Info on new radar page

Dangerous Surf and Rip Currents for most of the Atlantic Shoreline; Record Heat for the West

Hurricane Erin continues to track northward. Tropical storm force winds, storm surge conditions will increase for the Outer Banks today and portions of coastal Virginia. Life-threatening surf and rip currents along much of the east coast of the U.S. this week. Major to extreme HeatRisk with new record high temperatures are expected for many areas of the western U.S. this week. Read More >

New NWS Radar Page Planned To Go Live This Week

The new radar webpage (currently found at preview-radar.weather.gov) will replace the current page (radar.weather.gov) on or about Dec. 16, 2020. Through Dec. 15, the new webpage will run in parallel with the current one, in order to allow users the necessary time to transition to learning the new interactive radar webpage. We redesigned the new page to improve our radar services based on feedback we received from many of you.

Among the new features are:

GIS-based for easy integration into apps used for situational awareness

More frequent updates and at four times higher resolution

Web-based and mobile-friendly displays

Uses Multi-Radar, Multi-Sensor (MRMS) datasets on an interactive map

Ability to download data in KML format

Contains several map layers that are Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) compliant

Ability to overlay long-fused (e.g. winter weather) and short-fused (e.g. severe weather) watches, warnings and advisories

Inclusion of several high-resolution radar product types

The customized display can be bookmarked for use. As such, there would be no specific web pages for each individual radar.

We have created a shortcut centered for the area. It is available Here

Other usefull resources: