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Web tool that visualises the shadow cast by any building or terrain feature at a given coordinate, date and time — for fast shadow-vs-sun reasoning.

Storm-tracking and forecast resource specialising in tropical cyclones and severe weather. Useful when evidence imagery shows extreme weather signatures.

Commercial weather service providing historical and minute-cast forecasts. Acceptable secondary source for cross-checking weather in imagery.

Climate-history visualisation site providing per-day, per-location averages and percentiles. Quick check for whether observed weather is plausible.

Crowdsourced weather network with detailed personal-station archives extending decades back. Useful for ground-truthing weather conditions in evidence imagery.

Authoritative resource for sunrise/sunset, time-zone, calendar and astronomy lookups by location and date. Constant companion in chronolocation work.

Computational answer engine that reports historical weather, sun position, distances and astronomical data for any place and time — a common OSINT lookup pivot.

Free meteorological data archive serving METAR, SYNOP and TAF observations from thousands of stations worldwide. Standard source for historical weather verification.

Photographer's planning app providing precise sun, moon and Milky Way positions for any place and time. Widely used by chronolocation analysts.

Free open-source planetarium. Reproduces the night sky for any date, time and location — essential for verifying star, moon and constellation positions in imagery.