Overview
Live radar over Europe, refreshed every five minutes
What it shows. A composite of maximum reflectivity (CMAX): for every point on the map, the strongest echo found in the vertical column above it, merged from the national radar networks into a single 1 km grid and refreshed every five minutes.
What it is made of. The Europe-wide CMAX is merged centrally by EUMETNET/OPERA and delivered as open data through MeteoGate. Each frame reaches your browser as a compact, already decoded grid and is coloured and drawn on your own machine in WebGL2, so you can play or scrub through the last hour - up to four hours in the settings - without fetching it again.
130 stations across Europe, 20 countries, up to 7 parameters per station. More in products.
Per-station view
One radar, seven parameters
Every frame is drawn on your own machine.
Country composites
Merged from a country's own stations
Reading the map
What the radar page is telling you
How the page is laid out. The radar page is one map. Every station sits on its own chip - tap it for its full product set and every scan elevation - and the country chips switch to that country's composite, merged in your browser as you watch. The bar along the bottom is the timeline: drag it back through the last hour - up to four on the Europe map - or press play and let the sweeps run.
What to make of it. A chip with an orange outline is the map flagging age, not an error: that station's newest sweep is 40 minutes old or more. Red means two hours or older - or no data at all. Both clear by themselves once data resumes. And don't rush the loading bar: playback turns smooth only after the range you're watching has fully arrived, so let it finish its work first.
Say hello
Questions, data corrections, bug reports about the map or about this page - one address reaches all of it.
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