RainAware

RainAware

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About this app

* Some screenshots depict subscription version items.

★★★★★ Standard Version Features ★★★★★
Your one-time-purchase version includes the following:

• Rain Clock
Times precip to your location, up to 3 hr out.
Ex: "Rain Starting in 30 min, Ending at 4:30 pm"
Background images match the weather outside

• Notifications
Get alerts when rain is coming or going, or severe weather threatens. You can even define how long precip must last to be alertable. Set a rain proximity boundary, & increase or decrease alert frequency.

• Interactive Graphs
Get data readouts & visuals for temperature, wind speed, cloud cover, precip amount & type, over the next 36 hr.

• Weather Badges
Badges show up outside the Rain clock only when SIGNIFICANT or RAPID changes in precip, temperature, or wind are forecast. Configurable.

• Current Conditions Ticker
Cycles through the nearest weather observation. Also includes nearest lightning, precip, and storm reports, when relevant. Tap the icons to fly to the location.

• Satellite, Radar, 1hr Precip
View imagery over a regional domain (much larger than in v1). Move the domain to a new location to view weather map there.

• Landscape & Hyperloop
View larger map in landscape with added pan/zoom controls.
Burst loop speeds at 20 fps to see trends.

• Weather Map Overlays
Tap toggles for quick analysis. Surface observations at select locations plotted on the map, including temperature, humidity, wind & more. Plot lightning, hurricane tracks, storm reports & moving SHIP obs.

See watches, warnings, advisories when in effect. Spans all entities including storms, floods, winter, wind, fire, marine & more.

• Drawing Tool
Paint drawings or text on screen. Overlay on map and share.

• Forecast Clock
Concisely shows the next 8 days in Today/Tonight format, including sunrise, sunset, and moon phase.

• Site Lists
Quickly check weather at nearby cities, airports, ballparks, speedways, golf course and more. Stadiums include wind arrow to see if blowing in, out, or across the field.

• Settings & Interactions
Almost everything can be tapped or long pressed.
See: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3fEh26giw4Y

★★★★★ Subscription Version Features ★★★★★
A subscription is cross platform (iOS/macOS/Android) and adds:

• Ability to view entire weather map without regional constraints

• RainPro Tool
For perfect rain times, use the interactive tool to refine precip motion for the best timings possible.

• National Radar Products
Echo Tops, Hail Swaths, Rotation Tracks

• Storm Cells
Plot storm cells with a multitude of filtering options. See storm motion, hail potential, rotation and more.

• Single-Site Radar
Basic Reflectivity and Velocity products.
Option to merge HI, AK, PR radars onto national view

• Satellite Imagery
Adds Water Vapor & colorized Visible imagery which colors higher cloud tops

• Surface Observations
Plot thousands of stations, ships and buoys, including water temperature and wave height.

• Environmental Fields & Forecasts
Plot threat areas, outlooks, VAD Wind Profiles (VWP), Isobars, CAPE, Updraft Helicity & more.

• Drawing Tools
Draw fronts on the weather map.
Time-match your drawings to satellite & radar imagery.
Draw lines, open and closed shapes, circles and squares.

• Longer Loops
Animate up to 36 frames and 12 hrs out on capable devices.

• More Alert Options
Lightning proximity alerts, Tornado or Hail reported, or alert for another location.

• Aviation Mode
Use FAA sectional maps as map underlay
Flight rules plotted at surface stations
Winds aloft at VWP locations

• Faster Data Updates
More frequent updates to radar, satellite, and surface data.

• Performance & More
Manage memory & cache. Customize panning and image-tiling behavior
Access to Discord Server for added support.

- Full feature set available from USA into southern Canada. Satellite and local radar coverage extends from Hawaii to the Caribbean. See https://www.rainaware.com/rainaware_coverage_map.webp

Ratings and reviews

This is an exceptional app for weather enthusiasts and meteorologists. The customizations are superb, and you can select different modes, including "Expert". Want it to be a little easier? Simply select "Standard" mode. Aviation is also great. I recommend you spend some time looking through all the different variables, because you can customize to your needs. As a meteorologist myself, I find this app amazing. 5 stars.

Customization is endless! From the rain clock to the endless map overlay options, this app is the final frontier in meteorological displays and analysis. Quite amazing how many configurable items there are from observations, satellite channels, radar and tropical storm tracks. It will take a bit of time to set up but very worth it. Lightning notifcation features are great as well!

This app would be great if it had any kind of notifications for when you were not already in the app. Another good addition would be to have a widget so you could always see a summary of your conditions looking at the widget. Tapping either the notification or the widget would open the app so you could view the details if you needed them. Now, the app icon just sits there.

What’s new

Testing new graphics engine to fix Google Pixel screen artifact issue.
Intensity legend/color bar added to RainClock (disable in settings).
Color blind palette added to RainClock (enable in settings).
More robust cache & memory management.
Fixed minor clock button text overflow issue.
[Sub Feature] Fixed Winter Discussions not plotting.