Seeing old data?

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Anyone else experiencing this? Please follow these steps and our apologies for the extra effort!

Did you know?

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I bet you didn't know that when precipitation is in the forecast on our FREE InstantWeatherApp.com, we add ////// lines to the blue forecast bars?

You can also tap any blue bar to expand the forecast:

- Day and Night Details

- Written Forecasts

- Severity Details

- Jump to Min or Hour

- Sunrise & Sunset Time

Download InstantWeather™ for free by tapping this link on your phone or tablet:

http://InstantWeatherApp.com

Or click "Use App" at the top of our page and choose Apple or Android.

Thank you so much and please leave a review on the App Store or Google Play Store as those really help!

- Adam

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Demonstration with tips

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Adam posted on Facebook a video that demonstrates some features of the app. You can check it out here.

Push Notification Troubleshooting

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Check list

  1. Check the version of the app that you are running. We recommend 1.0.465 at the time of writing this post. You can see this at the bottom of the screen.

  2. Make sure your bells are green on the locations page. Simply touch them if they are white.

  3. Check that your device has notifications turned on for Instant Weather under Settings (gear icon).

    iOS settings > notifications > Instant Weather

    Android settings > Apps > Instant Weather > App Notifications (slight differences depending on version of Android)

    See below for screenshots.

  4. Add a location that is currently experiencing severe weather and has an alert see Environment Canada web page. You will need to wait for the alert to be updated or cancelled before you receive a push notification.

Other important tips and information

  1. Currently the app only sends out one push notification if you have a number of locations that are covered by the same EC alert. It also only specifies one location in the push notification. So unless you open the app and swipe to every location you will not know which locations are covered by the push notification. There are a few possible solutions to this. We could make it a configurable setting so that the user can decide if they want to receive one push notification per location or one per "group". Another solution would be changing the push notification to list the locations that it covers instead of only one. My guess is that there would be a limit to the number of locations that could be listed. Another related idea is to have an icon on the locations page next to each location with an alert so instead of swiping to each location you can see on locations page which ones have an alert. 

  2. Opening the app clears all the push notifications. So if you had any “unread” push notifications as soon as you open the app they will disappear.

  3. Until we include "Always Allow" location permissions, it is probably a good idea when traveling to either open the app fairly often or at worst, leave it minimized. Completely closing down the app will most likely not allow the location to update and this is possibly what is causing some users to occasionally receive alerts from an area they have recently visited.

If you think that you are missing notifications and the above has not helped or clarified things we would like to help troubleshoot this with you. Please send email to help@instantweather.ca.

iOS notifications screen

iOS notifications screen

Android notifications screen

Android notifications screen

Forecasts for the current day and day vs night

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If you watch the DAYS forecast for the current day you will notice that the predicted high (the first temperature in the blue line) will start to match the current temperature after “the high” has been reached. This is because the temperature is the forecasted high for the rest of the day and it isn’t going to get any warmer. An exception would be when temperature is increasing overnight.

This is also true for the precipitation for the day. The amount of rain and/or snow that you see for the current day is what to expected for the rest of the day and night combined. It isn’t the total amount for the day.

This also brings up another important point with the app how day and night are defined by the app. Day is sunrise to sunset and night is sunset to sunrise.

Also don’t forget that you can tap any of the days to see an expanded forecast for that particular day.

Teresa

Important Notification Tips

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1. Make sure your bells are green on the locations page. Simply touch them if they are white.

2. Add extra locations for important places like home, work, school, etc. Therefore, when you're traveling you'll still get alerts from home. You can search by exact addresses and this will also give the best possible forecast and alerts.

3. Until we include "Always Allow" location permissions, it is probably a good idea when traveling to either open the app fairly often or at worst, leave it minimized. Completely closing down the app will most likely not allow the location to update and this is possibly what is causing some users to occasionally receive alerts from an area they have recently visited.

4. We plan to allow the ability to rename your location to "Home, School, Bob's House", etc. All in due time!

5. Make sure that your device has notifications turned on for Instant Weather under Settings (gear icon). See below for screenshots.

So happy to launch! Woohoo! 💙

Adam & Teresa

iOS notifications screen

iOS notifications screen

Android notifications screen

Android notifications screen