WeatherAI 2026.07.2: Tropical Storm Notifications, New Radar Tropical Layers, and Smarter Widgets
Notifications for forming storms and cone entries, National Hurricane Center wind probability and arrival time layers on radar, widgets that follow your chosen weather source, a rebuilt animated sky, and more.
What's New
WeatherAI 2026.07.2 adds tropical storm notifications for storms forming and for your own location entering a forecast cone, brings two more National Hurricane Center layers to the radar map, and makes Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets follow the weather source you actually picked. The animated sky on the home screen was also rebuilt from scratch.
Here's everything in this release.
Tropical Storm Notifications
Get notified about hurricanes and tropical storms, not just the warnings that follow them.
- Storm News: new storms forming and intensity changes across the Atlantic and Pacific basins
- Local Threat: an alert when your location enters a storm's forecast cone
- Turn either one on in Settings → Notification Settings
New Tropical Layers on Radar
Two more National Hurricane Center products now draw on the radar map.
- Wind Speed Probability: your chance of tropical-storm-force winds, tappable for the exact number
- Arrival Time: when those winds are most likely to reach each area, labeled along the map
Widgets Follow Your Weather Source
Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets now use the weather source you picked in Settings, instead of always using Apple Weather.
- Your widget and your home screen finally agree on the forecast
- More reliable location handling and refreshes, with fewer stale or blank widgets
More Tropical Storm Detail
The Tropical Weather Hub and storm maps show more, and read better.
- Tap a forecast point for maximum sustained wind, gusts, central pressure, Saffir-Simpson category, heading, and lead time
- Storm markers are colored by category, so a storm reads the same on the map and in the list
- Advisories, cyclone updates, and forecast discussions are formatted into readable sections instead of one wall of text
A Deeper Home Screen Sky
The animated sky at the top of the home screen was rebuilt with real depth.
- The sun is drawn with true light falloff instead of a flat disc, and the moon shows its current phase
- Clouds sit in near and far layers sized to the actual cloud cover, drifting at the real wind speed and direction
- The sky now extends behind the status bar and into the refresh pull-down area
Radar Legend and Map Panels
More control over where things sit on the radar map.
- Choose where the radar legend sits: floating over the map, or docked with the playback controls
- The docked legend shows its scale values without needing to press and drag
- Keeping it off the map also means your finger no longer interrupts a two-finger zoom
- Radar panels, legends, and the map inspector now follow light and dark mode instead of always being dark
General Improvements
A collection of smaller refinements throughout the app.
- VoiceOver improvements across charts, alert lists, forecast rows, and widgets
- Tropical and fire data refreshes more frequently
- WeatherAI Forecast (weather source) accuracy has been improved, and will keep getting enhancements in the coming weeks
Bug Fixes
- Fixes a rare issue where some timezones could cause notifications to not be sent
Get the Update
WeatherAI 2026.07.2 is available now on the App Store for iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Vision Pro. If you have automatic updates enabled, you may already have it.
Have questions or feedback? Reach out through Settings → Send Feedback in the app.
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