You just watched
the product work.
That feed above isn't a mockup — it's a simulated preview of exactly what Aura Radar puts on your channel, 24 hours a day, with nobody in the chair. Broadcast-quality 24/7 weather stream in a box, for any gaming PC or Apple Silicon Mac.
The director never sleeps.
Aura Radar's AI camera makes the calls a human producer would make — it just never clocks out. It flies to storms, dwells on detail, patrols quietly when the sky is calm, and comes home the second severe weather clears.
AUTO-DIRECTOR · LIVE
No operator. No schedule. No excuses.
Event-ranked director logic prioritizes tornado > severe thunderstorm > flash flood > tropical > watch. 30-second refresh cadence on active tornado warnings — matching WSV3's fastest tier — dropping to a courteous 2-minute cadence when the sky is calm.
LiveScan-equivalent, without the price.
Real-time NEXRAD Level-2 reflectivity and velocity from all 197 active CONUS radar sites — Alaska, Hawaii, Guam, and Puerto Rico included — with optical-flow interpolation so motion never jumps.
A cinematic map, not a toolkit.
Day/night terminator with three twilight bands, NASA night-lights, a water shimmer shader, and bloom on storm cores from 30–65 dBZ — a warm gold glow where lesser radar products just show a flat color ramp. Sun position is computed from real UTC time.
CONUS · NATIONAL VIEW
Your logo. Your stream.
Drop a watermark.png in the radar_data folder and your bug appears bottom-right at 72% opacity, aspect preserved, live-reloaded with no restart. Underneath it, a layers panel with 40+ toggleable, broadcast-tuned data layers.
LAYERS PANEL · 40+ TOGGLES
Every layer, on or off, at runtime.
Hail overlay (MRMS MESH, five tiers), echo tops, rotation history heatmap, TVS couplet icons, 4,251 live surface stations, RTMA temperature raster, county lines, highways, airports, range rings — persistent preferences, no restart required.
The one thing nobody else has: AFD.
The on-duty NWS meteorologist's own forecast discussion, scrolling live across the bottom of the screen — auto-selecting the WFO for the top warning, refreshed every 30 minutes. No other radar product surfaces this at all.
Plain-English storm cards, too.
640×320 storm context cards auto-mirror sides, tint by event type, and translate the polygon into plain English — "SPIN-UP TORNADO RISK," peak hail size, peak echo top, motion speed, and ETA to the next named city.
MIAMI-DADE · BROWARD, FL
Sleep mode. Same map, easier on the eyes.
A melanopic-low ember grade shifts color temperature from 2200K to 2700K overnight while a chroma signal mask keeps storm cores fully readable. Drag the handle to see the transition.
A cinematic soundscape. No other radar has audio at all.
AudioDirector layers 10 ambient pads, air layers, 11 motifs, rain beds, and thunder cracks that respond to what's on screen — with Dark Sky Mode and Torrential Mode for the biggest storms. Music and rain can be switched off entirely.
Replay: real Sept 2026 storms, rendered on-air.
Aura Radar is already live on YouTube 24/7 — 60–90 concurrent viewers and growing, with zero unplanned outages across the 48-hour soak before release.
The monitor wall. Everyone else, side by side.
Every other radar product sells a toolkit for meteorologists. Aura Radar sells a finished broadcast channel.
| Monitor | Aura Radar | WSV3 Core | WSV3 Pro | GRLevel3 | RadarScope Pro |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Price | $199 / $29 mo | $100 | $400 | $200 | $10/mo |
| Turn-key stream | ✅ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ |
| Auto-director | ✅ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ |
| Cinematic look | ✅ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ |
| AudioDirector | ✅ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ |
| AFD ticker | ✅ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ |
| Bloom on cores | ✅ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ |
| Custom watermark | ✅ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ |
| Storm cards | ✅ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ |
| LIVE STORM chip | ✅ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ |
| Sleep mode | ✅ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ |
| Real Level-2 velocity | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ❌ |
| Hail / echo tops | ✅ | ❌ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ |
| METAR stations | ✅ (4.2k) | ❌ | ✅ (8k+) | ❌ | ✅ (limited) |
| Placefile import | ❌ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ❌ |
| Timeline scrub | ❌ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ |
On air. Pick your license.
Windows 10/11 (RTX 3060+, i5 8th gen+/Ryzen 5 3rd gen+) or macOS 12+ (Apple Silicon recommended, Metal renderer). 25+ Mbps upload, OBS Studio free, one-click first-run setup.
One-time license
- v1.x lifetime updates, perpetual license
- v2 is a $99 paid upgrade when it ships
- Runs on your own PC or Mac — no cloud fees
- All headline features, full layers panel
Monthly subscription
- All versions forever, including future majors
- Priority support
- Cancel anytime
- Same broadcast, same director, same HUD
What it doesn't do.
We'd rather tell you now than have you find out after checkout.
- No placefile import yet — on the roadmap
- No timeline scrub or VOD playback
- No colormap picker, no 4-panel split view
- Can't save video locally — the streaming platform saves it
- Requires OBS Studio (free) or another RTMP encoder
- Requires an always-on machine — it's a broadcast, not a batch job
Built by one developer who ships.
Aura Radar is built by Chris Davidson — VP of AI at the Dallas Mavericks, 20+ years of software engineering — and yforest LLC, his indie software studio.
Point it at OBS. Hit go. Walk away.
Broadcast-quality 24/7 weather stream in a box. No datacenter, no cloud, no monthly data fees — just your gaming PC or Apple Silicon Mac, doing the job of a small station's control room.