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 colours, 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, alerts and radar are the National Weather Service's own, taken straight from api.weather.gov and radar.weather.gov. 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 Open-Meteo historical archive. Sunrise, sunset and moon phase are computed on your device.
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.
Your location and your privacy
Your saved location and theme choice live in your browser's storage on your device only. They are never sent to any server we control, and there is nothing to sign up for. Plainly, here is what does leave your device:
- A ZIP or city you type IS sent to our shared geocoding service (backed by the Census Bureau geocoder) to be turned into map coordinates. It is used for that lookup and is not tied to you.
- Those coordinates ARE sent to the federal weather endpoints listed above to fetch your forecast, observations, radar station, and alerts.
- If you use the "Use my location" button, your device's coordinates are used the same way. The site never asks for your location on its own.
There is no analytics script on this page beyond Cloudflare's page-level counts for the domain, which involve no cookies and no cross-site tracking.