StormNet is our new severe weather forecast system that produces real-time, high-resolution forecasts for lightning, hail, damaging thunderstorm winds, and tornadoes.

The model ingests 125 million weather data points and updates every 2 minutes to provide hourly forecasts for the next 7 days.

Super-Res Radar is the highest-resolution radar data available from 159 stations across the continental United States.

Each radar station updates every 3-4 minutes and measures the intensity of precipitation based on how much energy the radar signal receives back from objects in the atmosphere, like raindrops or snowflakes.

Combined, Super-Res Radar + StormNet provides a first-of-its-kind, multiple-component AI severe weather forecast system for the United States.

There was an incredible amount of work involved to transition a technology like this from research to real-time, reliable operations, and our team is proud to bring this technology to the public.

Currently only available in the OpenSnow iOS app and website (OpenSnow.com).

Android is in development and will be available in the future.

Getting Started

1. Tap the "Maps" tab.
2. Tap the overlay button.
3. Tap "Super-Res Radar + StormNet".
4. Play or scrub the bottom slider.

Maps

• View color-coded maps for lightning, hail, damaging thunderstorm wind, or tornado probability, extending from near real-time up to 7 days in the future.

Layers

• Radar: The highest-resolution radar available for the United States from each radar station.
• Radar + Risk: The high-res radar, alongside StormNet risk probabilities for the next 4 hours.
• Risk Forecast: The StormNet risk probabilities from real-time to 7 days into the future.

Risk

• Lightning
• Hail
• Damaging Winds
• Tornado

Super-Res Radar

• Choose a radar site and the type of radar data.
• Radar sites will be automatically selected when you move around the map.

Additional Details

Please review this detailed FAQ to learn more about StormNet, including why we created StormNet, the origin story, accuracy metrics, how it compares to legacy forecast models, and much more.

View → StormNet FAQ

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Questions? Send an email to [email protected] and we'll respond within 24 hours.

Joel Gratz
Founding Meteorologist & CEO