Radar MonsterHayley Built This

Interactive radar · lower 48

Experimental radar map

Pan and zoom to explore recent radar imagery from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet. This mosaic is an alternative to the NWS image loops elsewhere on Radar Monster.

Skip map to radar controls
Displayed mosaic

The age of the newest mosaic is unavailable.

Loading the radar map…

Loading the radar map…

Radar reflectivity · dBZIEM N0Q radar reflectivity color scale in dBZView the radar color scale

Radar source: Iowa Environmental Mesonet · NEXRAD base reflectivity mosaic (N0Q)

Mosaic times use your local time by default. Click or tap the time to switch to UTC; hover to see UTC. Individual radar observations can be older. Blank areas can mean no echoes or missing coverage.

Coverage: lower 48 states. Alaska, Hawaii, Puerto Rico, and Guam are outside this map’s coverage.

Open IEM’s radar viewer

Use the arrow keys on the timeline to change frames. The map supports keyboard pan and zoom.

Another way to view radar

Iowa State University assembles this mosaic from radar data through a separate image-processing path. It still depends on upstream radar observations, and may show different detail or colors from the NWS loops.