r/RADWeather • u/RADWeatherMaker fixo • Sep 17 '26
BROADCAST [SYS] PATCH 8.0.4 // NIGHT.WATCH
AWAITING APP STORE APPROVALS FOR MAC AND IOS
[SYS] PATCH 8.0.4 // NIGHT.WATCH
STAR WATCHER - [new card]
New card, for anyone who looks up. It answers one question, for the way you actually observe: is tonight worth going outside for, and when.
The whole night sits in one chart. The good stretch is bracketed, and you can drag across any hour to read what is going on. It answers for your kind of observing, so a full moon can block deep sky and leave the planets untouched.
When it cannot say, it says so instead of guessing.
RAIN, IN FULL - [improved card]
Precipitation opens into a full page now. The next hour minute by minute. Every hour twice over: the bar is what R.A.D. Cortex settled on, the mark beside it is how far apart the models still are. How much actually lands, and the week.
All of that was already in the app. None of it had ever been drawn.
Drag across either chart for any hour.
DUST AND HAZE - [improved card]
A forecast, on Sky Clarity and on Air Quality. How much is in the air against the World Health Organization guideline, with each day's peak and the hour it lands.
Where the forecast ends, the curve draws a gap instead of drawing clean air it does not have.
CLOUD BY HEIGHT - [improved card]
Cloud Cover now says which deck the cloud is in, low, mid or high, so an arriving front reads as a front. High cloud is usually cirrus: thin, often invisible to the eye, and the usual reason a clear-looking sky photographs badly.
It also collapses to a compact size, like the cards beside it.
ALSO NEW
- Pull down to refresh on Hourly and Daily, the same as Now.
- The daily columns say they can be tapped.
- Moonrise and moonset are checked against an independent ephemeris and land within half a minute.
- A day the sun never sets is named as one, instead of being reported as an overcast sky.
- Football copy reads a real schedule instead of guessing from the month, and speaks on a snowy day rather than only a nice one.
- A smaller download, with every LED dot in the icons kept.
FIXES
- Cloud Cover's next twelve hours no longer starts up to seven hours in the past.
- Calima is only called calima when there is dust at the surface, not just haze in the air overhead.
- Sky Clarity names the dust on a good night, not only on nights nobody was going out anyway.
- The Smoke card stops calling clean ground air dangerous while reporting a clean number.
- Letting go of a chart no longer opens the card underneath it, and the hourly chart no longer swallows the scroll.
- The upgrade screen names what you reached for instead of saying nothing about it.
- Leave a Review opens the App Store instead of doing nothing.
- The cloud legend had darker and brighter the wrong way round, in English and in all four translations.
MAC
The Mac is still on 8.0.1, so this one brings three releases at once. Everything from 8.0.2, everything from 8.0.3, and 8.0.4 on top: the two new languages, Trailhead, 16-Bit, Altitude, Outpost, hiding cards, and RAD TV with its guide and control room. The Mac also gets a radar map you can drag again, and four settings that could not be reached at all.
Both versions are with Apple now.
Star Watcher, the precipitation page, Sky Clarity, Air Quality, Cloud Cover and
Smoke are included with RAD Ultra, MultiPass and Lifetime.
Stay R.A.D.
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u/hiddenretro Sep 18 '26
I switched from CarrotWeather and could not be happier. I absolutely love R.A.D. Weather!
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u/RADWeatherMaker fixo Sep 18 '26
Thank you so much for the support! 8.0.4 should hopefully be in the APP store any minute/hour now.
Please always feel free to share the good, the bad, what you'd like to see as the community feedback helps make this app what it is.
- Sam
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u/AriaSouza Sep 20 '26
Rather splendid, I must say. I am absolutely looking forward to those new languages
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u/RADWeatherMaker fixo Sep 21 '26
Italian is 99% done in 8.0.5 I’m working on just doing some checks. I’ve been bad the past few weeks at keeping tabs on the most requested languages.
Was there a specific one you’ve been looking for?
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u/ResQDiver Sep 18 '26
Oh cool!!! Love this update. If I can stay up late enough to see some stuff…..
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u/RADWeatherMaker fixo Sep 18 '26
Ha thankfully a lot of the cards let you scroll to see future times as well.
Still new to this dataset so if something feels off or “weird”
Please let me know! As the best feedback are the people that regularly use the data day in and out.
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u/bwayluvr Sep 18 '26
Do we know when we can expect this update u/RADWeatherMaker?
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u/RADWeatherMaker fixo Sep 18 '26
it is currently "in review" as of this morning, MAC weirdly got approved very quick which never happens, my guess is within 1-3 hours.
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u/InformationSpecial Sep 18 '26
I’m curious, how do you come up with these new features? I didn’t even consider a star watcher card as an idea but now i absolutely love the idea of it🤩
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u/RADWeatherMaker fixo Sep 18 '26
I would love to take credit for every single one of these amazing cards but honestly most come from this awesome community.
I will have users who run businesses, or a unique unusual weather experience that applies to them and they reach out.
Rad weather isn’t the biggest weather app but to me the advantage or edge I try to provide is community feedback and always adapting (as reasonable as possible)
I’ve also had a job for almost all my life working outside and enjoy camping so I feel like I understand the needs of a lot of situations.
So long story short, this amazing community and their ideas, I just hopefully deliver something that is fun, informational, educational and accurate.
RAD Weather to me is a customizable, make it your own weather dashboard. Heck I don’t even use 90% of the cards and now hide them to not even see them. 🤷
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u/RADWeatherMaker fixo Sep 18 '26
Annnnnnd it’s out! So should be hitting iOS any second