Click the map to compare ICON-EU and ECMWF at one point.
The two models
KEYS 1–2Deutscher Wetterdienst
The regional run: the German service's European nest, eight runs a day, whose domain reaches the Urals and so takes in all of Ukraine — with the upper air: 850 hPa, 500 hPa and the jet.
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European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts
The global run: the most skilful global deterministic model by most scores, to fifteen days, with CAPE, visibility, snow depth and 100 m wind.
RENDERED BY FORECASTEURO.COM
How to read this page
Switching model holds the instant, not the forecast hour. The two run on different cycles and cadences, so +12 h on one is rarely +12 h on another. This page keeps the valid time across every switch and says when the nearest frame it could find is off. Times are Kyiv's — EET, or EEST in summer; the runs keep their UTC names (00Z, 06Z, 12Z, 18Z).
The colours are not comparable between models. The values are. Each model is drawn on its own palette, so the legend is redrawn every time you switch. To compare, click the map: both are probed at that point, at the same instant, in one set of units.
A field a model does not publish stays in the menu, greyed. Only ECMWF carries CAPE, visibility and snow depth; the upper air (850 and 500 hPa, the jet) is ICON-EU's.
Every oblast has its own address. /maps/carpathians, /iconeu/odesa, /ecmwf/kharkiv — 38 frames in all, and the map on the front page links to each.