Welcome back

trackweather is back

For years trackweather was where race fans checked the sky before a session, with about 200,000 visits every race weekend. It began before a rainy race at Spa, when 30,000 of you found it within an hour of my posting it on Reddit. Then I closed it with a short goodbye: keeping minute-by-minute weather running for every circuit cost a lot, and I couldn't keep paying for it alone. Your messages after that goodbye stayed with me.

Now it's back, rebuilt from the ground up and built to last. The weather for each circuit is fetched once and shared by everyone, so it no longer costs more with each fan who opens the page, and every forecast tells you how sure it is. This page is only the start: an iOS app is on its way that goes much deeper, with real clouds built from weather models and satellite scans and far more data at your circuit, better in every way. Thank you for coming back, and enjoy the weekend, whatever the sky does.

Arjan
Maker of trackweather
40 km · passing by12 km · at 14:2014:20

Rain at Marina Bay, before it gets there

The radar as it happens, a ring that shows what is coming and when, and a verdict for every session with how sure it is.

The radar

A frame every 10 minutes, gliding along the rain's own motion.

  • ObservedThe last hour, as the radar saw it
  • NowcastThe radar moved on, the next hour
  • ModelA weather model's rain, coarser

The ring

Round the circuit, 5, 10, 25 or 50 km across as you zoom.

  • WallWhere rain will reach it, taller when nearer
  • Aqua lineA shower heading in: distance, arrival
  • Grey lineA shower passing by
  • Time on the ringWhen rain first reaches it

How sure it is

Every verdict says which. Missing data shows as missing, never as a dry sky.

  • HighNewest radar picture
  • MediumThe radar moved on
  • LowA model's hours

Settings

Kept in this browser.

Rain near the circuit

What the line on each shower says as it comes in.

  • Heading in25 km · at 14:20
  • Passing by40 km · passing by
  • The rain's back, while it rainsDry at 14:40 · 6 km

Times

Session and weather times in your own time, or in the circuit's.

Units

°C, km/h, millimetres of rain, hPa and kilometres.

Data

Where every number on the page comes from.

  • Radar and nowcastLibreWXR, from NOAA, ECCC, EUMETNET OPERA and other services
  • ForecastPirate Weather
  • MapOpenFreeMap © OpenMapTiles, data from OpenStreetMap
  • Track outlines© Tomislav Bacinger, MIT licence

About

What trackweather is, and how it knows what it says.

trackweather 1.1.0 beta (2003604)

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