Europe’s storm season is slowly getting underway, with quite a few thunderstorms currently active across parts of France, Germany, Czechia and Belarus.
Most active ones currently over Germany & CZ.
Active thunderstorms over Europe.
Some have quite good flashrates too
Decent flashrates over the German TSTM's
Anybody have an eye on them by any chance?
Currently there's a strong rightmover in Southern France, as visible on the Toulouse radar site.
Heading towards Castres.
Judging by the reflectivity values there's a threat of large hail & some accompanying intense windgusts
When I’m watching storms in Europe, I often end up with a bunch of tabs open.
One radar site here, another one for a different country, satellite somewhere else, lightning in another viewer, model output in another tab, and then trying to keep all of that in my head while storms are actually developing.
It works, but it’s not exactly ideal — especially if you’re out chasing or trying to quickly understand what’s going on across borders.
That’s basically the problem we tried to solve with ChaseBuddy.
It brings radar, lightning, satellite, model overlays, storm tracking and other nowcasting tools together in one place, with the focus very much on Europe and European severe weather.
I’m curious how others here handle this. Do you mostly use national radar sites, separate lightning/satellite viewers, model pages, or some fixed workflow you’ve built over time?
For context, this is what we built:
https://chasebuddy.eu
Chasing or following storms in Europe?
You might want to take a look at the Chasebuddy.
It's is a European-built storm chasing and weather visualisation platformfor real-time severe weather monitoring.
It brings radar, live lightning, satellite imagery, model overlays, storm tracking, and nowcasting tools together in one operational interface, focused on the practical reality of following storms across Europe.
Instead of switching between radar sites, satellite viewers, lightning maps, model pages, and national weather services, the platform gives you one place to monitor what is happening.
It is already a nearly full severe weather suite you can use during a chase, behind your desk, or from the couch... and at the same time, it is still in very active development, with a lot more cool & really unique stuff on the way.
Website:
https://chasebuddy.eu
Staying ahead of a line structure with some interesting cells
