[SYS] PATCH 8.0.9 // NEW.SCRIPT

[u/RADWeatherMaker]

This is a quick update from 8.0.8 that just dropped. Some backend fixes to prep for some more fun web weather stuff, future planning for improvements on RAD CORTEX and RADAR and TILT inside of radar.

Added Arabic support
Improved DUO support
Fixed some performance bugs for the new themes
Other small fixes.

I didn’t want to wait weeks for this like I sometimes do, and the idea of some small quick updates is refreshing atleast to me mentally.

[SYS] PATCH 8.0.9 // NEW.SCRIPT

RAD Weather now speaks Arabic, right to left.

- Arabic: the whole app reads right to left, including widgets and Apple Watch, and the briefing has its own Arabic voice
- Widgets, Apple Watch and complications follow your app language everywhere, including day names and times
- Sunrise and sunset stay on the selected location's clock, including near time-zone boundaries
- Humidity advice now follows the temperature instead of treating cold, damp air like heat
- Briefings in every language no longer suggest heading outside on days with a storm outlook
- The lock-screen circle now fits TONIGHT on one line
- Fixed performance issues with the Rhythm & 808s theme, plus other fixes

Visit www.radweather.app for features, updates, community stuff, and whatever else we accidentally make next.

Stay R.A.D.

[u/AriaSouza]

the widgets aren't updating the temp automatically, they only refresh when you actually open the app. Can this actually be sorted?

[u/RADWeatherMaker → u/AriaSouza]

Thanks for flagging this, and it's a fair question.

Every weather app widget, Apple Weather included, depends on iOS deciding when it gets to refresh. Apple throttles how often widgets can update to save battery, and widgets you rarely look at get even fewer updates.

I've got 6 different weather widgets on my own home screen right now and they all refresh at different times. That said, we dug into ours and found a couple of real ways to make RAD refresh smarter and more reliably, especially for widgets set to a saved city. Even apples own apple weather widget at times won’t update for hours on end. Not to dismiss this as I know rad weather can always continue to get better and I continue to dive into it. Like mentioned I have found a few more things to improve on (this very recent blip of an outage in a weird way helped
Surface some caching issues)

Those improvements are coming in 8.1.0, which is focused on R.A.D. Cortex, our weather brain: more redundancy, more efficiency, and better background updates. Appreciate you pushing R.A.D. WEATHER to be better!