SkyForge

HOME, AND NOTIFICATIONS YOU CHOOSE • Set a Home: tap the house next to any place. Your widgets always show Home, wherever you look in the app. • Rain starting: a notification up to an hour before rain or snow reaches Home. • Lightning nearby: a notification when lightning strikes within 10 miles of Home (in the Americas). • Morning forecast: today's weather for Home, every day at the time you choose. • All three are off until you turn them on, and rain and lightning stay quiet from 10 PM to 7 AM. SATELLITE, CLOUDS, LIGHTNING, SMOKE AND SNOW • Satellite: live clouds from NOAA's GOES satellites every 5 minutes over the US, and across the Americas and the Pacific — tap anywhere for how high and cold the cloud tops are. • Cloud forecast: how cloudy the sky will be over the next two days, from NOAA's GFS model. • Lightning: strikes across the Americas every 15 minutes, playing along with the radar, and whether there is lightning within 30 miles of you. • Smoke, air quality and wildfires: the EPA's Air Quality Index, NOAA's wildfire-smoke forecast, and US wildfires with their size and containment. • Snow depth: how much snow is on the ground across the US, from NOAA's snow analysis. HURRICANES, SEVERE STORMS, RAIN AND MOISTURE — FROM NOAA • Hurricanes: the National Hurricane Center's cone, forecast track and coastal warnings, with a card for each storm — winds, pressure, movement and when the next advisory comes. • Severe outlook: the Storm Prediction Center's risk areas for today and the next two days, the chance of a tornado, damaging wind or large hail where you are, active watches and today's storm reports. • Rainfall history: how much rain actually fell over the last day, week, month or year, and how that compares with normal (US). • Moisture rivers: the atmospheric rivers that carry moisture out of the tropics, flowing across the map, from NOAA's GFS model. SMOOTHER RADAR • Zoom and pan while the radar plays: no blank patches and no restart — the loop keeps going while sharper detail loads. • Smoother storm edges and motion. SHARPER FORECASTS • In the US, forecasts past the next few hours now come from NOAA's National Blend of Models — in our tests at 13 US airports it cut the error in tomorrow's temperatures by about 30%. • When a weather station is close by, the current temperature is its latest reading, and the station is named under the hourly forecast. • Rain and snow amounts: the next 24 hours' total, snow totals in the 10-day forecast, and expected amounts in each day's summary. RAIN IN THE NEXT HOUR When rain is close, the forecast panel tells you when it starts or stops — "Rain starting in about 20 min" — from the radar's one-hour forecast. A CLEANER, SHARPER LOOK • New weather icons, drawn for SkyForge, with a moon and stars at night. • Frosted-glass panels: the map softens behind them instead of showing through the text. • "Now" always matches the current conditions, and chances of rain are shown only when they matter, rounded like the National Weather Service does. • Sunrise and sunset appear in the hourly forecast. • When the radar shows rain over you, the current conditions say so. • Pressure is shown at sea level, with a rising/falling trend; wind shows its direction. AROUND THE APP • The map shows Gulf of America and Lake America for users in the US. • Better VoiceOver descriptions and subtle haptic feedback.