MyRadar is a powerful yet easy-to-use weather app that provides animated radar around your current location, allowing users to quickly check the weather. With features like customizable weather layers, hyper-local rain alerts, and real-time environmental data, MyRadar makes staying up to date with the weather simple and fast.
Live Radar & Instant Location Detection
The core of MyRadar’s functionality is its live radar, which instantly displays animated weather radar centered on your current location. With radar loop lengths of up to two hours, users can quickly get a snapshot of the weather conditions around them.
Customizable Weather Layers
MyRadar includes a variety of customizable weather and environmental layers. Some of the most notable layers include:
· Winds Layer: Offers a stunning visual representation of surface winds and winds at the jetstream level.
· Frontal Boundaries: Displays high and low-pressure systems, as well as frontal boundaries, providing deeper insights into weather patterns.
· Earthquakes Layer: Stay updated on seismic activity with real-time earthquake data, customizable by severity and time.
· Hurricane Layer: Track tropical storms and hurricanes across the globe, ensuring you never miss important weather updates.
· Aviation Layer: Provides essential aviation-related data such as AIRMETs, SIGMETs, and the ability to track flights.
· Wildfires Layer: Get the latest updates on wildfire activity around the United States.
Advanced Alerts
MyRadar stands out by offering powerful weather and environmental alerts. Users can receive real-time notifications based on severe weather events, including tornado warnings and tropical storm/hurricane alerts. The app allows full customization of these alerts, ensuring you're always informed of weather changes that matter most to you.
Advanced Rain Alerts
One of MyRadar’s most useful features is its advanced rain alerts. With a patent-pending process, MyRadar predicts hyper-local rainfall, giving you precise rain alerts up to an hour in advance, including details on intensity and duration. This feature is a game-changer for anyone who needs to know exactly when rain will arrive at their location, down to the minute.
Custom Mapping System
The app’s custom mapping system is designed for speed and accuracy. It uses your device’s GPU to render maps quickly, even when zooming and panning across the United States or around the world. The maps include pinch-to-zoom functionality for a smooth user experience, whether you're tracking storms nearby or across the globe.
Premium Features
While MyRadar offers a wealth of free features, users can upgrade to the premium version for even more capabilities. Premium features include real-time hurricane tracking, the professional radar pack, and greater radar detail, such as individual station selection, tilt angles, and additional radar products. These premium features are perfect for weather enthusiasts or anyone who needs detailed data.
Wear OS Support
MyRadar is also available for Wear OS devices, so users can access radar and current weather conditions directly from their smartwatch. This feature makes it even easier to stay updated on the go.
FAQs
1. How accurate is the rain prediction feature?
MyRadar uses a patent-pending process to predict hyper-local rainfall, offering precise rain alerts up to an hour in advance, with details about intensity and duration. This is one of the most accurate rain prediction systems available.
2. Can I track hurricanes with the free version?
Yes, the free version of MyRadar allows users to track hurricanes, but for more detailed information, such as the cone of probability and National Hurricane Center updates, users can upgrade to the premium version.
3. What is the professional radar pack?
The professional radar pack, available with the premium version, provides more detailed radar data from individual stations across the U.S., including options to change the radar tilt angle and view specific radar products, like wind velocity.
4. Does MyRadar offer any weather alerts?
Yes, MyRadar sends weather alerts for severe events like tornadoes, hurricanes, and tropical storms. You can also customize alerts based on specific criteria like location and severity.
5. Can I use MyRadar on my smartwatch?
Yes, MyRadar is compatible with Wear OS devices, offering radar and current weather information directly on your smartwatch, so you can stay informed even when you're on the move.
Version History
v8.62.0—26 May, 2025
- Possible fix for crashes on some Samsung devices.
- Fix for TV app crashing when asking for permissions.
- Fix for repeating opt-in for Android Auto.
v8.61.1—1 May, 2025
- Tooltips for the radar legend (color palette)! You can swipe your finger back and forth over the top portion of the legend to view the values for each color.
- New Per-Station products: Hydrometeor Classification and Hybrid Hydrometeor Classification.
- UK Weather Alerts (via the Met Office) on both the map (Layers->Weather Alerts->UK). Push notifications sent if you are within an alerting area.
- Fix for 10-day forecast disappearing in some cases.
- Various crash fixes.
v8.60.1—3 Apr, 2025
- Fixed crash when rendering animation to file.
- Fixed issue with warnings not displaying correctly.
