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Important disclaimer
US Weather Globe is provided for general information and exploration only. It is not for the protection of life or property and must not be used as your primary source for emergency weather decisions.
- Weather data on the map refreshes about once per minute and may lag behind actual conditions.
- Radar and satellite products are typically several minutes behind real time.
- Basemap satellite imagery is a static photo mosaic and may be months or years old in some locations.
- NWS alert polygons cover official warning areas; your exact address may fall inside, outside, or on the edge of a zone.
- Wildfire layers show active incidents from public feeds and may not include every fire.
- Browser notifications (if enabled) can be blocked, delayed, or missed entirely.
- An internet connection is required. Service availability is best-effort with no uptime guarantee.
For immediate life-safety warnings, use a NOAA Weather Radio receiver, Wireless Emergency Alerts on your phone, trusted local media, and weather.gov. Call 911 for emergencies.
Data sources & attribution
This site aggregates publicly available weather and map data, including:
- NOAA / NWS — active alerts, forecasts, MRMS radar, and related WMS layers via NOAA OpenGeo and related services
- NOAA nowCOAST — GOES cloud imagery (optional layer)
- NIFC WFIGS — active wildfire perimeters (filtered by minimum acreage)
- Esri World Imagery — satellite/aerial basemap (NASA GIBS Blue Marble as fallback)
- Esri — place names and reference overlay
- Natural Earth — country and US state boundary lines
- Cesium — 3D globe rendering
Satellite imagery loads in your browser from Esri and NASA (internet required). Weather data is fetched from this site’s API backend, which caches upstream NOAA/NWS responses.
Trademarks
National Weather Service, NOAA, and related names and logos are used for descriptive attribution. NOAA Weather Radio All Hazards is a registered trademark of the National Weather Service, used here only to describe the type of public weather information available from official sources.
Esri, Cesium, Maxar, and other provider names are trademarks of their respective owners. US Weather Globe is a TekTinkers project and is not endorsed by NOAA, NWS, or Esri.
Privacy
Saved locations, alert preferences, and similar settings are stored locally in your
browser (localStorage) and are not uploaded to this server unless you
use features that require a network request (for example, geocoding or forecast lookup).
If you enable browser notifications, alert checks run in your browser and use NWS data for locations you choose. Standard web server access logs may apply at the hosting level.
Weather radio towers
Purple tower icons on the map represent online NOAA weather radio streams curated from public sources. Click a tower to listen. Streams may be delayed and are not for the protection of life or property.
Contact
US Weather Globe is part of TekTinkers.com. For questions or feedback about this map, visit tektinkers.com or the TekTinkers network portal at tektinkers.net.