Climate Rewind
What the weather did to your street.
Climate change, measured at your address.
For anyone renting, buying or living somewhere the climate is changing.
Everything the National Weather Service recorded at an address since 2000, from floods and tornadoes to heat, wind, ice and lightning, replayed on real radar. Built on official records from NOAA, the National Weather Service and FEMA.
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Or your own address
The first look takes a few seconds while we read the records; the AI’s writing follows.
Watch the storms move
Every hour of the wind across the whole storm, the hurricane on its official track, and each storm report the moment it was filed.
Sep 28 to 29, 2022 · southwest Florida
Hurricane Ian makes landfall
A Category 4 eyewall comes ashore at Cayo Costa, and the wind field swings across the whole peninsula.
Preview: NOAA HRRR model gusts, hour by hour, the official track, and the storm reports as filed.
Watch the replayAug 10, 2020 · Iowa and Illinois
The Iowa derecho
A line of storms crosses Iowa in an afternoon; a 126 mph gust (unofficial, per NWS) is reported at Atkins, near Cedar Rapids.
Preview: NOAA HRRR model gusts, hour by hour, and the storm reports as filed.
Watch the replaySep 26 to 27, 2024 · Florida to the Carolinas
Hurricane Helene, Gulf to mountains
Landfall in Florida's Big Bend at night, then a hurricane still as it races into Georgia, and on into the southern Appalachians.
Preview: NOAA HRRR model gusts, hour by hour, the official track, and the storm reports as filed.
Watch the replay
A flash seen from space
A 768 km megaflash (2020), the world record until 2025
On 29 April 2020 at 14:32:39 UTC, one flash ran from near Houston, Texas, into southeastern Mississippi, certified by the World Meteorological Organization, 2022. This is the satellite’s own record of it: every bit of light NOAA’s GOES-16 saw over that storm in those ten seconds, slowed down two and a half times. Other flashes in the same storm are lit too, so the light here spans a little more (803 km) than the certified flash.
Moments the records caught
Dec 10, 2021 · Mayfield, Kentucky
An EF4 tornado through downtown
0.65 km. Its track passed this close to 100 E Broadway, downtown. 24 deaths and 210 injuries were recorded in Graves County.
Linking a single tornado to climate change remains very challenging (per AP / NSSL’s Harold Brooks). Source for An EF4 tornado through downtown (opens in a new tab)
Mar 24, 2023 · Rolling Fork, Mississippi
An EF4 at night
0.3 km. Its track passed this close to 100 Walnut St. 14 deaths and 150 injuries were recorded in Sharkey County.
Linking a single tornado to climate change remains very challenging (per AP / NSSL’s Harold Brooks). Source for An EF4 at night (opens in a new tab)
Sept 1, 2021 · Flushing, Queens
Hurricane Ida’s remnants hit New York
25 flood reports. Within 15 km in one night, with the radar and the lightning seen from space. 11 deaths were recorded in Queens.
Researchers link climate change to deeper, more unequal flooding from Ida. Source (preprint) for Hurricane Ida’s remnants hit New York (opens in a new tab)
Aug 8, 2023 · Lahaina, Hawaii
The Lahaina wildfire
102 deaths. Recorded for the forecast zone that holds Front Street, with $5.5 billion in damage, on a day of high wind.
We found no formal attribution study; a UH scientist said Hawaii’s drying is consistent with climate projections. Source for The Lahaina wildfire (opens in a new tab)
Sept 28, 2022 · Fort Myers, Florida
Hurricane Ian’s landfall
$7 billion. Recorded for Lee County’s coast, next to downtown Fort Myers, with 60 deaths.
The storm’s full cost: about $119.6 billion in 2024 dollars (NOAA). Source for the full cost of Hurricane Ian’s landfall (opens in a new tab)
Climate change added at least 10% more rain (per AP, rapid study, not peer-reviewed). Source for Hurricane Ian’s landfall (opens in a new tab)
June 26–28, 2021 · Portland, Oregon
The Pacific Northwest heat dome
93 deaths. Portland International hit 108, 112 and 116°F on three days in a row. Recorded for the zone that holds City Hall.
Scientists found this heat was “virtually impossible without human-caused climate change” (World Weather Attribution). Source for The Pacific Northwest heat dome (opens in a new tab)
What you’ll see
The next 7 days
A card for each of the next 7 days: the official forecast in plain words, what days like it meant on your street before, and what to do, with every piece of advice tied to an official guidance line.
Storm replay
Real NEXRAD radar of a flood night near you, each flood report at the minute it was filed, and the radar’s own hail and rotation flags. On the sample nights, lightning seen from space.
Tornadoes
Every recorded tornado track within 10 km, drawn on with the National Weather Service’s damage survey and the radar’s rotation flags along the path.
Every event since 2000
Everything the National Weather Service filed for your county and forecast zone, from high wind and heat waves to ice storms, coastal floods and rip currents, replayed year by year.
Heat
26 years of feels-like highs at your address: the hottest day, the worst week, and how many days passed 100°F each year.
What’s changing, and getting ready
The trend in your own record, what climate models project for the 2040s, and a checklist built from what has actually happened here.
What the AI does here
An AI flood detective. It reads each National Weather Service report and moves misfiled flood pins to the street the words name, or says it doesn’t know. In a pre-registered test on 100 fresh reports, the AI detective cut wrong pins from 28% to 2%. It places fewer reports (16% vs 33% within 1 km), because it refuses to guess when a report names only a road. How it works
- The flood detectiveReads each National Weather Service flood report and re-files a misplaced pin at the street the words name, or says it doesn’t know.Real run on this site’s data: it re-filed 131 of 494 imprecise flood reports around the sample and featured addresses, in 8 states, and said “I don’t know” on the other 363. These live re-filings are not scored one by one; the 100-report pre-registered test is (wrong pins 28% → 2%).
- The damage mapperReads a tornado’s official damage narrative and pins the named streets and landmarks where it says there was damage.
- The briefing and “Ask your street”Writes the next-few-days brief and answers questions, only in sentences a source backs up. Code checks every citation and number.
What did the weather do to your street?
Type any US address in the bar at the top, or use a sample above.
These are the records the National Weather Service filed and the reports we could place near you: not every storm, and not every flood. We make no forecast of our own: the outlooks are the National Weather Service’s, and the AI only explains them.