GeoSphere Austria · Live

GeoSphere Observatory

Current conditions and a 60-hour high-resolution forecast for Vienna, drawn live from Austria's national weather service.

01

Current conditions

Real measurements · TAWES station network · updated every 10 minutes (dataset tawes-v1-10min)

Reading the instruments…
02

Forecast

AROME model · 2.5 km grid · re-run every 3 hours · 60 hours ahead (dataset nwp-v1-1h-2500m, prerelease)

Computing the sky…
03

Every forecast parameter

Whatever the model exposes — each panel shows the API's own name, unit, the next value, the 60-hour range, and a trend line.

Listing parameters…
04

About the data

What am I looking at?

This page talks to the GeoSphere Austria Data Hub API — the open data service of Austria's national weather, climate and geophysics institute (the former ZAMG, founded 1851, whose headquarters and historic observatory are at Hohe Warte in Vienna). No account or key is needed; everything is public.

Two separate datasets feed this dashboard:

① Current conditions — tawes-v1-10min

Live readings from a real automatic weather station (TAWES = Teilautomatische Wetterstationen). The values refresh every 10 minutes. You can switch between Vienna stations with the selector at the top; the default is Hohe Warte (station id 11035). The "feels like" figure is the only computed number — an apparent-temperature estimate from temperature, humidity and wind.

② Forecast — nwp-v1-1h-2500m (AROME)

AROME (Application of Research to Operations at MEsoscale) is a high-resolution numerical weather model on a 2.5 km grid covering the greater Alpine area. GeoSphere re-runs it every 3 hours and publishes 60 hours of hourly forecast. This page extracts the forecast at the chosen station's coordinates. Because GeoSphere marks the forecast service as prerelease (its parameter list may change), the page asks the API which parameters currently exist and then shows them all — so it stays accurate on its own.

Reading conventions

Times are shown in Vienna local time. Wind appears in m/s with km/h beside it. Forecast temperatures reported in Kelvin are converted to °C. Anything the API returns as empty shows as “—”.

Legend — current-condition parameters

The station reports far more than is shown above; these are the ones this dashboard requests. Codes are the API's German parameter names.

CodeMeaningUnit
TLAir temperature at 2 m (current 10-min value)°C
TLMAX / TLMINHighest / lowest air temperature within the last 10 min°C
TSAir temperature very close to the ground (5 cm)°C
TPDew point — temperature at which the air would saturate°C
RFRelative humidity%
PAir pressure measured at the station's altitudehPa
PREDPressure reduced to mean sea level (comparable between places)hPa
FFWind speed, 10-minute meanm/s
FFAMArithmetic-mean wind speed over 10 minm/s
FFXWind gust — strongest gust in the last 10 minm/s
DDWind direction — the compass direction the wind blows from°
RRPrecipitation total over the last 10 minmm
GLOWGlobal (solar) radiation reaching the groundW/m²
SOSunshine duration in the last 10 min (max 600 s)s
SCHNEETotal snow depth on the groundcm
TB1 / TB2 / TB3Soil temperature at 10 / 20 / 50 cm depth°C

Not every station measures every parameter (e.g. radiation, sunshine or snow may be absent); those simply show “—”. Forecast parameters are documented inline on each panel in section 03, using the names and units the model itself provides.