Live lightning on the map
Watch strikes land around the storm you are following, refreshed every minute, with precise ground-based detail as you zoom toward a warned area.
The clearest look yet at the weather where they are.
WeatherAlarm watches the places your people actually are — a parent's house, a kid's campus — and tells you what the sky is doing there. Version 2.2 makes that picture sharper, deeper, and easier to trust.
Available now on the App Store and Google Play.
The biggest improvements
A stronger picture of weather where they are.
Version 2.2 makes the places you watch more useful every day — with richer local detail, clearer live weather, and better support for the people who are away from home.
A richer location view
See current conditions, an enhanced five-day temperature curve, rain chances, storm timing, feels-like temperature, and the National Weather Service office watching that location — all in one clearer view.
A place for people on the move
Add a temporary location for someone traveling, choose when their watch should end, and keep the location ready to resume whenever you need it.
Also in 2.2
The details matter.
Smaller changes, chosen because they answer a question someone actually asked while watching a storm.
Reading a place at a glance
- What it actually feels likeHeat index and wind chill sit beside the temperature when they change the answer.
- Daylight remainingHow long the light lasts there — cleanup, an outage, or a drive home all get harder in the dark.
- A clearer location outlookConditions, the next 24 hours, storm timing, outlooks and a five-day curve now read as one story.
- Location details you can useTap an address for directions, hold coordinates to copy, tap the nearest radar to open it.
- Find someone from searchSearch a loved one by name from the iPhone home screen. It never leaves the device.
Understanding the warning
- Plain-language explanationsOpen an alert to read what that warning, watch or advisory actually means.
- Tornado all-clearWhen the warning ends and no other tornado warning covers them, WeatherAlarm can tell you it cleared.
- Winter weather in detailSnow, ice, dangerous cold, timing and travel impact, drawn from the forecast office's own wording.
- A tropical storm, in fullTap a forecast cone for its category, peak gusts, central pressure, advisory source, and the National Hurricane Center's forecast for the days ahead.
- Lightning near your personDuring a tornado or severe thunderstorm warning, see recent cloud-to-ground strikes near them.
- Know the forecast officeWhich National Weather Service office is watching that place, and how to reach it.
Radar worth watching
- Better radar historyReplay every available scan around a past storm, including velocity and correlation coefficient.
- A calmer radar mapOverlapping radar sites hide as you zoom out, then return as you zoom back in.
- Your widget looks aheadWhen things are quiet the widget shows what is coming rather than an empty space.
- Clearer alert timingHow long is left, alongside the exact end time, so you do not have to work it out.
- Safer removalWeatherAlarm asks before removing someone, so a swipe never deletes a location by accident.
Trust and control
- Notification settings, findableEvery alert type you can silence now sits behind one clearly named row.
- Temporary locationsGive a travelling loved one an end date. Alerts pause after that day; the location waits for you.
- Calmer alert cardsA focused hazard icon, a severity rail and clear status labels instead of a wall of colour.
- More useful local contextAir quality, pollen and fire risk appear where they are relevant, and stay quiet where they are not.
- Accessibility and reliabilityLarger touch targets, better screen-reader labels, and steadier handling of slow weather data.
Severe weather alerts for the people you love.
Free. No ads, no tracking, no paid tier. Add the places that matter and WeatherAlarm watches them around the clock.