Weather, top dead center.
Wkita runs its own radar nowcast for exactly where you're standing, minute by minute. Storms that tell you when they'll hit, lightning with a 30/30 clock, warnings pushed to your phone, and ten lenses for the calls weather actually makes for you.
Not a model's guess. Its own forecast.
Computed for your spot
Wkita's server pulls NOAA's MRMS radar mosaic every two minutes, tracks how the rain is moving, and runs a 20-member ensemble forward two hours. The dial reads it minute by minute for where you are.
It tells you how sure it is
Each tick's brightness is the share of ensemble members that rain on you. Faint means maybe. Solid means bring the dogs in.
Rain, snow, sleet, freezing rain
Radar's dual-pol flag, wet-bulb and freezing-level math, and nearby station reports decide what's falling, in the radar colors you already know.
Never blank
Out of the server's range or offline? Your phone runs its own radar nowcast, then falls back to the model. You always get an answer.
It says when. Not just that.
Most apps show you a red blob and leave the math to you. Wkita does the math.
Severe cell 14 mi SW
Moving NE at 32 mph · reaches you in about 24 min
The storm card
Finds the nearest heavy core, runs it along its motion, and tells you if and when it crosses your spot. Hail size and rotation from MRMS.
Stay inside until 6:42 PM
Last strike within 10 mi was 4 min ago · 9 in the last 30 min
Lightning, with a 30/30 clock
Every flash from the GOES-East lightning mapper. When one lands within 10 miles, the countdown starts over.
Wkita · nowTornado Warning · Home
Until 7:15 PM. Radar indicated rotation. Take shelter now.
Warnings, pushed by polygon
The server checks every NWS warning shape against your saved spots and buzzes your Android phone. If the polygon misses you, so does the alert.
Radar that plays like video.
Two hours of NEXRAD load before the loop starts, and each frame glides into the next along the storm's motion. No blinking, no tiles popping in.
Strike dots
Lightning on the map as it happens, newest brightest, following the loop's clock.
Tap a warning
Every NWS polygon is on the map with a legend. Tap one for minutes left, hail, wind and what radar saw.
Airspace layer
TFR outlines and the FAA's LAANC grid, colored by ceiling. Tap anywhere to see what you can fly.
Ten lenses for the calls weather makes for you.
A forecast is numbers. A lens is a verdict: go or don't, the window to do it in, and the one thing driving it. Turn on the ones that fit your life and set your own limits.
Examples shown. Every threshold is editable in the app, from your hard-freeze line to your crosswind limit.
Five screens. Nothing buried.
Right Now opens on the next hour, the next twelve and the next seven days. Everything else is one tap away on the bottom bar.
Day and night, side by side
Every day shows its daytime sky and rain chance up top and the overnight below. Tap a day for both halves in one view: highs, the real overnight low, wind, UV, sun and moon.
Models agree, or split
GFS, ECMWF, ICON and GEM are compared for every day. A green dot means they line up; yellow means don't bet the hay on it.
Alerts for exactly when
Warnings and advisories run as bands across the hours and days they cover, so you see how long it lasts, not just that it exists.
Opens with one bar of signal
The forecast paints first and everything else fills in behind it. Lose signal and the last good forecast stays on screen. Swipe between your saved spots.
Feels like, drawn in
The Hourly screen runs 48 hours with temperature and feels-like on one scale, sky, rain chance, wind and gusts for every hour, sunrise and sunset marked.
Put it on your Android phone.
Wkita isn't in the Play Store yet, so you install it straight from here. It takes about a minute, and the Android app is what gets warning pushes.
Download for AndroidLatest version- Download wkita.apkTap the button on your phone. Your browser may warn that this type of file can be harmful; choose Download anyway.
- Open it and allow the installThe first time, Android asks to let your browser install apps. Turn that on, go back, and tap Install.
- Add your spotsUse your location or search any town or ZIP. Allow notifications for warning pushes. When a new version is out, the app shows a banner to grab it.
On an iPhone? Open app.wkita.com in Safari, tap Share, then Add to Home Screen. It runs like an app.