Weather model charts for anywhere in the world, fast and free, of the sort forecasters look at rather than the tidied-up app version.
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Pivotal Weather sits in Weather Watching under Wander, filed as coffee break.
About this category: Wind maps, radar loops, satellite imagery and forecast models that look extraordinary regardless of whether you need to know about rain.
Yes. Pivotal Weather is free to use and needs no account.
No. You can use Pivotal Weather without signing up for anything.
Not well. We file Pivotal Weather as desktop only, so open it on a laptop or desktop computer.
Yes, we file it as safe for work. It also works muted.
We file it as "Coffee break": Five to fifteen minutes of proper attention.
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