About - GoCheckMyWeather

GoCheckMyWeather brings the National Weather Service's own products together in one place: live radar, hourly and seven day forecasts, active watches and warnings, hurricane tracking, severe storm outlooks, tides, and river flooding. Alert text appears exactly as the Weather Service issued it.

What you can check here

The home board: current conditions with today against the historical record, a scrubbable hour-by-hour strip, and the 7-day outlook.
Radar: an interactive map that layers your own NWS station's fine detail over the national mosaic, with warned areas drawn on the map and the severe storm outlook beneath.
Hurricane center: every active tropical system with the official forecast cone, track, coastal watches and warnings, live buoy readings and the full public advisory.
Alerts: every active watch, warning and advisory for your state, grouped by severity, full official text.
Coastal and rivers: tides, marine forecasts, river gauges against flood stage.
Guides: plain explanations of watches versus warnings, radar colors, severe risk categories and more.

Who runs it

GoCheckMyWeather is built and run by Go Check My Brands LLC, a South Carolina company, as part of the GoCheckMy family of sites. You can reach the desk at desk@gocheckmyweather.com.

What this site is, and is not

This site is a presentation of official United States government weather data. It is not a forecasting service: we do not model, predict, adjust, or second-guess anything. The forecasts are the National Weather Service's forecasts. Alert and advisory text renders exactly as issued, with attribution, never paraphrased.

In an emergency, your local officials outrank this site, the apps, and everyone else. Evacuation and shelter decisions belong to your county and city emergency management, and nothing here is a substitute for their instructions.

Where the data comes from

Forecasts, observations and alerts are the National Weather Service's own, taken straight from api.weather.gov. Radar is the Weather Service's NEXRAD composite: the loops come from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet and the radar map's current picture from NOAA's own map service. Tropical products come from the National Hurricane Center, severe outlooks from the Storm Prediction Center, and the record of past storms near a location from NOAA's Historical Hurricane Tracks. The "normal and record for today" line uses the station records of the Applied Climate Information System for the nearest long-record station, which the card names, with the Open-Meteo historical archive as a fallback. Sunrise, sunset and moon phase are computed on your device.

The maps are drawn from public-domain vector data we host ourselves: coastlines, state lines and the wider town set from Natural Earth, and the county boundaries and the closer town names from the US Census Bureau. There is no map tile service behind them, which is deliberate: a tile service would receive the part of the map you are looking at every time you pan or zoom.

Every card names its source and shows how fresh it is. When a feed is down the card says so rather than guessing, and a failed alert check always sends you to weather.gov, because missing data must never look like an all-clear.

The apps

The same pages come as an app for iPhone and for Android, with the alerts for your place as notifications and, on iPhone, a home screen widget.

Your data