New release plans for next week

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We're preparing to release a new app version by the end of next week!

This release will come with humidity and pressure added to the minute and hourly pages! Woohoo!

We're also working on including by default, Canadian humidex to calculate the "Feels like" temperature in the summer and windchill in the winter. For those who like our 'Feels like' the way it is, you'll be able to change it back to the hybrid version we currently use in the app. This will work for the current condition, minute, and hourly pages.

Several in this community have mentioned they'd like to see more maximum/minimums in the "Day" product dropdown and perhaps "Feels like" in there two. I love the idea but this will likely take us some time so keep on us about it. :D

For those who may not know, you can click on any of the blue bars on the daily product and it will expand with more details such as sunrise/sunset and a text summary of the forecast for day & night.

Stuck alerts have been temporarily addressed but we plan to work on a more comprehensive fix that should mitigate any issues with one part of our system affecting another part as we currently have a couple unnecessary dependencies.

If you've made it this far, you win life. <3

Adam

Feels like temperature

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We often get questions about the ‘feels like’ temperature on our free app Instant Weather and why it’s lower compared to other popular apps.

To clarify, our app takes several factors into account including humidity, wind, and cloud cover. Most apps only use humidex but that’s likely over-estimating the ‘feels like’, big time.

Eg. Temp: 29c - Humidex..37c... yeah... no.

It does make sense that if you’re used to seeing over-estimated humidex ‘feels like’ temperatures, it may seem odd that ours is a lot closer to the actual temperature.

Realistically though, our ‘feels like’ is likely a lot more inline with reality. 🙂

Hope that makes sense! ❤

- Adam

Hamilton Ontario - fixed

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I just received an email from one of our data providers that said they found corrupt raw data that was skewing the temperature result and are working on putting in front-line fixes to mitigate this from happening again in the future. Thank you to all those in Hamilton who let us know about this issue and were patient as we got it addressed. We really appreciate it!

Adam

Incorrect data for Hamilton Ontario

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Incorrect current conditions and forecasts for areas of Hamilton Ontario.

Adam has submitted a ticket to one of our data providers. There is definitely something wrong with the data they are providing for some areas of Hamilton.

Entering Hamilton Ontario as a secondary location shows better results than what some people are getting for their follow me location.

Teresa