location option use autocomplete: start typing a city name and Snowball will suggest matching locations.
Commands at a glance
/weather current
Shows the current conditions reported by the nearest NWS observation station, including temperature, feels-like, wind, humidity, dew point, visibility, and pressure. Active alerts (if any) are also surfaced inline.
string
required
Start typing a city name. Autocomplete will suggest matching locations.
/weather forecast
Shows the extended 7-day forecast broken into named periods (e.g., “Tonight”, “Saturday”, “Saturday Night”).
string
required
Start typing a city name. Autocomplete will suggest matching locations.
/weather hourly
Shows a hour-by-hour breakdown of temperature, feels-like, conditions, wind, humidity, and precipitation chance for the next 12 hours.
string
required
Start typing a city name. Autocomplete will suggest matching locations.
/weather alerts
Retrieves active NWS weather alerts for the area. Alerts are ranked by severity (warnings first, then watches, then advisories). If multiple alerts exist, Snowball shows a dropdown to select which one to view.
string
required
Start typing a city name. Autocomplete will suggest matching locations.
Alert navigation buttons expire 15 minutes after the command is run. Only the user who ran the command can use the navigation buttons.
/weather alertmap
Shows a map of all active NWS weather alerts across the continental US, or filtered to a specific Weather Forecast Office (WFO).
string
WFO office code or city name (e.g.,
PBZ, Pittsburgh). Supports autocomplete. Leave blank for a CONUS-wide view./weather radar
Fetches a screenshot of the latest radar image from the nearest WSR-88D station within 150 miles. Includes a link to the interactive radar at radar.xtremewx.com. If the screenshot service is temporarily unavailable, Snowball provides a direct link to the live radar instead.
string
required
The location you want radar for. Supports autocomplete.
string
Radar product to display. Defaults to Reflectivity.
/weather satellite
Retrieves the latest GOES-19 satellite imagery. Defaults to a CONUS GeoColor animation loop. You can mix and match any supported region and product.
string
Which GOES-19 view to use. Defaults to CONUS. Available regions include: CONUS, Full Disk, Meso M1, Meso M2, and sector views for Northeast, Southeast, Southern Plains, Great Lakes, Upper Mississippi Valley, Northern Rockies, Southern Rockies, Southern Mississippi Valley, U.S. East Coast, Caribbean, Gulf of America, Puerto Rico, Tropical Atlantic Ocean, Eastern Pacific Ocean, Mexico, Central America, Northern South America, Southern South America, Canada, and Northern Atlantic Ocean.
string
Satellite product to display. Defaults to GeoColor. Available products include GeoColor, GLM FED3+GeoColor (Lightning), AirMass RGB, Sandwich RGB, Derived Motion Winds, Day Night Cloud Micro Combo, Fire Temperature RGB, Dust RGB, and all 16 individual ABI spectral bands (Band 1–16).
Not all products are available for every region. Meso sectors do not support AirMass RGB or Derived Motion Winds.
string
Whether to show an animation loop or a single still image. Defaults to animation. If no animation is available, Snowball falls back to the latest still automatically.
/weather lightning
Shows lightning strikes detected within 30 miles of a location in the last 30 minutes, sourced from Blitzortung via Saratoga-Weather.org.
string
required
Start typing a city name. Supports autocomplete.
string
How to sort the displayed strikes. Defaults to closest first.
/weather briefing
Generates an AI-powered weather briefing for a location using current conditions, forecast data, and active alerts. The briefing is conversational or structured depending on the style option.
string
required
Start typing a city name. Supports autocomplete.
string
Briefing format. Defaults to conversational.
/weather story
Displays the latest weather story graphic published by a National Weather Service forecast office. Supports multiple story slides with Previous/Next navigation.
string
required
NWS office code or city name (e.g.,
PBZ, Pittsburgh). Supports autocomplete. Covers all CONUS, Alaska, Hawaii/Pacific, and Puerto Rico offices.Story navigation buttons expire 15 minutes after the command is run.
/weather graphic
Shows the Graphical Hazardous Weather Outlook (GHWO) for a location for a specific forecast day. You can view all hazard categories together or focus on a single one.
string
required
Start typing a city name. Supports autocomplete.
string
required
Which forecast day to view (Day 1 through Day 7).
string
Filter to a single hazard type. Leave blank to see the full hazard matrix. Available categories: Severe Thunderstorm, Tornado, Thunderstorm Wind, Hail, Lightning, Excessive Rainfall, Wind, Fog, Fire Weather, Extreme Cold, Ice Accumulation, Snow/Sleet.
/weather product
Fetches official NWS text products for the local forecast office serving the provided location.
string
required
string
required
Start typing a city name. Supports autocomplete.
/weather outages
Shows real-time power outage data for the county containing the provided location. Data is sourced from ORNL ODIN. Displays total customers without power, percentage of county affected, and a per-utility breakdown with estimated restoration times where available.
string
required
City name or ZIP code. Supports autocomplete.
/weather sounding
Displays the latest upper-air sounding image from the SPC Sounding Archive for a rawinsonde station. An Analyze button is available to get an AI interpretation of the sounding data. Available for CONUS stations only.
string
required
Station ICAO code (e.g.,
KOUN), 3-letter SPC code (e.g., OUN), city name (e.g., Norman), or state name/abbreviation (returns the representative station for that state). Supports autocomplete.string
Which observation time to display. Defaults to the most recent available sounding.
/weather cameras
Browses live traffic and weather cameras near a location using an interactive paginated gallery.
string
required
Start typing a city name. Supports autocomplete.
/weather misc
Shows Storm Prediction Center data including active watches, active mesoscale discussions, today’s storm reports, and the severe weather activity chart.
string
required