Windrose: Weather Radar & Rain

Know before the first drop. Live radar plus a plain-language rain countdown for your exact spot. Go Pro to scrub the radar into the future and read the pressure map.

See exactly where the rain is, and know before the first drop. Windrose is a live animated weather radar with a plain-language rain countdown for your exact spot - "rain in about 25 minutes, lasting around half an hour" - free for everyone.

Then go further. With Windrose Pro you scrub the radar past the present into a 3-hour rain forecast, watch weather systems turn on a full interactive pressure map, and switch the whole app into purpose-built Marine and Aviation modes.

OFFICIAL WARNINGS - ALWAYS FREE

• Official government warnings for your region, shown prominently with at-a-glance hazard badges
• Hong Kong: Observatory rainstorm (Amber/Red/Black) and typhoon signals, thunderstorm and more
• United States: National Weather Service watches & warnings
• Push alerts when a severe warning is issued, even when the app is closed
• Typhoon & cyclone arrival forecasts: the date and time a tracked storm is forecast to come closest to you Severe-weather warnings are never behind a paywall. They never will be.

FREE FOR EVERYONE

• Animated live precipitation radar with a smooth, scrubbable loop - zoom right in on the rain
• "Will the rain reach you?" countdown, with how long it's expected to last
• Current conditions, a 3-day forecast and the next 12 hours, hour by hour
• Lock Screen and Home Screen widgets, plus a rain Live Activity that counts down on your Lock Screen
• UV index with sun-protection advice, air quality, sunrise & sunset
• Your current location plus a saved place, with iCloud sync
• Supported by unobtrusive ads - one banner on the weather screen, never on the radar

WINDROSE PRO - SEE WHAT HAPPENS NEXT

• 3-hour rain forecast on the radar: play past "now" and watch where the rain is heading
• The full 6-hour rain timeline, in 15-minute steps
• Satellite cloud layers, on their own or over the radar - so the map never goes blank at night
• 16-day forecast, and 48 hours of detail hour by hour
• Unlimited saved places
• No ads, anywhere in the app

WINDROSE PRO - THE PRESSURE MAP

• A full interactive surface-pressure map: a colour-coded pressure field with crisp isobars
• Highs and lows, plus animated wind flow that streams along the isobars - brighter trails mean stronger wind
• Scrub the timeline to watch weather systems move in and out, hour by hour
• Tropical-storm tracks, forecast cones and development areas from JMA and JTWC (for awareness only)
• Tap anywhere to read the exact pressure at that spot

WINDROSE PRO - MARINE

• Wave height, swell and wind-wave breakdown with direction
• Sea state, sea-surface temperature and currents
• Wind, gusts and pressure for boating and sailing

WINDROSE PRO - AVIATION

• Decoded METARs & TAFs with colour-coded flight categories
• Search any airport worldwide, or pick from the nearest fields by distance
• Winds and temperatures aloft by altitude
• SIGMET hazards near you, plotted and decoded
• Freezing level, CAPE and a density-altitude calculator Built for general-aviation pilots without weather radar in the cockpit. For situational awareness only - always get an official briefing.

PLANS Windrose Pro removes all ads and is available monthly or yearly. The yearly plan is the best value and starts with a 1-week free trial.

Windrose automatically uses the units common in your country, and you can change any of them in Settings.

Weather data by Open-Meteo. Radar by RainViewer. Aviation data courtesy of the NOAA Aviation Weather Center. Warnings from the Hong Kong Observatory and the US National Weather Service.

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