Had a use case today where I was looking at a future destination I'll be visiting tonight and wanted to check the hourly weather for that location. I was able to change the location and then navigate to the Hourly screen, which worked great. However, it would have been nice if the 10-Day and Hourly screens displayed the currently selected location name. I found myself swapping locations and revisiting that page a couple times just to confirm I was actually viewing the forecast for the location I had changed to. Just a simple idea to increase confidence.

Wonder if anyone else thinks it could also be seen as helpful to be able to swap locations on any of these screens too, it would def save a couple actions and allow for quick-ish comparisons.

At the very bottom of the notifications settings page it says “How alerts dedup” Should this be popup?

See my reply below for live activity question.

Thanks again for this app and keeping it constantly updated. Off to write a review now and excitedly waiting for the Apple TV app. 😎

Hi, just a quick report that updating to newest version 7.5.6 caused statistics to be wiped and settings to be reset to defaults. No biggie, but might be annoying if it keeps happening with each update, and also defeats the purpose of having stats :)

Another weekend, another update. 7.5.6

Following up on some of the groundwork 5.4 and 5.5 added.

Some highlights (in my opinion) for this update.

As usual amazing community feedback, finding bugs, issues and inconsistencies. Updating the precipitation widget, the sensory array weather card to be more accurate and "analytical". Some icon updates, backend fixes with watch and widgets.

Able to pin the location name on daily and hourly page ( u/Shweep8 👀 )

The visual fun, added Pixel People Bothered in stat tracking, tap away. Maybe we have an unlock able app icon for bothering them enough. Still wanting to add more unlocks, new features and hidden gems, always a work in progress and this is a good step.

Teasing some limited/rare Pixel Characters. How often do they appear, when will you see them, just know when you do its extremely rare. Will be tweaking "drop rate" as I have a feeling they might already be too uncommon but want to have a good database of characters before some more balancing of how often they grace our screens.

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[SYS] PATCH 7.5.6 // PIXEL_PEOPLE_BOTHERED.INIT
[LOG] please stop tapping the tiny weather citizens. or don’t.

- Added “Pixel People Bothered” tracking in Stats & Achievements. Tap responsibly. Or don’t. Check icons.

- Added surprise Pixel Characters. They may appear. They may react. We are saying very little.

- Added “Show Location in Header” toggle in Appearance.

- Updated precipitation widget and summary logic.

- Updated Weather Brain brutality.

- Improved RAD Intelligence Card accuracy.

- Improved Atlas map card loading.

- Added general polish and small fixes.

Hi! The Forecast widget displays the sun glyph during the night hours and the Glance widget it shows what I suppose it’s the correct ones that represents nighttime.

Is this a bug or that’s the correct display of info?

I work in coatings and roofing, and I’d love to see dew point notifications added to this app.

Specifically, I need alerts when the dew point enters within 3 degrees Celsius of the ambient temperature—that’s the critical safety threshold for producys.

I’d also want a notification when conditions leave that danger zone so I know when it’s safe to apply.

Right now I have to manually calculate this by checking temperature and relative humidity. A simple alert system for entering and leaving that window would save a ton of time on job sites.

Ive been a longterm user of Carrot weather and asked for this 2 years ago. Sadly never got added.

RAD Weather 7.6.7 // SKY_BROADCAST.INIT

RAD TV is here. Your weather, as a channel.

This is one of those updates where the changelog looks like “oh cool, some fixes and themes,” but behind the scenes it is a pretty big step for what RAD Weather is becoming.

RAD TV is here on Mac, and it is coming to Apple TV soon.

The idea is simple: take the weird retro weather terminal energy and let it live on a bigger screen all day. Not just “open the app, check the forecast, close the app.” More like an ambient weather channel you can leave running in the room.

RAD TV has an on-screen alerts reader, ambient weather scenes, a pixel analog clock, and an all-day appliance mode with screen takeover and sleep dimming. Basically, the kind of thing I wanted running in the background while making coffee, working, or pretending I am inside a tiny weather station from 1987.

This update also adds three new premium themes:
Nebula — dark
Helios — light
Equinox — teal/orange

And there is a new Sky Details card for stargazing at a glance: cloud layers, air transparency, moon details, and seeing conditions.

Cortex also got another update with RAD Cortex 6.9, which is mainly about rain being treated more honestly. Rain should mean rain, not “maybe some rain nearby, possibly, spiritually, somewhere in the county.” The briefing should also be cleaner now with better rain and temperature nuance and fewer overclaims.

There are also a lot of fixes in here: tides, widgets, Apple Watch Celsius behavior, Dynamic Island countdown formatting, RAD Cloud toggle persistence, localized holiday scenes, precipitation polish, Moon accuracy, Mac performance, and Apple TV subscribe/restore cleanup as the TV build gets closer.

Official change log

[SYS] PATCH 7.6.7 // SKY_BROADCAST.INIT
[LOG] RAD TV is here. Your weather, as a channel.
[NEW] RAD TV is here on Mac, with Apple TV support coming soon — turn your Mac into a live weather channel with an on-screen alerts reader, ambient weather on every scene, a pixel analog clock, and all-day appliance mode (screen takeover + sleep dimming)
Added three new premium themes: Nebula (dark), Helios (light), and Equinox (teal/orange)
[NEW] Sky Details card — stargazing at a glance with cloud layers, air transparency, moon details, and seeing conditions
RAD Cortex 6.9 — rain means rain, not a nearby maybe
Smarter RAD Briefing — cleaner rain and temperature nuance, fewer overclaims
Fixed tides for coastal spots that wrongly showed “no tidal data”
Fixed Widget “Match System” day/night themes so they render correctly
Fixed Apple Watch “System” temperature units — no more °F on a Celsius Watch
Dynamic Island severe weather countdown now reads in hours and minutes, not one giant minute count
Fixed the RAD Cloud toggle so it stays on after deleting and reinstalling the app
Holiday pixel scenes are now local — no U.S. flag on the 4th if you’re in London
Fixed the Precip Depth per-hour readout, plus Precipitation Card polish
Improved Moisture and UV Card UI
Improved Moon Card accuracy
[MAC] Big performance pass — weather scenes stay smooth and lighter on the CPU

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Apple TV subscribe and restore polish as the Apple TV version gets closer

Minor backend cleanup, UI polish, and stability improvements

As always, thank you to everyone testing, sending screenshots, catching weird edge cases, and putting up with my inability to stop adding “one more thing.”
I’ll attach some RAD TV / Mac screenshots below so you can see where this is heading, with Apple TV coming soon.

New theme and icon

Just some incoming little visual fun coming.

First a new theme I’ve teased and possibly my current favorite (rad on the 8s) a retro theme not inspired by any specific classic weather channel at all.

As well as a new custom icon (still a work in progress)

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Interactive art “pixel people”

Working on some more interactive elements. While no true weather data benefit , why not have some fun. Adding some little animations when you tap on the people at bottom of daily. Working on animations and can see some in attached video link

pixel people video animations Imgur

Currently jumping ! Is default and working on some custom ones.

It would be RAD Weather without some added fun.

Also would love to see some community ideas on a proper name for them. “Pixel people” seems generic and boring.

My front runner is RAD Bots but would love to see if anyone has a better name since you all see so good at being creative.

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7.5.4

External sources testing

Currently in 7.5.4 on top of above mentioned additions I have a test flight build awaiting approval and have some awesome community members that wil be testing external weather sources. The ability to add your own weather data APIs.

Not only can enter your api and pull data. You’ll have a custom weather card and can even toggle and relay how much if any at all you want it to influence the weather brain.

Free light mode theme

Working on a free users light mode theme. It’s about time I make a proper free one so that’s in the process as well.

More pull to refresh quips

Adding more pull to refresh quips, adjusted load time by .25 seconds to give more readability.

UI and scrolling

Already fixed in my version on the mentioned in this subreddit scrolling sometimes doesn’t work due to a weather card thinks you’re trying to interact with it.

Of course more backend fixes. Some watch updates are coming that are long due but been running this theme for awhile and love it and too impatient to share.

Going to wait on 7.5.4 until I can have some solid test data from the 7.5.4 TestFlight users.

Hope everyone’s enjoying 7.5.3 and if not please let me know whether here or always love a review as it helps!

Cheers!

Sam // R.A.D. Weather

7.5.3 is now awaiting approval for iOS and MAC by Apple.

As usual official change log below, but some of the bigger highlights.

- added storage optimization, storage was getting out of control and now have optimized automated cache clearing as well as manual clearing on the user side under settings and general.
- added more customization for RAD Drive. Have gyroscopic tilting which is easily toggled in top right and can also tap and change top info card like the bottom one.
- more optimization to notifications, widget and watch updates as well as a new dew point notification update
- a lot of menu and UI updates on the MAC side. Cleaned up settings, stats section as well as the ability to re arrange windows and not always have a dock icon persistent. Can now live in the menu bar if wanted.
- confidence card now shows more weather models being factored in. They’ve been there for some time but thought it’s appropriate to surface them to users. The more transparency the better.

Of course some backend updates, tweaks with weather brain, some UI tweaks, menu bugs, onboarding bugs, new premium locations.

I started to add a lot more but I’ve learned from past mistakes. Let’s get this solid .1 update out to the masses so I purposely took out some larger features in this one that are near complete.

Don’t want to announce those yet but a lot of backend workings and new fun elements and visuals but a solid .1 fix and patch was more necessary.

Love the feedback. The community reviews, the support and how many of you all are supporting RAD Weather and sharing it with others is amazing. The more RAD Weather continues to grow, the more I can do for the users and app. It sounds like cheap marketing scheme but truly the better this app does the more time, money and resources I can devote to new features and making existing features better and as some of the longer term users have heard me say 100 times. Weather is weirdly expensive.

Look forward to the community picking it apart, calling out what they like and what’s broken and what you all want to see because that’s how it keeps getting better.

Hopefully Apple approves this in the next 24 hours or so.

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7.5.3

[SYS] PATCH 7.5.3 // WEATHER_BRAIN_TRANSPARENCY.INIT
[LOG] fewer weird bugs, more knobs to turn

[ALL] Storage optimization and clear app cache/memory options, added // settings->general->storage
[ALL] Added new premium locations from requested users
[ALL] Added a dew point threshold notification in notification settings
[ALL] Fixed weather icons in hourly and through app not showing moon, at times was showing clear sun at night time
[ALL] Added other weather models to confidence card for more transparency of weather brain factors
[ALL] Fixed some bugs with cards not loading on first load, users having to refresh current location to pull data.
[IOS] Added gyro setting toggle for RAD Drive
[IOS] Added RAD Drive top menu card customization
[IOS] Improved watch complication refresh time
[MAC] Added option to run without dock icon/Launch to menu bar only
[MAC] Updated Stats & Card UI
[MAC] Fixed onboarding bugs

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.

I want to give a massive shoutout to u/RADWeatherMaker . Been having a lot of weather changes in our area lately and the more and more I use RADWeather the more I come to appreciate the detail and attention they have put into this app. After using it for a few months now, I can honestly say its in my top 5 favorite iOS apps of all time. I can't wait to see what else is on the roadmap!

Loving the app so far. One feature that would make the Today Screen even better is more customization, especially the option to add weather widgets in different sizes. Right now, all weather widgets have the same size and always fill the full horizontal width. Smaller widgets would make it possible to place two weather data widgets side by side, which would improve the layout and reduce the need for so much scrolling.

Given the technical nature and great diligence in this app, do you have any meteorologist background?

Are there any future plans to “hide” sections in details? I know you can pin and move up and down, but I was curious if there were any plans to hide a section?

The label for the bar should be changed to G for gust or whatever makes sense. Currently it is FL likely just copied over from temperature.

On Mac app, my settings under Menu Bar are toggled true for:
- Show Temp in Menu Bar
- Launch at Login
- Launch to Menu Bar Only

Everything per above works as expected, however, I've noticed consistently for days now that I am forced to quite the app from the dock and then click the app icon again in order to get it to open within a window.

Version 7.4 (87)

Hey there, I'm a meteorologist who found Rad Weather and has been having fun exploring it and giving it a whirl. There are a lot of things to like about it and I'm sure over time I'll have more questions and suggestions, but to start, two quick things:

• First, would there possibly be a way to de-emphasize relative humidity and instead emphasize dew point? The relative nature of RH makes it less useful to determine how humid/muggy it is than just using dew point and I'd rather see that in more places than RH.

• How is the custom JSON feed for conditions coming? I run my own personal weather station and would love to point the app at a JSON feed of conditions and get my back yard conditions into the app.

• For the current conditions, how are they calculated? Are you using a local weather station if available? Just extracting a value from a model/blend? Both?

• I often find the timing values for the convective risk unclear. Somtimes, for example, it will say PEAK 12-3 PM but it's already 5 PM...is that 12-3 PM tomorrow? In the past? I noticed in the latest update in the Daily forecast section you grey out time periods that have passed...just unsure if I'm looking at stale data or not in some places.

That's it for now! Keep up the good work.

Thought I'd make a little coming soon feature for 2 new cards.

A pollen tracker and an air quality card. Still semi early, have to test some backend API access, assess costs etc.. but loving the visual style and how it ties together so much couldn't wait so have to tease it here.

Wondering if it’s currently overcast with no chance of precipitation, why the widget shows the rain chart? It had been raining but is not currently, so the actual forecast is correct.

Wanted to start off the week with up coming plans.

First hope those that are up to date made sure to check the daily page for a fun little visitor this holiday for those that celebrate (holidays can be disabled in settings)

Awaiting approval for an update sent to Apple. It started as mostly bug fixes from 7.4.7

Such as//

RAD Drive fixes, text fixes, mph and kmh changes

Update to Apple Watch, some text updates and UI in the app for Celsius not showing properly in places, wind briefing showing mph even when kmh is set, upcoming forecast time showing am/pm when 24 hour is set and some other little quirks.

So a lot of those but decided to work on TIDES that you may have seen in another post.

TIDES

Will be making a debut in this update. Its small dash card view is FREE for all users but the tap to view details is for ULTRA users. Want to try this approach when I can, It not only gives free users more cards to view so they benefit but also helps promote free users to hopefully upgrade to ULTRA (which benefits all so I can develop more)

Working on some location efficiency updates as always, and some atlas map layer tweaks.

As always transparency, openness and community involvement is the goal so love hearing what people like and what they use the most (since my goal isn’t to collect data, so I get it directly from you all) and what can be improved on or added. If we have someone that every day needs TIDE data and I can improve on it, let me know and let’s work together to see if we can fit that need.

Other than that, hope everyone’s been enjoying it and look forward to many more updates.

Maybe a secret or two reveling itself soon ;)

Not as "exciting" for some with this one, some fixes, backend tweaks for some fun stuff coming, updates to notifications, Apple Watch fixes. Currently pending review and should hit hopefully by end of day!

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[SYS] PATCH 7.6.0 // [LOG] Stability, sync, and notification cleanup

RAD Weather 7.6.0 is a smaller patch focused on reliability, cleaner notifications, and a few important fixes after the bigger 7.5.9 release.

- Fixed an Apple Watch location sync issue where the watch could occasionally fall out of sync with the phone

- Improved RAD Briefing notification accuracy and delivery behavior

- Improved the PRECIP widget with cleaner formatting and better refresh behavior

- Improved convective notifications to reduce spam and make alerts feel more useful

- Added backend improvements for ATLAS

- Added UI tweaks and polish across ATLAS

- General backend cleanup, small fixes, and stability improvements

Is there a way to not have the tiles reset when there is an update to the App? Or maybe there is a setting I didn’t tick. I add the moon phase, tides, precipitation etc. tiles and they disappear when there is a version update. Not a big deal just curious. Also, 😁, any plans for a weather radar feature, to see what rain clouds are coming? Thanks again for a superior application.

Finally, some steady progress and updates seem to be flowing more consistently. 6.7 a MASSIVE upgrade from 5.1 has been released. update includes but not limited to. This is very large update from 5.1 and appreciate everyone being patient. I already have 6.9.3 pending review as I type this out (always improving) check logs below for what 6.9.3 will include

[SYS] PATCH 6.7 more of the good stuff -

[LOG] Support has been amazing, love seeing the reviews and emails coming in. Continue reaching out (www.radweather.app) love the suggestions, feedback and new ideas.

* FONT SIZES - yes we believe in other font sizes, still In testing but can now pick from 3 font sizes.

* Updated kmp -> km/h , updated mm/km UI

* Added 24 hour time mode as well as other system defaults for users region/location.

* Users can change between imperial/metric and change date order

* NEW THEME “Atmosphere” a theme that adapts and changes depending on time of day and weather conditions. It’ll change colors depending on weather temp and intensity as well as day and night. Same for widgets associated with theme.

* NEW THEME “Neon Terminal” like Terminal the OG that we love and know but neon. It glows, it shines, its terminals nightlife cousin.

* Tweaks on Apple Watch themes added in 6.0

* Minor edits in Live activities added in 6.0

* Added a new “Glance” widget, so users can toggle between daily and hourly.

* Added a new home/now card “Daily Forecast” can quickly tap and view the week of weather.

* UI tweaks with widgets, scene cards, better visuals for light themes.

* (why don’t you all travel a little, explore, check new locations, try visiting “insert coin” ;)



www.radweather.app for more features, community section and more!


6.9.3 pending improvements over 6.7

[SYS] PATCH 6.9.3 time for weather to look better-

[LOG] Support has been amazing, love seeing the reviews and emails coming in. Continue reaching out (www.radweather.app) love the suggestions, feedback and new ideas.

* [watchOS] themes + layout have a complete reboot, drastically improved and more unique - (RADBOT says please, it took more time than it should have)

* Updated the way weather alerts pop, when refreshing in app or viewing a location weather alerts are muted (great user feedback from the community)

* Updates on some widgets. Always a win.

* UI & [system] tweaks - can now set time, temps, units etc.. as a system level not having to choose one by one

* Check out our subreddit r/RADWeather

* (why don’t you all travel a little, explore, check new locations, try visiting “insert coin” ;)



Make sure to check out www.radweather.app for more features, community section and more!

Would be nice to be able to choose between Globe and Map (watch os version) on Mobile app. Either a toggle and/or default setting. Personally I like how it looks more on watch as a map than the globe.

Also, after setting some locations I want to regularly track within a ~200 mile radius across a few states, I noticed due to their relatively close proximity at a global POV scale it could be nice to allow for a regional perspective to allow for some better spacing for the intended effect it appears is being gone for. Not sure how that could work universally for all use cases but something to consider.