Wind Watch

Which address should this watch?

Type an address, a town, or a postcode. Everything on the page is then built for that spot — wind direction every hour from three independent sources, thunderstorm history from the airports around it, and satellite lightning strikes plotted on a map.

Leave off any unit or apartment number — address databases only record buildings, and a “Unit 4B” makes the whole lookup fail. You can also paste coordinates directly, like 40.0150, -105.2705, if an address will not come up. Every weather source here resolves at 3 km or coarser, so being a few hundred metres out changes nothing.

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In zone — brighter is closer to perfect Out of zone No data ~ Swung around all day Every day is the same picture as the big one above: your house fixed and upright in the middle, your zone as the band around it (lit where favourable, black where not). The dial is turned so the perfect bearing points straight up at the roof peak — so N sits a little left of top and E swings round to the right. Only the arrow moves: it points the way the air travelled and takes its colour from the part of the band it points into, so an arrow aimed away from the lit band was blowing the wrong way. The number is the heading in true degrees; the bar along the bottom is how much of that day was in zone. Click any day.

Trends

Where the wind was heading

Month by month

Best time of day

Thunderstorms

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of days in the year have one

Chance of a thunderstorm by date

Next 30 days

Thunderstorm days by year

What this is, and what it is not

Where the numbers come from

Each hour is stored separately for all three, then combined with a speed-weighted vector mean. When they disagree by more than 45° the reading is flagged so you know not to lean on it. Nothing here is a forecast — the log only records hours that have already happened.