Your dog senses the storm first.
Now you can too.

No. Storm Sniff is an information tool. Dosing decisions are between you and your vet — we just help you make them on time.

It tracks the things that precede them: a sharp drop in barometric pressure, rising convective energy in the air, and the first strikes inside your radius. Real-time lightning alone gives you 5–15 minutes of warning. Pressure trends can give you several hours.

Lightning strikes are detected within seconds and located to within a few kilometres. Pressure and forecast data refresh every ten minutes from Open-Meteo. Storm-forecast alerts only fire when the next-six-hour thunderstorm probability crosses 50% — we'd rather miss a small chance than cry wolf.

No. Notifications are server-pushed, so the app doesn't need to run in the background. The PWA wakes only when an alert arrives. Battery cost is the same as any other notification you receive.

Each alert type is throttled — five minutes for lightning bursts, an hour for pressure drops, three hours for forecasts, two hours for storm-energy build-up. Quiet hours suppress non-urgent alerts overnight, and a single storm produces one alert, not fifty.

Anywhere with a postcode and reasonable lightning detection coverage — Australia, New Zealand, US, Canada, UK, EU. Coverage in remote regions depends on the lightning network density.

The fireworks calendar is on the Pro tier — an annual schedule of noise events (NYE, July 4, Diwali, Bonfire Night, Lunar New Year) with the same lead-time alerting as storms.

Your home coordinates are stored only to compute alerts for you, never shared or sold. We don't track your day-to-day location. Full details in our privacy policy.

Tim, an Australian engineer in Adelaide, with his partner Kayleigh and their Vizsla Nelson — who taught us why this app needed to exist. Single-developer indie project, not a startup with a board to please.