Weather Desktop v1.1.0
A bigger, more accurate release — more data, more useful panels, and a snappier app.
What's new
- Rain nowcast — a minute-by-minute "rain starting/stopping in ~N min" line.
- Official US alerts — NWS watches and warnings, ranked above the app's derived alerts.
- More current data — air quality (US AQI), UV index, dew point, visibility, and barometric pressure with a 3-hour rising/steady/falling tendency.
- Forecast confidence — a cross-model agreement chip (high/med/low) per day; a 24-hour temperature/precip trend chart aligned to the columns, with per-hour rain/snow amounts on hover.
- Sky panel — a sunrise→sunset arc with the sun at the current time and a "Sunset/Sunrise in …" countdown, beside the moon / aurora / meteor readout.
- Tray quick-look — hover the tray icon for a compact weather card.
- Locations — enter exact coordinates or detect your location via the OS, plus a "vs yesterday" comparison.
- Faster — the forecast paints immediately on launch (extras fill in after), and the app quits promptly instead of waiting out in-flight requests.
Unzip and run WeatherDesktop.exe; keep the resources\ folder and the bundled DLLs alongside it. Weather and air-quality data come from Open-Meteo, official alerts from the US NWS, aurora data from NOAA SWPC — all free, no API key.
The build isn't code-signed yet, so SmartScreen may warn "Windows protected your PC" — More info → Run anyway.
SHA-256 (weather-desktop-1.1.0-win64.zip): 5a66a9dcd550a94a93cd35df8bac7e280ad85b641bfe7c4ed9e95b452760a5ce