Weather Software

WEATHER DEFENDER® is a complete, at-home desktop weather software package that gives users access to the same storm-tracking capabilities that professional forecasters and meteorologists use:

Price:  -

Where To Buy:
Try Weather Software here free

(Windows 95/98/2000/NT) Digital Atmosphere is to forecasting what circular saws are to carpenters. This powerful weather forecasting software allows you to create detailed maps of real-time weather for anywhere in the world. It automatically fetches free data off the Internet to create highly detailed, customized surface and upper air charts that can be hand-analyzed. The "roaming SKEW-T" feature is unprecedented in any software program. Digital Atmosphere recognizes dozens of formats, including SYNOP, SAO, METAR, PILOT (TTAA/TTBB/PPBB), NEXRAD RCM, SD RAREP, NWS warnings, FD winds aloft, AIREP (ACARS), FOUS model output, and NESDIS satellite winds. Digital Atmosphere contains a scheduler for automatically retrieving and redisplaying maps every hour (copies can even be saved to disk). There is a fascinating climatology module that lets you display highs, lows, rainfall, etc for specific cities or plotted on your basemaps.

Price: $68.00

Where To Buy:
http://www.weathergraphics.com/da/

Outstanding   
By Tim Vasquez on 2/7/2001 from Norman, OK
I may be biased since I'm the author, but I get to review it anyway since I use Digital Atmosphere heavily for chase activities. As most experienced storm forecasters will tell you, model data is the peas & carrots of storm forecasting while actual observed data is the steak & potatoes. This software serves up a generous helping of surface maps and dozens of analysis types, allowing chasers to monitor intricate details in the storm environment as diurnal heating progresses. Surface charts on the Internet are largely filtered to some degree, but Digital Atmosphere allows you to view ALL available observations at the smallest scales. Digital Atmosphere and 1 km visible imagery makes a killer combination.

GRLevel3 is a Windows viewer for live NEXRAD Level III data from the NWS Radar Product Central Collection Dissemination Service.

Price: $79.95

Where To Buy:
GRLevelX

GRLevel2 is a Windows viewer for NEXRAD Level II archive files from NOAA's National Climatic Data Center. Base reflectivity, base velocity, storm relative velocity, and spectrum width sweeps for all radar tilts are available. High speed zooming and panning allows you to quickly focus in on the area of interest.

Price: $79.95

Where To Buy:
GRLevelX

Phenominal hi-res NEXRAD Level II display...   
By r0b01_70 on 9/4/2009 from Edmond, OK
When chasing, I use both GRLevel3 and GRLevel2 concurrently. I utilize the GPS feature in GRLevel2 to show exactly where I am, relatively close up, including detailed street maps, while using GRLevel3 to show the progression of the storm or storm line, with warnings and TVS/Meso icons.

GRLevel2 Analyst Edition is an advanced Nexrad Level II analysis application. It features a high quality volumetric display and several high resolution reflectivity-derived graphical products in addition to the standard Level II data products.

Price: $250.00

Where To Buy:
GRLevelX

Great Software   
By Anonymous on 2/22/2007 from Norman, OK USA
Whether you want to look at storms in three deminsions, or look at the derived products that help you better diagnose the severe weather... you will be happy with this incredibly powerful software. This by far, exceeds any software that you can buy personally. Not to brag, but this program exceeded my expectations and my hopes. I have tried all of the programs on this page, but none of them stand up to the incredible power of GR2Analyst Edition. It is the best...!

Absolutely Fantastic!   
By medic911 on 4/24/2008 from Springfield, MO USA
After trying nearly every product I could get my hands on, and speaking with a number of professional meterologists, I finally settled on GRLevel 2: Analyst, and I couldn't be any happier. It's a fantastic product, and well worth the money! If you cannot afford the analyst addition, then do yourself a favor and get the cheaper Level 2 or Level 3 versions. They lack the AMAZING 3D view which Analyst offers, but they are both much cheaper, and still very excellent programs. I couldn't be happier! The best software I've ever purchased!

MeteOS is a system with numerical model and 2D/3D visualization.

Price: $200.00

Where To Buy:
http://www.angelfire.com/sc/stormlab/meteos/meteos.html

StormLab turns any internet connection into a unique and comprehensive display system for National Weather Service Doppler radars. With access to over 150 radar sites across the entire US, you will have instant access to nearly 2 dozen products including reflectivity, velocity, storm relative velocity, VAD Wind Profiles, precipitation estimates, storm cell data, and MUCH more. StormLab's full-featured interface includes looping, zooming, and overlays of cities, county names, highways, mesocyclones, tornado vortex signatures, and even GPS tracking! Everything is customizable, right down to the color tables used to display the images. Setup visual and audio alarms to alert you of the most severe storms! StormLab's auto-ingest engine allows you to store radar data from interesting events while you're away, and then go back to view the data anytime!

Price:  -

Where To Buy:
http://www.interwarn.com

Best Radar program available   
By Dan Cook on 1/7/2004 from Chicago, IL USA
Storm Lab preforms flawlessly when you need it most. The download speeds for all radar products are lightining fast. A+++

Not so fast   
By Anonymous on 7/12/2004 from Washington D.C.
I don't know if download speeds have changed since Dan Cook's review, but I think the downloads speed is slow. I've seen faster.

Excellent Software   
By Anonymous on 1/4/2009 from WI
I have used this software for about 8 months or so and it has performed excellent. You can customize it any way you like and have has many radars and products running as you want. Storm tracking is amazing and the radar quality even at full screen is excellent. Both Level2 and Level3 data can be displayed at the same and with different products...Reflectivity, composite, velocity...and anything else you can think of. The Pathcast is an excellent feature which shows which towns are in the path and the setimated time before the storms get there. It has many features you can customize to how you like it. One of the most customizable programs for weather radar I have seen, audio warnings for TVS, Meso,VIL...etc can be added and changed to whatever you would like. It is an excellent product!!

Track your real-time position over any weather map SWIFTwx integrates with GPS technology to plot your current position over radar, satellite, surface maps, or any other conceivable weather product. Know where the storm is and how to intercept it. Plot the path of tornadoes and thunderstorms with SWIFTwx's exclusive StormPath warning technology, you can know what the storm is "thinking." The paths of severe storms are plotted over any weather map, indicating bearing, intensity, and velocity. Automatically download Internet weather data SWIFTwx is geared for storm chasers in pursuit of severe weather. Using pre-defined catalogs, chasers can download only the pertinent weather data without browsing through pages of irrelevant information.

Price:  -

Where To Buy:
www.swiftwx.com

Nothing Compares!   
By Matt Straub on 8/12/2002 from Wausau, WI.
With out a doubt, SWIFT WX is the BEST software I have ever used. The day I purchased it we had severe storms that produced tornadoes. I was able to get the latest radar images (and put them in animated mode), track the storms and tornadoes, and hear about warnings before they were announced on local radio and television. I recommend getting this as soon as possible!

GPS Not working?   
By Robert Gillespie on 4/8/2003 from Hugo, OK USA
I have a Garman GPS III Plus, and will not work with the new demo version. The GPS works great with Sreet Atlas on my lap-top, but when ever I click the GPS icon on Swift WX I get run time error wrong port. I want to know if it is going to work before I purchase the software.

As incredible as the storms!   
By Steve Wolf on 5/23/2003 from Springfield, VA
This is simply the greatest software out there of the sort. As for the GPS-not-working review, that sounds like a configuration issue - My Eagle works fine - Swift WX is the ultimate tool - MAKE A LINUX PORT! :)

Virtual Weather Station connects your personal computer to your weather station, displaying, plotting, and storing data for comprehensive monitoring and analysis. Includes free 30 day trial.

Price: $49.95

Where To Buy:
Ambient, LLC

Prettty but flawed   
By Anonymous on 3/19/2007 from San Diego, CA USA
This software is currently at Version 13+. While it produces pretty attractive graphics and information, the software is relatively PC resource intensive, and unstable. The software seems to be written and supported by a single individual, which is fine in the case of Weather Display. However, this Programmer is pretty unresponsive to his Users.

VWS SETUP Error   
By Anonymous on 2/15/2008 from CA USA
Just received vsw V13.01 Internet version. Will not load. Reports error 1500 and will not continue.

Outstanding software   
By Anonymous on 12/21/2008 from Bloomsburg, PA
I have been using this software for the last almost 8 years now and it has been a very outstanding program to use. It installed without problem and has been working non-stop since. The upgrades are easy to install. This is not a resources intensive program as I have run it on a wide variety of computers and has perfomed without hitch on everyone of them.

Weather Display is a full featured software that displays/graphs/logs sends to Internet/Wap (and has built in Speech and Web cam capture support), the weather data from a wide range of popular electronic weather stations.

Price:  -

Where To Buy:
http://www.weather-display.com/

Very Stable Program   
By Steve / N7XRD on 12/2/2002 from Renton,Wa. USA
I have tried many Programs the last month and this one seems to be the best I've Found! Thanks Brian

Have used it 5 years   
By Dsmweather on 9/4/2004 from Des Moines, IA
First of all , The "expert" from Oklahoma is a troll. Writes all sorts of reviews out there in never land. I have used it and have left and returned. The best and most extensive software program out there on the market. Excellent support and top forum. Definitely try the free download Very comprehensive. Just one thing avoid the trolls.

(Win Platform-All) WeatherTool is a weather observer's/forecaster's gold mine. Within the bounds of WeatherTool, you will find access to EMWIN data (w/alarm), national, regional and nexrad radar imagery, national and regional satellite imagery, surface and upper-air maps, current and forecast soundings, model guidance, and severe weather outlooks. But this is only the tip of the iceberg. By design, its footprint takes up no more than 1/5 of your desktop space. WeatherTool has 3 dynamic frames. Each frame can be loaded with a nexrad, regional or national radar product, as well as a regional or national satellite image. This enables you to keep up to 3 radar images in view while you continue working on other things at your computer. Or keep 2 radar images and an infra-red color regional satellite image. It's up to you, and it's all configurable. This program is for the serious weather observer! (current version for 800x600 resolution. Watch for 1024x768 res. and others coming very soon.)

Price: $17.00

Where To Buy:
WeatherTool

Weathertool NOT Weather Tool    
By Dave Potts on 4/9/2004 from London UK
middle america (8/4/2003) is quite right about the spyware, but has misidentified the product - I'm pretty sure he is referring to 'Weathertool', as opposed to 'Weather Tool' - that little space makes a big BIG difference. I found the former on my daughter's PC last night and spent (wait for it) 11 (count them with me) ELEVEN long hours attempting to eradicate it. CW Shredder, Adaware, Spybot S&D, Bazooka, Spyware Blaster, Spysweeper, NAV and anything else I could find to chuck at it. I'm not sure but I think it may be part of a suite of particularly stubborn bits of spyware lumped in with CoolWebSearch, MySearch and god knows what else. I'm too tired to think right now but as this was the only reference I could find to "weathertool + spyware" on Google I thought I'd stick this here for anyone caught in the same position. I'm 99% clean now but feel a bit of registry editing coming on - be interested to hear from anyone else who has had similar problems - I'm often on the Answerbank...

WeatherTool is a powerful weather observation and forecasting workstation. It is a viewer of weather images using pre- and user-programmed sources. It allows timely viewing of graphical data through easy access and greater organization of your favorite online data sources. It also allows viewing of multiple images in the same process.

Price: $39.95

Where To Buy:
WeatherTool

Real-time mapping for watches and warnings,receive weather info on cell phone or pager, configure to your liking

Price:  -

Where To Buy:
InterWarn.com

One of the best products I've used!   
By Anonymous on 5/8/2002 from NE Ohio
This program outperforms the freeware weathernode software which is no longer supported. This program is more customizable than the freeware programs currently available. This company also has a radar package that meets and beats the "pay" services, such as WeatherTAP, which I will be letting my subscription for expire this month.

spyware beware!   
By middle america on 8/4/2003 from usa
This program is spyware and is not to be trusted. God forbid you want to remove it, you may as well reprogram big blue. Invasive software, sending your information back to the net, and burying itself in your system registry, affecting system performance and stability....you are warned

Superb   
By Scott on 8/18/2003 from Boca Raton, FL
Mods should definitely ban the previous author from these boards. Nothing said is true, nor do I think the author has one iota of knowledge as to what spyware is. InterWARN has run on many of our LAN PCs since we first purchased it in mid 2000. The program hardly uses any CPU/RAM and has run for months w/o interruption (very stable). As a sysadmin, I can tell you with 100% certainty that it doesn't send a single piece of information outbound nor does it install any other software along with it. I will stand behind that statement. Great work guys and keep those updates coming! This program really does everything you want and more if real-time localized weather info is key to your business, chasing, or whatever.

Works as promised - if not better.   
By Anonymous on 8/31/2003 from Dallas, Texas
User since v1.0 (current is 3.1) and could not be happier. It works as promised and more - and I've always had tech support/customer service respond my questions/inquiries within 48 hours (often on weekends, too). When retreiving fresh data, there is a momentary system performance hit (e.g. other applications may slow on my Dell PIII 600Mhz w/640M RAM). My view, this is par for the course and similar to any other data intensive application having the need to acquire information from the Internet. As for spyware, none. I run multiple spyware, adware tools such as PestPatrol, TDS-3, The Cleaner, SpyBot Search and Destroy and Webroot Spy Sweeper - none have ever tagged InterWarn or any of its components as spyware. I also run TamoSoft CommView (a protocol analyzer/decoder) and can watch the IP traffic in/out of my LAN. I've never seen InterWarn act remotely like spyware nor have I had any system stability issues (note other "reviewer" comments).

InterWarn SpyWare   
By Vengence on 11/2/2003 from KCMO
Superb, apparently you don't know much about internet security. First of all, when you install the newer version of InterWarn, it tells you that the program will send info back to the owner to verify if the program is a fraud or not. Don't believe me? Fine. Install the program and set it up as you want. Then, go to a command prompt and type NETSTAT -A . You will see the program is trying to connect to it's owner. Block InterWarns address on all ports. Do a NETSTAT -A again. You will now see the IP addres of InterWarn with a "SYN_SENT" flag by it. Huuuum, you tell me what the hell their doing. I don't think it's spyware as a sense of making all your stuff public. However, I do think InterWarn can track you if they like. Anyway, I think the program is good. Better than all the rest I've worked with.

Bad Support   
By Anonymous on 6/11/2007 from Somewhere in OR, USA
The author of this program is arrogant and has a poor attitude. He also must be a paranoid, because he's so afraid of loosing money, the program sends user info to his server(s) to spy on users. If you have to re-install his program more than twice, it won't re-register. He then refuses to issue you a new code without re-paying. If InterWarn has a bug, it's always the user's PC or the user who's at fault....never his program's. He supposedly works for the NWS. I feel sorry for his co-workers!

The Columbia Weather Center   
By Anonymous on 8/31/2007 from Bloomsburg, PA
I have been a user of InterWarn for several years now and this has been an outstanding program with NO SPYWARE. I have uninstalled it in the past and reinstalled it with no problems. The support from the author has been very good also.

Dont piss of the author!   
By Anonymous on 9/4/2007 from Wisconsin USA
Not a bad program but the owner and author is not worth the pain he produces in the south side. He is well known for being rude and unwilling to help his customers once he has their money!

Great fro Skywarn Net Controls   
By Jason on 12/1/2007 from Wisconsin USA
This is a great package for the net control operator of your local Skywarn Amateur Radio Net. The great thing about is the speed from the time the alerts are issued to when you are getting it on screen. Some times you get the alert before it even hits your local NOAA radio station. You can also have it automatically print out certain warnings and watches, that way you have a paper record to pin and be able to quote from as necessary.

**New** The Weather Exchange is a free PC desktop application that accesses live community weather from the world's largest FREE personal weather station network. Live Weather Alerts and Warnings on your Desktop The Weather Exchange also provides up to the minute forecasts, radar, warnings, and detailed weather maps, keeping you instantly informed of any changes in the weather. Anyone with a weather station, PC and internet connection can join the thousands of homes, schools, businesses and official weather stations reporting to the Weather Exchange Network FREE.

Price:  -

Where To Buy:
www.ambientweather.com/weex1.html

provides users with real-time access to their zip codes' nearest stations supported by the AWS WeatherNet network. Once installed, you get live local weather conditions, radar, a five-day forecast, continuously updated local forecasts, immediate storm warnings and alerts, up-to-the-minute InstaCam images, local radar pictures, and weather and news links.
REQUIREMENTS: Windows 95/98/NT/2000, 32MB RAM, 20MB disk space

Price:  -

Where To Buy:
Download Here 2.5MB (Free)

Too Much Advertising   
By Anonymous on 2/11/2001 from Minneapolis, MN
WeatherBug is more graphical than other Internet-based weather agents, and does include some unique features like area weathercams. But its jam-packed with advertisements, and being programmed in Java, its a little flaky.

Interesting, but......   
By Dan Dimitroff on 4/9/2001 from Central Illinois
It seems this product can load software onto your system while you're not looking. One morning, I suddenly had Gator running on my machine. I wiped it out, then a few days later had some other software running on my machine. Too scary for words. Plus, this january during -17degree weather, WeatherBug was showing 42 degrees. Not worth the CPU cycles.

Unreliable and not worth your time!   
By Roger Hill on 8/25/2002 from Tulsa, OK
This program is a complete joke in all degrees (no pun intended!) It appears that AWS is putting SPYWARE in the WeatherBug installer, which kills your computer! The data is hardly ever accurate. This is NOT a chasing tool!! Get yourself a Davis Weather Monitor II and hook it up in your car if you want to see the temp, dew points, wind speed, etc.. DON'T WASTE YOUR TIME WITH WEATHER BUG IT'S JUNK!

ITS BOTHERSOME   
By Anonymous on 11/19/2002 from UTAH USA
THIS JUST POPPED UP ONE DAY ON MY COMPUTER, AND ITS STAUTS IS THATS ITS ALWAYS DOWNLOADING.... FOR LIKE THE PAST MONTH NOW. HOW DO I MAKE THIS STOP AND ERASE FROM THE HARDDRIVE COMPLETELY?

DONT!!!!!   
By Anonymous on 12/16/2002 from MI USA
This software is next to absolutely worthless, it uses an incredibly high amount of bandwidth(watch out 56K dialup users!)the gator spyware is a real pain to get rid of and you'll need to use a registry edit prog to remove all of it. It's nice in functionality but they'll change the skins on you giving you a difficult to read display too often. Bottom line- there's other nice weather software out there, go there instead.

new versions are excellent   
By Juan Stumofu on 9/25/2003 from washington, d.c.
a lot of the comments below are 2 years or older! new version is spyware= free- in fact, on their support page it gives you links to ad-aware and other spyware detection programs. I used this during the last hurricane and their coverage was 100 times better than anything else- sometimes 20/30 minutes ahead of my local news!

WeatherBug is NOT spyware   
By Jay Hoffman on 9/25/2003 from Gaithersburg, MD
this is Jay, customer support manager at WeatherBug. Although many of the posts about the product are over two years old, it's important to address the underlying concern. WeatherBug does not monitor, collect data or 'spy' on its user base. If a software program is implying or reporting that WeatherBug is 'spyware', it is incorrect. WeatherBug is incapable of tracking your overall web use or deciphering anything on your hard drive. WeatherBug has no functionality to determine what you were doing/where you were surfing before you opened your WeatherBug program - or where you go after using the WeatherBug. WeatherBug only sets a cookie for the zip you enter so that you don't have to retype it every time you log back on. That's it. We don't care where you surf. We're in 6000 schools, and our CEO won a Smithsonian Laureate Award for designing the software that tens of thousands of students use with our weather stations. running out of space- so questions? jay@weatherbug.com

Good for Joe Citizen, but...   
By B Cotton on 12/11/2003 from KLAF
WeatherBug is good for the average person, but people with an above-average knowledge of or interest in weather will probably find it inadequate.

Just Don't   
By Jason Castine on 5/22/2004 from Savannah, GA
I got it thinking it would just be something interesting which it was, but still a lot of trouble. Just go with something else. It's not worth your time.

Weatherbug is awesome   
By TCP on 8/16/2004 from NYC
Weatherbug is not spyware. I've been using it for 2 years and I love it. There are ads occasionally -- yes. Who else is going to pay for the sponsors if we don't buy the pro versions? They aren't intrusive and they aren't frequent... and I do not work for weatherbug, so there's my feedback.

WetSock brings weather information to your system tray next to the clock. Weather details and forecasts are only a click away.
REQUIREMENTS: Windows 95/98/NT 4.0

Price: $12.00

Where To Buy:
Download Here 1.6MB (Shareware)

Unobstrusive &Useful   
By Anonymous on 2/10/2001 from Minneapolis, MN
This application runs in the background and periodically retrieves the local weather station info, when Internet access is available. It's pretty unobtrusive, as it sits in the system tray, with an image depicting the current conditions.

Nice little program that does the job   
By Thurstan Johnston on 5/6/2003 from London, UK
Handy program which sits in your system tray, has pretty much every major city in the world, with plenty of meteorological information that you might need. Updates regularly and has an icon showing current conditions and temperature, double clicking brings up detailed data. Oh and its quite accurate too!

WinWeather 4.0 (FREE , or $19.95 Pro Version) is a shareware program that brings hourly weather reports and forecasts, satellite images (and WeatherCams!), and ski reports to your PC! With an Internet connection, you'll be able to get the latest weather and weather reports on cities all over the United States and around the world.
REQUIREMENTS: Windows 95/98/NT

Price: $19.95

Where To Buy:
Download Here 508K (Shareware)

Multiple Cities   
By Anonymous on 2/10/2001 from Minneapolis, MN
This weather agent lets you view weather info for more than one city at a time, and includes links to common weather maps, such as temp/dew, and the Unisys surface and satellite maps. Otherwise, its pretty ordinary.

IGS is no more?   
By Anonymous on 11/24/2002 from North Carolina
WinWeather Pro (which I am a paying customer) no longer works and it looks like IGS (Insanely Great Software) is no longer in existence.

IGS IS DEAD   
By Rancho Guy on 12/19/2002 from Sacramento, California
I too was registered user of WinWeather Pro and now it is DEAD. The website is gone and so the program no longer works. How crappy is that?!

This WAS a good program.   
By doug grostefon on 1/5/2003 from USA
$20.00 bucks down the drain. There are no updates for XP and IGS is non-existent. I want my money back!!

time-lapse images of powerful lightning strokes and appreciate the power of Mother Nature without leaving your computer. This screensaver includes 28 images. This evaluation version shows all of the images available in the full, registered version. The sounds of thunder and falling rain are also included. Microsoft Windows Media Player is necessary to hear the sounds.
REQUIREMENTS: Window 95/98/NT/2000

Price:  -

Where To Buy:
Download Here 3.1MB (Shareware)

Just a Bunch of NOAA Pictures   
By on 2/27/2001 from
If you want to see a bunch of NOAA pictures with thunder-soundtrack, you might enjoy this screen saver -- for 7 days only! Then it expires. Just a hunch, but I'm thinking "Always Great Software, Inc." doesn't own the rights to those pictures.

Though dangerous, dark, and menacing, tornadoes can be beautiful. This screensaver presents 38 images of tornadoes captured on film. This download includes a fully functioning 7-day trial; the program costs $12.95 to purchase.
REQUIREMENTS: 486/33, Windows 95/98/NT

Price: $12.95

Where To Buy:
Download Here 2.3MB (Shareware)

Microsoft Streets & Trips is a computer-based road atlas with extensive highway, secondary, and even dirt roads. The software is GPS compatible, so you can plot your position in real-time. And there are a host of other features such as point-to-point directions and a large directory of businesses and dining.

Price: $30.00

Where To Buy:
CompUSA
Best Buy

Not For Chasers   
By Anonymous on 2/13/2001 from Minneapolis, MN
I'm usually impressed with products from Microsoft, but Streets & Trips is not one of them. The interface is good and it may be useful for planning a family vacation, but for a few reasons, its just not a great package for storm chasers. First, the "car" marker only updates about every tenth of a mile. This might not seem too bad, but I've missed a lot of turnoffs because of this. By contrast, the DeLorme Street Atlas updates about every 20 feet. Secondly, the point-to-point directions are only marginally useful. And finally, there is no bread-crumb trail, which is a major disappointment to me.

About the update speed.   
By Daniel on 6/6/2004 from Vernon Hills, Il.
The update speed all depends upon what GPS device you are using to get info fed to the computer. I use a Garmin eTrex handheld unit and it feeds raw positioning data to my laptop every 10 feet. Perhaps you don't have something set up right?

Buy a newer version instead   
By Jack Kambert on 11/8/2004 from Pembina, ND
I must echo the comments by Rory Groves above, however the program is sufficiently usable enough in any scenario NOT involving the use of a GPS to make it useful enough if it's all you have. The resolution problem has little to do with the GPS receiver by the way, as suggested by Daniel above; it's a program limitation. I can see live data with my other applications and there's little if any delay from my GPS unit with them. Verdict; for storm chasing use a newer version or another program if you plan on using it with a GPS unit.

WxWorx and XM Satellite Radio introduce to you a revolutionary mobile weather system for use in the air, on the water and on the ground. WxWorx' localized, current weather information is delivered via continuous satellite broadcast of data from XM WX Satellite Weather. The new weather service not only includes standard NEXRAD radar available from other resources, but also a superior portfolio of data products to update you frequently on weather conditions. One glance at our long list of data options delivered to your airplane, boat or ground vehicle will convince you our new service is the premier choice for mobile weather.

Price:  -

Where To Buy:
http://www.wxworx.com

Anywhere Anytime Weather Feed   
By Art Johnson on 2/27/2004 from Southwest Florida, USA
For the lower 48 States and coastal waters. Premier would be the high resolution, seven level (for each of rain, ice and snow) NexRad Weather Radar at five minute updates with a past half hour loop including ‘Tops’ reports at 5,000’ intervals to above 70,000’ as well as ‘Arrows’ highlighting “severe” or “shear” cell movement predictions for the next 15 minutes. Lighting strikes are color coded for less than 5, 10 or 15 minute ages. The Aviation Package includes “City Forecasts” as well as all Aviation Terminal 24 hour Forecasts including full FAA text and plain language translations. The Airport METAR (including color codes for VFR/IFR cloud cover and wind barbs) observation reports are plain language and updated five times each hour. Fifteen graphic wind reports are provided from the surface in 3,000’ intervals to 42,000’ and are constantly updated. Convective Sigmets, Sigmets and Airmets are color coded graphic plus text. 1000 CHARACTERS.

rest of the 1,000 words promised   
By Art Johnson on 2/27/2004 from USA
XM Wx provides a constant download of a package of weather products for a flat $50 per month. WxWorx’s 12oz. Portable Receiver is 1.5”x5.5” with a 2” square XM Antenna, connected to your PC or PDA through a USB cable. The optional GPS & Detail mapping includes NWS Warnings for Flooding, Tornados etc. color coded highlight of the county and a text for type and time period. The USB powered GPS functions flawlessly and provides bearing and distance to the cursor point on the map. The weather products supplied vary for Aviation, Marine or Emergency Response packages. XM’s powerful satellite transmitters provide full service to any location with a view of the sky and in metropolitan areas their ground repeaters extend the service inside buildings. All you need is about 200mA of 12V DC (plus your PC or PDA) to power this WxWorx receiver and have all of this weather resource available anytime, anywhere.

XM WXWORX   
By Stormchaser on 3/6/2004 from Snowmass, CO
The software that comes with it sucks. You can get alot more out of this system if you know how to use the raw data that is downloaded on to your hard drive. The raw data is very good if you know how to display it with your own software. Maybe some day they will have better software for it. Until than come up with your own software for the raw data to display it the right way. Thir is a lot more their than what they tell you. You just need to know how to get it.

XM WX Satellite Weather   
By Rob Burchfield on 11/25/2004 from Louisville, Mississippi USA
The 04 chase season was my first, along with seasoned veterans of the sport. I purchased this unit and what a difference it made. Real time weather at your fingertips...Your exact location in relation to a storm...shear markers, rotation warnings....a muriad of crucial information constantly updated..we had no problems with the unit even in extremely foul weather...a system every storm chaser must acquire!

Mobile Threat Net is Perfect for Storm Chasing   
By Cliff Windham on 2/26/2008 from Huntsville, AL
Mobile Threat Net PLUS by Baron Services, Inc, The Weather Solutions Company, uses the WxWorx Receiver for unsurpassed nationwide data reception via XM Satellite Radio. It’s perfect for Storm Chasers and anyone needing highly reliable mobile weather data. For complete details and pricing as well as a live-on-line demonstration, please contact Cliff Windham at Baron Services at 256-881-8811 or e-mail him at threatnet@baronservices.com