A simpler, faster FrankWeather. Available now for Windows (in the app and on the home page); Android, iPhone/iPad and Mac are rolling out through their app stores.

• Today: your place, temperature and high/low come first, then the next 12 hours, with one short outlook sentence when it’s quiet.
• Phones: a bottom tab bar and a quick °F/°C switch on Today.
• Radar: play the loop with Space and the arrow keys, see each frame’s age, jump to the latest, and use layer presets or turn all layers off.
• Easier to use: a shorter welcome, bigger tap targets, one all-clear card, “Add a place”, and Settings search that matches any word.
• More reliable: feeds recover on their own if a request hangs, the Windows app restarts after a crash, and the app starts faster.

More colour and cleaner forecasts, thanks to your feedback. Available now for Windows (in the app and on the home page); Android, iPhone/iPad and Mac are rolling out through their app stores, including everything from 0.46.0.

• Colour: colour-coded weather icons, cool-to-warm temperature bars for each day, and a sky-tinted Today card.
• Cleaner lists: icons and temperatures line up on every row, with short day names on phones.
• Canada: rain chances and hourly forecasts now show, in the place’s local time.
• Small fixes: the Storm Desk button fits on one line on phones; update times are shown in local time.

Mexico, Alaska, Hawaii and more. Windows got it on October 11; Android, iPhone/iPad and Mac receive these changes as 0.46.1.

• Mexico: official SMN forecasts, conditions and warnings for Mexican places, including alerts when the app is closed.
• Alaska, Hawaii, Puerto Rico and Guam: hi-res radar, hail, rotation, echo-top and rainfall overlays, and the HRRR Alaska model.
• Daily briefing: arrives at your chosen time even when FrankWeather is closed (US places).
• Calmer start: brief connection hiccups are retried quietly instead of showing an error.
• Also: local names and alerts for your location in Canada and Mexico, and a link to FrankWeather on Facebook.

Canada alerts when the app is closed, plus map and reliability fixes. Available now for Windows (in the app and on the home page); Android, iPhone/iPad and Mac are rolling out through their app stores, including everything from 0.45.0.

• Canada: Environment and Climate Change Canada warnings for your saved Canadian places now arrive even when the app is closed.
• Map: tapping a weather station inside a warning area opens the station, station names are readable, and long names wrap instead of being cut off.
• Use my location: waits for a real GPS fix before using an approximate location.
• Reliability: Storm Desk recovers on its own if a panel fails to load.
• Android: a smaller, optimized app with full edge-to-edge display on new Android versions.

A reliability and polish release. Windows got it on October 7; Android, iPhone/iPad and Mac receive these changes as 0.45.1.

• Closed-app alerts: faster, more complete delivery when the app is closed, and opening the app no longer repeats alerts you already received.
• Your location by name: places set from your location show the real city with a location arrow, in the app, widgets and Apple Watch.
• Cleaner widgets: no orange warnings in normal use, a quiet “Updated” time, and a nearby station or this hour’s forecast when one station goes quiet.
• Storm Desk: the side panel scrolls, dry areas no longer read “No data” on hover, alert banners stay on one line, and the legend shows watch colors.
• Easier reading: formatted official alert text, merged duplicate statements, a temperature that never shows “--”, and plainer wording throughout.

More room on phones and announcement choices, on top of everything in 0.44.0. Available now for Windows (in the app and on the home page), Android (through Google Play) and iPhone/iPad (through the App Store); Mac updates through the Mac App Store once the release is approved.

• More room on phones: Storm Desk now shares the top row with Settings, so your weather starts higher on the screen, and the header stays compact with large text.
• Announcements: choose which occasional notes from FrankWeather you get (app news, weather news, service announcements). All are on unless you turn them off; severe weather warnings are separate.
• Apple Watch: VoiceOver reads hourly times with the forecast’s full time zone name.
• Phones and Mac also get everything from 0.44.0 below: Canada, a cleaner layout, plain-English wording, preference backup, forecast accuracy and a security update.

Canada, a cleaner phone layout, and a careful polish pass. Released for Windows; Android, iPhone/iPad and Mac receive these changes as 0.44.1.

• Canada: search and save Canadian cities for official Environment Canada forecasts, current conditions and warnings while the app is open. Closed-app alerts and radar for Canada aren’t available yet, and the app says so.
• Less clutter on phones: the all-clear appears once instead of three times, shortcuts are compact, and the safety bar stays pinned only when something is actually in effect.
• Alerts you tap stay current: opening an alert checks again right away, and an updated warning opens its newest version instead of “not found”.
• Plain English everywhere: status messages like “Updated 3 min ago” and “Couldn’t refresh, showing the last reading”; calm wind now says “Calm”.
• Back up or move your preferences: export places, Home and settings to a file and bring them to another device.
• How accurate has the forecast been? FrankWeather can compare recent forecasts with nearby station readings, on your device only.
• Widgets and map: widget warnings are tracked separately from weather freshness, and radar layers say when their data is delayed.
• Security: updated the mobile app framework to fix a reported web-content issue.

A reliability update. Available now for Windows (in the app and on the home page), Android (through Google Play) and iPhone/iPad (through the App Store); Mac updates through the Mac App Store once the release is approved.

• Safe mode clears itself: after an update FrankWeather could start in safe mode and stay there for several launches. It now clears as soon as the map loads, never carries over from an older version, and the banner has a “Restore my layers” button.
• Phone radar loop: the loop timeline is a slim scrubber with start, middle and end times instead of a row of boxes with dots.
• iPhone widgets: “Not current” and “Alerts unconfirmed” no longer appear while your weather is still recent, and a failed refresh never replaces good data.
• Closed-app alerts: a server outage on October 2 held push alerts until the app was opened. The alert service now survives database restarts and restarts itself automatically.

A polish release: every screen reviewed in light and dark, at laptop, desktop and phone sizes. Available now for Windows (in the app and on the home page), Android (through Google Play) and iPhone/iPad (through the App Store); Mac updates through the Mac App Store once the release is approved.

• Storm Desk fits laptops: the map toolbar stays on one row when there’s room and moves to a tidy second row on smaller screens. Theme, shortcuts, trip planner and Support are in a new “⋯” menu.
• One place for each action: the Map no longer repeats header buttons; the FrankWeather mark opens About.
• Places read cleanly: “Dallas, TX” instead of the full county and country, and saved-place names are never squeezed or covered by their badges.
• Settings save as you go, with Undo for everything changed since you opened Settings.
• More accurate wording: a Flood Watch no longer marks storm hours as “Severe storms possible”; alert ages and end times are exact; forecasts read in sentence case with the time zone named once.
• Colors that mean what they say: active alerts use the caution color, cached alert data has its own neutral look, and the storm outlook and map credits are readable in both themes.

A polish release for 0.42, and the 0.42 update for Mac. Available now for Windows (in the app and on the home page), Android (through Google Play) and iPhone/iPad (through the App Store); Mac updates through the Mac App Store once the release is approved.

• Map: the “Map background unavailable” notice no longer appears after a single interrupted map download (fast zooming or a brief network blip). It now shows only after repeated failures and clears as soon as the map loads again.
• Windows: the first launch after an update no longer occasionally starts in safe mode.
• Mac: brings everything new in 0.42 — Hi-Res radar, super-resolution site radar, the Models view, hail swaths, rotation tracks and high-resolution satellite.

A fix for the new Models view. Available for Windows and Android (through Google Play); iPhone/iPad and Mac receive it as 0.42.2.

• Models view: fixed the forecast-hour scrubber sometimes starting with no hour selected, which left the map empty, when two model runs were available.
• Credits: the About panel now credits the new data sources — NOAA MRMS, GOES-19 and NCEP models, ECMWF open data (CC BY 4.0) and the Unidata NEXRAD archive.

The high-resolution release: FrankWeather now draws radar, satellite and forecast models from the raw data itself, on your device's graphics chip, with its own color scales. Available for Windows and Android (through Google Play); iPhone/iPad receive it as 0.42.1.

• Hi-Res radar is the new default: FrankWeather's own 1 km radar mosaic every 2 minutes, with rain, snow and icy mix in different colors, a 90-minute loop, and the measured value under your cursor or finger.
• Super-resolution site radar: the nearest radar's full-resolution scans (eight times the detail), decoded on your device on every platform, with loops, four tilts, velocity with storm-relative mode, correlation for debris signatures, differential reflectivity and the radar's own precipitation-type call.
• Forecast models: HRRR, NAM, GFS and ECMWF — simulated radar with rain/snow/ice, temperature, dew point, wind and gusts, rain and snow totals, storm fuel, pressure and 500 mb maps, with city values and a forecast-hour scrubber. Always labeled as a forecast.
• New layers: hail swaths and rotation tracks (past hour or 24 hours), 0.5 km visible and enhanced infrared satellite, water vapor, NWS forecast-office boundaries; echo tops and rainfall totals (1 h, 24 h, 72 h) now from FrankWeather's own data.

A map fix for iPhone, iPad and Android. Updates are available now for Windows (in the app and on the home page), iPhone/iPad (through the App Store), and Android (through Google Play).

• The map background loads again on phones: the mobile app could not load FrankWeather's own map and fell back to an outside tile service that began showing "API KEY REQUIRED" across the map. The app now loads its own map (cities, roads, water, terrain) directly.
• No outside fallback map: if the map background is ever unreachable, radar and warnings keep showing on a plain background and the map retries by itself.

A safety release. Updates are available now for Windows (in the app and on the home page), iPhone/iPad with the Watch companion (through the App Store), and Android (through Google Play).

• Alerts while the app is closed (iPhone, iPad, Android): warnings for Home and your saved places are delivered by FrankWeather's alert service, which checks the National Weather Service every minute, and appear even when the app isn't open or the phone is locked. Turn it on in Settings → Home & alerts. No account or passkey is needed.
• Alert readiness: a checklist for notification permission, Time Sensitive delivery on iPhone, the emergency channel and Do Not Disturb on Android, monitored places and service status, each with a fix button, plus Send test alert to confirm delivery end to end.
• Emergencies stand out: Tornado and Flash Flood Emergencies use a distinct emergency tone, jump the delivery queue and, on Android, can override Do Not Disturb when you allow it. Routine updates don't repeat an alert; real escalations do.
• On your watch: Apple Watch shows a color-coded alert with the event, place and end time; Wear OS gets alert actions and emergency vibration.
• Widgets: home-screen and Lock Screen widgets on iPhone and iPad, and home-screen widgets on Android, that always show when they were updated.
• Links: frankweather.com/app links open straight in the mobile app, or a download page without it.
• Under the hood: a smaller, faster Android app, an iOS 27 compatibility fix, and an alert service that restarts itself and is monitored every minute.

FrankWeather is not an official warning system. Keep Wireless Emergency Alerts enabled on your phone.

An everyday-experience release. Windows updates are available now in the app and on the home page; Mac, iPhone/iPad with the Watch companion, and Android update through their app stores as each store approves the release.

• Alerts you can understand at a glance: each alert leads with what it is, where, and when it ends ("until 6:45 PM tomorrow"), then a what-to-do checklist, plain-language hail and wind impacts, and the official text in readable sections.
• The place in more danger comes first: when the place you're viewing has a worse alert than Home, the safety strip leads with it by name.
• A more useful Today: a 12-hour strip with icons, a 5-day outlook, wind gusts and air quality, and a forecast temperature while the station reports.
• Your places, your way: new installs choose their own Home before any alarm is armed; places can have nicknames, be reordered, and be restored with Undo; alerts can be switched per place.
• Units and appearance: choose US or Metric units (or mix and match), and light or dark mode can follow your device.
• Simpler Settings: plain-language choices, quiet hours as real times, and one clear rule for what always gets through.
• Rain heads-up: an optional notice when rain is about to start where you're looking.
• Better trip weather: every checkpoint in local time, clear gaps when a reading is missing, and an editable starting point.
• Android: "Use my location" now asks for your location, the back button works as expected, alert notifications open the right alert, and sharing uses the system share sheet.
• Everywhere: clearer forecast and radar wording, forecast icons, an easy way back from Storm Desk on phones, a skip link, and larger touch targets.

Background cloud notifications while the mobile app is closed are still in testing and are not enabled in this release. Keep official emergency alerts enabled.

A trust and reliability release. Windows updates are available now in the app and on the home page; Mac, iPhone/iPad with the Watch companion, and Android update through their app stores as each store approves the release.

• Warnings you can trust: cancellations and National Weather Service test messages no longer appear or sound the alarm, and upgraded warnings (such as a Tornado Emergency) stay on the map instead of disappearing.
• No repeat alarms: warnings are tracked by their official event code, so routine updates don't repeat the alarm or notification. You're alerted again only when a warning gets worse, is confirmed as an observed tornado, or newly covers one of your places.
• Emergencies always get through: a Flash Flood Emergency or any catastrophic-threat warning now bypasses quiet hours and category mutes, just like a Tornado Warning.
• Correct timing: warnings that start later show "Begins …" instead of looking active now, and end times use the official event end.
• Honest when data is missing: if the weather service can't be reached, Today says it can't confirm alerts instead of showing "All clear"; unavailable current conditions show a Refresh button; an unknown rain chance is never shown as 0%; "No radar echo" appears only when radar was actually read.
• Better trip weather: fog, freezing fog, freezing rain and drizzle, snow and thunderstorms are reported separately with ice ranked highest, checkpoint times follow the route's real travel times, and outdated results are discarded when you change the trip.
• Accurate rain timing and time zones: 15-minute rain start and easing times are no longer about 15 minutes late, and forecast times for each saved place use that place's own time zone.
• Easier to use: Settings opens where you are and returns you there, Storm Mode's "View the radar" opens the map on the warning, saved places show Warning and Watch labels, and the first-run tour follows what's on screen.
• Battery, data and privacy: feeds pause in the background and map layers update only while the map is open; alert checks keep running on a minimized desktop window. Locations sent to weather services are rounded to about 100 meters, and the privacy policy now lists every service the app contacts.
• Accessibility: screen readers hear risk changes on every screen, the emergency overlay behaves as a proper dialog, and reduced-motion settings stop looping animations.
• Windows: the updater installs only newer releases, and email links such as "Report a problem" now open your mail app.
• Reliability: a full or blocked device storage no longer breaks fresh forecasts, a radar-loop error after refresh is fixed, lightning reconnects more gently, and leftover Pro and trial wording is gone.

Background cloud notifications while the mobile app is closed are still in testing and are not enabled in this release. Keep official emergency alerts enabled.

Version 0.38 is available now for Windows, Mac, iPhone/iPad with the Watch companion, and Android. Store apps update through their stores; Windows updates are available in the app and on the home page.

• Easier navigation: Today, Map, Alerts, Forecast, and Places, plus searchable settings with clearer categories.
• A personal first start: choose current location with permission; saved places and preferences stay with you across upgrades.
• Clearer radar: a visible location marker remains above rain overlays.
• Startup repairs: the welcome screen appears once and initial loading no longer incorrectly reports stale information.
• More trustworthy information: stronger observation freshness and unit checks, improved air-quality and river data, and clearer source labels.
• More control: alert sound choices, refresh controls, and your preferred starting page.

Background cloud notifications while the mobile app is closed are not enabled in this release. Keep official emergency alerts enabled.

• Clearer weather workspace: stronger hierarchy, responsive navigation, and calmer paths through Today, Map, Alerts, Forecast, and Storm Desk.
• More useful decisions: saved-place search carries full identities, alerts emphasize protective action, and forecasts summarize the next meaningful change.
• Protection and sharing: platform-aware readiness checks, notification recovery, native map sharing, and clearer radar-loop export progress.
• Reliability and accessibility: deferred map startup, resilient provider states, keyboard-reachable controls, and stronger light/dark contrast.

• New everyday workspace: Today, Map, Alerts, Forecast, and Storm Desk keep the selected place and map state together.
• More honest radar: freshness follows the active source, while empty or unavailable playback says so plainly.
• Safer navigation: emergency overlays stay visible and hidden Storm Desk commands cannot change invisible state.
• Android 0.36.0: the phone build now shares the current renderer, native weather networking, secure device storage, and bounded request handling.

• New look: a redesigned FrankWeather mark — a radar disc split day and night, the F trailing off as a lightning bolt — across the app icon, tray, sidebar, and this site.
• Fix: long place names ("Blue Springs, Jackson County, Missouri, United States") now display compactly ("Blue Springs, MO") instead of overflowing the toolbar, sidebar, and titlebar — full name on hover.
• Fix: the FrankWeather wordmark beside the logo no longer gets cut off.

• Fix: the map could come up completely blank after 0.33.0 — a label-sizing tweak produced a style the map engine rejected. The map is back, and release checks now verify the map actually draws.

• New — Trip weather: type a destination and see the forecast along the actual driving route, timed to when you'll reach each stretch.
• New — Snow Outlook and Marine panels — the 7-day snowfall picture and coastal wave conditions, each honest when there's nothing to show.
• Instant-on: the app opens showing your last radar view immediately while live data loads underneath.
• Offline honesty (a chip says so, cached data keeps showing) and leaner long sessions (hidden layers release their memory).

• New — Pop-out panels: Live Reports, Atmosphere Profile, Model Confidence, and the Alert Calendar can each open in their own window — a multi-monitor storm desk.
• New — Satellite pane: GOES imagery in its own window that follows your main map as you pan.
• Smarter Ctrl+K: type any city — if nothing matches a command, one press geocodes it and jumps there.
• Better first run: choose Simple or Advanced right in the welcome.

• Modern window chrome: the clunky system titlebar is gone — FrankWeather draws its own slim, themed top bar with the native window buttons floating over it.
• Skeleton loading: panels shimmer into place instead of sitting empty.
• New — Compact density for laptop screens, motion polish (reduced-motion aware), one icon stroke weight everywhere, and bigger touch targets on 2-in-1s.

• New — Terrain shading: subtle hillshade relief under the map labels — storms crossing ridges and valleys read like terrain, not flat paper.
• New — Spotter roads: one toggle bolds the highways so you can place a storm cell against the road network at a glance.
• Smarter labels: major cities outrank their suburbs at every zoom.
• New — Larger map text (accessibility): scale every basemap label 1.25×.

• Storm-relative velocity on the native Site radar: one click subtracts the storm's own motion so rotation couplets stand out.
• New — Live Reports: Local Storm Reports stream in as spotters file them — measured hail, gusts, flooding within 250 miles, remarks included.
• New — Alert Calendar: a month grid of which days alerts touched your saved places.
• Loop speed control (0.5×/1×/2×) and the loop now dwells on the newest frame before wrapping.
• Lightning alarm ring: the alarm radius draws as a labeled circle around home while the alarm is armed.

• New — Model Confidence: GFS, ECMWF, and ICON on one chart over a 31-member ensemble band. Where the lines hug, trust the forecast; where they fan out, the panel says so — "models disagree by 8° — watch trends, not exact numbers."
• New — 10-day outlook averaging the two leading global models, with a visible ± range on days where they split.
• This-day records: the compared-to-normal line flags when today approaches the 10-year record — "near the 10-yr record 106° (2011)."
• New — Reset map view (Ctrl+K): one command flies home and puts the radar back to default.

• NATIVE RADAR — the big one. The new "Site" source decodes raw NEXRAD Level III data straight from the National Weather Service — no tiles, no third-party rendering. FrankWeather draws every radial itself, the same data class professional radar apps use.
• Exact values under the cursor: hover reads the radar's own measurement — "52.5 dBZ — intense core, hail likely" — sampled from decoded data, not estimated from pixel colors.
• Four elevation tilts to slice a storm vertically, right from the on-map control strip.
• Dual-pol correlation (CC): the product meteorologists use to confirm tornado debris, one click away.
• Native velocity decoded per-gate, plus FrankWeather's own color-blind-conscious color ramps for every native product.
• The control strip shows the scan's provenance: site, tilt angle, scan time, and VCP scanning mode.

• New typeface: the whole app now sets in Inter — crisper lettering and column-aligned numbers in every data readout.
• Silky radar loops: frames crossfade instead of hard-cutting, and the whole loop preloads — plays like video, not a slideshow.
• Weather-first map: land washes muted so radar colors read true, and stronger label halos keep city names legible on top of a filled radar screen.
• Rain callout: "Rain reaching you around 2:40 PM" is promoted to the top of the dashboard whenever rain is under an hour away.
• Distance scale on the map, styled to match.