2024 Full Year US Weather Radar Time Lapse Animation

[@zetamewies]

2:31 Beryl 2:53 Debby 3:24 Francine 3:28 Potential Tropical Cyclone 08L 3:36 Helene 3:47 Milton 4:10 Rafael

[@Blueguy5219]

hi zeta

[@DJ-iu5bb]

What a year 😭

[@Trahzy]

​​@DJ-iu5bb We had 4 in only 6 weeks here in Florida in 2004, would love a radar loop of that year.

[@Thememegodwannystar1]

@@DJ-iu5bb zeta!!

[@MississippiStateBall]

FRANCINE HIT MS 😡

[@PCrailfan3790]

I love how you can see all the summer afternoon storms in Florida pulsing.

[@AccountInactive]

These time lapses really put into perspective how air and precipitation move about. Hard for me to grasp when I'm watching it frame by frame 😂 thank you!

[@Timmybean]

This was a huge year for me, nice to look back and reflect on it this way to see how the weather was when things were happening.

[@8CountAudio]

It’s fun to see both the obvious and subtle cyclonic curls rippling through the conus

[@milespeterson5049]

Skip ahead to 1:56 on 2024/05/25. That day there was a supercell storm in northeastern Oklahoma that caused EF3 damage. I SURVIVED IT.

[@monowires]

glad you’re still here 💛

[@kellynorton4382]

Wow! This was mesmerizing. I wasn’t expecting the tropical storms and hurricanes to be so clear. Such a neat perspective!

[@jessannemason2949]

I check the radar a lot so it feels really weird to be able to look at this and remember certain storm fronts/the waves of rain before Milton hit Tampa. 💖 thanks for the video!

[@WilliamBadgreen]

1:50 The Houston Derecho That was a freaky storm to go through. It was 6 in the afternoon and dark enough to think it was night. Strong winds and some really heavy rain and when it was over it was bright again.

[@variancewithin]

i remember that. even in brenham the street lights came on for a while. there was some bigass wind too.

[@isocarboxazid]

Meanwhile when it got to NOLA hours later, there was so much lightning at night that at times it was almost bright as day.

[@weathertrainsrandomniss1083]

Awesome! So cool to see the full year. Thanks for putting these together! Cheers from Wisconsin!

[@Robloxian_ChannelReal]

thank you camera man for sitting here a whole year

[@phillyskyguy9535]

Dead joke

[@MEALgaming204]

@@phillyskyguy9535 it’s not dead

[@macewindu9100]

@@MEALgaming204 *undead

[@briananeuraysem3321]

The clouds and grass appear to have switched places. Interesting year, 2024

[@notcat8782]

corny

[@Eternal1nstant]

What are those strange circular shaped radar signatures? They almost look like mold growths.

[@RobSchellinger]

Clear Air Mode. NWS offices frequently switch the radar to higher power when there's no rain in the area. The higher power picks up more dust, smoke, birds, bats, mosquito swarms, buildings, etc. They used to call it ground clutter, but I don't know if they still do.

[@RobSchellinger]

If you ever see a radar loop from a site near mountains, you can see long, thin spikes in the radar image. This is where mountains interfere with the radar.

[@brandonpohl2633]

Spring and fall bird migrations

[@confusingTM]

It's actually really cool that you can see the jet streams, where the rocky mountains are (and to a lesser degree, the Appalachian mountains), a couple hurricanes along the east coast, and what look to be a couple tornadoes in the alley. (i don't know if they actually became tornadoes since iirc tornadoes don't show up on radar until the debris ball becomes visible)

[@monowires]

I think tornadoes can show up on radar without a debris ball if they have a noticeable enough “hook”, although this also appears in storms that haven’t yet formed a tornado (it just indicates that a storm could turn tornadic). If I’m not mistaken you can see tornadoes on radar without a debris signature if there’s a vortex signature, which appears as a red area on radar surrounded by green. If I remember correctly it’s because of the height at which the vortex is concentrated? But, yes, I absolutely agree in that this video is fascinating for showing how the geography of the country affects the flow of weather systems. I’ve been a weather nerd since I was a kid, although I’m not nerdy enough to know the fancy terminology. I grew up on the Texas coast although I live in the Appalachian plateau now, and the differences in the way the weather is affected by geography has always fascinated me. Sorry for the ramble, I guess I had a lot to say 💀

[@sliver01]

I live in the eastern side of Western North Carolina, Burke County. I'll never forget Helene (3:36) my area got rocked good, but not as bad as Asheville and others areas though.

[@thehunta1744]

It made landfall in my area, and we got 135mph winds, but the flooding wasn't bad.

[@strana6875]

I live in Florida and went on a trip literally hours behind Helene to an hour and a half west of Asheville. Google maps miraculously kept us on perfect roads and everything seemed literally perfect, besides no cell service at all. I figured it was just a mountain thing. I didn't realize what a miracle it was that I and Fontana dam were basically completely unaffected until I got back and reports started coming in

[@MD-uq5bc]

3:37 screw Helene, dude. Live in WNC, and that was the worst 5 hours of my life, and those 5 hours created 10 years worth of rebuilding. Thoughts and prayers to all those still recovering from this.

[@showcasecity]

3:28 potential tropical cyclone 8. I was at the beach in nc when it hit. Was right in the heart of it. Made for an unforgettable trip for sure…

[@chocolateteapot737k]

3:36 Helene 3:47 Milton These 2 are UNFORGETTABLE!!!

[@B_humanpersondudeguyJJ]

The whole US isn't Florida buddy, there's like 6 others 😂

[@SlowDreamss]

​@B_humanpersondudeguyJJHelene and Milton didn't just hit Florida. It destroyed Tennessee North and South Carolina. And many deaths occurred.

[@SGTvtxshorts]

​@B_humanpersondudeguyJJ Sure, there were other storms but Florida was terribly affected by just Helene, then milton 2 weeks after

[@chocolateteapot737k]

@B_humanpersondudeguyJJ Helene's death toll was highest in nc, and I live there

[@tylermcnally8232]

​@@SlowDreamss yea but it's just in the US

[@RimjojKukacrack]

HURRICANE SEASON: 2:16 Tropical Storm Alberto 2:31 Hurricane Beryl 2:53 Hurricane Debby 3:23 Hurricane Francine 3:28 PTC 8 3:36 Hurricane Helene 3:43, 3:47 Hurricane Milton (Strongest Storm) 4:10 Hurricane Rafael OTHER EVENTS: 0:05-0:10 Two Winter Storms within a week. 1:33-1:34 Had a EF3 Tornado just northeast of Town! 2:51 Was the worst storm to move through my area, 100-105 MPH wind gusts observed.

[@danielk.7221]

you from lincoln or omaha? i'm omaha, that's why i'm asking LOL. we had the EF-4 move through elkhorn / wahoo and the squall that completely leveled omaha and cut our power off for at least a week

[@RimjojKukacrack]

@danielk.7221 Lincoln. Surprisingly, I never lost power during the squall where I live, Everyone around us did though.. You guys got it the worst unfortunately...

[@wubboxthe3rd]

1:54 i also had a tornado in my area It was an EF2 though but there were 110 wind gusts lots of businesses were damaged and most of my town had no power that day

[@chriscastagnetta]

What was 2:51? A derecho where?

[@RimjojKukacrack]

@@chriscastagnetta it goes by really fast, but if you look towards NE/IA, you will see a Squall line that was NOT classified as a derecho for some weird reason.

[@chriscastagnetta]

You can see we got nothing in the northeast during the fall. New Jersey actually had its driest month which was October, driest two month period ever (September-October), and its driest 3 month period on record (September-November) according to the NOAA’s national weather service and national centers for environmental information

[@andrewsercer9538]

October was dry throughout almost the entire US mainland. That was really interesting to see. I knew my area (Midwest) was dry and I'd heard about the drought on the East Coast, but to see the entire CONUS just empty like that was weird.

[@chriscastagnetta]

@ definitely. Our cranberry farms suffered heavily

[@soapsatellite]

As a New Jerseyan, I can tell you that it was really bizarre just not seeing rain for that long. Based on this footage, it seemed like there was something out in the Atlantic that was keep rain away for months because the pattern changes drastically from June to like December. I'm just glad the weather's back to normal. This drought really gave me an appreciation for rainfall.

[@THEcolaman-d7v]

2:06 I had more than 10 confirmed tornadoes in a small tornado outbreak in my state, 1 person was killed.

[@Scott.Lemon.605]

It's fascinating to watch the cyclical, almost set-your-watch-to-it thunderstorms that roll off of the Rocky Mountains around Denver then cruise over the Great Plains. The Rocky rain shadow is alive and well from late May through August.

[@HTV315]

I just think 2024 Was a Such a Insane year in retrospect

[@Todomo]

i hate how rain always JUST misses me. I love rain :(

[@JPthegoofball]

here take my rain i dont want it anymore (i live in texas, its a nightmare here)

[@rangerocket9453]

I don’t need rain I get it all the time (North of Washington)

[@SputnikCrisis]

Just absolutely beautiful, every year. Thank you for your stunning work!

[@Blueguy5219]

Amazing compilation! 👍

[@EliBrandis]

Ok what are those random circles that keep showing up and going away repeatedly?

[@mitchellginger7606]

I think they were probably spot showers. I might be wrong

[@andrewsercer9538]

Awesome! Can't believe this is the first time I've seen a year-long time lapse. Even without looking up past weather I can remember a handful of significant things from my neck of the woods (Kansas) I remember a couple of the big storms that moved through in the spring, including one at the end of May followed by more thru early June which led to the 3rd highest river level in my town. Then, even though only one directly impacted my area (well, the rain/radar of the main system at least) I remember the TS/hurricanes of course. Then I remember September/October being INSANELY dry and it was really interesting to see that practically the entire US mainland was extremely dry in that same period. It was actually quite shocking to see. I always assumed there's gotta be weather(rain) SOMEWHERE at any given time, right? Not really the case this fall ... And then of course, from very recent memory, the past few storm systems that moved thru central US at the end of the year, including the big tornado outbreak on 12/28 ... Hopefully I can find a video like this for every other year for the rest of my life: that was a really interesting video.

[@EazyRed]

worst year of my life as a naval weatherman. all in one video... thanks..

[@jameysingletonvideos]

Hearing that music knowing that late September is coming for western North Carolina. 😢❤

[@VeiTheOne]

2024 was an active year. From the Late April to Early Mid May Tornado Outbreak, especially May 6, the Derechos that pummeled Houston and Chicago, the Flooding in Pittsburgh, Helene's devastation, Earliest Cat 4 & 5 ever, one of the strongest Cat 5 on Record, lots of Firsts and I watched them all. 2025, a year where more Firsts could happen. Could we have another Double high Risk day like in 2023? More Record Breaking/making hurricanes like Beryl and Milton? A Tornado Outbreak even worse than Super Tuesday, or 2011? I hope not, but they ain't out of the question. Weather is changing, has already changed so much. All we can do is buckle our seatbelts, hope for the best, and prepare for the worst.

[@chriscastagnetta]

According to NOAA NWS Storm Prediction Center, 2024 was second most active on record since 1950 for tornados in the united states behind only 2011

[@VeiTheOne]

@chriscastagnetta yup. I heard about that. Crazy.

[@Spoogus]

02:38 wild how it happened while i was visiting in IL

[@adamadventures107]

I live near Chicago but I was on vacation in the Philippines when that storm hit

[@rogalik.official]

Florida was on a hurricane hit streak 💀

[@B_humanpersondudeguyJJ]

2 😂

[@TheAviationChannel13]

1:26 these storms in South Dakota were damaging. I remember it, we lost power 2 times for about 2 minutes. Shingles were on the road, downed trees / power lines.

[@variancewithin]

what are those circles of rain that pop up every night for weeks on end randomly?

[@ryanmallalieu2416]

pretty sure they are just radar anomalies, they seem to align with different radar locations

[@chriscastagnetta]

Possibly fog being picked up?

[@KorolSynthStudios]

I'm not sure about the ones across texas. But I do have an answer for the blips that constantly pop up in Arizona: Bats! The Phoenix bat cave specifically. That cave harbors millions of bats that collectively go flying out all at once every sundown, enough to blot out the sun and the sky from the ground. It gets picked up as rain since their numbers are dense enough to reflect back as "rain." I'm unsure about the small blips across texas, though. My best guess is similar phenomenon, just on a significantly smaller scale.

[@snaildrey]

these are migrating birds :) millions upon millions of birds migrate at night during spring and fall months! (notice how the circles aren't there during the summer and winter) this is how scientists are able to track bird migration through tools like the birdcast website

[@Thepkmnmaster]

For me in Minneapolis, I feel like we didn’t get nearly as much rain as normal, but I feel this year will be better (:

[@prixa._]

same in michigan, we got NOTHING

[@Thememegodwannystar1]

at 3:37 the Helene bad tornado out break that damaged our home bad

[@BrianBPlatt]

It’s crazy how north east Texas get all of the rain during rain events I’m not sure why but it’s always the spring and fall

[@ClariNerd]

It’s interesting watching us enter the active harmonic for the northeast over the past four months for the first time in almost a decade.

[@chriscastagnetta]

This was super cool thank you. Just curious, where did you compile the data from? 😅 I kill it for weather data lol

[@RadarTimeLapse]

The base information comes from NOAA and from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet (IEM). It is then modified from there for presentation.

[@chriscastagnetta]

@@RadarTimeLapse could I have a link? I’ve been looking for radar data for a long time lol 😅 Also, do you know if a radar with snow is available anywhere?

[@ellisisgamer]

1:32 Nebraska tornado outbreak. EF4 and the first time our town had a confirmed touchdown in over a decade. Crazy crazy day.

[@truckercowboyed2638]

So many massive storms over the East for the first half and the west completely dry... then suddenly by September it flips

[@dragonluvver975]

Scary how close Helene and Milton are 😮

[@zombieluka]

Here's hoping we see more rain this year in Phoenix. We barely had any dust storms last year too.

[@prowler7321]

@Radar Time Lapse now combine all of the full year videos into 1 longer video and every year edit that video to add the next years worth to the end. Would make for a fascinating compilation and with the right music a good video to fall asleep to. 2014-2024… Past Decade

[@forewinged]

It's so incredible that bird migration shows up on the weather radar!!! I assume that's what all of those weird spots are that pop up every night in the spring and fall. They seem more concentrated around the major migration flyways, so it definitely looks like birds. Millions of them!! You can even kind of see that they're heading north during spring, and south during fall :D

[@lukefriederichsen]

2:10 - 2:20 record breaking upper Midwest floods wettest April-June on record for Minnesota

[@Smartlili]

October was really dry for most of the country

[@patriciawielk9931]

It looks like in this time lapse CT get slammed with a thunderstorm almost every day That’s how many thunderstorms that we got

[@arandomuserofinternet]

1:53 Iowa tornado outbreak, it was definitely an experience to say the least (i wasn't in the greenfield tornado though)

[@itsmrclutch]

2:38 Corn Belt Derecho

[@cnone3785]

What happen4d around feb 1 in gulf of Mexico?

[@emosh598]

That one part of michigan getting rain always

[@Yeetus_The_Trainz_Tutorial_Guy]

0:59 this is the storm that gave me my first tornado! See the other massive storms that hit southern eastern tennessee

[@STYX129]

The storm right before that spawned a tornado in my hometown in western ohio, barely missed me.

[@AustinThomasPhD]

So cool you can see the seasonal bird migration.

[@AtheMediocre]

I like seeing the Lake Effect

[@Driven2Beers]

Me too! I live a half hour north of Watertown NY, so they might end up with a foot and a half of snow and we end up with partly cloudy. You don't have to shovel, snow blow, or plow partly cloudy. 👍

[@mattzaj]

Great stuff! Would it be a lot of work to make a dark mode/map version of these time lapses?

[@RadarTimeLapse]

It could be possible, but it would be a lot of additional work. The default map for the radar information is as shown.

[@ChuckLivingston-is3ll]

Was visiting my grandparents in Iowa on apr 26. When the storm hit. three tornadoes touched down near my grandparents house. I was absolutely shitting myself while my grandmother calmly walked to the basement while my grandfather just bolted outside to film that shit. I was like wtf dude

[@poultrytruffle]

What’s with the pulsing dots, mostly in the east half of the country? That started around 3/6 and ended around 5/26 and again later on? Is that like a radar thing?

[@RadarTimeLapse]

These are radar anomalies.

[@emobean]

would it be possible to have a super simple elevation map? or show where the mountains are? I live in wv currently, and I used to live in MD. now living closer to the Appalachian range, I notice the weather is different closer to the mountain and at a different elevation, and we can see it modify storms on the radar

[@RadarTimeLapse]

It could be done, but it would be a trade-off between extra clutter and more insight into surface effects on weather

[@justacommenter9389]

What was with the flashing green spots

[@RadarTimeLapse]

That is typically radar anomalies of some sort. It could either be humidity, insects, or fog.

[@ElBantosClips]

Why do the thunderstorms popping up everyday look similar? Is that from local cities/towns creating thermal effects?

[@DesertSessions93]

3:36 when a hurricane is powerful enough to make it all the way to Michigan.

[@chriscastagnetta]

Tho to be fair was post tropical by the time it’s outer bands reached Michigan

[@BaseballandGod4life]

@@chriscastagnettaoh yeah. Lake michagain couldn’t revive this storm 😂 plus it was past tropical depression stages, so it wasn’t very bad. I was seeing family in northern Indiana and I western Illinois that week, and all of a sudden I checked the radar and saw a huge storm over Kentucky.

[@chriscastagnetta]

@ yeah. Gotta say, Helene really showed how devastating inland tropical cyclones are

[@lifew_jade]

Prayers to North Carolina they suffered MASSIVE damage because of Helene! (South Carolina got hit hard too but North Carolina got it kinda worse)

[@chriscastagnetta]

@ orographic lift can be a menace sometimes

[@christopherfox13]

I really wish you did these at half speed

[@jamesmcgowin]

You can change the settings to play at half or even a quarter speed by clicking the gear

[@christopherfox13]

@ you know, I knew that but it somehow never occurred to me to do that 🤣🤣🤣 thanks bud!

[@Thememegodwannystar1]

nice !!

[@DogsRNice]

Can anyone explain what that spike in the middle of Michigans lower peninsula is

[@RadarTimeLapse]

I think that there is a common radar error in that location for some reason. It shows up a lot over the years.

[@PPLTSS]

You can really see the tornadoes racing through the states in May

[@SGTvtxshorts]

What are these green dots at 3:16

[@Grayson_Da_Wolf]

Probably just some interference or something. I know sometimes it happens at kccx i think. I could be completely wrong

[@rickm.hamburglar5232]

My guess is that the circles are low lying clouds near the radar stations, essentially just foggy mornings.

[@tsunami870]

​@@rickm.hamburglar5232Thats what i was thinking

[@oldradiosnphonographs]

1:34 1:54 1:56 2:51 EFFFFFFF these days in particular! this past year did a number to my anxiety

[@heathergarson6793]

that big storm that hit us on the 9th. 0:06

[@pdubtk421]

Anyway, I can slow this down and watch it in real time?

[@DriftHyena]

2:22 I thought I saw death coming down my doorsteps that morning from the shelf cloud

[@Duhiclim8TreEz]

The seeding starts early April , that’s also when we had those monster tornadoes. 🤦‍♂️ slow it down. You can see the pulses in the video.

[@BaseballandGod4life]

Poor Indiana I’m realizing. Part of every trough and he “eftermath” 😂 pray for who lives there

[@WyattP-x3b]

Poor me. 😥

[@BaseballandGod4life]

@@WyattP-x3b same.

[@amberenyeart4833]

Trust me, it isn't as exciting as it looks😅

[@Ksweetpea]

Today I found a new hyperfixation that makes my brain quiet😂

[@bothewolf3466]

3:55 Roswell NM Flood, 1st flood since 1901

[@drunkjonboy]

Pulses on the radar

[@JamesSpeed65]

2:55 Hurricane Milton In Florida

[@squrieltails6321]

Debby

[@bonsaibnuuy]

that's debby, milton is 3:48

[@imboredaf2168]

2:39 the Rome ny tornado

[@Preston-oe7nd]

everyone watching their own location be like:

[@BBQPorkSandwich3]

Can clearly see how the seasons affect the weather

[@pigfish]

Raise your hand if you watched the whole video ???? (mine's up)

[@RocketCity_BAMA]

An entire rain & more rain ind. radar loop on a clear day could just be the Army blowing sht up & testing stuff & releasing a lot of chaff.

[@WinterGTAG2]

the south east got beat up

[@KoId.]

What app is this

[@RadarTimeLapse]

It's not an app. It's radar images from the weather service. They are produced every 10 minutes

[@KoId.]

@ ahh ok

[@electricredcombustion8044]

1:53 Greenfield tornado

[@anthonypetersen4520]

Daytona Florida on February 19th (😔 nascar fans)

[@B_humanpersondudeguyJJ]

3:25 Francine wasn't that bad Edit: in my city atleast 😅

[@thedancingfishyyy]

3:35 Helene

[@solarleaf2029]

What the hell was happening during October

[@austinstitzel]

I'm going to guess that you are a Sagittarius.

[@awboat]

Be cool to over lay it with what the GFS predicted.

[@reggiereynoso3489]

First here

[@Therizzlerjake]

Huh, rwin does come from nowhere.

[@UserPickForSix]

So many cutters 😢

[@GoofyGoob69]

No Snow 🤔🤔

[@RadarTimeLapse]

I agree. Sadly there is no easy place to get those images. They take more effort to produce, so the usual places charge for them

[@GoofyGoob69]

@ Ok 👍

[@michaelkowalski95]

Pretty clear after watching this that they are manipulating the weather

[@phoenixc8328]

youre insane michael

[@LeLaidbackLauncher]

*Precipitation timelapse. Precipitation isnt the only thing that happens in weather systems