Live
Black Hat USADark ReadingBlack Hat AsiaAI BusinessAI Citations: The New Backlink and How to Track Them at ScaleDEV CommunityConnecting Generative Adversarial Networks and Actor-Critic MethodsDEV CommunityLess than a year after Anthropic called out China as an 'enemy nation', 'Claude leak' sends Chinese devel - The Times of IndiaGoogle News: ClaudeSources: Sam Altman has excluded OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar from some key financial meetings; Friar began reporting to Fidji Simo instead of the CEO in August 2025 (The Information)TechmemeA 9-Million-Parameter LLM That Fits in 130 Lines of Code - Startup FortuneGoogle News: LLMAI breakthrough cuts energy use by 100x while boosting accuracy - ScienceDailyGNews AI energyMy forays into cyborgism: theory, pt. 1LessWrongBeauty, Bias, And Algorithm: AI Beauty Tools And The Amplification Of Inequality In India - Feminism in IndiaGNews AI IndiaAn Inside Look at OpenAI and Anthropic’s Finances Ahead of Their IPOs - WSJGoogle News: OpenAIAI Is a Threat to Everything the American People Hold Dear – Bernie Sanders OpEdHacker News AI TopIgnore AI FOMO – For NowHacker News AI TopBlack Hat USADark ReadingBlack Hat AsiaAI BusinessAI Citations: The New Backlink and How to Track Them at ScaleDEV CommunityConnecting Generative Adversarial Networks and Actor-Critic MethodsDEV CommunityLess than a year after Anthropic called out China as an 'enemy nation', 'Claude leak' sends Chinese devel - The Times of IndiaGoogle News: ClaudeSources: Sam Altman has excluded OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar from some key financial meetings; Friar began reporting to Fidji Simo instead of the CEO in August 2025 (The Information)TechmemeA 9-Million-Parameter LLM That Fits in 130 Lines of Code - Startup FortuneGoogle News: LLMAI breakthrough cuts energy use by 100x while boosting accuracy - ScienceDailyGNews AI energyMy forays into cyborgism: theory, pt. 1LessWrongBeauty, Bias, And Algorithm: AI Beauty Tools And The Amplification Of Inequality In India - Feminism in IndiaGNews AI IndiaAn Inside Look at OpenAI and Anthropic’s Finances Ahead of Their IPOs - WSJGoogle News: OpenAIAI Is a Threat to Everything the American People Hold Dear – Bernie Sanders OpEdHacker News AI TopIgnore AI FOMO – For NowHacker News AI Top
AI NEWS HUBbyEIGENVECTOREigenvector

The new Storm Radar app is a treasure trove of data for weather nerds

Engadgetby Nathan IngrahamApril 1, 20263 min read1 views
Source Quiz

The horrible winter of 2026 is behind us in New England; now we’ve moved on to the season where there’s a threat of rain basically every day. Given that, the updated Storm Radar app from The Weather Company (owners of the Weather Channel app) caught my eye. There are tons of good weather apps out there, and I’m the kind of nerd that likes to try them all, and Storm Radar feels pretty unique to me. The main interface is, as you’d expect, your local radar. Tapping on any point of the map calls up a detailed forecast for that exact point, with data coming via The Weather Company’s “gridded forecast on demand” (FOD) system. The default view is precipitation, but there are multiple other layers you can add including temperature, cloud cover, nearby lighting strikes, wind and so forth. There are

The horrible winter of 2026 is behind us in New England; now we’ve moved on to the season where there’s a threat of rain basically every day. Given that, the updated Storm Radar app from The Weather Company (owners of the Weather Channel app) caught my eye. There are tons of good weather apps out there, and I’m the kind of nerd that likes to try them all, and Storm Radar feels pretty unique to me.

The main interface is, as you’d expect, your local radar. Tapping on any point of the map calls up a detailed forecast for that exact point, with data coming via The Weather Company’s “gridded forecast on demand” (FOD) system. The default view is precipitation, but there are multiple other layers you can add including temperature, cloud cover, nearby lighting strikes, wind and so forth. There are also overlays for storm cells being tracked; you can tap on those and see things like the direction, speed and range of the storm.

In addition to that standard radar view, Storm Radar has just added something called high-res single site radar. As the name suggests, it pulls data specifically from a single weather station in much greater detail than the typical radar map; The Weather Company says the standard view is based on its FOD system which uses a variety of sources, including the company’s own APIs.

The single-site radar, on the other hand, includes reflectivity data, which measures the amount of energy returned to a radar receiver from precipitation. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) says reflectivity is “he most frequently used product by forecasters to indicate where precipitation and severe weather is occurring.” That's a level of specificity I find delightful.

Naturally, there’s some AI baked into the updated app as well. In my testing, it responds pretty clearly to natural language questions like “what’s the best time to go for a run.”There’s a more conversational element to the AI experience that should be rolling out in the coming weeks, as well.

Like the standard Weather Channel app, you can use Storm Radar for free, but its most advanced featuers require a premium subscription. $4 a month or $20 per year unlocks all of Storm Radar’s features; you can also get a Weather Channel Premium Pro subscription for $5 a month or $30 a year which includes Storm Radar as well as removing ads and providing more detailed data (like hourly forecasts for eight days rather than two). That pricing is about in line with what other weather apps are charging for premium features these days. So if the basic iPhone weather app isn’t cutting it, Storm Radar may be worth a look. It’s only on iOS for now, but it’ll eventually come to Android too.

Was this article helpful?

Sign in to highlight and annotate this article

AI
Ask AI about this article
Powered by Eigenvector · full article context loaded
Ready

Conversation starters

Ask anything about this article…

Daily AI Digest

Get the top 5 AI stories delivered to your inbox every morning.

More about

updateproductcompany

Knowledge Map

Knowledge Map
TopicsEntitiesSource
The new Sto…updateproductcompanyfeatureforecastnationalEngadget

Connected Articles — Knowledge Graph

This article is connected to other articles through shared AI topics and tags.

Knowledge Graph100 articles · 143 connections
Scroll to zoom · drag to pan · click to open

Discussion

Sign in to join the discussion

No comments yet — be the first to share your thoughts!