Improved radar lapsing, updated alert management, and numerous quality of life improvements and bug fixes!

Improved radar lapsing, updated alert management, and numerous quality of life improvements and bug fixes!

Adding the Norcast Livestream, extended 10 Day forecast, 48 hours of hourly forecast data, 6 hours of hourly forecast directly on the homepage, satellite mapping, power outages, and air quality alerts. Other bug fixes and performance improvements.

Here are the new features with this release!
-Dark mode
-Improved lapse speed and bar
-Past (2hrs) and real time as well as future radar (2hrs) combined in one product
-New stylized legends above the map

Updated Branding and Assets

Update to the mapping background in the radar tile and page to give it a new modern look. Boundaries, roads, cities display on top of radar data to make it easier to view your location on the map.
New look to the current conditions and forecast tile to make it more modern looking and easier for users to read weather data. Changes include a white background, colored icons, and larger text to make data easier to read.
Updated Current Conditions/Forecast Page. Updates include:
 -Page opens to the ‘Overview’ tab which gives current conditions, 3 hour hourly forecast, the 7 day daily forecast, and access to the radar page
 -The 'Currents' tab will give additional information on humidity percent, cloud cover, visibility, dew point, barometric pressure, and sunrise/sunset times.
 -The 'Hourly' tab will give detailed weather information for the next 24 hours on the forecasted weather condition, temperature, pop and wind speed and direction.
 -The 'Daily' tab will show the 7-day forecast in a manner that is much more similar to on-air 7-day forecasts with a detailed forecast for the next 7 days/nights below.

Map tile and page updates
-Update to the mapping background to give it a new modern look
 -Boundaries, roads, cities display on top of radar data to make it easier to view your location on the map

Current Conditions/Forecast tile
 -New look to the current conditions and forecast tile to make it more modern looking and easier for users to read weather data
   -White background
    -colored icons
    -Text data is larger and easier to read

  -Current Conditions/Forecast Page
   -Separated all aspects of existing page into tabs to make it easier on the user
   -Page itself opens to the ‘Overview’ tab which gives current conditions, 3 hour hourly forecast, the 7 day daily forecast, and access to the radar page
       -This will be all viewable with very few swipes by the user. The user can also easily swipe left to right through all saved locations and see this basic and most important weather information.
  -The 'Currents' tab will give additional information on humidity percent, cloud cover, visibility, dew point, barometric pressure, and sunrise/sunset times.
   -The 'Hourly' tab will give detailed weather information for the next 24 hours on the forecasted weather condition, temperature, pop and wind speed and direction.
   -The 'Daily' tab will show the 7-day forecast in a manner that is much more similar to on-air 7-day forecasts. Below the actual 7-day forecast will be the detailed day/night forecast descriptions that we have in the existing app including the weather sentences. The icons again are colored on top of a white background making it easier to view.

Bug Fixes and other Enhancements

Bug fixes and improvements

Updated Branding
Bug fixes and improvements

Updated splash screens

South Jersey Hyper-Local News, Sports and Weather is Back! Stay up to speed with the latest forecast while planning your event!

•    Locations for forecast data/map data and Safety Net alerts are now all handled in a centralized location.
•    The user’s selected locations are now consistent across forecasts and alerts, and don’t need to be managed independently.
•    Safety Net alerts are now toggled on for the user’s location upon app install. New locations added also have Safety Net alerts automatically turned on.
•    Users can now choose whether to receive alerts from each separate location.
•    When a user clicks an alert notification, they are now taken to the map page showing the last viewed data product for that alert location.
•    A new 7-day forecast includes a written forecast for both day and night time.

App name updated