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Can you recommend a simple world weather map that shows weather fronts and upcoming lightning?
I enjoy a few weather tools. For example, I enjoy
blitzortung that shows live lightning. Currently, you can see a long chain of lighting through eastern Germany and up through Denmark, Sweden and Norway.
This is expected, since we’ve had very warm weather for a while, and it’s supposed to change to colder weather soon.
But is there a good website that can show me easily the weather front that is currently creating all those lightning strikes? The sites I know only shows vague colors and you can perhaps implicitly see some change in pressure, wind, temperature etc, but nothing that clearly shows an east front where for example you would expect lightning soon.
One of the issues I have with weather websites is that over the years they either sell out or just get bloated and slower.
Windy is a current favorite because it loads so fast and gives me a quick glimpse when I am at the desktop.
I like this one. Lots of layers and I appreciate the openstreetmap integration in particular.
This is probably pretty much what I had hoped for, I actually thought it had to be simpler to be useful, but here I get both the overview AND the information. Thanks!
Windy is my current favorite. Nothing else I've used can be so easy and yet deeply configurable with multiple data sources. The UX is just fantastic.
Not sure if you'll find what you are looking for here: LightningMaps, but it has quite a lot of settings such as clouds and rain coverage, etc.
This might be what you're already using, but you can get a feel for the colliding fronts with earth.nullschool.net using these settings: Wind animation, surface and temperature overlay.
(Not sure how this will appear on mobile.)
This was great, I love watching nullschool to follow hurricanes etc, but never knew I’d get such a good view of a weather front through it. Thanks!
It's not a website, but I use this app in conjunction with other weather apps to get a better idea of forecasts - https://www.flowx.io/
Theres one by the Deutscher Wetterdienst, the german weather agency that is quite handy for Europe https://www.dwd.de/DE/wetter/warnungen/warnWetter_node.html
for rainradar specifically i use https://www.wetteronline.de/regenradar/berlin-bundesland
I like MyRadar for Android. Real-time weather radar, and it shows which areas have official weather alerts and what they are.