WxUp.TV is an independent weather information and learning project from AiEi Ohio Labs. Its mission is to make public weather data easier to explore, understand, and check against its original source. The site combines practical viewing tools with plain-language explanations so a visitor can see both the data and the limits of what that data can tell them.
Why WxUp.TV exists
Public weather information is abundant, but a raw image, table, bulletin, or data feed can still be difficult to interpret. WxUp.TV is built around the idea that the useful part is not simply reproducing a source. The useful part is organizing it for a clear task, preserving the source trail, explaining what the display represents, and calling out the situations where another source or more context is needed.
Radar is the clearest example. A loop can make precipitation motion easy to see, but it cannot by itself tell a visitor everything happening at ground level or replace a warning. WxUp.TV pairs the loop with station selection, source references, alert and forecast context, interpretation guides, and radar-limit notes so the image is part of a larger explanation rather than an isolated feed.
What you can explore
- Radar: station-based animated radar loops with nearby-station tools, forecast and alert context, and links back to official weather information.
- Learning guides: original explainers about reading radar motion, understanding color and reflectivity, distinguishing watches and warnings, and recognizing common radar limitations.
- Rainfall and Weather Roundup: organized views of selected public products, including archive and regional context where the underlying source supports it.
- Sky, agriculture, and Signals experiments: source-labeled views that explore astronomy, climate-reference observations, air quality, space weather, solar energy, earthquakes, and natural-event data.
- Route Weather: an ad-free pre-trip pilot that samples weather context along an estimated route while keeping official forecasts and road information as the decision sources.
How WxUp.TV adds value
The source feed is the beginning of a WxUp.TV page, not the finished editorial product. Depending on the feature, the site may select a useful slice of a public dataset, normalize fields for consistent display, organize observations by place or time, calculate presentation helpers, preserve history, or connect several official links around one viewing task. Those transformations are identified as WxUp.TV presentation rather than as new official weather products.
Each mature product is intended to answer four questions: Where did this information come from? What did WxUp.TV do to organize or interpret it? How fresh is it expected to be? What are the important limitations? The Data Sources page documents the source families and update behavior, while the Editorial Policy explains the boundary between source material, publisher context, and safety guidance.
That distinction matters. NOAA, the National Weather Service, and other source organizations remain the authorities for their own data and products. WxUp.TV contributes the interface, organization, cross-links, explanatory writing, and clearly labeled derived context.
Who publishes WxUp.TV
WxUp.TV is published as an independent AiEi Ohio Labs project. The site does not ask readers to treat it as an official meteorological authority. Its trust model is based instead on visible sourcing, reproducible method notes, clear separation between source data and publisher-added context, and direct links to the organizations responsible for official information.
No government agency operates, endorses, or controls WxUp.TV. References to NOAA, the National Weather Service, the U.S. Naval Observatory, NASA, the U.S. Geological Survey, and other providers identify data sources; they do not imply affiliation or endorsement.
Editorial and safety standards
WxUp.TV favors plain language over certainty it cannot support. Educational copy should explain what a display can reasonably show and identify material limitations such as radar beam height, terrain, delayed upstream data, modeled estimates, incomplete feeds, or the difference between an observation and an official warning. Experimental products are labeled as experiments or pilots until their behavior and presentation are mature enough to be treated as ordinary site features.
WxUp.TV does not issue official watches, warnings, advisories, forecasts, emergency instructions, aviation guidance, marine guidance, or road-condition reports. For safety decisions, use weather.gov, appropriate official agencies, trusted local meteorologists, and local emergency management.
Independence and funding
Advertising or sponsorship may support WxUp.TV as the site develops, but commercial messages must remain separate from weather controls, official-source links, alerts, warnings, and safety instructions. Advertising does not determine source selection or change the site's editorial boundary. Advertising is only considered on fully published pages where it can remain secondary to substantial page content and separate from the actions a visitor is trying to complete.
Corrections and accountability
Weather sources change, links break, parsing rules can need revision, and explanatory wording can be improved. Visitors are encouraged to report a confusing explanation, stale source reference, display problem, or possible data-handling error through the Contact page. A useful correction report includes the page URL, the station or product involved when relevant, the approximate time, and a description of what appeared incorrect or unclear.
What we are building toward
WxUp.TV is evolving from a focused radar-loop viewer into a source-aware weather learning and context site. New coverage is added when it gives visitors a clearer way to understand a useful public dataset, not simply to increase the number of pages. The long-term goal is a coherent library in which tools, explainers, source notes, archives, and experiments reinforce one another while keeping official information one click away.