Live Weather Atlas

Real-time buoys, ship reports, satellite, and radar — ground truth for what's actually happening.

Buoys and ship obs (NDBC)

The single best reality check for a forecast. Find buoys along your route and watch the trend over the last 6–24 h.

NDBC station map Interactive map of all buoys worldwide Latest observations Tabular Ship reports Recent voluntary ship obs (VOS) Search by lat/lon Find nearest stations

Satellite

GOES (East + West) Full-disk and regional sectors Tropical Atlantic loop IR + visible animation North Pacific loop IR + visible NASA Worldview Near-real-time global imagery CIMSS Tropical Wind shear, SST, TC analyses ASCAT scatterometer winds Sat-derived ocean surface wind

Real-time wind maps

earth.nullschool.net Beautiful animated global wind + currents Windy.com Multi-model wind + observations Ventusky Wind, waves, pressure — clean UI

Lightning, radar, storms

Blitzortung live lightning Real-time strikes worldwide NWS radar (US) National mosaic + regional NHC active systems Tropical cyclones + outlooks Sat24 Europe + global satellite animations

Quick routine before a passage leg: buoy trend → satellite (is the forecast low actually there?) → nullschool for pattern → GRIB detail.