Backyard Rain: Rain Totals

Stone Lake Application Development

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About this app

How much rain fell at your house? Not at the airport twenty miles away, but at your address.

Backyard Rain reads NOAA's Multi-Radar Multi-Sensor rainfall analysis (MRMS) for the roughly 1 km grid cell at your address. MRMS blends weather radar with rain-gauge reports across the lower 48 states and is published every hour.

FREE
• Rain in the last 24 hours.
• Rain yesterday (your local calendar day).
• One saved place: type a street address or a ZIP code.

PREMIUM (ONE-TIME PURCHASE)
• Today so far.
• The past 7 days.
• "Do I need to water?": the past week's rain plus the National Weather Service 3-day forecast, compared with the inch a week most lawns need.
• Up to 5 places: home, the garden, the farm, the lake house.

GOOD TO KNOW
• Totals are estimates from radar and gauges, not a reading from a gauge in your yard. They can differ, especially under thunderstorms.
• Recent hours start as "preliminary" and firm up within a few hours as more gauge reports arrive.
• Lower 48 states only (NOAA's analysis does not cover Alaska, Hawaii, or territories in this product).

PRIVATE BY DESIGN
No GPS permission, no accounts, no ads. Your address is looked up once with the U.S. Census geocoder, and only rounded coordinates are kept, on your phone. We run no server and never receive your location.

What’s new

First release: how much rain fell at your address, from NOAA radar and rain gauges.