# weatherfeels — A 90's Retro forecast app > Retro-style continuous weather broadcast with live US National Weather Service data. (iPhone/iPad app by Kevin Holland.) - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/weatherfeels/id6797599321 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`) - Developer: [Kevin Holland](https://appshunter.io/developer/6781891460) - Category: Weather - Price: Free - Rating: 5.00/5 from 1 App Store ratings - Age rating: 4+ - Requires: iOS 17.0 · 16 MB - Languages: American English - Released: 2026-08-12 - Data updated: 2026-09-19 - Monetization: free - User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/weatherfeels/id6797599321/reviews.md ## What is weatherfeels? A local forecast channel for your television, rebuilt for Apple platforms. weatherfeels puts a continuous, rotating weather broadcast on your screen — the kind that used to run between programmes on cable, with a slow crawl of conditions along the bottom and music playing over the top. Every forecast is live from the US National Weather Service. Leave it running on a TV, a monitor, or in a window while you work. WHAT IT SHOWS • Current Conditions — temperature, humidity, dew point, wind, ceiling and visibility • Local Forecast and Extended Forecast — the next several days at a glance • Hourly Forecast and Hourly Graph — temperature, dew point, cloud cover and precipitation chance • Local Radar — animated regional radar composites • Regional Observations and Regional Forecast — nearby cities on a state map • Travel Forecast — conditions for cities down the road • Almanac — sunrise, sunset, moon phases and records • Hazards and SPC Outlook — active alerts and convective risk when there is any Displays rotate on their own, or step through them yourself. Turn off any you do not care about. YOUR OWN MUSIC Play music behind the weather, the way the original did: • Files on the device • A folder on a server you host • A playlist from your Apple Music library (requires an Apple Music subscription) DRAWN, NOT SCALED Nothing here is a screenshot of a 640×480 web page stretched to fit. The backgrounds are redrawn as vector gradients and shapes, the type is real outline fonts rasterised at your display's resolution, and the weather icons are pixel art kept crisp with nearest-neighbour scaling. On an Apple TV 4K it renders at native 2160p. If you want the era rather than just the layout, there is a CRT mode: barrel-curved glass, phosphor bloom, colour fringing and scanlines that drift, all on the GPU. Or keep plain scanlines. Or none at all. BUILT FOR A SCREEN THAT STAYS ON • Burn-in protection nudges the picture a few pixels every 90 seconds, so a static header cannot etch itself into an OLED panel • The screen saver is held off while the rotation is running • Adjustable pace, from brisk to very slow ON EVERY SCREEN YOU OWN Apple TV, iPhone, iPad and Mac, all included. FREE, AND OPEN SOURCE No price, no in-app purchases, no subscription, and no advertising. Built by fans of the era, and the whole thing is on GitHub under the MIT licence — read it, fork it, or send a fix. NO ACCOUNTS, NO TRACKING There is no sign-in, no analytics and no third-party SDKs of any kind. Your location is sent to the National Weather Service to fetch your forecast and is used for nothing else. Your music library is read on the device and never leaves it. FORECASTS ARE US ONLY Data comes from the US National Weather Service, so forecasts are available for United States locations. You can follow your device's location or pick a city by name or ZIP code. Weather data from NOAA / the National Weather Service. Radar composites from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet. Convective outlooks from the NOAA Storm Prediction Center. An independent, unofficial tribute to the local forecast units of the 1990s, made by fans and given away. Not affiliated with, endorsed by, or connected to any broadcast network, weather service trademark or media company. ## Key features - Continuous rotating weather broadcast - Live US National Weather Service data - Retro CRT mode with visual effects - Customizable music playback - Burn-in protection for screens - Supports Apple TV, iPhone, iPad, and Mac ## Frequently asked questions about weatherfeels ### What kind of weather information does weatherfeels provide? weatherfeels offers current conditions (temperature, humidity, dew point, wind, ceiling, visibility), local and extended forecasts, hourly forecasts with graphs, local radar, regional observations, travel forecasts, almanac data, and hazard alerts from the US National Weather Service. ### Can I play my own music with weatherfeels? Yes, weatherfeels allows you to play music from files on your device, a folder on a server you host, or an Apple Music library playlist (requires an Apple Music subscription). ### Does weatherfeels have ads? No, weatherfeels is completely free of advertising. It is open source with no price, in-app purchases, or subscriptions. ### What devices does weatherfeels support? weatherfeels is available on Apple TV, iPhone, iPad, and Mac, offering a consistent experience across all your Apple devices. ### Is weatherfeels accurate for locations outside the US? No, weatherfeels exclusively uses data from the US National Weather Service, so forecasts are only available for United States locations. ### How does weatherfeels protect screens from burn-in? weatherfeels includes burn-in protection that nudges the picture a few pixels every 90 seconds, preventing static elements from etching into OLED panels. ### What is the 'CRT mode' in weatherfeels? CRT mode in weatherfeels simulates the look of old cathode ray tube televisions, featuring barrel-curved glass, phosphor bloom, color fringing, and drifting scanlines for an authentic retro experience. ### How often is weatherfeels updated? weatherfeels was last updated on September 2, 2026, with version 1.2. As an open-source project, updates are driven by community contributions and developer releases. ## Version history (last 4 releases) ### 1.2 — 2026-09-02 • The television now makes the noise a CRT makes. Switching the set on or off sounds like the real thing — the flyback whine, the degauss thump, and the anode cracking into the tube face — synthesised rather than sampled. • Mute has joined the buttons on the cabinet, and the floating controls now stay out of the way while the television is on screen. They were a second set of controls competing with the set's own; they still appear when the television is switched off, which is when you need them. • Turning an iPhone upside down shows the television. That orientation was unsupported, so rotating the phone that way left the app facing whichever way it had been before. • The Hourly forecast's columns stay inside the blue panel. The hour and the wind speed hung off either edge onto the orange field behind them. ### 1.1.1 — 2026-08-31 • Switching the television off now silences the music as well as the picture. The power button on the cabinet used to blank the screen and leave the music playing, so a set that plainly looked switched off carried on making noise. ### 1.1 — 2026-08-30 Turn your iPhone or iPad upright and the forecast now plays on a television. • The set. In portrait the picture sits on a CRT instead of being stretched up the screen. Its buttons work: settings, back and forward through the rotation, and a power button that switches the tube off the way it used to. • Three finishes. Studio monitor grey, wood veneer, or black plastic. • Rotation. The app opens in landscape, filling the screen with the picture. Turn the device for the television. If you would rather have the set in both orientations, there is now a switch for that. • The tube, by default. The CRT screen effect and medium scanlines are on out of the box. • The whole rotation, by default. Hourly Forecast, Travel, the hourly graph and the severe-weather outlook used to start switched off. Everything is on now; turn off what you do not want in Settings. • A new app icon and on-screen mark. Fixed • Current Conditions printed its labels through its readings on the narrower layouts — "Pressure:" and the reading beside it ran into each other. • The Hourly Forecast wind column lost its last digit at the right edge. • The first-run screens had text that came out dark on the blue background in light mode, and was close to unreadable. ### 1.0 — 2026-08-30 No release notes. ## Apps similar to weatherfeels | App | Rating | Price | Category | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | [WeatherNote - Simple Weather](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/weathernote-simple-weather/id6763731569) | — | Free | Weather | | [Backyard Weather - PWS](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/backyard-weather-pws/id6759879178) | 5.0 (1) | Free | Weather | | [StormBase](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/stormbase/id6759570177) | 5.0 (4) | $0.99 | Weather | | [RetroWeather TV](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/retroweather-tv/id6757312539) | 4.8 (409) | Free | Weather | | [Tempest Console - StormPulse](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/tempest-console-stormpulse/id6737360203) | 5.0 (2) | Free | Weather | | [Suncrest Weather](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/suncrest-weather/id6755919428) | 5.0 (5) | Free | Weather | ## More apps by Kevin Holland - [xpntl](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/xpntl/id6780605098) All apps by Kevin Holland: https://appshunter.io/developer/6781891460 --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). 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