Riøt/Taa'a Yuku Radar
// Windows · Android · Linux
Taa'a Yuku Radar
A free, open, professional-grade weather radar. No subscription. No accounts. No servers. Radar data comes straight from NOAA's open data, and every calculation happens on your device.
The name is Yaqui (Yoeme): taa'a, the sun (close to ta'a, to know), and yuku, the rain. Used with the blessing of a Yaqui speaker.
L2 Full NEXRAD Level 2
3D Fly-through volumes
1991+ Historical replay
0 Accounts needed
// Screenshots
See it running
Real screenshots of v0.3.0 on Linux, using live data from the Oklahoma City radar (KTLX). Click one to enlarge it.
Everything happens on your device
Radar data
- Full NEXRAD Level 2: REF, VEL, SW, ZDR, PHI, RHO at every elevation cut, super-resolution
- All the common Level 3 products with tilt selection
- The national MRMS mosaic takes over when you zoom out
- Sharp at any zoom: redrawn at screen resolution, never stretched
Derived products
- Composite reflectivity, VIL, echo tops
- Storm-relative velocity and rotation (azimuthal shear)
3D
- GPU-raymarched storm volumes you can fly through
- Slice planes, optional 3D terrain, cone of silence
- Reflectivity, storm-relative and ground-relative wind, ZDR and CC fields
- Hydrometeor classification: rain, hail, graupel, snow and more, each class its own switch
Situational awareness
- Live NWS warnings, watches and advisories, tap for the full text
- SPC convective outlook and today's storm reports
- Upper-air soundings with CAPE, CIN, shear and helicity
- Lightning from Blitzortung, GOES GLM, or both
Tools
- Aiming cursor: exact value, range, heading and beam height
- Historical replay back to 1991, 3D included
- Distance and bearing, PNG snapshots of 2D and 3D
.palcolour tables and four basemaps
Addons
- Your own radar sites, from S3, a web folder or a local folder
- An open radar format for any radar your own converter reads
- GeoJSON and tile overlays, places with beam height, and themes
- Browse the addon catalog →
Download
Builds come straight from GitHub Releases, and this page follows the newest one. Current version: v0.3.2. Release notes →
Android
arm64-v8a fits almost any phone made in the last several years.
APK (arm64-v8a)Other ABIs: armeabi-v7a · x86_64
Debian / Ubuntu
A .deb package for amd64. Install it with apt:
sudo apt install ./radar-app_0.3.2_amd64.deb
Your location stays yours. The app opens on the radar nearest you. It uses GPS only if you allow it, and falls back to a city-level IP lookup if you don't. Nothing is asked for at startup, and it works fine with location refused. The app collects nothing and sends nothing to us: read the app's privacy policy.