FORECAST POINTS
Everything the forecast says about one place, on one screen.
What this is
One point, everything
Temperature, dew point, apparent temperature, sky cover, chance and amount of precipitation, wind and gusts with direction, humidity, visibility and ceiling — all on one shared clock, in your local time.
Built to be read
Nights are shaded, so the diurnal cycle is visible instead of inferred. Accumulations are drawn over the window they fell in. Probabilities are drawn as blocks, because that is what they are.
Configuration is a link
Pick the elements and the range you care about and the URL carries them. Send it and it opens the same way for whoever gets it — no account, no saved state, nothing to lose.
The dashboard
A LIVE METEOGRAM, TABLE AND ALERT BAND
Open the dashboard
Search nearly 3,000 published points or pick one off the map. A day ribbon across the top, the forecast written out in sentences, sun and moon for the exact spot, and a meteogram you can drag to zoom. Toggle any of the 20 elements, switch units, and take the result away as PNG, SVG, JSON or pasteable text.
Compare
FOUR POINTS, ONE AXISWhich of these is worst on Thursday?
Put up to four point forecasts on one axis and one day-by-day matrix. Every point is a separate extraction from the same run of the same model, so the differences are the model’s and not an artefact of comparing two sources.
How it is built
The cycle lands here
Each NWS cycle is copied to this server as it publishes — about 350 MB for NDFD — so every forecast is read from local disk rather than fetched across the network.
Then written out
Points are extracted once per cycle and written as static files. Opening the dashboard costs a file read — there is no query service behind it to be slow or to fall over.
And feeds the network
The same generator supplies the forecast content behind weather.city, Forecast Eagle and the network's city and state sites.
Where the numbers come from
The National Digital Forecast Database is the NWS's own gridded forecast — the one their forecasters draw and the one weather.gov publishes. The National Blend of Models is the calibrated multi-model blend that feeds it. Forecast Points reads both from the weatherzarr rolling archive, takes the nearest cell of the 2.5 km grid with no interpolation, and tells you how far that cell was from the point you asked about. Alerts come live from the NWS API and use the official event colours.
This is not an official source. For warnings and official forecasts, go to weather.gov.