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.