A game forecast
The field drawn to scale with the wind across it, gusts from HRRR, and the board's rating for the game.
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What you can make here
Outlooks, snow maps, wind maps and the Shorts that go with them, on your own page under your name. Every picture below is an example we drew. Each one has the way to make your own.
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Seven things forecasters make here
All drawn by us with the map maker's own tools. None of them is anyone's real forecast.
- Severe
A severe outlook
The SPC scale in SPC colours, painted on whole counties. Split areas, a Slight strip along the front, and a hatched area for significant severe.
- TSTM
- MRGL
- SLGT
- ENH
- SIG
- Snow
A snow map
Narrow lake-effect bands off Erie and Ontario, with 18 inches or more on the Tug Hill and next to nothing in Buffalo. The band brush draws them and stops them at the shore.
- 3-6"
- 6-10"
- 10-14"
- 14-18"
- 18"+
- Rain or wind
A rain or wind map
A corridor along the Hill Country escarpment, 8 inches or more between Kerrville and New Braunfels and an inch in Waco. Rainfall in greens, gusts in ambers to reds.
- 1-2"
- 2-4"
- 4-8"
- 8"+
- Versions
An updated forecast
Change the map when the guidance changes. Same link, followers see it was updated, and the old version stays on the page.
- v1 · 11:00 AMLandfall Panama City
- v2 · 5:00 PMTrack shifted west, Pensacola to Mobile
- Video
A Short
Your map as a 9:16 video with your name on it. Here a derecho’s gust swath grows across Iowa toward Chicago, frame by frame.
- 30-45 mph
- 45-60 mph
- 60-80 mph
- 80+ mph
- Your page
A forecaster page
Your latest forecast up top, your record below it, and a Follow button. Followers get each new forecast by email.
Make one like this - New · verification
Your forecast, checked against what fell
After the storm, reports from NWS stations and spotters are drawn on your map. Each dot is coloured on your scale and sized by how much fell, so a dot that matches its band looks like it belongs.
Verified · 2 of 2 regions with enough reports · 14 reports in all
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Or start from today's weather
Every game, town, storm, station and warning on the site opens as a forecast already filled in. Add your call and a note.
A snow day forecast
A town from the predictor: its chance of a closure for every school day ahead, the factors, and the snow in the forecast.
Make one like thisA hurricane forecast
An active storm from the tracker: NHC's position, intensity and forecast track, drawn.
Make one like thisA fishing forecast
A tide station: the next tides, the buoy, the marine forecast, and the page's read of the conditions.
Make one like thisA forecast on a warning
A National Weather Service alert: the counties drawn, the text as issued, the people under it.
Make one like thisEvery moment that is live right now is on the publish page.
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Recently published
Real forecasts on Forecaster HQ, drawn from their own regions. Each links to its page.
04 · Your turn
Start publishing Make the first one tonight.
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