FORECAST POLAND
IMGW-PIB's own model, rendered the way it deserves — four times a day, at 2.8 kilometres.
Poland, and everything moving across it
LOADING…Click a nation for its forecasts and warnings, or a centre for the models framed on it. Drawn in transverse Mercator — the Ordnance Survey's own convention — with the relief and the North Sea's real bathymetry rendered from the elevation itself, the way an atlas plate is.
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IMGW-PIB's own mesoscale model over Poland — a real national model, published openly, and drawn by almost nobody outside the institute. With ICON-EU, the Met Office global and ECMWF IFS beside it.
The lid, and what it traps
Polish winter smog forms under a low-level inversion. COSMO ships temperature on fifty hybrid levels, so the inversion can be drawn directly and the smog index built from it — with GIOŚ's measurements beside the forecast.
The wind off the mountains
Air spilling down the northern side of the Tatras and warming as it falls — the wind that strips roofs in Podhale and collapses the dewpoint ten degrees in an hour.
Radar, on the model's frame
The national composite warped onto the same box the models are drawn in, so the last five minutes of reality sits over the next hour of forecast and the map does not move between them.
The Vistula and the Odra
This country's disasters are river disasters. Every gauge with its official warning and alarm stage, on the rivers the model's rainfall is falling into.
Why this site exists
COSMO, taken seriously
IMGW-PIB publishes a full 2.8 km mesoscale model openly, under the EU high-value-dataset rules, and almost nobody renders it. Here it is the flagship: every cycle, hourly frames, at native detail.
Fields off the model levels
Fifty hybrid levels means the low-level inversion, the smog index built on it and the halny can be drawn directly rather than guessed from surface fields. No other public forecast site for Poland has them.
Absolute colour scales
Every ramp is pinned to real values, so a loop shows the weather changing and never the palette re-fitting itself. And every pixel reads back: hover anywhere for the number.
Part of a network
Forecast Poland is the Polish member of a family of model sites: Forecast Euro reads ECMWF, Forecast Britain reads the Met Office, Forecast Swiss reads MeteoSwiss, and weather.city covers places rather than models. Same viewer, same colour tables, same probe — pointed at different institutes.