About Breeze

Breeze is a free, live weather map that works in any browser and installs on your phone like an app. It turns the same global forecast data that meteorologists use into an animated map you can explore on a flat map or a 3D globe.

What you can see

Forecast layers: wind and gusts at the surface and up to jet-stream level, temperature, rain, clouds, pressure with isobars, humidity, storm energy (CAPE), feels-like temperature, precipitation totals, snow depth, ocean waves and swell period, PM2.5, air quality (AQI) and wildfire smoke, five days ahead. Switch the map between the GFS and ECMWF models in Settings.
Radar and satellite: recent precipitation radar, plus infrared and true-colour satellite imagery.
Point forecasts: tap anywhere for an hourly forecast table and chart, rain in the next two hours, and a comparison of the GFS, ECMWF and ICON models.
Street view: zoom into any street to see 3D buildings with the current rain or snow falling between them, lit by the real sun, snow lying on the ground and, on the coast, an FFT-simulated sea matching the live wave height, period and direction, plus the nearest real measurements.
Hazards: US weather warnings, hurricane tracks and forecast cones, severe-storm outlooks, radar hail swaths and hail reports, satellite-traced smoke plumes, earthquakes, wildfires and aviation SIGMETs.

Where the data comes from

Forecast maps: NOAA Global Forecast System (GFS), via the NOAA Open Data Dissemination program (public domain), and ECMWF IFS and WAM open data (contains modified ECMWF data, CC BY 4.0).
Point forecasts, search, minute-by-minute rain and street-level sea state: Open-Meteo (CC BY 4.0).
Radar: RainViewer.
Satellite imagery: NASA Global Imagery Browse Services (GIBS).
Warnings: US National Weather Service. Hurricanes: National Hurricane Center. Storm outlook: Storm Prediction Center.
Earthquakes: US Geological Survey. Wildfires: National Interagency Fire Center. Aviation: NOAA Aviation Weather Center.
Air quality maps (PM2.5, AQI, smoke): NOAA GEFS-Aerosols via the NOAA Open Data Dissemination program. Smoke plumes: NOAA Hazard Mapping System. Hail reports: NWS local storm reports via the Iowa Environmental Mesonet; hail risk: Storm Prediction Center; radar hail swaths: NOAA MRMS (MESH) via the NOAA Open Data Dissemination program. Street-level air quality: Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service via Open-Meteo.
Live stations: airport reports (METAR) from the NOAA Aviation Weather Center; citizen sensors from Sensor.Community (Open Database License). US high-resolution radar: Iowa Environmental Mesonet / NOAA NEXRAD.

Important

Breeze shows computer forecasts and third-party data that can be late, incomplete or wrong. Don't rely on it for decisions that affect safety. Always follow official warnings and instructions from your national weather service and local authorities.