FrankWeather — Live Radar

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About this app

FrankWeather is a live radar and severe-weather workstation — the same full-featured app as the Windows desktop version, available to everyone. No ads, no accounts, no tracking.

RADAR LIKE A WEATHER DESK
• Native single-site NEXRAD radar decoded from raw Level III data — exact measured dBZ, velocity, and dual-pol correlation under your finger, four elevation tilts
• Animated radar loop with short-term nowcast, super-res Live HD mosaic, MRMS composite, base velocity, radar archive time machine, and HRRR "future radar"
• GOES satellite (true color + infrared), live lightning with strike trends

SEVERE WEATHER, TAKEN SERIOUSLY
• Watches and warnings drawn as coverage-true polygons, nationwide
• Storm-cell tracks with arrival-time estimates for your saved places
• SPC outlooks, mesoscale discussions, and your location's categorical risk
• Take-cover alarm with distinct tones per hazard, spoken warnings, and Storm Mode — a full-screen countdown + shelter checklist when a warning covers home
• Tropical outlooks and hurricane tracking, wildfire/quake/drought hazard layers

FORECASTS WITH HONEST UNCERTAINTY
• Hour-by-hour and 10-day forecasts (GFS + ECMWF), model-confidence comparison
• Atmosphere profile (sounding-lite), records for this day, sun & moon, air quality, space weather, river gauges

BUILT FOR SAFETY
• All features are included — weather safety shouldn't sit behind a paywall
• Your locations stay on your device; there is no account and no tracking

FrankWeather is not an official emergency-alert source. For life-threatening weather, rely on the National Weather Service, NOAA Weather Radio, and local alerts.

Data: NWS/NOAA, SPC, NHC, RainViewer, NASA GIBS, Open-Meteo, Blitzortung, USGS, OpenStreetMap.

What’s new

A more personal first start with your location permission, saved-place preservation, and a welcome screen that appears once. Find settings faster with categories and search. See your place clearly above radar overlays. Improved weather freshness handling, alert sound choices, and direct donation access. Background cloud notifications are not included in this update.