Featured in Domain Arrivals · 2026-08-19
Forecast dBZ Turns Radar Colours into Measured Weather
A live U.S. radar tool built on NOAA MRMS data, covering reflectivity, precipitation rate, hail, rotation, echo tops, lightning, and three-hour loops.
Why it surfacedForecast dBZ lets users tap the map and read the measured value beneath a storm instead of guessing from a colour scale—51.4 dBZ, 38 kft, or 25 mm of hail. Its phone-first design, multiple colour ramps, and unusually clear explanation of what the data means give this weather tool real editorial intent; it also plainly says it is not an official source of warnings.
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The Song Resumes After the Story
August 19’s newborn domains include a Hawaiʻi road-trip radio that resumes each song after a GPS-triggered story, an offline Chattanooga recovery map, a 100 KiB operating system running Doom, and an archive of 169,588 Discord roleplay messages.
This is one of 1,000 discoveries in the 2026-08-19 Domain Arrivals issue.