Roadmap

Cyclonode is a personal project built on free public data. This is where it stands.

Working now

Live and in use.

  • Live NWS alerts

    Watches, warnings and advisories across 30 states, coloured to the official NWS scheme and drawn as county shapes or storm-based polygons.

  • Animated radar

    Two hours of RainViewer reflectivity with a scrubber, playback and opacity control.

  • Location forecasts

    Search any US city or county for current conditions, hourly, 7-day, 15-minute precipitation, and the alerts covering that exact point.

  • Map layer filtering

    Filter the map by hazard level, family, or one specific product.

Next

Planned, in roughly this order.

  • A smaller navigator

    The rail carries too much. The plan is five destinations and no more, weighted toward the local forecast rather than the map: Home, Today, Hourly, Tracker, and Radar & Maps. Today absorbs the multi-day outlook instead of splitting it into its own tab, which frees the fifth slot for the hurricane tracker. Settings and the roadmap move out of the main navigation and into a secondary spot, since they are visited once and then forgotten.

  • Hurricane tracker

    Active tropical systems with NHC cones, forecast tracks and per-storm pages. Seasonal, so it matters most from June through November.

  • Severe weather outlooks

    SPC convective outlooks — the day 1-3 tornado and thunderstorm risk areas.

  • River gauges

    USGS gauge levels against flood stage, for inland flooding the radar cannot show.

Considering

Wanted, but not committed to.

  • Saved locations

    Keep a few places one tap away instead of searching each time.

  • Longer precipitation outlook

    A 12-hour precipitation timeline. True forecast radar imagery is not available from any free source — radar nowcasting only reaches about 30 minutes ahead — so this would be a chart rather than a map layer.

  • Historical storms

    Look up past hurricanes and severe events by year or name.

  • Notifications

    Alerts for a saved location, which needs a service worker and push permissions.

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