An in-app weather radar, a rotating info carousel, and light/dark themes.
What's new
- Weather radar — an in-app, animated radar overlay (RainViewer past +
nowcast frames) with play/scrub controls and per-frame timestamps ("2:10 PM
(-20 min)" / "+30 min forecast"). Drag to pan, wheel to zoom. A locally-drawn
Natural Earth basemap (coastlines, state/country/county lines,
interstates, and city labels) means only RainViewer ever sees the viewport.
Includes an on-map wind gauge, rate-limit-aware tile fetching, and
upscaling so deep zoom never goes blank. - Auto-cycling Sky carousel — the Sky panel rotates through Sky / Air /
Discussion / Almanac / Tides cards (pauses on hover): an air-quality
breakdown with health guidance, the NWS Area Forecast Discussion, an
almanac (today vs. the 1991–2020 normal), and tides & marine. - Daily takeaway — a one-line summary atop the current conditions, which now
split into a static header plus a scrollable metrics list. - Rain push alerts — a notification when rain is about to start; clicking a
notification opens the app. - Light / dark themes — selectable in Settings.
Unzip and run WeatherDesktop.exe; keep the resources\ folder and the bundled
DLLs alongside it. Weather/air-quality/marine/climate data from Open-Meteo,
alerts and discussion from the US NWS, tides from NOAA, and radar from
RainViewer — all free, no API key.
First run on Windows. The build isn't code-signed, so SmartScreen may warn
"Windows protected your PC." Click More info → Run anyway. Verify the
download's SHA-256 against:
9b4007b8aef065c48f368901602771bb4780519a18e655999cd6a3ae573aa2b0