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Rusty Weather, published by Fahrenheit Research and currently at version 0.4.1, is a self-contained weather model viewer written entirely in Rust and distributed under the MIT license. Its purpose is to streamline the workflow of acquiring, storing, and visualizing numerical weather prediction data: the application fetches HRRR model output (with support for additional models planned), stores retrieved forecast hours in a fast-access format, and presents the data through map plots, instant soundings, and live GOES satellite loops, all within a native graphical interface built on the egui framework. This combination of data retrieval, local caching, and integrated visualization makes it suitable for meteorologists, weather enthusiasts, students, and researchers who need quick, interactive access to high-resolution model fields and real-time satellite imagery without relying on external web services for display. Within a software catalog, Rusty Weather falls into the scientific data visualization category, specifically meteorological and atmospheric analysis tooling. The project was extracted and rebuilt from the "fast path" of the earlier rustwx effort, inheriting its performance-oriented data handling while presenting it as a standalone application. Storage behavior is a notable configuration area: the storage root and cache directory, controlled via the --store-root and --cache-dir options, can be adjusted directly in the application through the collapsible "Storage" section in the left panel, and those settings persist across launches. Precedence is deterministic, with a command-line argument overriding the persisted setting, which in turn overrides the built-in default. Only a single version is currently listed in the catalog, so version 0.4.1 represents both the latest and the sole published release. The catalog entry does not specify platform targets, system requirements, or release dates beyond this version information, and prospective users should consult the publisher's distribution channel for those details.
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