HRRR-Render

Fahrenheit Research·FahrenheitResearch.HRRR-Render

The world's fastest HRRR weather map renderer - Rust CLI tool

The world's fastest HRRR (High Resolution Rapid Refresh) map renderer, written in pure Rust. Downloads HRRR GRIB2 data from NOAA's AWS S3 bucket using byte-range requests, parses GRIB2 format, and renders beautiful weather maps as PNG using rayon parallelism.

winget install --id FahrenheitResearch.HRRR-Render --exact --source winget

Latest 0.6.0·March 10, 2026

Release Notes

HRRR Viewer v0.6.0 Interactive HRRR weather model viewer with real-time rendering on Natural Earth base maps. What's New

  • Interactive GUI - Pan/zoom map viewer with cursor lat/lon and data readout
  • 55+ weather fields organized by category (Surface, Radar, Severe, Shear, Mesoscale, Moisture, Upper Air, Boundary Layer, Composites)
  • Animation loop - Play through forecast hours with configurable speed and range
  • GIF export - Save animation loops as animated GIFs
  • Frame caching - Previously viewed forecast hours load instantly
  • Run picker - Dropdown with last 24 model cycles Severe Weather Parameters SB/ML/MU CAPE & CIN, 0-3km CAPE, Lifted Index, SRH (0-1km, 0-3km), Effective Helicity, Critical Angle, Bunkers Storm Motion, Max Updraft Helicity (2-5km, 0-2km, 0-3km), Max Updraft/Downdraft Velocity, Relative Vorticity, Hail Size, Lightning Threat, ESP, and more. Downloads ───────────────────┬─────────────────────────────────────────────────── Platform │File ───────────────────┼─────────────────────────────────────────────────── Windows x64 │hrrr-render-windows-x86_64.zip (includes CLI + GUI) ───────────────────┼─────────────────────────────────────────────────── macOS Apple Silicon│HRRRViewer-macOS-AppleSilicon.dmg ───────────────────┼─────────────────────────────────────────────────── macOS Intel │HRRRViewer-macOS-Intel.dmg ───────────────────┼─────────────────────────────────────────────────── Linux x64 │hrrr-render-linux-x86_64.tar.gz ───────────────────┴─────────────────────────────────────────────────── macOS Users If you see a Gatekeeper warning, right-click the app and select "Open", or run: xattr -cr "/Applications/HRRR Viewer.app" Full Changelog: v0.5.0...v0.6.0

Installer type: zip

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Details

Homepage
https://github.com/FahrenheitResearch/hrrr-render
License
Proprietary
Publisher
Fahrenheit Research
Support
https://github.com/FahrenheitResearch/hrrr-render/issues
Copyright
Copyright © Fahrenheit Research. All Rights Reserved.
Moniker
hrrr-render