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Rick Heggem
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Show me the smoke! For some reason, the app only sometimes shows the smokey areas in North America. I can turn off/on the smoke setting. I can force close the app and restart. But nothing I do seems to make the smoke visible on occasion. I don't know why smoke is visible on occasion and sometimes not. Thank you to the developer for the smoke explanation. The explanation comports with my experience, but I changed my rating from 3 to 4 for the explanation. Solving the problem would earn a 5.
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The smoke info is generally available in the afternoons after a NOAA technician publishes the data. This availability is a side effect of how NOAA publishes the data, and we hope to improve on this in a future update.
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Monique Steyn
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Testing this app for our area, Western Cape, South Africa. Unless I'm missing it, there doesn't seem to be a distance calculator directly on the app. Shows a distance when one taps on more info, however, I'm assuming is a distance of one's current location? Not to a specific location elsewhere? One can go to co-ords > Google earth. Is there a possibility for this to be developed still? The quality on mobile seems really good and it is showing accurately an active fire nearby.
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Qvyshift LLC
5 January 2022
You are correct—the distance shown is the distance from the current location of your device. A point-to-point distance measure is something we'll consider for future development. Thanks for the feedback.
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S. M. Wolfkind
Its okay, but in the middle of a wildfire emergency the information is just not current enough to be useful, and can even be misleading due to plumes of smoke causing heat readings where no fire is on the ground. Pulse Point is much better for immediate notification and location emergencies. Still, i keep Fireguard in my tool kit and bought the paid version so i can keep an eye on areas where my relatives live.
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