About this site

MesoRadar Learn is an education project from Ingenio Productions, the independent studio behind the MesoRadar app. We'll be upfront about the relationship: we believe that once people can read radar, they'll want good radar tools, and ours is free to install with a genuinely useful free tier. Teaching the skill honestly is our marketing. We also sell a subscription, and we say so on the manual page rather than burying it.

Everything here is written to stand on its own. The guides are grounded in publicly documented meteorology: NWS Warning Decision Training Division material, NSSL research on MRMS and dual-polarization, peer-reviewed papers, and the operational conventions forecasters use daily. Each guide lists its sources at the end. Concepts are app-agnostic: dBZ means the same thing in every radar app ever made, including our competitors'.

Editorial standards

MesoRadar Learn does not publish filler, dates every guide and corrects mistakes visibly. If you find an error, from a wrong beam-height figure to a misleading simplification, write to [email protected] and it will be fixed, with the change noted. Safety guidance always defers to the National Weather Service; when this content and an active NWS warning disagree about what you should be doing, the warning wins, every time.

What this site is not

It is not a forecast, not a warning service, and not a substitute for official information. During severe weather, your sources are the National Weather Service, your local NWS forecast office, and local emergency management. Start at weather.gov/safety.