About Mobile Weather
A small, independent site that turns public weather data into tools that work on a phone: airport weather for pilots and operators, and date climatology for anyone planning something outdoors.
What this site is
Mobile Weather publishes decoded aviation weather for every US airport that reports it, a climatology tool that answers "what has this date usually looked like here," and plain-language guides to weather safety at outdoor events. There are no accounts and nothing to install. Saved airports live in your own browser. The site is built to be fast on a bad connection at a field, which is where most people actually check the weather.
Where the data comes from
Observations (METARs), forecasts (TAFs) and airport records come from NOAA's Aviation Weather Center and the FAA, fetched live through a small cache so the pages load quickly and the government servers are not hammered. Climate history comes from NOAA's National Centers for Environmental Information, specifically the 1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, which are public domain. Sunrise and sunset, density altitude and runway wind components are computed in your browser from those inputs using standard formulas.
None of this replaces an official preflight briefing or a forecast from the National Weather Service. Treat everything here as situational awareness.
The history of this domain
mobileweather.com was registered in August 1998 by Mobile Weather Team, Inc., a meteorology firm in Washington, Illinois. Its founder, Mike McClellan, was a television chief meteorologist who combined his profession with a love of golf and started putting meteorologists physically on site at tournaments, with lightning-prediction and radar equipment, from the early 1990s. Over the following three decades the company covered thousands of events on six continents for the PGA Tour, LPGA, European and DP World Tour, Ladies European Tour, Asian Tour, the Masters, the PGA Championship and the Ryder Cup, along with motorsport, state fairs and other outdoor events. It built the storm alert program the PGA Tour still uses to move players and spectators ahead of lightning, published a daily agricultural weather newsletter for Midwestern farmers for many years, and from 2008 concentrated on international tours.
Mike McClellan died in October 2025. The company's website went dark and the domain registration lapsed the following summer. The domain was then acquired by its current, unrelated owner. Nothing from the old company was carried over: not its content, its name, its client list or its people. The former company's name appears on this site only to explain the history and to avoid confusing the people who knew it. If you are looking for on-site meteorology services of the kind Mobile Weather Team provided, this site does not offer them and cannot forward messages to the former company.
What is coming
Route briefings that put departure, destination and alternates on one screen, weather alerts for saved airports, and event-weather pages for big outdoor dates. If you would like a note when something ships, the form on the home page does exactly that and nothing else.
Contact
Email hello@mobileweather.com. Corrections, data problems and feature requests are all welcome.