Spotter Tools Pro: Storm Radar

RADAR IN YOUR CAR: CARPLAY Spotter Tools Pro is now a CarPlay navigation app. • Live radar on your car's screen, with warning polygons, storm cells, storm reports and radar sites • Layers: Reflectivity, Velocity, Storm-relative velocity, Correlation coefficient or the National composite, plus warnings on or off and a dark or light map • Sites: follow the nearest radar automatically or pick one • Search a town, ZIP code or address, or pick a recent place or a storm nearby, then Go for turn-by-turn on CarPlay's own turn cards • A trip started on your iPhone shows up in the car, and End in the car ends it on both • Car alerts on the CarPlay screen, and simpler maps for the Dashboard and instrument cluster SPOKEN TURNS WITH YOUR PHONE LOCKED Directions now keep talking when your iPhone is locked or another app is in front. LIVE CHASER POSITIONS • A new map layer shows featured storm chasers who are streaming on YouTube right now and sharing their position on Spotter Network • Tap a marker to watch their live stream • Live chasers stay on the map for as long as Spotter Network lists them • Team channels show a marker for each member out chasing • Partner chasers get a gold-ringed marker with their photo: Jim McGonigle, New Mexico Storm Chasing and South Central Mississippi Storm Chasers SHARE BUTTON • A new Share button in the bottom bar captures the screen you are on, map included, with a footer showing the logo, spottertools.pro and the date and time DUAL VIEW • Every Level II product in both panes, including storm-relative velocity, spectrum width and normalized rotation • Two panes on one radar share each download, so side by side costs no more data • Search, Center on me, a radar site pick or an alert now move both panes • Dual view loops use no more memory than single view TROPICAL • Each named storm's position is a spinning storm symbol with its category in the eye, faster as it strengthens • Fixed a storm card time that was 3 hours early and a distance that could be 45 miles off • New advisories show within about 5 minutes, and typhoons get their real category BUOY DATA EXPORT • Export data on a NOAA buoy's camera card shares its last 5 days of reports as a spreadsheet file NATIONAL RADAR • Low + Mid rotation: both rotation levels on one map, striped where both are spinning • Smooth colour scales for rotation, hail size, echo tops, VIL, rain totals and precip rate, with a quiet grey wash for weak values • Reflectivity layers in the national product list now use your own colour table and gate filter RADAR FIXES • Archived Level 2 velocity loops no longer skip 30 to 60 minutes when the radar keeps changing its settings • One failed scan no longer ends a Level 2 loop early and drops every newer frame