FORECAST EURO

The Euro model, rendered the way it deserves — everywhere it runs.

ECMWF HRES 0.1°

EXITS ECMWF EXPLORER POLAR AIFS LEGACY VIEW ENSEMBLE WEATHERNEXT ABOUT

Live ECMWF Explorer — HRES at 0.1° worldwide, hourly to 90 hours out to fifteen days, twenty-two fields, 247 places. AIFS Explorer — the machine-learning model at 0.25°, six-hourly to fifteen days.

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ECMWF Explorer

The model widely regarded as the world's most accurate, drawn worldwide at 0.1° — roughly 11 km — rather than the 0.25° open-data grid most sites use. Hourly to 90 hours, three-hourly to six days, then six-hourly to fifteen, in authentic ecCharts colours.

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Polar Explorer

The Arctic and Antarctic in polar stereographic projection — the two places a Mercator map physically cannot draw, because the projection is infinite at 85°. True at 70°, guaranteed to 45° on every meridian, and drawn for all four models.

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AIFS Explorer

ECMWF's machine-learning forecast, run alongside the physical model, at 0.25° out to fifteen days. The interesting question is not whether it is good — it is where it and HRES disagree, so the two are drawn in the same colours in the same instrument.

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Legacy Chart Viewer

All four models with the camera bolted down — a fixed set of framings, the whole run decoded up front, and loops that step instantly because nothing has to be fetched. Every control is a button, the map cannot be dragged out of frame, and one switch in the rail moves between models without losing your place.

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Ensemble

Fifty-one members of the same forecast. A single deterministic run tells you what might happen; the ensemble tells you how much to trust it, which is usually the more useful number. The mean and the spread, side by side, on all nine fields ECMWF publishes them for.

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WeatherNext 2

Google DeepMind's machine-learning ensemble — the first model here that is not ECMWF's. Every other comparison on this site is the Euro model against itself; this one shares no centre, no reanalysis and no assumptions, so where it and ECMWF disagree the disagreement means something different. An experimental subset feed, not an operational product.

Exits by continent

ONE RASTER · EVERY VIEW IS A VIEWPORT

Each of these opens the Explorer on that part of the world, on the globe rather than flat — across the North America frame Mercator distorts area nearly fourteenfold end to end, which is the difference between Greenland reading as a continent and reading as an island. Nothing is re-rendered to get there: one global raster serves every one of them.

North America Alaska to Panama, and the Atlantic and Pacific either side of it. 120° × 68° · 22 countries South America The Andes, the Amazon and the Southern Ocean approaches. 53° × 71° · 22 countries Europe The Atlantic storm track, the Alps and the Mediterranean. 70° × 38° · 46 countries Africa The Sahara, the Sahel, the monsoon and both coasts. 73° × 74° · 51 countries Middle East The Gulf, the Levant, Anatolia and the Iranian plateau. 40° × 31° · 21 countries South Asia The monsoon, the Himalaya and the Bay of Bengal. 35° × 35° · 7 countries East Asia China, the Koreas, Japan and the East China Sea. 55° × 37° · 4 countries Southeast Asia The Maritime Continent, Indochina and the Philippines. 50° × 35° · 15 countries Australia & NZ Australia, New Zealand and the Tasman Sea. 70° × 40° · 8 countries Northern Eurasia Siberia to the Urals, and the Arctic coast above them. 160° × 37° · 7 countries Arctic The whole cap, on a Mercator frame. For the true polar view, take the Polar exit. 360° × 26° · 2 countries Antarctic The continent and the Southern Ocean that circles it. 360° × 23° · 1 country

Why this site exists

The full-resolution model

Most freely available ECMWF imagery comes from the 0.25° open-data feed. This site draws the 0.1° dissemination — about seven times as many grid points — so an Alpine valley, a Caribbean hurricane eyewall or a Tasman squall line is the size the model actually made it.

Honest rendering

Colour scales are pinned to absolute values, never re-fit per frame, and the ecCharts tables are the real ECMWF Magics colours on the published level breaks — discrete bands, not a smoothed rainbow. Point at the map and it names the band, because that is the only claim the chart makes.

Built for speed

No tracking, no cookie banner, no account. Pages are static files, the basemap is self-hosted, and nothing is fetched from a third party.

Part of a network

Forecast Eagle covers North America from NOAA sources and Forecast Canada covers Canada from MSC. Forecast Euro is the same instrument pointed at the one centre whose forecasts the others are all measured against — and because that model is global, so is this site. Forecast European, a companion site about the continent rather than the model, is coming separately.