Sky
High cloud, low cloud, total cloud cover, rain, showers, and storms.
Landscape and seascape planning
Photography weather alerts
Know when your locations are worth watching
Weather alerts for cloud, fog, wind, tides, moon timing, KP index, and other photography conditions.
What the app monitors today
Useful photography windows are often narrow. The app watches weather and timing signals that matter when planning outdoor shoots.
Atmosphere
Fog possibility, visibility, humidity, temperature, dew point, and weather-code patterns.
Motion
Wind speed, calm windows, waves, swell, and marine conditions.
Timing
Sunrise, sunset, twilight, moon events, tide windows, and KP index activity.
Special conditions and alert logic
Some useful photography signals are not a single forecast number. They depend on combinations of weather, timing, location, and threshold rules.
PhotographyWeatherAlerts supports calculated multi-signal conditions:
- Rain clearing
- Fog possibility (marine, radiation, advection)
- Moonrise/moonset near sunrise/sunset
Future work may add more advanced signals such as cloud-gap detection, cloud-edge context, and broader combinations of sky, marine, timing, and location signals.
How it works automatically
Save locations
Choose the photography locations you care about and want the app to monitor.
Define conditions
Create or apply alert rules for the forecast windows you want to watch.
Get updates
The app refreshes forecasts on a schedule and sends grouped email updates when windows match.
If the forecast changes and a previously detected opportunity no longer matches, cancellation updates can be sent. The app watches the forecast; you decide whether the window is worth acting on.
Example alert windows
These are the kinds of planning signals the app is designed to surface.
Sunset sky
High cloud near sunset
High cloud building during the evening window, with low cloud, rain risk, and wind conditions shown alongside the alert.
Still conditions
Low wind reflection window
Light wind around sunrise with low rain risk and usable sky conditions.
Atmosphere
Fog possible after sunrise
Cool, humid conditions with light wind and reduced visibility during the morning.
Coastal timing
Seascape tide overlap
Tide timing, swell, wind, and sunrise or sunset conditions lining up for a coastal location.
Night sky
Aurora watch
KP index activity worth monitoring for locations where aurora photography may be possible.
Forecast data and interpretation
Forecast and environmental data may come from sources such as Open-Meteo, Stormglass, and space-weather data providers. PhotographyWeatherAlerts then interprets those signals through photography-specific alert rules.
The app is not just a place to view raw weather data. Its purpose is to connect weather, timing, and location context into useful planning signals.
Forecasts are useful. They are not promises.
Cloud, fog, coastal weather, aurora activity, and local conditions can change quickly. Forecast models can miss real-world conditions, especially when the useful photographic window is small or highly local.
PhotographyWeatherAlerts is designed to reduce manual checking and surface promising windows. It should support your judgement, not replace it.
Currently in closed beta
PhotographyWeatherAlerts is being tested with real photography planning workflows before wider release. During beta, access, limits, features, wording, and alert behaviour may change.
A paid version is planned later, with simple limits around saved locations, alert rules, and notification volume. Pricing has not been finalised yet.