Local weather forecasts with the source still attached
RR Weather brings current conditions, hourly detail, and a seven-day forecast into one local view. It also tells you whether a value came from an observation, a NOAA analysis, or a National Weather Service forecast.
Current weather can come from more than one kind of evidence
A nearby station observation is a real instrument report, but it measures conditions at the station rather than at every point nearby. Distance, elevation, shade, pavement, and exposure can all make your location feel different.
NOAA surface analysis fills in local context between stations on a geographic grid. RR Weather labels that value as an analysis or estimate because it is not a thermometer at the selected address. Keeping those labels visible makes the number more useful, not less.
What the seven-day forecast shows
The 7-Day view organizes National Weather Service forecast periods into a readable week. Daily highs, overnight lows, precipitation chances, wind, and forecast conditions remain tied to their forecast dates and source times.
Forecasts change when new observations and model guidance arrive. RR Weather can call attention to meaningful changes, but it does not present a saved forecast as a promise or turn a forecast change into an official warning.
Forecast Maps use valid times and forecast periods
Forecast Maps show National Weather Service NDFD fields delivered through NOAA nowCOAST. The current products are surface air temperature, surface wind gusts, six-hour liquid precipitation, and six-hour snowfall. RR Weather supplies the map palette and selected-grid-value display; those colors are forecast visualization, not warning categories.
A temperature or wind-gust valid time tells you when that forecast field applies. Rainfall and snowfall frames cover the six-hour period ending at the labeled time, so they should not be read as an instantaneous rate or a storm-total map. Moving the time control selects another forecast period—it does not turn the map into an observation.
Forecast Maps currently require a Plus or higher account. The local Today and 7-Day forecast views remain separate from that map feature. See the official weather source register for the upstream NWS forecast documentation.
“What Matters” is a priority, not another forecast
The Today view selects one timely point from the available observation, forecast, radar, and alert context. It is meant to answer a practical question—what is most worth noticing next—without repeating every number already on the page.
That summary is derived by RR Weather. Official NWS alerts stay visually and verbally separate, and missing or stale evidence should produce a limitation rather than invented certainty.
A quick way to use the local forecast
- Start with the source time. A clear label tells you whether you are reading a recent observation, an analysis, or a future forecast.
- Read the next few hours. Hourly temperature, precipitation, and wind changes often matter more than a single all-day icon.
- Scan the week for changes. Use the seven-day view to spot the next front, temperature swing, or higher-impact weather period.
- Open radar when timing matters. Radar adds spatial context, but it does not replace an official alert or the forecast.