since 1940 and model scorecards

ON YOUR PHONE
• Home-screen widgets, warning notifications that stay up while a warning lasts, and app shortcuts
• Approximate or precise location, only while the app is open; or search any town by name

No ads, no accounts, no tracking.

Free includes the town, the map with radar and warnings, and the widgets. Pro and Pro+ add more places, longer forecasts, more models and the tools for weather nerds. During the beta every tester gets Pro+ free.

Weather data by Open-Meteo.com (CC BY 4.0), NOAA and the National Weather Service, Environment and Climate Change Canada and MeteoAlarm.

What’s new

ForecastSpread for Android now has everything the iPhone app does: the Forecast with how far apart the models are, the Models tab with each model's scorecard, the Map with radar, warnings, lightning and hurricanes, notifications, home-screen widgets and more. Every tester gets Pro+. Tell us anything that looks wrong or confusing at [e-mail], subject "ForecastSpread feedback".