Sensecast: Weather & Radar

Most weather apps show a number. Sensecast shows you why it feels that way — with live Doppler radar, 18 forecast sources, U.S. power-outage tracking, and earthquake, wildfire, hurricane, and tornado trackers in one fast, private app. No account. Now in Spanish — the app follows your device language.

⛈️ INTERACTIVE DOPPLER WEATHER RADAR
• Scrub the past 2 hours of radar, plus about an hour of nowcast ahead
• 4 rain color schemes: Universal Blue, Classic NEXRAD, Dark Sky, Titan
• Dark, light, or satellite map backgrounds, cached on your device

🌐 18 FORECAST SOURCES & SUPERCOMPUTER MODELS
• 15 forecast sources free — NOAA, MET Norway, DWD, UK Met Office, Environment Canada, Météo-France, JMA, CMA and more
• Smart routing uses your country's own weather service where it has a live feed
• Pro: ECMWF IFS 9 km, NOAA HRRR 3 km, DWD ICON supercomputer models
• Pro: Side-by-side comparison grid with consensus average and model-spread chips

🚨 NATURAL HAZARD TRACKERS
• Earthquake tracker: USGS magnitude 2.5+ within 500 miles, with depth and distance
• Wildfire tracker: NASA FIRMS fire detections within 150 miles, ranked by Fire Radiative Power
• Hurricane & cyclone tracker: live GDACS positions and forecast tracks across every ocean basin
• Tornado tracker (U.S.): SPC storm reports within 150 miles and Day 1 tornado outlook
• Background alerts for nearby earthquakes (M4.0+) and wildfires

⚡ LIVE GRID GUARD — POWER OUTAGES
• U.S. county-level outage counts from the Department of Energy's ODIN feed (participating utilities)
• Weather risk index for power lines: wind gusts, ice, thunderstorms, extreme heat or cold, NWS warnings
• Local utility hotlines and outage-map links, plus a blackout preparedness guide
• Pro: Grid Guard storm and outage alerts

🌡️ FEELS-LIKE & CONDITIONS
• Apparent temperature: whether humidity (Heat Index) or wind (Wind Chill) is driving the difference
• Dew point comfort scale, UV index, humidity, barometric pressure trend, and a wind compass with Beaufort scale
• Air Quality Index (PM2.5, PM10, ozone): EPA AirNow data in the U.S., global estimates elsewhere

🎓 WEATHER ACADEMY
• A searchable 20-topic glossary. Tap the (i) on any metric to learn the science behind it — dew point, barometric pressure, UV, AQI

📲 WIDGETS & STATUS BAR
• Home-screen weather widgets in small, medium, and large sizes, plus power-outage and tornado widgets
• A live temperature readout in the Android status bar
• An ongoing weather notification that matches the in-app Live Preview. Pro: Hourly and Daily Forecast layouts

🎨 APPEARANCES
• Free: Dynamic & Clean Weather Sky
• Pro: Atmosphere (photographic skies for each condition and time of day, with animated overlays), OLED Stealth (true #000000), and Custom Photo (your photo stays on the device)
• Sleet, hail, and haze have dedicated looks, icons, and motion

🔒 PRIVATE BY DESIGN
• No account, no ads, and no third-party tracking or analytics SDKs
• Your location goes to weather and hazard services — never to an ad network

SENSECAST PRO
• Monthly $2.99, Annual $23.99 with a 3-day free trial, or a one-time $99.99 Lifetime purchase
• ECMWF, HRRR, and ICON supercomputer models and the multi-model comparison grid
• Grid Guard, barometric-pressure, and air-quality alerts
• Storm verification reports
• Hourly and Daily notification layouts and custom status-bar metrics
• Atmosphere skies, OLED Stealth (#000000), and Custom Photo backgrounds
• Alternate app icons
• Radar, hazard trackers, severe-weather and disaster alerts, and the Weather Academy stay free for everyone*

Weather radar, multi-model forecasts, power-outage tracking, and earthquake, wildfire, and hurricane trackers — Sensecast explains what the numbers mean.

* Pricing and features in the "Pro category" are subject to change as the app matures

Recent changes:
Sensecast v1.1.0

• Location pills read "City, ST" — compact state abbreviations end the long-name cutoff
• Tracker cards go Pro: aurora, hurricane, earthquake, wildfire, tides & models lock behind a blurred preview — tornado stays free
• Onboarding's finale: celebration badge, self-ticking checklist, gradient launch button
• And more bug fixes and updates