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 Screenshot of MyRadar in 2024 | |
| Company type | Weather forecasting |
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| Founded | 2008 |
| Founder | Andy Green |
| Headquarters | Orlando, Florida |
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| Owner | Andy Green |
Number of employees | ~100 (2024) |
| Parent | ACME AtronOmatic |
| Website | myradar |
MyRadar is a free weather forecasting application developed and run by CEO Andy Green and his Orlando, Florida-based company ACME AtronOmatic (ACME). The app is one of the most popular in its field, with 50 million downloads across iOS, Android, and Windows devices in 2024.
Beginning operations in 2008, the app for its first decade ran solely on free government-provided weather and radar data, but still became popular. To publish improved predictions of ongoing weather unique to the app, the first of many personal satellites was launched by the app in 2019. With funding to improve the apps radar and imaging notably coming from the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), and the Office of Naval Research (ONR), ACME was able to create a weather data satellite constellation named "Hyperspectral Orbital Remote Imaging Spectrometer" (HORIS), which runs off of machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI) to create a current weather map. With the introduction of additional of features including the detection of wildfires and illegal fishing, the app has more broadly become an environmental intelligence app since 2022. In 2024, the app partnered with the Total Traffic and Weather Network (TTWN) to provide traffic flow and incident data for users with paying subscriptions via CarPlay and Android Auto, becoming one of the first weather apps to do so.
The app has received both positive and negative criticism since its launch, with positive criticism revolving around a number of the app's features, and negative criticism revolving around the selling of users data.