iOS and iPadOS

Hi All,

Just posting to give some more details about the new release.

As well as a lot of bug fixes, the main update is something which I am trialling, which is bolt ons. These will be subscription based features which I hope offer good value, the idea being is you can stop and start them when needed.

The first one is called the Extended Forecast and is priced at $1.49 per month and offers the following features.

14 day hourly forecast in the Pantheon and Weather Wheel, including the weather gods timelines. This is a global feature

Hi All,

Just a reminder to please update to Weather Gods 3.7 as IBM will be terminating our notifications very shortly. This includes the general notifications such as rain, sunrise etc as well as severe weather alerts. Please pass on the message if you know of other people who are on a version older than 3.7

The update switches from IBM to Amazon for notifications, so they will continue to work.

Thanks

Hi All,

Hope everyone is well?

I have just released 3.7 to the App Store with some new features.

Storm Threats.
This is for the USA only and gives you a comprehensive look at approaching storms or storms that are passing over, letting you know the speed and which direction they are coming from.

The information includes data such as whether the storm is tornadic, is rotating, has lightning, large hail etc. You can configure in settings (under severe weather) the radius that Weather Gods will use when checking for storms, from 25 to 100 miles.

Hi All,

Hope you're all having a good Sunday.

3.8 has been released with a number of new features.

Hi,

Just dropping by to say Weather Gods 4.0.0 was released last week.

The main update is Lock Screen widgets including a dedicated VoiceOver widget that reads out the weather based on priority.

For example, heavy rain would be read out before low UV. However, if it was a really sunny day and the UV was high then this is read first.

For those on the Apple Watch with the smart VoiceOver widget - it's the same implementation.

There are other Lock Screen widgets as well, all of them fully accessible.

Hi,

Just a quick update to say WG 4.1.0 has been released.

Unfortunately there appears to be a bug with the smart forecast on the watch, for which I can only apologise. The alternative is to use the Voiceover Smart Conditions in one of the other watch complication slots.

With regards to the update, the main points of interest ...

Hi Everyone,

Hope you're all having a great weekend.

Just a quick note to say Weather Gods 4.2.0 has been released.

The what's new is quite comprehensive but the summary is :

Hi All,

Hope you're having a great Sunday.

Just stopping by to say that 4.2.1 is now available.

There are a number of changes but the two significant changes are.

Weather Station Widget
You can have your own weather station on your iPhone or iPad, with the iPad supporting the extra large widget size, meaning a really comprehensive weather station.

Hi

Hope everyone is having a great weekend.

Just a quick note to say that 4.3.0 is now on the App Store and the main focus has been on fixing compatibility issues for iOS17 and watchOS10.

This means that all the small Home Screen widgets are Standby optimised and the modular style watch complications work with the new watchOS10 widget stack.

I also fixed lots of small bugs and layout issues with the widgets, complications and watch app.

Hi everybody,

Weather Gods 4.4.0 is now available with the following new features and bug fixes.

Premium Subscribers

Worldwide Lightning notifications.

The notification includes the number of strikes, the distance of the closest strike to you and the bearing.

Worldwide Lightning Data

The app also has a lightning section in the severe weather centre. This lists strikes, the time of the strike, the distance and bearing. There is also a summary if you don't want to jump into the list.

Grandfathered Users

Hi All,

Hope everyone is okay and the weather is being kind.

The Weather Gods 4.6.0 release is now out with lots of new features.

Tides: Global tide times, tide heights, tide station map, and detailed tide charts.

Storm Threats: These are now available for anywhere in the world. They provide detailed information about approaching storms, including tornado potential, rotation, intensity, hail size, and lightning counts.

Hi,

Hope everyone is well and the weather is being kind.

I'm just catching up with Weather Gods releases in case people missed the recent updates on the App Store.

4.7 was released with the following features

Hi,

Just a quick message to say Weather Gods 4.8.0 has been released.

It includes USA Weather Radio and the Tropical Cyclone Products for each storm where available.

Weather Radio is part of Premium subscription and available to grandfathered users.

All feedback welcome, especially on the weather radio, I have already been asked to try and source Canadian Weather Radio which I will try and do.

Scott

On the main weather gods screen where it shows the weather conditions for my city plus the next few days, as I'm swiping down I see something that sounds like it should be the word altitude but voiceover mispronounces it. Anyway the number that's given for this changes quite often so I'm wondering what this is?

Hi All,

I have an announcement regarding an upcoming change to Weather Gods.

In summary, we will be switching Weather Gods to a subscription model, with a probable price point of $1.49 per quarter or $3.99 per annum.

This does not affect any existing customers, and they will continue to receive all updates and new features free of charge.

Hi All,

Weather Gods now has a weather bot on Facebook messenger. He is currently undergoing training so there will be some teething troubles.

I'm hoping the AppleVis community would be kind enough to take him for a test drive ?

To access the bot:

Hi All,

I hope this is ok to post here.

I just wanted to say that we are having some severe problems with our data service provider, IBM. We switched account types today and clearly something has gone badly wrong - we have been planning this since December and IBM assured us that there would be no impact to service!!

Unfortunately, it seems to be one of those problems where everything is flagged green but the service just isn't working as expected. We have a severity 1 issue raised with them and it is being escalated through other channels now.

Hi Scott from Weather Gods and everyone else,

Since this morning, July 27th, I have been receiving duplicate notifications again. Not really a problem. Better too many notifications about approaching thunderstorms than too few.

Has anyone else gotten two for the price of one?

Hi All,

We are just starting work on Weather Gods Siri integration and looking for beta testers who are currently running iOS12?

If anyone would like to help out then we would be very grateful.

Please email us [email protected] if you would like to participate.

Thanks
Scott

Hi,

I've had a few people email me for help setting up the WG Lock Screen widgets so I thought I would share what works for me - there might be other VO shortcuts I don't know about.

This is what works for me