Version 3.6 (02/06/2012)

Location services are no longer required to use our app.

Find your location using USPS Zip Code. If location services aren't available or if your location can't be determined, you can use your Zip Code to pin point you on the map. The point will be the center of the Zip Code.

NEW Premium Feature

Find a location using USPS Zip Code. Select the icon at the top right corner of the display to access this feature.

Version 3.5 (12/07/2011)

• NEW Premium Features

  These new features can be reached by selecting the icon in the "local" radar view.

  • Composite Radar

    "NCR" Composite Short Range Reflectivity radar.

    Composite reflectivity displays the highest reflectivity of ALL elevations scans. When compared with Base Reflectivity, the Composite Reflectivity can reveal important storm structure features and intensity trends of storms.

  • Velocity - Storm

    "N0S" Velocity: Storm Relative.

    This display is of radial velocity of the wind relative to the storm's motion. The result is a picture of the wind as if the storms were stationary. This often unmasks storms that rotate (supercells) which can be a precursor to the formation of tornadoes. Green colors indicate wind moving toward the radar with red colors indicating wind moving away from the radar.

  • Velocity - Base

    "N0V" Velocity: Storm Relative.

    This display of radial velocity represents the overall wind field. Green colors indicate wind moving toward the radar with red colors indicating wind moving away from the radar.

• Changes

  Full view radar motion is off by default. Having the full view radar in motion when it first displays causes the app to slow down and become less responsive as the view is panned and zoomed. This is due to a lot of radar "tiles" being requested from the server that won't be used. To resume the motion in the full view, just click on the "play" icon at the top of the display.

Version 3.4 (11/21/2011)

• New Premium Feature "Range Rings" - Displays range rings around your location so you can get an idea of how far away storms are and how fast they are moving.

  Configuration options

  • Find range rings configuration in the options (menu-settings-options) screen.
  • Show range rings - Switches range rings on and off
  • Range rings size - Choose between rings at 25, 50 and 75 miles (constant values) and 25, 50 and 100 miles (Twice the distance).
  • Range rings color - Select the color for the rings (default is black).

• New Premium Feature "Long Range Radar" - Long range radar displays a larger area than the default short range radar and shows an area about 40% larger to give a better view of the "big picture" in the area.
• Improvements to the Help text.
• Fixes and performance enhancements.

Version 3.3 (9/29/2011)

• New Premium Feature

  Radar Now! Driver keeps you current on weather as you drive. Whether across town or across the country, Radar Now! Driver shows you the storms coming your way.

• Self help topics in "Contact us" form.
• "What's New?" help showing when first starting a new version.
• "Exit" option on menu changed to a configuration option. Default is to not show it.
• Improvements to the Help text.
• Fixes and performance enhancements.

Version 3.2 (9/12/2011)

• Order radar stations list by city / state.
• Make Order Sticky in Transfer Premium Status.
• Show correct message after Transfer premium status.
• Improvements to the Help text.
• Show obvious status to users.
• Make status system more robust.

Version 3.1 (9/5/2011)

• Notify user about Internet unavailability.
• Improved server performance
• Bring back Smooth image checkbox.
• Improvements to Location system
  • Allow starting app without any location services.
  • Use Last Known Location if location is unavailable.
  • When waiting for location, compare accuracy to pick the best approximation.
  • [Use last location] button.
  • Timeout option: 5 / 15 / 30. Default: 15.
  • Use back button as [Use last location].
• Add close button to Help page and Learn more pages.
• Add "Premium" transfer to another device.
• Wiki-style help.
• Fix for initial zoom problem (sometimes Local View could start in zoom level 5).

Version 3.0

App Improvements

The app has been totally re-written from top to bottom as well as every server process has been updated to handle a larger user base.

New free mode features:

• Use in portrait or landscape mode
• Better quality and more detailed maps
• More zoom levels
• Increase by four the number of radar images in the loop (six to ten)
• Control the speed of the loop, pause or go backwards
• Opacity sliders for the base, radar and top maps
• Show WSR-88D stations on the map
• Current conditions available at the touch of a button
• Heat index and visibility added to current conditions
• Map and radar image caching to improve performance
• Less dependent on servers
• Defaults to premium mode if the radar station in your area goes down
• Faster and more efficient

Premium mode features:

• Automatically updates radar loop whenever a new image is available
• Display any NOAA WSR-88D NEXRAD radar station
• Select a radar station by icon, drop down menu or by scrolling around on the map
• Zoom and pan in "Full" mode around the entire continental US
• Current conditions shows for the location your displaying, not just where you are
• Tablets show full screen

Version 2.5

App Improvements

• Server load balancing

  In previous versions, a single server handled all the load for the app. Now, up to four servers can share the load of the app. A server is assigned randomly each time the app starts.

• Graceful degradation

  If a server is unavailable (a 404 error), the app will automatically check the next one in the list instead of erroring out.

Version 2.4

App Improvements

• App ends quickly

  The current version may cause CPU usage for several minutes after ending the app. The problem cropped up in 2.1 and is a bug in the OS, we found a way to work around it.

• Select last known location

  The current version calculates the device position each time, sometimes this can be a pain, especially when refreshing. This feature allows the user to hit the back key as soon as the location service is started to select the "last known location" instead.

• Store app on SD card

  Right now (07/9/2010), Froyo (2.2) is pretty rare, it's on the Nexus One only (officially) but starting next week, Droid owners will see an OTA update that will bring in Froyo. One of the outstanding features for 2.2 is the ability to store apps on the SD card, freeing internal memory and allowing more apps to be stored on each device. I think everyone will really like having this feature. We have made the required change to the app to enable this feature.

• Internal changes

  A bunch of internal changes have been made to increase stability and interoperability with Froyo, many won't be noticed by the average user, or at least that's the hope.

• New launcher icons

  We've added new icons for the various resolution screens that are now available. Users of Android 1.5 won't see any difference, the old launcher icon will stay but everyone else should see the new flat style icon in the correct resolution for their device.

• App loops when held horizontally

  This is a problem that mostly occurs on the Droid. It has been fixed.

Pushed UI Improvements

• Faster panning
• Ability to stop the animation by touching the screen
• Mitigating the "freeze" problem on HTC devices running 2.1 and 2.1-update1
• Help text is now one page that scrolls