Lightning Tracker & Radar Map vs Aurora Expert

Lightning Tracker & Radar Map helps you understand storm activity before it reaches you. See live lightning, storm zones, alerts, saved places and forecast context in one focused weather safety app. Powered by NOAA GOES GLM and EUMETSAT MTG-I1 LI satellite data, Lightning Tracker shows recent lightning flashes on a fast map, clusters active strikes into storm zones, and helps you judge whether a storm is building, approaching or moving away. Coverage includes the Americas, Atlantic, Europe and Africa; features depend on supported coverage and data availability. USE IT BEFORE YOU GO OUT Check storms before golf, boating, hiking, school sports, outdoor work, road trips, camping, events and family time outside. Open the map, check the nearest activity, review the storm zone and decide whether to wait, move or seek shelter. LIVE LIGHTNING MAP Fresh strikes appear on the map with age and distance context. Zoom from a regional view down to the places that matter and keep watching as cells develop. STORM ZONES AND TRACKS Lightning clusters are grouped into storm zones so the map is easier to read. Track movement, intensity and projected paths instead of trying to interpret scattered strikes one by one. HISTORY AND FORECAST Premium unlocks 24-hour lightning history, a lightning heatmap and storm forecast context from NOAA SPC where available. ALERTS FOR SAVED PLACES Set an alert radius around the places you care about. Free users can monitor one saved place with basic storm data; Premium adds push alerts, wider radius, more saved places, advanced storm data and an ad-free experience. 30-30 SAFETY TIMER Use the built-in timer to follow the 30-minute lightning safety rule after nearby activity. It gives you a simple outdoor-safety checkpoint when the sky is changing fast. Lightning Tracker is built for one practical question: how close is the storm, where is it moving and is it time to get inside? Terms: https://lightningtracker.app/terms Privacy: https://lightningtracker.app/privacy

Live data from NOAA’s new solar wind sentinel SOLAR-1: Aurora Expert tells you whether you can see the aurora tonight – at your place, with clouds, darkness and the moon. FREE • Tonight’s chance at your place, in five levels from “Very low” to “Very likely” – and every value says when it is from. • Why this verdict? Tap ⓘ: the factors behind the chance and the Kp it takes where you are. • Forecast for up to three nights: Kp, how far the aurora reaches, and the clouds when Apple Weather provides them. • Globe with a time scrubber: NOAA’s aurora oval twelve hours back and ahead, with the day and night side. For both hemispheres. • An alert for your home when the aurora activity there reaches the threshold and it is dark – with a test alert, so you know it arrives. • Red light and field mode for outside: compass and the key values, and your eyes stay adapted to the dark. • Live Activity and widgets for the Lock Screen and StandBy. • Journal with a season summary: for each place, from your own answers, how often you saw the aurora at each forecast level. • At Kp 7 or more, the storm cockpit is open for one night without Aurora Pro. AURORA PRO – ONE PURCHASE, NO SUBSCRIPTION • Place alerts: alerts for every saved place within aurora range, your own threshold of 25, 50 or 75%, wake for strong activity. Save unlimited places. • Trip planner: the best spot for every night of your trip, with route and leave-by reminder. • Tonight from here: clearer places within a 30 to 90 minute drive. • Your best nights: season calendar and widget. • Storm cockpit: Deep Dive with solar wind, Kp history and raw data, substorm tracker, CME outlook and live tiles in field mode. • My nights: photos for your nights, a gallery and export as CSV or JSON. DATA Aurora activity (OVATION), Kp and storm warnings from NOAA SWPC, solar wind from NOAA SOLAR-1 / ACE at the Lagrange point L1, clouds from Apple Weather. No ads, no tracking.