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Weather is one of the significant factors that directly affects our well-being and mood. Good, sunny weather makes us happy and positive, bad weather leads to apathy, melancholy and depression. Trying to predict the weather for the near future, we turn to the help of various network services available online and completely free of charge. In this article, I will talk about services that display an online precipitation map, describe their capabilities, and also explain how to work with them.

Features of services with weather forecasting maps

Today, there are a sufficient number of sites that provide users with access to a real-time precipitation map. Such services are presented both in the Russian-language segment (for example, Yandex weather map), and on foreign, mainly English-language resources (Meteoblue, WeatherOnline, Gismeteo, etc.).

The vast majority of them have a Russian-language interface, and when you switch to them, the Russian language is automatically activated. All of them are free and have an intuitive interface. The most advanced of them invite the user to take part in the project by joining the community and purchasing special equipment.

These sites are quite easy to use. You go to the resource, turn on the desired type of display (for example, precipitation, temperature, wind, humidity, etc.). Next, use the search (or mouse) to find the region you need and observe the result.

Let's look at resources that offer real-time services to their users.

Meteoblue.com – displays real-time precipitation maps

The online service Meteoblue.com offers users high quality weather information. It is aimed primarily at weather-dependent business structures and specialists working in meteorology. The project was created by the University of Basel back in 2006. It has gone through several stages of its development, and now offers precipitation forecasts based on the operation of NOAA/NCEP GFS models.

1. To work with the resource, go to meteoblue.com.
2. Select the country and display type (precipitation).
3. After which you will be able to observe on the map how precipitation changes with each subsequent hour.
4. The menu on the left will allow you to see the current weather. As well as a forecast for the future, view meteograms and enjoy online webcams.

Windy.com – shows online the number of thunderstorms on a map

Windy.com is one of the successful projects of Czech millionaire and philanthropist Ivo Lukakovic. He developed an online map to track rain and snow as home entertainment. Over the years, the service acquired a professional status, was replenished with strong programmers, and received a mobile implementation on Android and iOS. Currently one of the most popular weather resources in the world.

1. To work with the service, log in to windy.com;
2. On the right, activate the “Rain, thunderstorm” option;
3. In the “location search” line, enter the name of the country (city) whose weather you need to know.

Other weather options are also available on the map - displaying temperature, clouds, waves, wind, dew point et cetera.

Precipitation intensity level on windy.com

Ventusky – popular Czech weather service

Czech service Ventusky (from Latin “ventu” - “wind” and English “sky” - “sky”) is a worthy national competitor to the above-mentioned Windy.com. The Ventusky project was created by the Czech company InMeteo, which specializes in creating online meteorological forecasts around the world. The weather image on the map is constantly changing in real time, the resource has a high-quality Russian-language interface. It also has its own mobile applications, which are available by clicking on the “App” button.

1. Launch ventusky.com.
2. On the left, select the “Precipitation” (or “Thunderstorms”) option and use the mouse (or search bar) to find the area you are looking for.
3. In this case, selecting the “Precipitation” option allows you to view the forecast of precipitation accumulation for an hour or three hours.
4. And activating the “Thunderstorms” option will allow you to select a number of corresponding indices (CAPE, CIN, wind shear, lifted index, etc.).

In addition to displaying thunderstorms and precipitation, the Ventusky map has modes for viewing humidity, waves, snow cover, wind speed and gusts, and other features.

Weatheronline.co.uk – the authoritative British weather resource

The Weatheronline.co.uk map is a UK weather resource that displays both the state of the weather and its forecast for the immediate future. The project has Russian-language localization and quite broad functionality. You can select both general continental maps and maps of individual countries, and view the dynamics of changes in precipitation using them. The resource has a database of archives with which you can see how the weather has changed over past periods.

1. To work with the resource, go to pogodaonline.ru (Russian version of Weatheronline).
2. On the left, select the desired country (county) to display, and on the right, select the display mode (precipitation).
3. The control panel at the top will allow you to read the weather news (in English).
4. You can also view archives, analyze data from radars and satellites, and enjoy images from web cameras.

Rainviewer.com – analyzes and forecasts precipitation using radar information

Created by domestic enthusiast Alexey Schastlyy, the website rainviewer.com allows you to obtain precipitation data both for the current moment and for the future. The resource periodically scans sources of radar information. Processes the information received and places the received data on the site map. You can see both the current state of precipitation in the region you need, and the future forecast, for which you just need to click on the “Play” button at the top.

Conclusion

The resources listed above display a map illustrating the different precipitation patterns online. The services are free and have a Russian-language interface. And they can be recommended to everyone who wants to receive detailed information about the weather forecast in real time.

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Below are online weather maps, animated maps of weather phenomena, maps with animation of current radar observation data, interactive maps of temperature, pressure, precipitation, cloudiness, etc. Maps with weather information displayed in real time, all atmospheric processes, or weather phenomena online. And also “weather on maps” with forecasts for tomorrow and 5 days in advance throughout Russia.

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Animated maps, animation of weather phenomena.

Animated weather forecasts for the territory of Europe and the European part of Russia for 2 days. Animation of the 48-hour forecast according to the regional model of the Hydrometeorological Center of Russia:

Video (press play) → animated maps of precipitation and pressure according to the global spectral model of the Hydrometeorological Center of Russia, forecast for three days. Animation of weather phenomena for the districts of North-West Central South and North Caucasus Volga Ural Siberian Far Eastern.

Prognostic cards.

Synoptic maps, surface forecast maps with frontal analysis.

Unlike the forecast maps presented above, these synoptic maps are more informational. The meteorological elements plotted on the map will “tell” you about cold and warm fronts, precipitation zones, centers of cyclones and anticyclones (areas of low and high atmospheric pressure), directions of their movement, atmospheric pressure, wind, all precipitation, adverse weather phenomena, etc. Lead time of surface forecast ranges from 24 to 60 hours.

Temperature forecast maps for five days.

Thunderstorm maps..

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Satellite weather, view of the Earth's surface from space.

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The most important hydrometeorological phenomena.

• ✔ 24-night February 25th. In Crimea there is heavy and very heavy rain, sleet, wind of 25-30 m/s.
• ✔ 24 February. In Bashkortostan there is snow, blizzard, wind 16-21 m/s. In the Volgograd, Rostov regions, Krasnodar region, heavy precipitation (rain, sleet), wind 15-20 m/s, in the Azov region of the Rostov region, Krasnodar region up to 23 m/s, on the Black Sea coast in the Anapa-Gelendzhik region up to 28 m/s With. In Karachay-Cherkessia, heavy rain, sleet (snow in the mountains), wind up to 20 m/s (in the mountains up to 25 m/s). In the mountains of Kabardino-Balkaria, Ingushetia, and the Chechen Republic, the wind is 20-25 m/s, in the highlands of Kabardino-Balkaria up to 27 m/s.
• ✔ February 23-24. In Komi, also in the north of the Taimyr Dolgano-Nenets municipal district of the Krasnoyarsk Territory, snow, blizzard, wind of 17-22 m/s.
• ✔ 23rd night of February 24th. In the south of the Kamchatka Territory there is heavy snow, a blizzard, and on the coast the wind is 15-20 m/s. In the south of the Kuril ridge there is snow, blizzard, wind of 25-30 m/s.
• ✔ February 23. In the Vologda region there is rain, snow, wind 16-21 m/s. In Karelia at night there is heavy precipitation (rain, sleet), wind of 15-20 m/s. There is heavy snow, sleet and blizzard in the Altai Republic.
• ✔ February 22-24. In the Nenets Autonomous Okrug there is snow, blizzard, wind 15-20 m/s, on the coast up to 27 m/s (February 22 up to 29 m/s).
• ✔ February 22-23. In the Arkhangelsk region there is rain, snow, wind 17-22 m/s.
• ✔ 22nd night of February 23rd. In the Leningrad, Pskov, Novgorod regions, rain, sleet (heavy precipitation at night on February 23) on February 22, wind up to 24 m/s. In the Primorsky Territory there is heavy precipitation, in the east the region is very heavy (snow, in the south with rain), wind on the coast is 19-24 m/s.
• ✔ February 22. In the Murmansk region there is snow, sleet, wind in the north up to 23 m/s, on the coast up to 27 m/s. There is heavy snow and sleet in the foothills of the Altai Territory. On Sakhalin there is heavy snow, blizzard, wind of 15-20 m/s.
• ✔ February 21. In the Murmansk region there is snow, blizzard, wind of 15-20 m/s (in the Nikel region up to 23 m/s, on the coast up to 25 m/s). In the southern regions in the foothills of the Eastern Sayan Mountains of the Krasnoyarsk Territory there is heavy snow. There is heavy snow in the mountains of Khakassia, wind 15-20 m/s....

They say nature has no bad weather. However, sudden rain can ruin our event, interfere with our planned trip, and prevent us from completing other planned tasks. To avoid this, we try to get a forecast of temperature and precipitation in advance in order to be fully prepared for various weather surprises. In this material I will talk about services that will show a rain map online, and also explain how to use them.

What you need to know about rainfall tracking maps

Most online services that provide a real-time rain map are international in nature, allowing us to display weather conditions (including rain) for the area we select. The vast majority of them have a Russian-language interface, which is especially convenient for domestic users.

Working with such sites is quite simple - you go to such a resource, select a display mode (in our case, “rain” or “precipitation”) and view the result by the desired geolocation. In addition to the current weather conditions, you can usually view the weather forecast for the near future (usually 7-10 days). In the last article I presented services with .

Let's look at services where you can view the rain map online.

"RainViewer" - precipitation weather radar

The RainViewer service is a popular development on the Runet by domestic enthusiast Alexey Schastlivy. The service scans sources of radar information for the presence of new radar images, processes them, and displays the results on the corresponding rain service map. This concept also boasts a mobile implementation, in the form of a corresponding application for gadgets on Android and iOS.

1. resource "RainViewer".
2. Precipitation levels are displayed in “dBZ” (decibels of reflection), demonstrating the intensity of precipitation in a particular area (can be tracked on the map by the corresponding pixel color).
3. By clicking on the "Play" button above, you can view how the weather conditions have changed over the past few hours.
4. By clicking on the “Options” button on the right, you can select the satellite map display mode (“Map Type” - “Satelite”).

"Windy" - real-time cloud map

The popular Czech service, created by Czech millionaire Ivo Lukovic, is aimed primarily at displaying wind movements in a particular geographic region. In addition to displaying wind, the service's capabilities also allow you to display cloud cover, temperature, rain and snow, waves, as well as the CAPE index. The site also allows you to get a weather forecast for the next 10 days by selecting one of the currently popular weather forecast models (NEMS, ECMWF, GFS).

If you went to windy.com, select the “Rain, Snow” mode and view the results for the geolocation you selected.

"Yandex.Weather" - online rain map of Russia

Yandex is known for its many projects in many areas of digital content. The company's weather service called Yandex.Weather can boast of displaying weather conditions for a particular geographic region of Russia. Weather forecast for the near future (up to 30 days), as well as displaying the weather on a large map, with the ability to switch between “temperature” and “precipitation” modes.

At the same time, the service information can be viewed both on a PC using a browser, and you can download a special mobile application for Android, iOS, and Windows Phone.

“Ventusky” – a multifunctional Czech weather resource

Created by the Czech company InMeteo, the Ventusky service (from the Latin “ventusky” - wind) is intended to inform users about the weather forecast for the nearest time period. The map allows you to visually display many weather indicators (temperature, precipitation, cloudiness, wind gusts, atmospheric pressure, thunderstorms, etc.), information on which is accessible to users from all over the globe. Dating back to 2006, the site is now one of the most frequently visited portals in the Czech Republic.

1. To work with the site, go to ventusky.com and select the “Precipitation” mode (the option to display precipitation for the last 3 hours is also available).
2. A special line below allows you to observe how the situation has changed over the past hours, as well as view the forecast for the next 10 days.

"Meteoearth" - a weather tool from the company "MeteoGroup"

The meteoearth.com service is a popular international weather service supported by the MeteoGroup company. The site's operation is distinguished by a high level of visual component, and the site's weather forecasts are based on the use of the ECMWF model.

1. To access the site, go to meteoearth.com.
2. Select the "Precipitation" mode on the left, and view the result for the desired area by zooming in on the map to the desired level.

Conclusion

To display the rain map online, you should use the list of services listed above. Among these options, I especially recommend the “Ventusky” service - it has earned many praises from amateurs and specialists. At the Russian level, a good choice would be to use the capabilities of Yandex.Weather - the frequency of data updates on this service is quite high.