Free weather map with 25 model layers, live lightning and storm cells
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HN · launched Jul 29, 2026 · 8 upvotes (top 54%) · 0 views
Niche: interactive mapping platforms · 191 launches, 16 in the last 7 days ▲ +7% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Energy & climate
- Analytics & BI
- B2C
- Not AI
- Hobby / open-source project
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Could you build this?
Partial The map interface and layer toggles are easy to build, but ingesting, tiling, and rendering 25 diverse meteorological models, real-time lightning sensors, and radar nowcasts requires substantial geospatial pipeline engineering.
What it would actually take: A production implementation requires a data pipeline (GDAL, Python/Celery) fetching GRIB/NetCDF files from NOAA, ECMWF, and live lightning networks (e.g., Blitzortung). The data must be converted into Mapbox vector tiles or raster map tiles on fly/edge CDNs and rendered with MapLibre GL / WebGL. Handling real-time storm cell tracking and lightning websockets at low latency requires specialized GIS and streaming data infrastructure.
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Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 449 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #230 of 450 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 273 days after the earliest competitor.
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