diff --git a/src/layers/weather/mercatorMosaic.js b/src/layers/weather/mercatorMosaic.js
index 2349b9931..b42a60887 100644
--- a/src/layers/weather/mercatorMosaic.js
+++ b/src/layers/weather/mercatorMosaic.js
@@ -10,6 +10,19 @@ export const RAINVIEWER_BOUNDS = Object.freeze({
   north: MERCATOR_LATITUDE,
 });
 
+const wait = (ms, signal) =>
+  new Promise((resolve, reject) => {
+    const timer = setTimeout(resolve, ms);
+    signal.addEventListener(
+      'abort',
+      () => {
+        clearTimeout(timer);
+        reject(signal.reason);
+      },
+      { once: true },
+    );
+  });
+
 /** Clamp a non-wrapping geographic window to the Mercator domain. */
 export function mercatorBbox(bbox = RAINVIEWER_BOUNDS) {
   const box = { ...bbox };
@@ -92,6 +105,7 @@ export async function composeMercatorImage({
   signal = new AbortController().signal,
   maxTiles = 24,
   concurrency = 6,
+  sleep = wait,
 }) {
   signal.throwIfAborted();
   if (
@@ -131,7 +145,21 @@ export async function composeMercatorImage({
           .replace('{z}', z)
           .replace('{x}', x)
           .replace('{y}', y);
-        const response = await fetchImpl(url, { signal });
+        let response = await fetchImpl(url, { signal });
+        // The proxy meters RainViewer; wait out a 429 rather than baking a hole
+        // into a frame that is then cached.
+        for (let retry = 0; response.status === 429 && retry < 3; retry++) {
+          await response.body?.cancel();
+          const seconds = Number(response.headers.get('retry-after'));
+          await sleep(
+            Math.min(
+              15,
+              Number.isFinite(seconds) && seconds > 0 ? seconds : 2,
+            ) * 1000,
+            signal,
+          );
+          response = await fetchImpl(url, { signal });
+        }
         if (!response.ok) throw new Error('Weather tile unavailable');
         const bytes = await readResponseBytesCapped(response, 1024 * 1024);
         signal.throwIfAborted();
diff --git a/src/layers/weather/mercatorMosaic.test.mjs b/src/layers/weather/mercatorMosaic.test.mjs
index a81665239..d58c2af83 100644
--- a/src/layers/weather/mercatorMosaic.test.mjs
+++ b/src/layers/weather/mercatorMosaic.test.mjs
@@ -150,6 +150,7 @@ test('mosaic limits concurrency, tolerates partial failure, releases decoded ima
     composeMercatorImage({
       ...options,
       fetchImpl: async () => new Response('', { status: 429 }),
+      sleep: async () => {},
     }),
     /tiles unavailable/,
   );
@@ -218,3 +219,26 @@ test('whole and detail RainViewer images use composition and strict source metad
     validateWeatherSnapshot({ ...snapshot, product: 'radar' }, 'radar'),
   );
 });
+
+test('a metered tile waits out Retry-After instead of leaving a hole', async () => {
+  const seen = new Map();
+  const waits = [];
+  const result = await composeMercatorImage({
+    ...options,
+    bbox: { west: -180, south: -85.0511, east: 180, north: 85.0511 },
+    size: { width: 512, height: 256 },
+    maxTiles: 1,
+    fetchImpl: async (url) => {
+      const count = (seen.get(url) ?? 0) + 1;
+      seen.set(url, count);
+      return count === 1
+        ? new Response('', { status: 429, headers: { 'Retry-After': '3' } })
+        : new Response(new Uint8Array([1]));
+    },
+    sleep: async (ms) => {
+      waits.push(ms);
+    },
+  });
+  assert.deepEqual(waits, [3000]);
+  assert.equal(result.texture.draws[0][0].draws.length, 1);
+});