SkyForge vs Earth Around

SkyForge makes the weather radar the whole app — a full-screen, buttery-smooth animated map is your home screen, and everything else floats cleanly on top. RADAR THAT MOVES • Smooth, motion-interpolated radar: the past two hours, then up to an hour of forecast radar where it's available • 3D storms — heavy rain rises off the map as shaded clouds that cast shadows • Live wind streams — thousands of moving particles showing direction and speed • Temperature overlay with a color-graded legend • Show precipitation, temperature and wind together • Fronts & pressure from NOAA's surface analysis • Zoom out far enough and the map becomes a spinning 3D globe, colored with NASA satellite land cover A FORECAST WITH DEPTH • 10-day forecast — tap any day to expand a plain-English brief • Interactive charts for every day: temperature, precipitation, UV, wind, humidity, visibility, and pressure — drag to pinpoint any minute • Hourly forecast, current conditions, "feels like", and high/low • Air quality (US AQI), UV index, sunrise & sunset, dew point, and more BUILT FOR WHERE YOU ARE • Automatic radar and forecast for your current location • Save cities and reorder your list with a long-press • Dark and light map themes that remember your choice SEVERE WEATHER • Live watches, warnings, and advisories from the US National Weather Service, right at the top of your screen when they matter HONEST BY DESIGN • 100% free and ad-free • No account, no sign-up, no tracking • Your location is used only to fetch weather — never stored or sold Weather data from Open-Meteo, LibreWXR, RainViewer, NOAA / National Weather Service, NASA GIBS, Iowa State Mesonet, and OpenWeatherMap.

Is a geomagnetic storm hitting right now, and will you see the aurora tonight? Earth Around answers both in plain words, then shows you every number behind them. THE ANSWER, THEN THE INSTRUMENTS Open it and get the answer: storm level, aurora chance, and what the Sun just did. Underneath sits the full instrument panel — solar wind speed and southward Bz, GOES X-ray flux, the NOAA G/R/S scales, planetary Kp with the 3-day forecast, sunspot number and F10.7. HP30 — THE DETAIL KP MISSES The standard Kp index updates every three hours. Earth Around also charts GFZ Potsdam's Hp30, which resolves geomagnetic activity every 30 minutes and is open-ended above Kp 9 — so a fast-moving storm shows up as it happens, not hours later. EVERY NUMBER IS CHECKED Live data from NOAA SWPC and GFZ Potsdam. Every classification — G-scale, R-scale, flare class, aurora view line — is computed by a local function tested against the published definition. Nothing is shown that cannot be validated, sources are cited on every panel, and the age of the data is always visible. When a feed is down it says so instead of guessing. ALERTS THAT AREN'T FALSE ALARMS Opt-in notifications for storm onset, M-class and stronger flares, and a high aurora chance. One notification per event, at the level you choose. ON EVERY SCREEN YOU OWN iPhone, iPad, Mac and Apple Watch. Home screen and Lock Screen widgets, plus watch complications. Night mode shifts the whole interface to red so it won't wreck your dark-adapted eyes in the field. NO ADS. NO SUBSCRIPTION. Buy it once. There is no advertising, no tracking, no account, and no in-app purchase of any kind.