alt.hn

2/22/2026 at 3:12:15 PM

Xweather Live – Interactive global vector weather map

 https://live.xweather.com/

by unstyledcontent

2/22/2026 at 3:59:32 PM

Similar sites:

https://www.ventusky.com

https://www.windy.com/

https://fmhy.pages.dev/misc#climate-weather

by throawayonthe

2/22/2026 at 4:17:58 PM

Never heard of freemediaheckyeah, I love it. I will have to add ours to the list. One thing that makes us different is we have a LOT more data in one app. If you explore all the layers, you can see tropical cyclone/hurricane data, lightning strikes, hail, renewable energy, and wildfire data. You have to change the focus (top left corner) to see the other collections of layers.

by unstyledcontent

2/22/2026 at 5:00:42 PM

https://earth.nullschool.net

by rhyperior

2/22/2026 at 8:26:32 PM

This is admittedly quite niche (as I work on a balloon experiment) but I really appreciate how the nullschool map shows the 10 mbar level (5-7 would be even better if course)

by cozzyd

2/22/2026 at 4:00:13 PM

It is really cool. I don't think I've seen a weather app like it. Works great on Chrome + desktop. Great job. One small feature idea is showing the most hot and cold places at any one time. I love it!

by jeremyperson

2/22/2026 at 10:18:39 PM

Yea, and once you zoom out - being able to intuitively see the temperature all around the planet just creates this sense of appreciation for where we are. On top of it, one can't help but notice that we are floating nowhere in particular in this infinite and eternal universe ...

by srid

2/22/2026 at 3:12:15 PM

Xweather Live is an ad-free vector weather map built to showcase our weather APIs. It's a fun app with lots of data layers and features.

Feedback welcome!

by unstyledcontent

2/22/2026 at 4:04:02 PM

Thanks. Mainly commenting to bookmark this for an aviation project I’m working on. Let me know if there’s anything that differentiates you - particularly for aviation. Thanks.

by mmaunder

2/22/2026 at 7:03:45 PM

Out of curiosity, how long did this take to write and what AI stack did you use?

by thefourthchime

2/22/2026 at 4:30:09 PM

Very cool site! Would you know of any similar maps that explore climate zones or micro climates?

by wing-_-nuts

2/22/2026 at 4:37:13 PM

Thanks. There are quite a few cool projects out there. Someone just shared a link to a collection of free weather maps: https://fmhy.pages.dev/misc#climate-weather

In the future we will also be merging another project into this app which is a collection of data from personal weather stations across the country. That data is really cool because it can fill in coverage gap. https://www.pwsweather.com/map/?ob=temps

by unstyledcontent

2/22/2026 at 5:03:10 PM

> In the future we will also be merging another project into this app which is a collection of data from personal weather stations across the country. That data is really cool because it can fill in coverage gap. https://www.pwsweather.com/map/?ob=temps

I have four stations uploading there - looking forward to see the result!

by mlfreeman

2/22/2026 at 11:23:14 PM

I love how you can scob the timeline and the weather updates as you move it, in real time. It's the biggest thing I don't like about Windy, it's so slow/laggy when changing the timeline. (Maybe it's better if you live in the US, but here in NZ, it's pain)

by sysworld

2/22/2026 at 10:16:23 PM

I've worked a lot with weather data in the past (and I still am), and I have to appreciate all the work that went into this. Weather model data is notoriously messy with many different formats and standards, and then I'm not even talking about radar data, etc. Probably when you've got this all abstracted away behind an API it is easier to build such a powerful application as this.

by tcumulus

2/22/2026 at 6:02:34 PM

Beautiful, brings back memories of Dark Sky & forecast.io

by 1bpp

2/22/2026 at 10:48:53 PM

This is awesome and very fast especially given all the data displayed!

by costco

2/22/2026 at 7:46:47 PM

Cool idea, but this took about 15 seconds to load for me and then lagged very hard, especially while zooming. So I wasn't able to use it very much before getting frustrated enough to exit the page.

by andai

2/22/2026 at 11:19:58 PM

Daamn, was smooth as butter on my M2 Macbook

by sysworld

2/23/2026 at 2:30:58 AM

Hmm, it was smooth on my relatively ancient Pixel 3 (running LineageOS 22.2) on Brave browser

by kQq9oHeAz6wLLS

2/22/2026 at 4:04:36 PM

Animating global weather patterns is super cool. It’s wild to see everything move around and ebb and flow. Neat site!

by cr125rider

2/22/2026 at 6:45:19 PM

A PWA for mobile would be most welcome

by gdevenyi

2/22/2026 at 7:28:15 PM

I love PWAs these days. They’re very polished now. A few of my projects I’m going that direction.

Second this.

by cr125rider

2/22/2026 at 9:45:29 PM

Sorry if this sounds harsh but this looks similar to commercial weather services in terms of the types of layers. How does this actually work?

Did you manage to track down their other services’ providers and negotiate access?

by BobbyTables2

2/22/2026 at 9:54:58 PM

They can just use the free government services. Most of the 3rd party services just wrap the various government services behind an API.

by Onavo

2/22/2026 at 5:22:33 PM

Can someone explain how wind can spiral in to a point? Where does the air "go"? Or does this create a higher pressure?

by hrldcpr

2/22/2026 at 6:28:52 PM

If it’s showing surface winds, it goes up. On windy.com there’s an altitude slider that lets you choose which wind level you’re looking at. Haven’t found that yet here.

by pulvinar

2/23/2026 at 2:57:47 PM

Oh thanks that altitude slider is very interesting. Makes me want to see a 3d visualization.

by hrldcpr

2/22/2026 at 3:50:33 PM

It looks really cool, but all the numbers jiggle around when I pan the map on my phone (Android, Chrome)

by hahn-kev

2/22/2026 at 4:06:03 PM

Neat. Overlay city labels are doubled-up over map tile city labels?

by xnx

2/22/2026 at 5:17:46 PM

really cool, but the search field doesn't update the map after I type in a new location. (safari Version 26.3 (21623.2.7.11.6))

by clamchowderz

2/22/2026 at 5:28:38 PM

Thanks for catching that, and including browser details.

by unstyledcontent

2/23/2026 at 1:45:13 AM

Very cool concept and worked really well

by chocolate-doge

2/22/2026 at 7:09:26 PM

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by ahaucnx