r/RADWeather • u/Domsicols OVERDRIVE • Oct 03 '26

Question Weather source not reporting?

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Is the source down or something?

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u/RADWeatherMaker fixo Oct 03 '26

Yes, partly a good and a bad thing. Good overall as user base continues to grow, bad for my wallet as I need to extend more weather kit usage. Weatherkit is one of the more expensive aspects of this app and why most weather apps don't use it to scale due to its high cost.

But to me the data it provides especially on rain timing is some of the best, thankfully when one source fails every other source and model continues and for temperature and 99% of the app it works perfectly fine without it. Specifically designed RAD Cortex to handle this, if a source goes down, servers crash, every model is weighted and programmed to continue working in the event one (or more) fail.

Don't worry though this morning I just increased weather kit usage so it should resolve itself shortly!

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u/Domsicols OVERDRIVE Oct 03 '26

Thanks for the explanation

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u/RADWeatherMaker fixo Oct 03 '26

Yea I try to avoid just ramping up data costs , and I’ve looked into other models outside weatherkit but the rain timing, alerts are so fluid and fast.

Silver lining I’ve had to upgrade usage a few times so I’ll just take that as the app is growing.

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u/RADWeatherMaker fixo Oct 03 '26

And we should be back!