The most up to date NOAA weather radar possible!, RadarNow! draws imagery directly from the radar station and displays it on your device within seconds of it being released. Here’s a comprehensive list of the free features. Automatically detect your location and display it on a map. Display looping NOAA WSR-88D NEXRAD radar images., For local mode, where the radar imagery from a single radar station is being viewed, the more weather there is in the area, the faster the refresh rate and the lower the latency for the radar., The colors are the different radial velocities measured by the radar. In velocity images, red colors indicated wind moving away from the radar with green colors indicating motion toward the radar., RadarNow! uses two sources for radar imagery. The composite view, or the overall view that can be zoomed out to show the entire country, is constructed by stitching together the imagery from each individual radar station., Snow is just precipitation, so snow shows up in RadarNow! like any precipitation. We get our radar imagery directly from NOAA’s radar stations. The differentiation between precipitation types is an artificial enhancement to the return. The radar beam itself reflects off of water molecules pretty much the same regardless of the state (solid .