Fort description
FORT is a completely free weather forecast tool that utilizes the highest quality GIS mapping technology

FORT application is a completely free weather forecast tool that utilizes the highest quality GIS mapping technology. The ability to view computer model forecast maps with zooming, panning, custom overlays and layering are just the beginning. With FORT you are able to forecast on the mesoscale level by zooming down to a county level. Overlays can give you the ability to layer roads, counties, rivers, cities, and any other custom data.

A FORT user has the ability to constrain the thresholds of a certain graphic you want to display. For example; you can choose to only display CAPE instability values from 1000 to 5000 so that your eyes go directly to the areas you are most concerned with. You can also select the color gradients assigned to these values. If you pick green and red for your threshold colors, the software will fill in every color between green and red for intermediate values. If you don't want a color filled map, a simple contour interval can be displayed just as easily.

Roaming Skew-T forecast soundings are also built into the software. Zoom in and pan around on the Skew-T for more detailed analysis. Some 130+ pieces of forecast data are available in our textual forecast sounding display for each data point. There are over 2000 data points across the United States, Canada and Mexico for viewing roaming forecast soundings!

Users of FORT take advantage of our blazing fast data feed. We render all data on our end so your software does a minimal amount of calculations. Because you're not wasting time downloading huge GRIB files from NCEP, your downloads are fast and efficient. They can even be done easily on dialup or mobile connections.