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• NEW WIDGET!

  • Thats right! We now have a new widget! It’s simple for right now but we now have a Current Weather Conditions widget! This is available in Small and Medium. We are going to be working on adding more types in soon!

  • NOTE: Widgets are only available for iOS 18 Users

• Added “Nearest Forecast Office” To the Home Screen

• Added 10-Day Weather Forecast to App (Apple WeatherKit)

• Critical Alerts and Notification Tones have been combined into “Notification Settings”

• Fixed issue where you could not tap out of the keyboard to close it out

• Fixed issue where app stops existing music/audio on launch

• Removed Pago Pago, AS Chat (This is not used by IEM)

• Added in the following feeds under National Weather Service:

  • Climate Prediction Center

  • Weather Bureau Central / NWSHQ

  • Damage Assessment PNS

  • Particularly Dangerous Situations

  • Tornado/FF Emergencies

• All Bots Talk has been moved under the National Weather Service tab

• Added “Add Screenshot” attachment to the Send Feedback Function

• Fixed Badge issue where its always showing a “1” badge on the icon

• Disabled Notification Toggles on All Bots Talk and Tornado/FF Emergencies

• All Bots Talk is not supported for push notifications and Tornado/FF Emergencies are already handled under Critical Alerts

• Added the “Highest Rainfall Risk” badge to the WPC Outlook

• Fixed Favorite List from moving WFO’s around

• Added All Bots Talk feed

• New Feed Items in the row will now temporarily highlight orange

• Certain feed items now have color

  • Emergency Products: Pink

  • Tornado Warnings: Red

  • Servere Thunderstorm Warnings: Orange

  • Flash Flood Warnings: Green

• Fixed Office Favorite Duplication issue

• This problem presented if an office serves 2 or more states, it duplicated it on the favorites list showing it twice in the list. This problem has now been fixed!

• Fixed issue where SPC Outlook was not displaying the Enhanced Risk title

• Changed “Mount Holly, NJ” office name to “Philadelphia/Mount Holly”

• Navigation Buttons have now been put into a sidebar menu

• Added New Notification Tone

• Added New Feedback button so users can directly send feedback from the app!

• Added NWR Streams to Radar Map

• Added WPC Outlook View - See products like Excessive Rainfall and Winter Weather Graphics

• Added Ability in the Radar View when selecting an alert from the list, it automatically zooms to the alert location and now selects the nearest radar

• Updated the SPC Outlook View to show Categorical, Tornado, Wind, and Hail Probabilistic’s as well as the Forecast Discussion Text. It also shows the Highest Forecast Risk under the graphic!

• Fixed issue where selecting an alert from the radar alert list shows a blank sheet for half a second

• Fixed memory leak issues

• Fixed where Map on Transmitter Information Screen is no longer movable

• Fixed Radar Site Label Flicker Issue

• Fixed issue where Radar View was running in the background even if you click off of it.

• Fixed button colors in Radar View

• Fixed Radar Selector View (You can now close it without having to tap on a radar)

• Changed Back Button on Radar View to a “Home” icon

• Removed some unused internal code from app

• Removed Feedback Button from the About Screen

• Removed Automatic Background Polling for WFO Favorites

• Emergency fix where on iPhone 13's and lower the app crashes on startup

• Completely overhauled Radar!

• The Interactive Radar has been completely redesigned now adding the ability to select a specific radar to view their data! The radar is currently using IEM’s Tile Service until we can get our in-house LDM fully functional with producing tiles.

• Added Emergency Notification Setting

• Users are now able to toggle on/off nationwide Tornado and Flash Flood Emergency notification. You will still get your normal notifications from your selected WFO’s but this will let you receive notifications from anywhere in the United States if there is a Tornado Emergency or Flash Flood Emergency.

• Added Spotter Network Locations and Reports to the Radar

• Spotter Network Locations and Reports are now able to be toggled on/off and spotter/report information is able to be viewed!

• Added Alert Polygon Filters

• Flood Warnings being a little too much on the map? Well you can now toggle on/off Polygon types! It also saves your current selections so you don’t have to keep turning stuff on/off every time you enter the radar.

• Added New Custom Notification Tones

• Select from a list of notification tones! Emergency Alerts will still be the EOM tones

• Fixed IPAWS Alert Polygon Colors

• Fixed Alert Details View Screen (Colors and Titles)

• Fixed Map is its no longer able to be rotated or pitched

• Fixed Alert Detail/Popup colors on Radar

• Added IPAWS WEA to the Radar View

• Made the Radar Alert List now shows the alert details on click

• Changed Radar View Layout

• Changed About View Details

• Notifications API Fix

• Added Current Weather Alerts on Home Page (Uses User Location)

• Added Feedback button on the About View so users can submit any questions, comments, feature requests, or bug reports!

• Fixed NWR States so it sorts by Site State

• Made Search Bar for NWR only show states with available NWR Streams

• Bug Fixes

• Minor Interactive Radar Fixes

• Alert Polygons on the Radar is now on top of the Radar Data

• Fixed text on the AlertView in the radar so its readable on some background colors

• NEW INTERACTIVE RADAR!

• Changed Icon for Radar from a Map Pin to a Map Icon

• Separated Favorites from Push Notifications

• Fixed About Screen

• Added new Local Radar View button

• Added a Current Weather Condition to the top of the Home Screen

• Added NOAA Weather Radio streams, Provided by GWES Weather Radio!

• Added Tiyan, GU, Pago Pago, AS, and San Juan, PR Offices

• Fixed View Product Button (Now Centered Properly)

• Made Local Radar view bigger on iPad’s

• Fixed the About View’s text from going off the screen

• Inner App Bug Fixes

Weather Radio now Added!
We have collaborated with Global Weather and EAS Society (GWES) to bring you NOAA Weather Radio streams to the app! This is running off of their WeatherRadio.org website! Don’t see your local NWR stream and want to provide it! Click on the button in app and it will take you to the website!

• Added button inside product view to link to product page. This is for the products like WPC/SPC that come through with no description.

• Bug Fixes

• Added support for Remote Push Notifications

• Changed App Icon and other logos on app

• Added a Launch Screen while app is loading

• Fixed feed parsing issue where it was showing pre and amp in the product descriptions

• Fixed Notification App Icon issue where sometimes it was not displaying correctly

• Added new page to display the SPC Categorical Outlooks

• Custom Alert Tone for Emergency Products

• Removed Local Notifications, everything now goes through our dedicated push notification server

• Made App Free Again

Welcome to Version 5! This version has been completely overhauled to now support SwiftUI!

So what's new?

• New Layout Design for Simple Use

• Feeds that auto refresh every 10 seconds

• New Product sound, just like in the web version of IEMBot!

• Favorites! You can now favorite different offices to stay pinned at the top of the list!

• Push Notifications! Whichever WFO's you favorite, you will receive push notifications from them!