meteocool rain radar

Jeremias Wiedmann

About this app

meteocool is a rain radar for Europe. A new radar image arrives every five minutes, and the app shows you where the rain and thunderstorms are heading.

RADAR AND FORECAST
• Radar images every five minutes from 16 European countries, on one map. Lightning and weather models work worldwide.
• A forecast for the next two hours, as an animation on the map
• A rain forecast for your location for the next seven days that compares several weather models
• Lightning from the last ten minutes (Blitzortung.org) and mesocyclones

RAIN ALERTS
• A notification before it rains where you are, whether rain, showers or hail. You choose how heavy and how early.

STORM CELLS
• Thunderstorm cells are detected and followed from scan to scan
• For each cell: its track, a forecast of where it is heading, and readings such as reflectivity, echo top, VIL and gusts
• Storms in 3D: the radar scans add up to a 3D picture you can rotate, tilt and cut open

ALSO
• Dark mode and several radar colour maps, including two for colour vision deficiency
• Base maps including OpenStreetMap and CyclOSM
• Free and open source under AGPL-3.0, no ads: github.com/meteocool/android

Radar data from the national weather services, including DWD. Lightning: Blitzortung.org.

Questions, ideas or bugs? Open an issue on GitHub: github.com/meteocool/android/issues

What’s new

meteocool 4.0, rebuilt from the ground up:
• New map with radar for more countries, storm cells in 3D, lightning and model forecasts
• Location button: show your position, or follow it as you move
• New settings: base map (incl. match system), colour maps, data sources and licences
• New three-page welcome; now also in French, Italian, Polish and Czech
• Works on Android 16; the F-Droid build contains no Google code