WeatherAI - Forecast & Radar2026.09.1 - App Store

Stay ahead of the storm with WeatherAI: real-time radar, accurate local forecasts, minute-by-minute rain alerts, and critical severe weather warnings. Get timely notice of major events like tornado emergencies and hurricane warnings, and follow tropical storms all season long.

WeatherAI is an all-in-one forecasting app with an AI assistant built for everyday planning and severe weather. Check conditions anywhere, watch storms on an interactive map, track hurricanes, monitor river flooding, follow earthquakes, view air quality, and explore advanced radar and satellite layers. Works on iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch, and Apple Vision Pro.

Features:
. Live Radar Map: Storms, precipitation, lightning, and alerts on one interactive map
. Minute-by-Minute Precipitation: See exactly when rain or snow will start and stop at your location
. AI Weather Summary: A fast daily overview of what matters most (Standard or higher)
. AI Weather Chat: Ask about the forecast, what to wear, activities, SPC outlooks, air quality, nearby earthquakes, and more (Standard or higher)
. Accurate Local Forecasts: Real-time conditions plus hourly and daily forecasts for your location or any searched city
. Weather Sources: WeatherAI Forecast, Apple Weather, or the National Weather Service, plus Open-Meteo, XWeather, and OpenWeather with Pro
. Hurricane & Tropical Tracking: Active storms with forecast cones, tracks, and watches/warnings from the National Hurricane Center
. Severe Weather Alerts: Detailed alerts for the U.S. (NWS), Canada (MSC), the United Kingdom, and Europe (Meteoalarm)
. Air Quality (AQI): Local by default, with global detailed AQI (Standard or higher)
. Professional Radar & Satellite Layers: NEXRAD Level 3, MRMS, HRRR, RTMA, and GOES/Himawari satellite imagery (Pro)
. Lightning: Strikes near you (Standard or higher), plus GOES GLM satellite lightning on radar (Pro)
. Earthquake Tracking: Nearby and recent quakes (USGS or EMSC), plus tsunami advisories
. Water: River levels and flood status, tide predictions, and coastal/offshore buoy observations
. Wildfires (U.S.): Nationwide coverage, including CAL FIRE data for California
. Volcanoes (U.S.): Activity status and details
. Space Weather: SWPC planetary K-index, EUV/CME solar imagery, GOES X-ray and proton flux, and forecast discussion
. Aviation Weather: Nearby METARs/TAFs and soundings, decoded on-device with Apple Intelligence
. Widgets & Live Activities: Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets, plus Live Activities in the Dynamic Island
. Apple Watch: Conditions, forecasts, and complications, with alerts delivered straight to the watch
. Siri & Shortcuts: Ask for conditions, your alerts, or radar by voice, plus a Control Center button for radar

Radar map layers include:
. Weather alerts and storm reports
. Storm Prediction Center (SPC) convective outlooks (tornado/wind/hail), fire outlooks, and mesoscale discussions
. WPC excessive rainfall outlooks and CPC temperature/precipitation outlooks
. Storm tracks, tropical systems, turbulence, and pilot reports (PIREPs)

Notifications:
. Severe weather alerts (U.S./Canada/UK/Europe) with optional Critical Alerts, earthquakes, space weather, daily summaries, and custom weather triggers (limits vary by tier)
. NWS Area Forecast Discussions (AFD) and Hazardous Weather Outlooks (HWO) for up to 10 selected locations
. SPC Convective Outlook alerts when your selected locations enter a risk area
. Population estimates (U.S.) for select alerts and discussions

Ad-Free:
. Ad-free experience with Standard or higher

Subscriptions:
. Payment is charged to your Apple ID at confirmation of purchase.
. Subscriptions auto-renew unless canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period, and renewal is charged within those final 24 hours.
. Manage or cancel anytime in your App Store account settings.

Privacy Policy: https://weatherai.world/privacy-policy
Terms of Use: https://weatherai.world/terms

Version History WeatherAI arrives on Apple Watch, forecasts can now come straight from the National Weather Service, and the app speaks German and Spanish.

WeatherAI on Apple Watch
• Current conditions, hourly and daily forecasts, and today's high and low
• Active weather alerts, with the full text of each one
• Switch between your current location, favorites, and recent places
• Alerts arrive on the watch directly, even when your iPhone is off or away

National Weather Service Forecasts (U.S.)
• Use the official forecast from your local NWS office as your weather source
• Forecaster-written summaries for each day and night
• Current conditions from the nearest official observation station

Now in German and Spanish
• The app, widgets, notifications, and the watch app follow your iPhone's language
• AI-written summaries stay in English for now, with both languages coming soon

More for Pro
• Open-Meteo, a new global forecast source with 16 days of detail
• Full disk satellite imagery from GOES-18 and GOES-19
• City lights on the night side of GeoColor imagery, hidden by clouds as they are from orbit
• Smooth Motion, so shared radar and satellite loops play as motion instead of a slideshow
• A 3D hodograph you can rotate

Notifications
• Critical Alerts let the most urgent warnings break through silent mode and Focus
• Space weather notifications for solar flares and geomagnetic storms
• Notification settings are now a hub, with each kind on its own page
• Urgent alerts can be allowed through quiet hours

Siri Knows What You Are Looking At
• "What's the weather here" answers for the saved place on screen
• "Read me this alert" reads the one you have open

Radar and Severe Weather
• Tornado and severe thunderstorm watches open on live radar, zoomed to the area they cover
• Severe outlooks on radar now reach day 8
• Alert outlines stay visible over a storm core
• The playback bar shows how current each frame is and where it comes from

New Charts and Views
• Storm reports as charts, by hour, hail size, gust strength, and state
• An earthquake depth view built from a decade of events
• Airport forecasts (TAFs) show flight categories as a colored timeline
• Active alerts on radar as a timeline of when each starts and ends

A Sky That Matches the Forecast
• Rain, fog, and smoke follow the real forecast and visibility
• Lightning lights up the clouds during a thunderstorm
• The aurora appears when it could really be seen from where you are
• A new setting chooses whether the sky turns red during a severe alert

Everywhere Else
• More accurate WeatherAI forecasts, applied automatically
• The Tropical Weather Hub now covers Mexico, the Caribbean, Central America, Bermuda, and Atlantic Canada
• Preview a shared loop and pick video or GIF before sending it
• Fixed severe warning Live Activities that could appear after being turned off and get stuck on the lock screen
• Fixed custom notification rules that could be lost during sync
• Many other fixes 2026.09.1 Sep 14 This update rebuilds the wildfire maps, makes every list in the app read the same way, and lets you share any chart as an image.

Redesigned Wildfire Maps (U.S.)
• Markers are sized by acreage and colored by status, so a spot fire and a megafire no longer look alike
• Perimeters are drawn by activity: ground that has already burned is hatched, and active edges stand out
• Larger fires carry their name and acreage right on the map
• A tray lists every incident currently in view, tap one to jump to it
• A new minimum size filter hides small incidents on the map, and the incident list still shows everything

Consistent Lists Everywhere
• Weather alerts from Canada, the UK, and Europe now show severity and timing, which only U.S. alerts did before
• Severity levels now carry a distinct icon shape, so they read without relying on color
• Earthquakes, fires, METARs, tides, buoys, rivers, storm reports, volcanoes, and tsunamis all read the same way
• Empty screens now explain what is missing instead of showing a generic icon

Clearer, Shareable Charts
• Long press a chart, or use the share button, to send it to the share sheet as an image
• Scrubbed values now appear in the chart header instead of a tooltip covering the title and legend
• Axis labels and legends carry their units, at a precision that fits the data
• Reference lines like Now and Midnight are easier to tell apart from the data
• A smoother, more readable wind direction chart

Tropical Improvements
• Wind Speed Probability now uses the National Hurricane Center's own color scale, with all ten bands in the legend instead of four
• Areas below a 5% chance are no longer shaded, matching how the Hurricane Center draws them
• Storm wind speeds now match the published advisory numbers exactly

Siri and Shortcuts
• Siri now recognizes "Weather AI", so spoken phrases match far more reliably
• "Show radar for" a place now centers the radar map on it, even from a cold launch
• Asking a question without a subscription now gets a spoken explanation instead of an error

A Livelier Sky
• Rain, snow, and hail are much denser and fall more naturally
• Clouds have more depth and detail
• The moon's phase and tilt now match where you are standing

Everywhere Else
• Location, METAR station, radar site, and volcano lists now use the standard iOS search field
• Every embedded map now opens a larger version the same way, from alerts to fires to earthquakes
• The AI summary card shows a placeholder while it loads, and offers Try Again if it fails
• Small icon buttons are easier to tap, with more VoiceOver labels across rows and charts
• New Help and FAQ answers, plus a section on customizing the app
• Fixed an air quality dial that showed a category milder than the reading
• Fixed pull to refresh spinning forever, or reporting success when the refresh had failed
• Fixed landing on the wrong screen when Earthquakes or METARs is your default tab 2026.08.4 Aug 14 This update rebuilds the wildfire maps, makes every list in the app read the same way, and lets you share any chart as an image.

Redesigned Wildfire Maps (U.S.)
• Markers are sized by acreage and colored by status, so a spot fire and a megafire no longer look alike
• Perimeters are drawn by activity: ground that has already burned is hatched, and active edges stand out
• Larger fires carry their name and acreage right on the map
• A tray lists every incident currently in view, tap one to jump to it
• A new minimum size filter hides small incidents on the map, and the incident list still shows everything

Consistent Lists Everywhere
• Weather alerts from Canada, the UK, and Europe now show severity and timing, which only U.S. alerts did before
• Severity levels now carry a distinct icon shape, so they read without relying on color
• Earthquakes, fires, METARs, tides, buoys, rivers, storm reports, volcanoes, and tsunamis all read the same way
• Empty screens now explain what is missing instead of showing a generic icon

Clearer, Shareable Charts
• Long press a chart, or use the share button, to send it to the share sheet as an image
• Scrubbed values now appear in the chart header instead of a tooltip covering the title and legend
• Axis labels and legends carry their units, at a precision that fits the data
• Reference lines like Now and Midnight are easier to tell apart from the data
• A smoother, more readable wind direction chart

Tropical Improvements
• Wind Speed Probability now uses the National Hurricane Center's own color scale, with all ten bands in the legend instead of four
• Areas below a 5% chance are no longer shaded, matching how the Hurricane Center draws them
• Storm wind speeds now match the published advisory numbers exactly

Siri and Shortcuts
• Siri now recognizes "Weather AI", so spoken phrases match far more reliably
• "Show radar for" a place now centers the radar map on it, even from a cold launch
• Asking a question without a subscription now gets a spoken explanation instead of an error

A Livelier Sky
• Rain, snow, and hail are much denser and fall more naturally
• Clouds have more depth and detail
• The moon's phase and tilt now match where you are standing

Everywhere Else
• Location, METAR station, radar site, and volcano lists now use the standard iOS search field
• Every embedded map now opens a larger version the same way, from alerts to fires to earthquakes
• The AI summary card shows a placeholder while it loads, and offers Try Again if it fails
• Small icon buttons are easier to tap, with more VoiceOver labels across rows and charts
• New Help and FAQ answers, plus a section on customizing the app
• Fixed an air quality dial that showed a category milder than the reading
• Fixed pull to refresh spinning forever, or reporting success when the refresh had failed
• Fixed landing on the wrong screen when Earthquakes or METARs is your default tab 2026.08.3 Aug 11 This update rebuilds the wildfire maps, makes every list in the app read the same way, and lets you share any chart as an image.

Redesigned Wildfire Maps (U.S.)
• Markers are sized by acreage and colored by status, so a spot fire and a megafire no longer look alike
• Perimeters are drawn by activity: ground that has already burned is hatched, and active edges stand out
• Larger fires carry their name and acreage right on the map
• A tray lists every incident currently in view, tap one to jump to it
• A new minimum size filter hides small incidents on the map, and the incident list still shows everything

Consistent Lists Everywhere
• Weather alerts from Canada, the UK, and Europe now show severity and timing, which only U.S. alerts did before
• Severity levels now carry a distinct icon shape, so they read without relying on color
• Earthquakes, fires, METARs, tides, buoys, rivers, storm reports, volcanoes, and tsunamis all read the same way
• Empty screens now explain what is missing instead of showing a generic icon

Clearer, Shareable Charts
• Long press a chart, or use the share button, to send it to the share sheet as an image
• Scrubbed values now appear in the chart header instead of a tooltip covering the title and legend
• Axis labels and legends carry their units, at a precision that fits the data
• Reference lines like Now and Midnight are easier to tell apart from the data
• A smoother, more readable wind direction chart

Tropical Improvements
• Wind Speed Probability now uses the National Hurricane Center's own color scale, with all ten bands in the legend instead of four
• Areas below a 5% chance are no longer shaded, matching how the Hurricane Center draws them
• Storm wind speeds now match the published advisory numbers exactly

Siri and Shortcuts
• Siri now recognizes "Weather AI", so spoken phrases match far more reliably
• "Show radar for" a place now centers the radar map on it, even from a cold launch
• Asking a question without a subscription now gets a spoken explanation instead of an error

A Livelier Sky
• Rain, snow, and hail are much denser and fall more naturally
• Clouds have more depth and detail
• The moon's phase and tilt now match where you are standing

Everywhere Else
• Location, METAR station, radar site, and volcano lists now use the standard iOS search field
• Every embedded map now opens a larger version the same way, from alerts to fires to earthquakes
• The AI summary card shows a placeholder while it loads, and offers Try Again if it fails
• Small icon buttons are easier to tap, with more VoiceOver labels across rows and charts
• New Help and FAQ answers, plus a section on customizing the app
• Fixed an air quality dial that showed a category milder than the reading
• Fixed pull to refresh spinning forever, or reporting success when the refresh had failed
• Fixed landing on the wrong screen when Earthquakes or METARs is your default tab 2026.08.2 Aug 9 This update rebuilds the wildfire maps, makes every list in the app read the same way, and lets you share any chart as an image.

Redesigned Wildfire Maps (U.S.)
• Markers are sized by acreage and colored by status, so a spot fire and a megafire no longer look alike
• Perimeters are drawn by activity: ground that has already burned is hatched, and active edges stand out
• Larger fires carry their name and acreage right on the map
• A tray lists every incident currently in view, tap one to jump to it
• A new minimum size filter hides small incidents on the map, and the incident list still shows everything

Consistent Lists Everywhere
• Weather alerts from Canada, the UK, and Europe now show severity and timing, which only U.S. alerts did before
• Severity levels now carry a distinct icon shape, so they read without relying on color
• Earthquakes, fires, METARs, tides, buoys, rivers, storm reports, volcanoes, and tsunamis all read the same way
• Empty screens now explain what is missing instead of showing a generic icon

Clearer, Shareable Charts
• Long press a chart, or use the share button, to send it to the share sheet as an image
• Scrubbed values now appear in the chart header instead of a tooltip covering the title and legend
• Axis labels and legends carry their units, at a precision that fits the data
• Reference lines like Now and Midnight are easier to tell apart from the data
• A smoother, more readable wind direction chart

Tropical Improvements
• Wind Speed Probability now uses the National Hurricane Center's own color scale, with all ten bands in the legend instead of four
• Areas below a 5% chance are no longer shaded, matching how the Hurricane Center draws them
• Storm wind speeds now match the published advisory numbers exactly

Siri and Shortcuts
• Siri now recognizes "Weather AI", so spoken phrases match far more reliably
• "Show radar for" a place now centers the radar map on it, even from a cold launch
• Asking a question without a subscription now gets a spoken explanation instead of an error

A Livelier Sky
• Rain, snow, and hail are much denser and fall more naturally
• Clouds have more depth and detail
• The moon's phase and tilt now match where you are standing

Everywhere Else
• Location, METAR station, radar site, and volcano lists now use the standard iOS search field
• Every embedded map now opens a larger version the same way, from alerts to fires to earthquakes
• The AI summary card shows a placeholder while it loads, and offers Try Again if it fails
• Small icon buttons are easier to tap, with more VoiceOver labels across rows and charts
• New Help and FAQ answers, plus a section on customizing the app
• Fixed an air quality dial that showed a category milder than the reading
• Fixed pull to refresh spinning forever, or reporting success when the refresh had failed
• Fixed landing on the wrong screen when Earthquakes or METARs is your default tab 2026.08.1 Aug 8 This update follows tropical storms much more closely, brings your chosen weather source to your widgets, and rebuilds the sky on the home screen.

Tropical Storm Notifications
• Storm News: new storms forming and intensity changes across the Atlantic and Pacific basins
• Local Threat: an alert when your location enters a storm's forecast cone
• Turn either one on in Settings under Notification Settings

New Tropical Layers on Radar
• Wind Speed Probability: your chance of tropical-storm-force winds, tappable for the exact number
• Arrival Time: when those winds are most likely to reach each area, labeled along the map

Widgets Follow Your Weather Source
• Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets now use the weather source you picked in Settings, instead of always using Apple Weather
• Your widget and your home screen finally agree on the forecast
• More reliable location handling and refreshes, with fewer stale or blank widgets

More Tropical Storm Detail
• Tap a forecast point for maximum sustained wind, gusts, central pressure, Saffir-Simpson category, heading, and lead time
• Storm markers are colored by category, so a storm reads the same on the map and in the list
• Advisories, cyclone updates, and forecast discussions are formatted into readable sections instead of one wall of text

A Deeper Home Screen Sky
• The sun is drawn with true light falloff instead of a flat disc, and the moon shows its current phase
• Clouds sit in near and far layers sized to the actual cloud cover, drifting at the real wind speed and in the real wind direction
• The sky now extends behind the status bar and into the refresh pull-down area

Radar Legend and Map Panels
• Choose where the radar legend sits: floating over the map, or docked with the playback controls
• The docked legend shows its scale values without needing to press and drag
• Keeping it off the map also means your finger no longer interrupts a two-finger zoom
• Radar panels, legends, and the map inspector now follow light and dark mode instead of always being dark

Everywhere Else
• VoiceOver improvements across charts, alert lists, forecast rows, and widgets
• Tropical and fire data refreshes more frequently
• WeatherAI Forecast accuracy has been improved, with more enhancements on the way
• Fixed a rare issue where some time zones could keep notifications from being sent 2026.07.2 Jul 31 This update brings the National Weather Service's own forecaster text into the app, plus deeper detail for buoys, rivers, and space weather.

National Forecast Discussion (U.S.)
• The Severe Weather Hub now carries the Weather Prediction Center's short-range (days 1 to 3) and extended (days 3 to 7) forecast discussions
• An SPC Public Severe Weather Outlook alert when one is issued ahead of a significant event
• A Hurricane Local Statement with local impacts and recommended actions during a tropical storm or hurricane

Buoy Trends and More Detail
• History charts for wind and gusts, wave height and period, pressure, and air and water temperature
• New dew point, average wave period, and a 3-hour pressure trend
• Wave height now includes the wave direction

River Forecasts and Charts (U.S.)
• The official NOAA river forecast alongside recent history
• Forecast crest and the flooding impacts expected at each stage
• Stage and flow charts with flood-stage reference lines
• Filter the rivers list and map by flood stage

More Space Weather Detail
• New NOAA Radio Blackout (R-scale) readings on the X-ray flux chart
• Exact flare magnitude, like X1.1, and a marker for the peak flare
• Faster, smoother X-ray and proton flux charts, plus an improved solar wind chart

Smarter Weather Summaries
• On devices with Apple Intelligence, daily summaries describe the weather without unsolicited advice or invented consequences
• Clearer aviation (METAR) and severe-weather watch summaries

Radar and Lightning
• HRRR forecast layers now look sharper when zoomed in
• Fixed blank map areas that could appear after animating or scrubbing
• Storm-track markers update closer to real time, with higher-resolution shared radar animations
• Dense lightning is thinned so the map stays readable, while isolated strikes are always kept

Clearer Weather Alerts
• A filter menu for alert severities, and the ability to browse all European warnings
• Faster-loading alert overlays on radar

Wildfire Map Improvements (U.S.)
• Fire perimeters now follow your map filters and stay visible on their own
• Smoother refreshes, with markers that no longer blink

Everywhere Else
• Minute-by-minute rain now covers most of Canada
• More consistent units and formatting, including snowfall in cm or inches and aviation temperatures in °C
• Choose whether your location marker appears on maps, with a separate control for radar
• Expanded in-app Help and FAQ, with info buttons on rivers and buoys explaining each measurement
• Wind direction arrows now point the way the wind is blowing, like a weather vane
• More reliable Restore Purchases, plus many more fixes and performance improvements 2026.07.1 Jul 14 Big additions for Canada: dedicated radar and air quality, plus the option to give each widget its own location.

Canadian Radar
• Radar now covers Canada, sourced directly from Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC)
• High-resolution precipitation radar that animates alongside your other radar layers

Air Quality for Canada
• Dedicated air quality using Environment and Climate Change Canada's Air Quality Health Index (AQHI)
• A home card with the current AQHI and risk level for your location
• A detail view with the nearest reporting station, current reading, and ECCC's forecast

Pick a Location for Each Widget
• Home Screen widgets can now show a specific saved location instead of always following your current location
• Give each widget its own favorite location, or keep it on current location

Everywhere Else
• Smoother radar tile loading and animation
• More consistent sharing across weather reports, maps, and cards
• Localization improvements 2026.06.4 Jun 26 Track tsunamis, get weather alerts for more of Europe, and receive severe alerts the instant they're issued.

Tsunami Information
• Follow tsunami messages from the U.S. Tsunami Warning Centers (NTWC and PTWC), sourced from tsunami.gov
• A nearby-first list color-coded by threat level: Warning, Advisory, Watch, or Information
• Detail views with affected areas, what to do, the triggering earthquake, and estimated wave arrival times
• Most messages are informational, and the list stays quiet when nothing is active

Europe Weather Alerts
• Weather alerts now cover Germany, Spain, France, Italy, Netherlands, Portugal, and Belgium, sourced from Meteoalarm
• See them on your home screen and the radar map, and browse them by country
• Open full details and turn on notifications, just like existing alerts

Instant Severe Alerts (US)
• Get notified the second the National Weather Service issues certain severe alerts
• Covers Tornado Warning, Severe Thunderstorm Warning, Flash Flood Warning, and Extreme Wind Warning

WeatherAI Forecast Improvements
• In the US, current conditions more accurately reflect whether precipitation is happening now, and whether it's rain or snow
• Better handling of precipitation type and intensity in other countries too

Radar Improvements
• Pro radar velocity differentiates its range of values more clearly
• Some MRMS products handle larger values better, like distinguishing 3 in. from 4 in. hail
• Smoother radar tile loading

Everywhere Else
• More annotations and overlays in the tropical hub views
• A cleaner, decluttered severe weather hub
• AI summaries for weather watches, on supported devices
• Numbers and percentages, including radar legends, now follow your device's regional formatting
• Fixed storm tracks that could appear offset, Mac in-app sheet animations that might not play, and UK alert notifications that might not open their details 2026.06.3 Jun 25 Get ready for tropical and severe weather season with a big update.

Minute-by-Minute Rain on Your Home Screen (US)
• See exactly what the next hour of rain or snow looks like, with plain-language headlines like "Light rain starting in about 8 min"
• A minute-by-minute chart of the next 60 minutes
• Appears automatically when precipitation is on the way, and stays hidden when it's dry

Tropical Weather Hub (US)
• Track active storms with data straight from the National Hurricane Center
• See how current tropical threats line up with your location
• Quick guidance for getting ready before a storm arrives
• A new home card surfaces the hub when tropical activity is relevant

Explore Rivers & Buoys
• A "River & Buoy Conditions" home card summarizes the nearest water conditions at a glance
• Rivers is US only for now; buoys are global
• Scrollable nearby lists and a full-screen map for each
• Filter the rivers map by flood stage to focus on what's actionable

Share Storm Reports
• Generate a clean, shareable image card for any storm report, complete with a location map and the details

Radar Improvements
• Nexrad, MRMS, RTMA, HRRR, and Satellite data download faster for animation
• Updated Correlation Coefficient colormap for Nexrad to better separate weather from non-weather echoes (like debris signatures in severe storms)
• Weather alerts appear on radar more quickly
• Smoother tile rendering during animation

Wind Threat in the Alerts List
• Severe thunderstorm and tornado alerts now show the expected max wind gust and wind threat right in the list, alongside hail details — size up the threat without opening each one

Everywhere Else
• Alert list row colors now match the severity chips and section headers
• More consistent framing and zoom across the tropical forecast maps
• Tidier, faster-loading radar layer settings
• More reliable shared storage and data refreshing
• A much faster back-end for quicker load times across the app
• Improved memory usage, stability, and overall performance 2026.06.2 Jun 17 Primarily improvements and bug fixes. 2026.06.1 Jun 2 - Describe a custom notification in plain language and Apple Intelligence will build the rule for you, on-device
- Pro subscribers now see high-resolution MRMS radar behind NWS warnings, SPC mesoscale discussions, and WPC MPDs
- Daily detail adds max, average, and minimum dew point when using the WeatherAI forecast
- USGS and EMSC earthquake lists now load in pages for near-unlimited scrolling
- The animated home hero reacts to more conditions, including thunderstorms, tropical storms, hail, blizzards, heat haze, smoke, frost, and clear nights
- The on-device AI assistant is more accurate across METARs, TAFs, alert summaries, and the daily forecast
- WeatherAI on Mac is now a true Mac app instead of the iPad app, with better performance and a layout built for larger screens 2026.05.2 May 19 Severe weather, now front and center — plus deeper integration across iOS.

Severe Weather Live Activities
Active warnings now appear on your Lock Screen and in the Dynamic Island, with a live countdown until the warning expires. Supports tornado, severe thunderstorm, flash flood, hurricane, and tsunami warnings. Tap to jump straight to the alert. US only for now. Toggle in Settings, Notifications, Live Activities.

Saved Locations Throughout iOS
Your saved locations are now first-class citizens across iOS. Ask Siri "What's the weather in [saved location]" or "Show radar for [saved location]," and find them in Spotlight too.

Radar Control Widget
A new Radar control for Control Center, the Lock Screen, and the Action Button. One tap takes you straight to the radar map.

Richer Siri and Shortcuts Snippets
Siri now returns the condition icon, temperature, feels-like, humidity, and wind alongside the spoken response.

Animated Home Screen Hero
A layered, condition-aware sky at the top of the home screen that adapts to time of day, current weather, and active alert severity.
Subtle ambient particles for rain, snow, fog, sun rays, and thunder. Prefer the original look? There's a "Use classic home background" toggle in Customize Home Screen.

Faster, Smoother List Views
Nearby METARs, TAFs, tide stations, storm reports, and wildfires now load in pages, first results appear quickly and more load as you scroll.

Dynamic Radar Legends
Radar legends now update automatically when products are tweaked, so the colors you see always match the legend. No app update required.

Polished Detail Rows
Air quality, earthquakes, METARs and TAFs, tides, storm reports, and wildfire rows have been reworked for better readability and a more consistent look.

NWS Card Improvements
Stale observations now show their age, plus general improvements to NWS data loading.

Plus various performance and stability improvements under the hood. Thanks for using WeatherAI! 2026.05.1 May 8 New Severe Weather Hub (US)
- A new Severe Weather Hub brings everything you need during active severe weather into one place
- Active threats near your location, recent storm reports, the SPC convective outlook timeline, and excessive rainfall risk
- National severe weather alerts and a nationwide storm reports map
- Educational content covering hazard types, what watches and warnings mean, and how to stay safe

Redesigned SPC Outlook Map
- The SPC convective outlook map has been rebuilt from the ground up with cleaner rendering, clearer legends, improved hatched-area visuals for significant risks, and more responsive day and product switching

Surface Fronts and Pressure Centers on Radar
- Radar can now display the WPC national forecast chart, including surface fronts (cold, warm, stationary, occluded) and high/low pressure centers. Toggle it on from the radar layer settings

Wildfire Perimeters
- Active wildfire perimeters are now drawn directly on the wildfires map as shaded polygons, in addition to point markers, so you can see the true footprint of large fires at a glance

Improved WPC Rainfall and Winter Precipitation Views
- The Excessive Rainfall and Winter Precipitation forecast views share a new unified legend with clearer risk levels and color coding, and the map controls have been tightened up for easier day switching

Radar Alerts List Overhaul
- The list of active alerts on the radar screen has been reworked with better grouping, richer alert details, and faster navigation between alerts 2026.04.5 Apr 28 New Severe Weather Hub (US)
- A new Severe Weather Hub brings everything you need during active severe weather into one place
- Active threats near your location, recent storm reports, the SPC convective outlook timeline, and excessive rainfall risk
- National severe weather alerts and a nationwide storm reports map
- Educational content covering hazard types, what watches and warnings mean, and how to stay safe

Redesigned SPC Outlook Map
- The SPC convective outlook map has been rebuilt from the ground up with cleaner rendering, clearer legends, improved hatched-area visuals for significant risks, and more responsive day and product switching

Surface Fronts and Pressure Centers on Radar
- Radar can now display the WPC national forecast chart, including surface fronts (cold, warm, stationary, occluded) and high/low pressure centers. Toggle it on from the radar layer settings

Wildfire Perimeters
- Active wildfire perimeters are now drawn directly on the wildfires map as shaded polygons, in addition to point markers, so you can see the true footprint of large fires at a glance

Improved WPC Rainfall and Winter Precipitation Views
- The Excessive Rainfall and Winter Precipitation forecast views share a new unified legend with clearer risk levels and color coding, and the map controls have been tightened up for easier day switching

Radar Alerts List Overhaul
- The list of active alerts on the radar screen has been reworked with better grouping, richer alert details, and faster navigation between alerts 2026.04.4 Apr 24 New Severe Weather Hub (US)
- A new Severe Weather Hub brings everything you need during active severe weather into one place
- Active threats near your location, recent storm reports, the SPC convective outlook timeline, and excessive rainfall risk
- National severe weather alerts and a nationwide storm reports map
- Educational content covering hazard types, what watches and warnings mean, and how to stay safe

Redesigned SPC Outlook Map
- The SPC convective outlook map has been rebuilt from the ground up with cleaner rendering, clearer legends, improved hatched-area visuals for significant risks, and more responsive day and product switching

Surface Fronts and Pressure Centers on Radar
- Radar can now display the WPC national forecast chart, including surface fronts (cold, warm, stationary, occluded) and high/low pressure centers. Toggle it on from the radar layer settings

Wildfire Perimeters
- Active wildfire perimeters are now drawn directly on the wildfires map as shaded polygons, in addition to point markers, so you can see the true footprint of large fires at a glance

Improved WPC Rainfall and Winter Precipitation Views
- The Excessive Rainfall and Winter Precipitation forecast views share a new unified legend with clearer risk levels and color coding, and the map controls have been tightened up for easier day switching

Radar Alerts List Overhaul
- The list of active alerts on the radar screen has been reworked with better grouping, richer alert details, and faster navigation between alerts 2026.04.3 Apr 23 WeatherAI Forecast Preview
- Introducing forecasts powered by WeatherAI! Switch your weather provider to WeatherAI for AI-generated detailed forecasts and insights with improved accuracy for mid to long-range periods. Free during the preview period. Give it a try and share your feedback!

Aviation Weather on Radar
- Three new aviation overlays: PIREPs (pilot reports), SIGMETs, and turbulence forecasts with flight-level selection. Toggle them in radar layer settings. (Pro)

New HRRR Severe Weather & Smoke Layers
- Four new forecast layers: Storm-Relative Helicity, Bulk Wind Shear, Significant Tornado Parameter, and near-surface smoke concentration. (Pro)

AI Chat Improvements
- Chat now references NWS area forecast discussions, shows WPC excessive rainfall risk on interactive maps, and can report on nearby wildfires and PIREPs. Better error handling and international availability messaging.

Widget Themes
- Customize widget backgrounds with Dark, Light, Navy, Charcoal, and Match Weather themes. Configure in Settings under Widget Customization.

More Sharing Options
- Generate shareable cards for earthquakes, AI weather summaries, weather stories, PIREPs, and SIGMETs.

Also in this update:
- UK custom alert notifications
- Improved weather reporting with more condition types
- Improved air quality details, local LLM responses, and home view performance
- Bug fixes and accessibility improvements 2026.04.2 Apr 10 WeatherAI Forecast Preview
- Introducing forecasts powered by WeatherAI! Switch your weather provider to WeatherAI for AI-generated detailed forecasts and insights with improved accuracy for mid to long-range periods. Free during the preview period. Give it a try and share your feedback!

Aviation Weather on Radar
- Three new aviation overlays: PIREPs (pilot reports), SIGMETs, and turbulence forecasts with flight-level selection. Toggle them in radar layer settings. (Pro)

New HRRR Severe Weather & Smoke Layers
- Four new forecast layers: Storm-Relative Helicity, Bulk Wind Shear, Significant Tornado Parameter, and near-surface smoke concentration. (Pro)

AI Chat Improvements
- Chat now references NWS area forecast discussions, shows WPC excessive rainfall risk on interactive maps, and can report on nearby wildfires and PIREPs. Better error handling and international availability messaging.

Widget Themes
- Customize widget backgrounds with Dark, Light, Navy, Charcoal, and Match Weather themes. Configure in Settings under Widget Customization.

More Sharing Options
- Generate shareable cards for earthquakes, AI weather summaries, weather stories, PIREPs, and SIGMETs.

Also in this update:
- UK custom alert notifications
- Improved weather reporting with more condition types
- Improved air quality details, local LLM responses, and home view performance
- Bug fixes and accessibility improvements 2026.04.1 Apr 8 - Improvements to pro radar site selection
- Added the ability for pro subscribers to switch weather data sources
- Added relative humidity HRRR layer type
- Added reordering of favorites
- Added sharing option for maps generated in chat
- General improvements to the UI 2026.03.1 Mar 2 - Added the ability for pro subscribers to switch weather data sources
- Added relative humidity HRRR layer type
- Added reordering of favorites
- Added sharing option for maps generated in chat
- General improvements to the UI 2026.02.4 Feb 26 - You can now add a Tide card to the Home Screen to see nearby NOAA tide stations
- Added two new HRRR layers: dew point and wind gusts
- Added sharing functionality for weather alerts

From recent updates:
UK Weather Alerts
- UK users can now receive weather alerts from the Met Office with push notifications, Home Screen display, and radar overlay support.

RTMA Observed Conditions
- US users will see a new Home Screen card showing the last observed conditions from RTMA data, updated hourly. View charts of conditions over the past 48 hours. Requires a Pro subscription.

HRRR on Radar (Beta)
- Pro users can now view HRRR forecast data on Radar including precipitation, precipitation rate/type, accumulated precipitation, temperature, wind speed, and CAPE. View forecasts up to 48 hours out depending on the model run.

Space Weather Updates
- More accurate planetary Kp and storm level data
- New CCOR-1 Diff visualization
- Solar wind speed and density chart
- Aurora visibility card based on current conditions
- Share button for space weather data

New Home Insights Card
- A new card displays contextual weather insights during specific conditions, such as explaining why the feels-like temperature is high and providing tips. This card will continue to evolve with your Interests & Preferences.

Sunrise/Sunset Notifications
- Enable notifications for sunrise and sunset times. Requires a Standard subscription

USGS Earthquake Updates
- ShakeMap data for shaking intensity and impact areas
- Detailed fault line data in the US
- New "Insights" card with earthquake context

More MRMS Layers
- New layers: Vertically Integrated Liquid, VIL Density, Probability of Severe Hail, Azimuthal Shear, Rotation Tracks, Precipitation Type, Echo Top, and extended precipitation accumulation (3hr, 48hr, 72hr).

Satellite Updates
- Satellite can now show APAC using Himawari-9!

Small Fixes
- Fixed radar returning to location with "Remember map position" enabled
- Fixed red flag warning performance issues on Radar
- NWS observations now fall back to alternate stations when data is stale 2026.02.3 Feb 19 UK Weather Alerts
- UK users can now receive weather alerts from the Met Office with push notifications, Home Screen display, and radar overlay support.

RTMA Observed Conditions
- US users will see a new Home Screen card showing the last observed conditions from RTMA data, updated hourly. View charts of conditions over the past 48 hours. Requires a Pro subscription.

HRRR on Radar (Beta)
- Pro users can now view HRRR forecast data on Radar including precipitation, precipitation rate/type, accumulated precipitation, temperature, wind speed, and CAPE. View forecasts up to 48 hours out depending on the model run.

Space Weather Updates
- More accurate planetary Kp and storm level data
- New CCOR-1 Diff visualization
- Solar wind speed and density chart
- Aurora visibility card based on current conditions
- Share button for space weather data

New Home Insights Card
- A new card displays contextual weather insights during specific conditions, such as explaining why the feels-like temperature is high and providing tips. This card will continue to evolve with your Interests & Preferences.

Sunrise/Sunset Notifications
- Enable notifications for sunrise and sunset times. Requires a Standard subscription

USGS Earthquake Updates
- ShakeMap data for shaking intensity and impact areas
- Detailed fault line data in the US
- New "Insights" card with earthquake context

More MRMS Layers
- New layers: Vertically Integrated Liquid, VIL Density, Probability of Severe Hail, Azimuthal Shear, Rotation Tracks, Precipitation Type, Echo Top, and extended precipitation accumulation (3hr, 48hr, 72hr).

Satellite Updates
- Satellite can now show APAC using Himawari-9!

Small Fixes
- Fixed radar returning to location with "Remember map position" enabled
- Fixed red flag warning performance issues on Radar
- NWS observations now fall back to alternate stations when data is stale
- Backend performance and reliability improvements
- Many other misc. changes and bug fixes 2026.02.2 Feb 6 UK Weather Alerts
- UK users can now receive weather alerts from the Met Office with push notifications, Home Screen display, and radar overlay support.

RTMA Observed Conditions
- US users will see a new Home Screen card showing the last observed conditions from RTMA data, updated hourly. View charts of conditions over the past 48 hours. Requires a Pro subscription.

HRRR on Radar (Beta)
- Pro users can now view HRRR forecast data on Radar including precipitation, precipitation rate/type, accumulated precipitation, temperature, wind speed, and CAPE. View forecasts up to 48 hours out depending on the model run.

Space Weather Updates
- More accurate planetary Kp and storm level data
- New CCOR-1 Diff visualization
- Solar wind speed and density chart
- Aurora visibility card based on current conditions
- Share button for space weather data

New Home Insights Card
- A new card displays contextual weather insights during specific conditions, such as explaining why the feels-like temperature is high and providing tips. This card will continue to evolve with your Interests & Preferences.

Sunrise/Sunset Notifications
- Enable notifications for sunrise and sunset times. Requires a Standard subscription

USGS Earthquake Updates
- ShakeMap data for shaking intensity and impact areas
- Detailed fault line data in the US
- New "Insights" card with earthquake context

More MRMS Layers
- New layers: Vertically Integrated Liquid, VIL Density, Probability of Severe Hail, Azimuthal Shear, Rotation Tracks, Precipitation Type, Echo Top, and extended precipitation accumulation (3hr, 48hr, 72hr).

Satellite Updates
- Satellite can now show APAC using Himawari-9!

Small Fixes
- Fixed radar returning to location with "Remember map position" enabled
- Fixed red flag warning performance issues on Radar
- NWS observations now fall back to alternate stations when data is stale
- Backend performance and reliability improvements
- Many other misc. changes and bug fixes 2026.02.1 Feb 6 What’s New
• New RTMA layers on Radar (temp, dew point, wind, humidity) with hourly history animation (Pro)
• Atmospheric soundings now available in Radar (Pro)
• Pro Radar improvements: higher zoom quality + Velocity/SRV accuracy tweaks
• New MRMS precip layers (1-hour + 24-hour totals) + improved imagery quality
• Storm tracks on Radar (Pro) + new Radar annotation tool for sharing
• Space Weather upgrades + NWS/GLM lightning improvements, backend reliability updates, and minor fixes
• Many other small improvements and fixes 2026.01.1 Jan 9 • Pro Radar (U.S., Pro): New high-resolution Level-3 NEXRAD radar with WeatherAI-generated imagery. Choose individual radar sites and view products like Reflectivity, Velocity, Storm-Relative Velocity, Dual-Pol fields, and Hydrometeor Classification (lowest tilt supported for now; more tilts planned).
• Satellite Imagery (Pro): New GOES-18/GOES-19 satellite imagery across CONUS, including True Color, GeoColor, Infrared, Water Vapor, and more.
• Better map tapping: Tapping overlapping items (watches/warnings/discussions) now shows a selectable list so it’s much easier to open the one you want.
• MRMS upgrades: Reduced noise, less pixelation, and more frames available in MRMS radar.
• Radar animation speed: Adjust animation speed directly from Radar settings.
• New notification types:
• NWS Area Forecast Discussions (up to 10 locations)
• NWS Hazardous Weather Outlooks (up to 10 locations)
• SPC Convective Outlook alerts when your selected locations enter a risk area
• AI chat from summary views: On iOS 26 with Apple Intelligence enabled, you can ask follow-up questions directly from summary views.
• Population estimates (U.S.): U.S. alerts/watches/mesoscale discussions now show estimated population and housing units impacted.
• Space Weather expanded: New/improved solar imagery (static + animated), coronagraphs, X-ray flux charts, proton flux charts, and more.
• Home tab customization: Hide and reorder most Home sections from Settings.
• Faster GLM lightning updates: More frequent refresh for quicker lightning changes.
• Improved caching: Faster loads and smoother performance, plus manual cache clearing in Settings and automatic cleanup.
• Cleaner text formatting: Improved readability for NWS alerts/watches, SPC mesoscale discussions, and other text products.
• RainViewer removed: RainViewer discontinued public radar support; affected users have been migrated to OpenWeather radar imagery.
• Performance + stability: Optimizations for energy usage and caching, plus a rare chart crash fix. 2025.12.2 12/23/2025