Oklahoma City3D

This is London with the weather drawn on it. Drag the timeline at the bottom and the sun, clouds, rain, wind, fog and wet streets change to the forecast for that hour, up to 48 hours ahead.

The Activities tab holds 59 things people do where weather decides: commuting, sport, health, home and garden, sky and light, outdoor work. Each has its own thresholds (for example gusts above 10 m/s ground most consumer drones, paint needs 10° to cure, fair skin burns in about 20 minutes at UV 6) and each answers two questions: is it fine at this hour, and when is the best hour in the next two days.

Everything the map can answer

Getting around: Cycle commute, Walk to work, Drive, Motorbike or scooter, Wait at a bus stop, Catch a flight, School run, Night out, walking home.

Sport: Go for a run, Long run or parkrun, Road cycling, Football on grass, Tennis, Golf, Outdoor swim (lido), Row or kayak on the river, Surf or bodyboard, Sailing, Hill walk.

Out and about: Beach day, Outdoor ice skating, Picnic or BBQ, Pub garden or outdoor dining, Sightseeing on foot, Observation deck or tower view, Boat trip on the river, Street market or shopping, Museums and indoor plans, Outdoor concert or festival, Wedding or event photos outside, Kids at the playground, Baby in the pram, Dog walk, Older relative going out.

Health: Hay fever, Asthma or sensitive lungs, Pressure-sensitive (migraine), Sunburn risk, Heat stress, Wind chill and cold, Dry eyes, skin, contact lenses.

Home and garden: Dry laundry outside, Water the garden, Mow the lawn, Paint or stain outside, Wash the car, Clean the windows, Open the windows and air the flat, Frost on the car, Heating on tonight?.

Sky and light: Sunrise, Sunset and golden hour, Stargazing, See the moon, Fog and mist photography, Rainbow chance, Fly a drone, Fly a kite.

Work outdoors: Crane and working at height, Roofing, Delivery rider, Market stall or gazebo, Film or photo shoot.

Places on the map

Oklahoma City National Memorial, Myriad Botanical Gardens, Bricktown, Scissortail Park, National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum, Oklahoma City Zoo and Botanical Garden, Lake Hefner, Paycom Center, Science Museum Oklahoma, Oklahoma City National Memorial & Museum, Robert S. Kerr Park, Oklahoma County Courthouse (parks, viewpoints and landmarks mapped in OpenStreetMap), each with a weather verdict for the hour on the timeline and the best hour in the next two days.

Local weather notes

Oklahoma City is in the heart of Tornado Alley: April and May bring supercells, large hail and warnings that everyone takes seriously. The wind blows most days of the year, summers run past 100°F, and winters swing from 70°F to an ice storm within a week.

Nearby cities in 3D

Tulsa in 3D, Wichita in 3D, Dallas in 3D, Fort Worth in 3D.

Frequently asked questions

What does the Oklahoma City 3D weather map show? The city's streets and buildings in 3D with the weather drawn on them: sun and real shadows, clouds, rain, wind and fog for every hour of the next 48, from Open-Meteo's forecast for the city centre.

How do I find the best hour for an activity? Pick an activity under Activities, such as a cycle commute or a beach day. The map gives a verdict for the hour on the timeline and points to the best hour in the next two days.

Where does the data come from? Forecasts come from Open-Meteo (several models), the rain radar from RainViewer, the map from OpenStreetMap and OpenFreeMap. Model accuracy is graded by CheckWeather against ERA5.

Is the map free? Yes. It runs in the browser with no login and no app, on phone, tablet and desktop.

Part of the Oklahoma City weather page, which compares NWS, American, European side by side. The United States rain radar shows the present; this map shows the next 48 hours.

What is real and what is estimated

Map: OpenFreeMap and OpenStreetMap contributors. Terrain: Mapterhorn. Radar: RainViewer. Weather: Open-Meteo. Air: London Air, Imperial College.

• The sun's position is computed for this exact spot and time. Lighting follows it; cloud cover greys it down.
• Rain and wind on the map follow Open-Meteo's forecast for the city centre grid point, about 1 to 2 km across. They are not street-level.
• The radar is RainViewer's public composite at coarse resolution (about 600 m per pixel over the city). It shows the present only.
• Building heights come from OpenStreetMap. Where a building has no recorded height, the map shows a guess.
• "Do the models agree" compares five global and regional models for the same hour. Agreement is not accuracy; the trust card shows which model has actually been right in London.
• Air quality and pollen come from Copernicus (CAMS) via Open-Meteo, at about 10 km resolution. Pollen is available in Europe only. The station dots are real hourly measurements from the London Air network (Imperial College).
• Sun and shade shifts each building's footprint away from the sun by its height, so it shows which side of a street is in sun. It is an approximation, not a ray-traced shadow.
• Rain by district uses eleven separate forecast points across Greater London; showers can differ between them by the hour.
• Verdicts are rules of thumb from public guidance (Met Office, WHO UV index, CAA drone limits, RHS), not personal advice.

Sources

• Map: OpenFreeMap, data OpenStreetMap
• Terrain: Mapterhorn
• Sound, Motion and Lens are optional senses: wind, rain and thunder are synthesised from the forecast numbers (no recordings), the view sways with the gusts, and raindrops land on the lens when it rains. Off by default; Motion never runs under reduced-motion settings.
• From zoom 14 every building near the camera is drawn by the 3D engine and lit by the sun with a real shadow map, so streets and parks fall into the shade of the buildings around them. Further out the map's own extrusions take over.
• Clouds overhead are soft sprites at 900 to 1,400 m that drift with the wind; the aircraft follow the Heathrow approach path over the city at published heights, one every 100 seconds by day. Both are illustrative.
• Water is a reflective surface that mirrors a sky built from the forecast (sun position, cloud cover, night); ripples follow the wind and rain roughens it. Buildings over 45 m are drawn as glass that reflects the same sky. Both are illustrative, not photographs.
• Landmarks are simplified models built from published dimensions (London Eye 135 m, Elizabeth Tower 96 m, Tower Bridge towers 65 m, The Shard 310 m), not survey data.
• Trains run on the mapped railway lines (four cars, illustrative timetable). Street life is illustrative and drawn at toy scale (about 1.6x real size so it reads from above): cars, buses and people move along the real streets in numbers that follow the hour (rush hours 07-09 and 16-19), the weekday, and the weather (rain and cold empty the pavements). No open live-position feed for road traffic is used, so nothing here is a tracked vehicle.
• Venues on the Activities tab (golf courses, tennis courts, lidos, pitches, parks, playgrounds, dog parks, viewpoints, markets, pubs with gardens): 4,910 places from OpenStreetMap; the colour is the situation's verdict for the hour, the same for all of them because the forecast is one grid point.
• Trees: 42,783 individually mapped trees in central London, OpenStreetMap (natural=tree). Crown size and height are illustrative.
• Radar: RainViewer public API
• Forecast: Open-Meteo (ECMWF, Met Office, ICON, GFS, Meteo-France)
• Accuracy: CheckWeather methodology