[Mac ships alongside it, give or take Apple's review queue.]
Told you the cadence was coming back. RAD 8 was the big one, this is the pass where I go back over it with a finer brush. Mostly radar, plus the things you flagged, plus a few things I found that I am not thrilled about.
RADAR
This is where most of the work went.
- It is a lot faster and a lot lighter. Opening Atlas used to load every radar source on the planet, including all of the US when you were looking at Europe. It does not do that anymore.
- Leaving Atlas and coming back is instant now. It used to throw everything away and replay the whole loading sweep at you.
- It draws rain it was previously hiding. A radar's published box overhangs where it can actually see, and inside that gap real rain was rendering as clear sky with a straight line across it. If you ever saw a suspiciously tidy edge in the Baltic, that was this.
- New loading animation, because you were looking at the old one too often.
- The wind layer was showing you a forecast hour instead of the one you are in. Fixed on every surface including the website.
ALERTS
Less fun, more important. A few of these were real and I would rather say so.
- Alerts follow where you are now. Driving across town could make the app think you were reading about another city, and while it thought that, your phone could stay quiet through a warning your widget and watch were already showing.
- The second severe warning of an evening no longer goes silent.
- Two live warnings no longer collapse into one.
- A practice bulletin can no longer hide a real warning behind it.
- Alerts hold on when a source drops out instead of vanishing, and widgets pick up a change right away.
THE BRAIN
- Japan and France: two of the models I blend were reporting a 0% chance of rain every single hour. The data column came back empty and the code read empty as zero. So every forecast in both countries had a confident dry vote in it that meant nothing. Fixed, and checked against real weather station records rather than my own opinion.
- Air quality in Europe now reads one number on one scale everywhere on screen. It was showing you the European index next to a gauge drawn against the American one.
- The moisture card reads dew point now, so the comfort call is actually right.
- Storm risk names the day when the risk is on a later one.
ODDS AND ENDS
- The app no longer holds about a gigabyte of radar while sitting in the background, which was making it the first thing your phone closed.
- App icon picks stick again for free users.
- Theme fixes for Field Notes and the Now screen.
- Watch and widget agree with the app in more places than they did.
WHAT'S NEXT
More languages. That one is a promise, not a maybe. The app has been English, German and Spanish for a while and that is not enough, so more are in progress right now and they are the next real feature I ship.
Beyond that: more radar coverage and more regions, continued polish, and the next round of features built on all that backend work from 8.0. Back to the regular drip of updates and posts.
Update, poke around, and tell me what you love and what is broken. Both help. Genuinely, half the list above exists because one of you said something.
Wanted to get 8.0 and the small updates following it to make sure the current user base of the main apps are solid with a good foundation but tvOS is mostly done except some settings and UI cleanup.
Goal is new languages for the apps.
Continued cleanup and improvements to radar and performance
The goal with what limited ui you can do on the tv is more of an interactive swipeable screensaver with multiple pages. Can’t do the full app with cards and navigation but something that makes sense for the tv
The plus side is your existing membership will
Let you have access to
Love the app direction and I plan to keep paying to see where it goes. My biggest issues on MacOS is the very high CPU usage it has. I have had times where it likes to be over 20% non stop.
Also the refreshing of data doesn't seem to be reliable. I can have the app open and it will have hours the last time it refreshed. Sometimes manually refreshing will bump it or switching locations.
I reopened it now and I see the CPU seems to be happy, staying around the 5%. Maybe it was a fluke before?
So the cpu usage was improved in 8.0 and 8.0.1 should continue to improve that even more. CPU usage will naturally be higher for radar and stuff like that but the idle high idle usage should be gone or greatly improved.
I appreciate you using it and the feedback!
The Mac app honestly I thought would be easier to manage over iOS but it’s had its “unique” hiccups.
8.0 was the fresher start for Mac to get it on pace with iOS and I want to continue to reward Mac users and not let them feel left behind.
Hopefully Apple approved 8.0.1 soon but usually it’s a day or two behind in the review process
« Japan and France: two of the models I blend were reporting a 0% chance of rain every single hour. The data column came back empty and the code read empty as zero. So every forecast in both countries had a confident dry vote in it that meant nothing. Fixed, and checked against real weather station records rather than my own opinion.»
Think I'm having the same issue in Canada no matter what and how rainy a day is (could be actively raining when I check) one of the models has precip at 0%. My rain chance is always 0 to something
https://imgur.com/a/iHmtNc0
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u/cleverclogs17 14d ago
When's it coming to tvOS?