Pawcast is the free weather app for dogs, from Weather.pet. It translates the day for your dog through our veterinary team’s field measurements and your dog’s biology.
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Weather apps were built for a 5'10" human. Your dog is 13 inches off the ground, wearing a fur coat. Pawcast by Weather.pet shows what today feels like for your dog: air, surface, humidity, and your dog's biology blended into one number called their Dog Feel°.
We're a US-based team of veterinarians, nurses, dog trainers, scientists, and engineers. Our founders have worked together in veterinary medicine for 8 years, serving more than 1.5 million pet parents. We developed Pawcast out of our own need for a modern, health-forward take on our pets' seasonal comfort. Regardless of the season, we've got your back.
Meet the team
Wondering how heat, cold, storms, or pollen are landing for your dog this week? Drop us a line and someone on the team will write back.
Send us a questionGeneral guidance on conditions and comfort. For anything clinical, please see your own veterinarian.We work with groomers, daycares, trainers, and pet brands who want paw-level conditions in front of the families they serve.
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Our veterinary professionals went out in the field over the last year, measuring ground surface temperatures across grass, concrete, and asphalt.
We measured the ground itself: asphalt, concrete, grass, sun vs. shade, in different elements.
We matched our readings to veterinary science: clinic experience plus the dusted-off textbooks. The work was led by Dr. Hilary Jones, our Chief Veterinary Officer and an internship-trained vet with more than 15 years of experience.
Our scientists and technologists, led by our Chief Technology Officer (ex-GEICO) and our Head of Analytics (ex-Spotify), created the analytics engine.
The free product you get from Weather.pet: Pawcast: a daily forecast, along with notifications to keep your pet healthy and happy.
Measured under paw, not guessed from the sky.
The air temperature where pavement starts to outrun what a dog’s paws can take, and how breed and coat move that line.
Read itField dataOur veterinary team took an infrared thermometer to pavement, concrete, and grass coast to coast. The gap is wider than most owners expect.
Read itMethodThe back-of-the-hand check is a reasonable spot check, not a forecast. Here is where it works and where it lets you down.
Read itColdWind chill, wet fur, and coat density change the math in the other direction. A vet-reviewed guide to the cold end.
Read itBut they can't. Obviously. They're a dog. So their Pawcast reads it for them: translating air temperature, surface heat, humidity, and your dog's specific biology into one Dog Feel° you can act on.
Same air. Same sidewalk. Two different readings. Because a thick-coated Husky and a brachy Frenchie don't experience 76°F the same way.
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"The weather app said 84°F. Riley's Pawcast told me the grass was a comfortable 74°, and the next 90 minutes were clear for a walk."
Asphalt, concrete, grass, mixed cover: pavement absorbs sun differently from grass and stays hot long after the air cools. Pawcast estimates the temperature at paw level for every surface on your route. So the same walk can flip from within range to high risk with one block of bare asphalt.
A Bernese can spend an hour in fresh snow. A Bulldog on the same block has minutes. Pawcast watches wind chill, snow depth, and your dog's coat density. And tells you exactly how long they have before frozen paws or hypothermia become a real risk. Same logic in the rain: wet fur near freezing flips a thin coat from within range to high risk in approximately 10 minutes.
Alerts fire only when conditions move outside your dog's range, and every one tells you what to do next.
Not a heat advisory for your city. A reading for your dog, on your block, with the walk windows and the surface to use instead.
Asphalt just hit 126°F on your usual route. No shade. Grass route, or hold until 6pm.
A 90-minute window just opened. Clouds and wind put Dog Feel° within range for Max right now.
Thunderstorm at 3:42 PM. Rosie's trazodone window opens in 47 min. Quiet room, ThunderShirt, white noise: set up now.
82°F sounds fine on your phone. On Rosie's sidewalk (concrete, brick reflectors, no shade), it's 96°F at her height. Asphalt's already at 119°. By the time her tongue goes long, you've missed the window.
Pawcast reads that block, that morning, that breed. It tells you before you leash up whether to wait, re-route, or grab the leash for a 90-minute window.
The temperature your dog actually feels.
Measured in degrees. Not the thermometer on your phone.
Age, breed, coat, weight, health. Pawcast reads all of it. A 13-year-old on wheels gets a different walk window than the puppy next door.
Straight answers on what Pawcast is, how Dog Feel° works, and who built it.
Yes. Pawcast™ by Weather.pet is a free weather app for dogs on iPhone and Android. Pawcast turns air temperature, surface heat, humidity, wind, and sun into Dog Feel°: one reading adjusted for your dog's breed, coat, size, age, and health. Each reading comes with walk windows and alerts before conditions change.
Pawcast is a daily weather forecast for dogs, from Weather.pet. You add your dog once and get a personal forecast every morning: their Dog Feel°, the temperature your dog actually feels, the warmest and coolest walk windows of the day, and paw-level readings for asphalt, concrete, and grass. Most weather apps forecast for people. Pawcast forecasts for one dog.
Dog Feel° is the temperature a specific dog actually experiences. Pawcast starts with air temperature, then adjusts for humidity, surface heat, metabolism, and the dog's breed, age, coat, and health. On the same 76°F sidewalk, a thick-coated Husky and a French Bulldog can read 11° apart. Every reading is relative to that dog's own comfortable range.
A regular weather app forecasts for a person standing upright. Pawcast forecasts for a dog walking inches off the pavement in a fur coat. Surface heat is the gap: a 5°F rise in air temperature can mean 30°F or more at paw level. Pawcast reads grass, concrete, and asphalt separately. And unlike other apps, Pawcast was built by a working veterinary team with over 8 years in pet care.
Pawcast covers 165 breeds plus small, medium, and large mixed breeds. Readings also adjust for age, weight, coat type, and health flags such as arthritis or a short, flat face. Brachycephalic dogs like Pugs and French Bulldogs overheat at temperatures 10 to 15°F lower than typical breeds, so their Pawcast reads warmer.
Yes. Pawcast flags thunderstorms ahead of time for dogs marked as storm-sensitive, so you can set up a quiet room or follow your veterinarian's plan before the thunder starts. Pawcast alerts also cover heat, cold, hot pavement, skin and allergy conditions, and air quality. Each alert is tuned per dog and fires only when conditions move outside that dog's range.
Yes. Pawcast is free on the App Store and Google Play, with no credit card required. Setup asks for your dog's name, breed, age, weight, and ZIP code. You can add more than one dog, and each one gets its own reading. To see a sample, enter any US ZIP code on weather.pet.
Pawcast is built by Weather.pet, from the team behind TeleTails, a virtual pet care company that has served more than 1.5 million pet parents over eight years. The team includes veterinarians, veterinary nurses, dog trainers, and data scientists, led clinically by Hilary Jones, DVM, Chief Veterinary Officer. The surface model was calibrated with thousands of infrared readings taken across the country.
Pawcast is a daily weather forecast for dogs, from Weather.pet. Add your dog once: breed, age, coat, weight, health flags. Their Dog Feel°, walk windows, and paw-level surface readings land every morning.
