FORECAST ISRAEL
Three centres' global models and the IMS, on one atlas of the land
Israel, right now · ישראל עכשיו
LOADING…2 m temperature and 10 m wind for the current hour. Click a place for its forecast, a district for its maps. Drawn in the Israeli Transverse Mercator — the national grid's own projection, on the meridian through Jerusalem — over relief made here from the elevation itself, from the Hermon to the Dead Sea shore, 430 m below the sea.
The IMS forecast
ISRAEL METEOROLOGICAL SERVICELoading…
Fifteen cities
IMS · HIGH / LOW °The models
ECMWF · DWD · MET OFFICEHow to read it
Three centres, one instant. There is no Israeli weather model in open data — the IMS runs its own high-resolution COSMO and ICON over the Eastern Mediterranean, and publishes forecasts rather than grids — so the guidance here is the three global models a forecaster in Israel actually reads: ECMWF's HRES at 0.1°, DWD's ICON at 13 km and the Met Office Global at 10 km. The maps hold the valid time as you switch between them, and a click compares all three at one point.
The IMS's word, beside the models'. The text forecast, the fifteen city forecasts, the station observations and the warnings are the Israel Meteorological Service's own, as it publishes them. When a model and the IMS disagree, the IMS has seen the models too — and its local ones.
Read a value anywhere. Every map frame is drawn through a fixed palette — a reversible encoding of the field — so the pointer reads the model's number back out of the pixel it is over. The town pages carry the full series, with the three models side by side. ICON publishes its maps in 2 °C bands, so its numbers here come in those steps.
Israel time, km/h. Times are Israel time (IST in winter, IDT in summer), winds default to km/h as the IMS gives them, and the unit toggles are remembered on every page.