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Surfaces
- Fire outlook
Five-day Fire Weather Index — temperature, humidity, wind, drought code combined.
- Wind atlas
Surface wind is the dominant driver of fire spread. Live ADS-B-derived flow.
- Precipitation
Recent rainfall (or its absence) — the other half of the fuel-moisture picture.
- Fire reports
Member reports of moorland, grassland and forest fires. Geotagged, plume-trackable.
- Member sign in
Chase planner, live coordination, in-field comms and the full back office.
Learn
Background, history and the science behind UK storm watching. For chasers, journalists, students, and anyone curious about what the weather is doing.
- Storm chasing in the UK
What it actually looks like — and how it differs from Tornado Alley.
- UK storm history
Named and notable storms going back to 1953, with the imagery and the numbers.
- Impact this season
What's been reported, where, and how the season is shaping up.
- How UK weather data is gathered
Radar, sondes, satellites, lightning networks and the rest of the observation stack.
- A brief history of the Met Office
From FitzRoy and the first gale warning in 1861 through to the supercomputer era.
- The tools we run
Stormfront lens, wind atlas from ADS-B, MTG-LI lightning, and the rest of the Chaseit stack.
New here?
What is this?
A volunteer storm-watch hub for southern UK. Plain-English forecasts, live radar, and reports from chasers on the ground. About Chaseit.
Where to start
The Outlook shows the next five days. Radar shows what’s falling now. Not a chaser? Start here.
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