About GenericRadar
A native NEXRAD Level II radar workstation. Rust, egui, wgpu. No accounts, no API keys, no telemetry.
Native NEXRAD Level II radar workstation in Rust (egui + wgpu)
A native NEXRAD Level II radar workstation. Rust, egui, wgpu. No accounts, no API keys, no telemetry.
GenericRadar v0.6.6
Smoother, clearer map navigation with seamless basemaps and uninterrupted radar imagery.
Basemap and navigation improvements
- Raster map tiles now meet cleanly without visible cracks; vector boundaries
remain continuous across zoom levels.
- Previously loaded basemap detail stays visible until its exact replacement
is ready, preventing black flashes while zooming.
- Cursor-anchored animated zoom and inertial panning make map movement smooth
and predictable.
- Disable animation at Settings → Navigation → Smooth camera motion if
immediate movement is preferred.
- Radar imagery is smoothly resampled during movement; decoded gate values,
scientific readouts, and underlying radar data are unchanged.
- Live low-tilt following, Level 1 I/Q reprocessing, surface observations,
placefiles, and current-view/animated-loop exports remain available.
- Pure Rust implementation with no new dependencies.
Downloads
GenericRadar.exe is the locally built and verified Windows binary. Windows
may show a SmartScreen warning because the application is not code-signed.
Additional Windows x64/ARM64, Linux x64/ARM64, and macOS Intel/Apple Silicon
packages are compiled from the same tagged source. Non-Windows builds are not
flight-tested.
Data credits
NEXRAD Level II is produced by NOAA/NWS and served from the
Unidata-hosted unidata-nexrad-level2 and
unidata-nexrad-level2-chunks buckets. Surface METAR observations are
published by the NOAA/NWS Aviation Weather Center; historical reports and
supplemental station networks are served by the Iowa Environmental
Mesonet. Additional sources include NOAA/NWS api.weather.gov,
NOAA/NSSL KOUN Level 1 data, USGS The National Map, and
OpenStreetMap contributors. Optional user-selected placefiles belong to
their respective providers. Research-radar fixtures and applicable CC BY 4.0
attributions are documented in DATA-SOURCES.md.
| Publisher | Fahrenheit Research |
|---|---|
| Version | 0.6.6 |
| Release date | 2026-08-25 |
| License | Apache-2.0 Or MIT |
| Installer type | portable |
| Architecture | x64 |
| Package ID | FahrenheitResearch.GenericRadar |
| Dependencies | Microsoft.VCRedist.2015+.x64 |
winget install --id=FahrenheitResearch.GenericRadar -ewinget upgrade --id=FahrenheitResearch.GenericRadar -ewinget uninstall --id=FahrenheitResearch.GenericRadar -eGenericRadar adds this command to the command line: GenericRadar.
Cross sections, live-feed resilience, and a choice of toolbar.
- Cross sections draw discrete radar beams by default: one band per tilt
with honest gaps where the radar never sampled, half-beamwidth extents
after Zhang et al. (2011). The smooth interpolated view remains as a
toggle in the section window. Closing the window now disarms endpoint
placement.
- When a site's realtime chunk feed dies upstream, the app now falls back
to the Level II archive bucket and keeps the picture current, labelled
"archive fallback" with its true age; it returns to the realtime feed
automatically when that leads again. A stalled feed is announced on the
toolbar and on the pane instead of silently ageing.
- Two toolbar styles, one setting apart (Settings > Appearance): the
compact menu bar (default) and the everything-visible row from v0.1.0.
- Frame age readouts on the status line and pane headers; contrast-audited
chrome in both theme benches.
The executable is unsigned; Windows SmartScreen will warn on first run.
To build from source: cargo build --release -p workstation_app --bin GenericRadar.
Data: NOAA/NWS NEXRAD Level II; api.weather.gov; USGS The National Map;
(c) OpenStreetMap contributors.
Yes. GenericRadar is free and open-source software released under the Apache-2.0 Or MIT license.
The latest version is 0.6.6, released on Aug 25, 2026.
The download button links to the official installer published on github.com, the same file Windows Package Manager installs. You can verify the downloaded file by comparing its SHA-256 checksum with a6a02e7f19f8988216b967b0caba8d3d93e8e4b40aaa92b2661e0fdfdaa9eca5.
GenericRadar runs on Windows and is available for 64-bit (x64) systems.
Open Settings › Apps › Installed apps, find GenericRadar and select Uninstall. From the command line, run winget uninstall --id=FahrenheitResearch.GenericRadar -e.
Yes. GenericRadar is available as a portable program (GenericRadar.exe, 64-bit (x64)) that runs without installation. Copy it to any folder or USB drive and run it from there.