U.S. Outdoor Tools
One place. Five outdoor signals. See what matters first, then open the underlying NOAA, NWS, USGS and phenology decision tool.
Today near your location
Why are these cards in this order?
The desk orders live hazards and time-sensitive opportunities ahead of routine context. Official flood/freeze signals outrank seasonal or low-urgency conditions. This is a display priority, not a universal safety score.
Open the full decision tools
These links remain crawlable and useful even when a live feed is unavailable.
Aurora Tonight
NOAA aurora signal + darkness + NWS clouds + moon context, with the best dark-weather window and confidence shown separately.
River Conditions
Nearby USGS gauges with current flow, six-hour trend, same-date historical percentiles, and official NOAA flood forecasts when a gauge match exists.
Frost Dates & Freeze Risk
Spring and fall NOAA freeze probabilities, live NWS freeze risk, hard-freeze detection, and station-distance confidence.
Planting Calendar
A sourced 20-crop decision engine tied to NOAA freeze climatology and the live NWS cold forecast.
Fall Color Timing
USA-NPN historical autumn timing band plus separate current NWS weather context. No invented live “percent peak” score.
One location, separate source truth
The desk does not blend observations, forecasts, climatology and derived estimates into a mystery score. Each card keeps its own source class, freshness and uncertainty, then links to the full explanation.
Michigan stays deeper
The existing Michigan & Great Lakes tools remain intact. When Michigan already has a richer canonical product, the national tool points there rather than cloning it.