RainAware

RainAware

By RainAware LLC

  • Category: Weather
  • Release Date: 2012-02-29
  • Current Version: 2.1.1
  • Adult Rating: 4+
  • File Size: 47.82 MB
  • Developer: RainAware LLC
  • Compatibility: Requires iOS 15.0 or later.
Score: 3.9255
3.9255
From 1,047 Ratings
$4.99 On itunes

Description

* Some screenshots depict subscription features. ***** Standard Version Features ***** Your base version includes the following: • Rain Clock Times precip to your location, up to 3 hr out. Ex: "Rain Starting in 1 hr 30 min, Ending at 4:30 pm." Background images match the weather outside. • Notifications Get alerts when rain is coming or going, or severe weather threatens. You can even define how long precip must last to be alertable. Set a rain proximity boundary, & modify alert frequency. • Interactive Graphs Get data readouts & visuals for temperature, wind speed, cloud cover, precip amount & type, over the next 36 hr. • Weather Badges Badges show up outside the Rain clock only when SIGNIFICANT or RAPID changes in precip, temperature, cloud or wind are forecast. Configurable. • Current Conditions Ticker Cycles through the nearest weather observation. Also includes nearest lightning, precip, and storm reports, when relevant. Tap the icons to fly to the location. • Satellite, Radar, 1hr Precip View imagery over a regional domain (much larger than in v1). Move the domain to a new location to view weather map there. Tap the "blue globe" to see imagery. • Landscape & Hyperloop View larger map in landscape with added pan/zoom controls. Burst loop speed to see trends (long-press > button) • Weather Map Overlays Tap toggles for quick analysis. Surface observations at select locations plotted on the map, including temperature, humidity, wind & more. Plot lightning, hurricane tracks, storm reports & moving SHIP obs. See watches, warnings, advisories when in effect. Spans all entities including storms, floods, winter, wind, fire, marine & more. • Drawing Tool Paint drawings or text on screen. Overlay on map and share. • Forecast Clock Concisely shows the next 8 days in Today/Tonight format, including sunrise, sunset, and moon phase. • Site Lists Quickly check weather at nearby cities, airports, ballparks, speedways, golf course and more. Stadiums include wind arrow to see if blowing in, out, or across the field. • Customization An immense number of customizations are available in the Settings Menu. ***** Subscription Version Features ***** • Subscriptions are available in-app and work across all your supported devices. • Ability to view entire weather map without regional constraints. • RainPro Tool For perfect rain times, use the interactive tool to refine precip motion for the best timings possible. • National Radar Products Echo Tops, Hail Swaths, Rotation Tracks. • Storm Cells Plot storm cells with a multitude of filtering options. See storm motion, hail potential, rotation and more • Single-Site Radar Basic Reflectivity and Velocity products. Option to merge HI, AK, PR radars onto national view. • Satellite Imagery Adds Water Vapor & colorized Visible imagery which colors higher cloud tops. • Surface Observations Plot thousands of stations, ships and buoys, including water temperature and wave height. • Warning & Obs Monitor Filter & sort surface obs & warnings • Environmental Fields Plot threat areas, VAD Wind Profiles (VWP), Isobars, CAPE, Updraft Helicity & more. • Drawing Tools Draw fronts on the weather map Time-match your drawings to satellite & radar imagery Draw lines, open & closed shapes, circles & squares • Longer Loops Animate up to 36 frames and 12 hr out on capable devices. • More Alert Options Lightning proximity alerts, Tornado or Hail reported, or alert for another location. • Aviation Mode Use FAA sectional maps as map underlay Flight rules plotted at surface stations Winds aloft at VWP locations • Faster Data Updates More frequent updates to radar, satellite, and surface data • Performance & More Manage memory & cache. Customize panning and image-tiling behavior - Full feature set available across the USA and southern Canada. Satellite and local radar coverage extends from Hawaii to the Caribbean. See: https://www.rainaware.com/rainaware_coverage_map.webp

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Reviews

  • Used to be great, updates not intuitive

    2
    By xtharnx
    I can’t figure out where my saved locations went from before the update, and now trying to save them is not intuitive at all. I search using zip code and there’s no option to save it. Not liking this update at all

  • Excellent

    5
    By garysteven
    4/4/26 Changed rating from 2 to 5 stars. Developer support is also 5 stars. My weather information needs are very modest but it is clear that the developers are trying hard to make the program the best that they can. 4/1/26 Thank you very much for your response. Your last paragraph describes the problem. I would like all 3 larger charts to maintain their titles (and corresponding content) 3/28/26 After today’s update, it is still a two star program. The developer was kind enough to respond, saying the below problem would be fixed, but it wasn’t. Could be a very useful program but there are two serious problems: the rectangular graphs don’t retain their settings and don’t automatically update - the designated names for them e.g. precipitation amount changes to something else, and the date on top does not correspond to the dates represented in the graphs below the date.

  • Favorite app

    5
    By CarreeO44
    They changed this app. I learned how to use it. It’s good again.

  • New update

    5
    By DPop123
    I’ve used RainAware for years - it is amazing at predicting rain at my exact location for the next three hours! Recent update had a few issues but the most recent update fixed those!

  • What happened?

    1
    By luckyvito
    Hate the new update!!! Extremely difficult to navigate!

  • Mad Scientist Weather App

    4
    By AmberCrystal
    This app morphed from a straightforward and focused "when is it going to rain / stop raining" app to a hyper-flexible data-dense full featured weather app. I think a lot of people find themselves in a state of shock when they first open the new version. It is so data-dense and button-heavy as to be overwhelming at first. And the options! There are too many and they are often unclear until you become more familiar with the new design. I think the number of configurable options would be easier to digest with some UI tweaks. For example, opening to new screens instead of opening a plethora of drop-down menus. Also, a help button on each options page with details of every setting would be very helpful. Another little thing -- the settings screen (and many other screens) have three ways to dismiss it -- tap the down arrow in the upper left corner, tap the X button in the upper right corner or drag the screen down from the top. This is overkill and confusing! The forecast seems a bit general. For example, it says there is a 30% chance of rain on Wednesday, but no hints as to when the rain will appear or how much will fall. Note that this detail *is* available for the next 36 hours, but not beyond that. I am glad the developer set a "like it was before (kind of)" toggle. I tried it and decided I like the new version better, but it is a more gentle introduction to long-time users of the app. The more I play around with this, the more I like it. In summation, I think this app was designed by a mad weather scientist (and I mean that mostly as a compliment). I am confident the app will get better and easier to use -- it just needs some iterative love to make it shine.

  • Not updating

    2
    By Marisdv19
    RainAware updated to the new version on my Apple phone but it keeps saying waiting. What happened? I cannot see the rain updates.

  • Liked old version better

    1
    By Gogogogooo
    To detailed and difficult to use for a basic user.

  • They’re Trying to be Like Other Apps

    3
    By A Sailor Fan
    Update: i received a response from the developer explaining how to make it look like the old way and I am grateful for that. It does make it more familiar so I am appreciative. I will up my rating but still think that sometimes change is for the sake of change (and with apps like other products it’s for the sake of competition). I don’t need (or want) the entire crew of “The Weather Channel “ in one app. I am also appreciative of the developer caring enough about their customers to respond and to do so rapidly. am so disappointed in the changes. It used to be so simple but explicit for what it was meant to be. Now everything is crowded and has so much data but no real view of rain probability. It’s now just like all the other apps that throw tons of info in to overload you. It was my go to app now it’s going to be deleted. What a Shame.

  • Redesign is a mess

    1
    By Laserlips
    Longtime user. Loved the old simplicity and accuracy. The redesign is cluttered, hard to read, and not accurate. Please give option to revert. I hate the new version.

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