Weather Gods 1.5.3

High and thank you for the fast response! Yes I talked for the 7 day summaries. I accept your argument for the increasing of loading time. About the sounds, it will be nice, but not so important for me.
Regards,
Stefan

I just purchased Weather Gods yesterday, after repeated frustration with Dark Sky not working as expected. So far I am liking the app, but I have a few questions about it. Sorry if I am repeating other questions from the past.

1. How exactly do notifications about rain and snow work? Dark Sky, when it works, gives a notification within a few minutes of precipitation beginning and another when it is about to end. Does Weather Gods work the same way?

2. Are notifications sent for my current location, or just for a saved favorite? One thing I really liked about Dark Sky was its ability to notify based on my exact location, even if I am traveling across town.

3. Do you plan on supporting severe weather alerts from NOAA in the future? I am assuming you don’t currently because there was no indication of it in the notification settings.

I also noticed a couple of oddities with the Today view widget:

1. When the widget is expanded to show more detail, I see the following bit of text: “Now, Scattered cloudswind from the South West, 4 miles per hour, light breeze (wind from the South West)no gustsrain unlikely.” Notice that the wind speed appears twice, and there is also missing spaces in the text which causes the VoiceOver pronunciation to be a bit off.

2. Once VoiceOver is focused within the Weather Gods widget, I have to use touch navigation to get out of the widget. Attempting to swipe to another widget doesn’t work, and I cannot use a three-finger swipe to leave the Today view. This is on an iPad Mini 4 running the latest version of iOS 11. It’s possible this may be an iOS bug, but Weather Gods is the only widget I have that is doing this.

I can very easily see why Weather Gods has become so popular here at AppleVis. I’m not yet fully sold on the app, but it does look promising. I will certainly look forward to what you have planned for future releases of the app.

When I launch the Weather Gods app looking at the daily summary for the next week here in Tredegar Sowth Wales I see that most nights are forecast to be frosty. However, if I activate the Ice God it tells me that for each night snow and frost are unlikely. Why is this? I know which is right, it is cold up here in the valleys!

Fantastic app though well thought out and accurate. Thanks and well done! What about a white Christmas?

Thanks for responding to my questions. The notifications are the main feature I am interested in, so anything you can do to enhance them will be appreciated.

You mentioned that, for rain events, you only check once per hour to see when precipitation is expected. That will not be sufficient here in Colorado, where storm conditions can change rapidly without warning. If you can only check for rain on an hourly basis, then some storms will be missed altogether.

As an example, I have on multiple occasions encountered a scenario like this. At 4:00 PM Dark Sky reports that it will be clear for the hour. By 4:10 PM the forecast changes to indicate that it will rain lightly within 45 minutes. By 4:15 that forecast changes again to rain starting in 15 minutes. By 4:20 an alert is sent to my device indicating heavy rain for the hour. Within a few minutes the skies open up and it starts raining cats and dogs. By 4:30 there’s even some small hail mixed in. Then, by 4:45 the storm dissipates as quickly as it developed, and by 5:00 PM you would have no idea there was any precipitation at all, except for the wet ground.

That is Colorado weather for you, and it’s one reason why Dark Sky quickly became a favorite app of mine a couple of years ago. It wasn’t perfect, but it generally gave me the notifications I needed for rainfall. Alas, the app has been giving me fits over the last few months, which only became worse after updating to iOS 11. It is now giving me notifications for rainfall when it is sunny outside, and the app itself reports no precipitation anywhere in the area. The daily summary notifications have almost completely disappeared, and the Today widget has more than once gotten stuck, not updating until I restarted my iPad (even closing and relaunching the app didn’t work to fix the issue). This is why I’m looking for alternatives.

I have to say that I really like the daily summaries Weather Gods provides. They are more detailed than what Dark Sky gives, and I can even adjust the time they arrive, whereas Dark Sky only delivers them at 7:00 AM, with no option to change that.

Hello,
I'm a new user of Weather Gods so please forgive me if this question has already been dealt with before.
Is there a way to have wind chill reported as a part of the weather summary? For us folks who live in colder climates this can be quite an important piece of information.
Thanks in advance.

Thanks again for the quick reply. Regarding how accurate the rain notifications will actually be, I probably won’t be able to answer that question until next summer. The scenario I depicted generally only happens during the summer months, starting at around May or June and continuing until early September. We also have dramatic weather shifts in the winter, but those shifts are more long-term, spanning hours instead of minutes, so the issue won’t be prevalent for me until a half year from now. So, I really cannot evaluate the reliability of this app until then, at least as far as rain events are concerned.

I opened the Weather Gods app last night at around 8 PM or so. On the main screen, where the fire god was, the app indicated the current temperature to be 39 degrees, then gave a high of 39 and a low of 31. So the high listed was the same as the current temp, while the actual high for the day was some 20 degrees warmer.

I would suggest updating the behavior of the app when accessed late in the day, so that either the high temperature is omitted or the high is changed to reflect the actual observed high for the day. Giving a high that matches the current temperature does not make sense in this context.

I live on the north side of Chicago, near Wrigley Field. Weather Gods has more than a million locations, including Wrigley field. It also has churches, schools, police stations, and neighborhood names. Any of these can be selected as a favorite as well as Chicago. If the follow me forecast is turned off in settings, the default location for forecast and current conditions is the first location listed in favorites. For people in Chicago and big cities it does not make much difference. Weather gods has not purchased the hyperlocal forecast and current condition data found on the Weather Underground. WU provides forecasts for a four kilometer radius of a location and has many thousands of personal weather stations. Instead, Weather Gods provides the NWS forecast for the county and the nearest airport temperature and weather condition data. Even if WG says Evanston or in my instance Lincolnwood, or some other place in the area, the current condition data and forecast will be the same. I know because I put different locations around Chicago and compared the forecast and current condition data. This may change of course if the WG crew decides to go with the higher priced data package and receive more frequent updates and localized data. For me, I have Chicago selected as my first favorite because I feel connected to my city and not that of the baseball stadium I live near. For the record, I fly the Chicago flag outside my house, not the W flag. It is all the same information.

Hello, Scott:
I am hoping to get some help for I am not getting my weather notifications. Was working fine up until I had to reset all settings on my device and when enabling all settings again, for some reason, now I am not getting any notifications at all from Weather Gods.
This is the only application that I am having this problem with right now.
I have checked all settings and everything is the way it should be but, for the life of me, I can't figure out what's wrong.
Thank you in advance for your help.
Lastly, I just want to thank you and congratulate you for having created such a wonderful app.
Cheers.

Since updating to iOS 11.2.2 last week, notifications from Weather Gods have been unreliable. At least twice now over the last few days, I failed to receive a daily summary notification. I am also not getting any notifications for precipitation, even though we are getting a mix of snow and freezing drizzle this morning. I got notified from Dark Sky about the weather conditions, and Weather Gods does correctly report the current conditions within the app, so the app is aware, but still no notification about it.

I haven’t had any notification issues until this recent iOS update, which may or may not be related. I checked the Settings app, and notifications are still enabled for Weather Gods as usual, and notifications are still enabled within the app itself.

Hello Scott,
I have never used notifications in Weather Gods so I decided to give it a try after reading the recent posts in this thread. I followed the steps you described in your post of January 10th but when I get to the settings for WG I don't get an option to enable notifications. Is this feature available in all countries and all devices? I'm using WG on an iPhone SE running the latest ios in Canada.
Thanks.

Sorry to trouble you Scott I figured it out. Please disregard my previous post.
ThanksZ.

FYI. Things are OK with my app. Using iOS 11.2.2 and no issues at this time.