What is new in AtmoDeck.

Shows, the Voice and the music

• Sounds and Music is now in the Broadcast group.
• Schedule: a time slot plays its show once and its end time follows the show, or repeats until a time with a break of your choice between plays. A countdown shows when it plays next.
• Ducking tracks: add sounds of your own that lower the music, played from Sounds and Music or by a step of a show. The music can also play only on the stream, not through the speakers.
• The Voice reads what is on each slide with a natural opening line, says times the way a person does, reads intro slides, and the show waits for it before moving on. Each step can have its own voice and its own words.
• A block can run through a group of viewpoints: choose it when adding a map product, or under More for this step.
• Nine more free natural voices to add on the Voice page.

The view tour flies on the Output by itself

• Start it from any page with Shift+T or the command palette, whether or not the weather map is open in the Console.
• If the Output is off it comes on, and if a slide is showing you are told why the tour did not start.
• It moves more smoothly: the Console’s preview stays still during a tour, and the map’s layers no longer redraw at every viewpoint it glides through.

New: Go live, with no OBS

• The Go live button beside the threat bar at the top starts and stops streaming from any page and turns red with the time while you are live.
• Broadcast > Go Live sends the Output with its sound straight from AtmoDeck to YouTube, Twitch, Facebook Live, TikTok LIVE, Restream.io, any RTMP or SRT server, an m3u8 link and a recording file, as many at once as you switch on.
• The graphics card encodes the picture once and every destination gets a copy, so adding a destination costs almost nothing. One that drops tries again by itself.
• Stream keys are locked with Windows’ own key on this computer and shown only as their last four letters. They are never synced to the team or put in a backup.
• The m3u8 link is served from this computer (on your network if you allow it) for web pages and players, or uploaded to an address you give. Recordings are saved as MP4 in Videos\AtmoDeck.

New: your own legends for custom layers

• A custom layer (a placefile, KML or GeoJSON) can have a legend you make: a color bar or color boxes, each color with its words, saved in My legends and put on any custom layer from its card.
• It shows in the map’s color legend on the Console and the Output while the layer is on.

A smoother Go live stream

• Show transitions now play behind your layout and stay inside the background box you set. The layout keeps moving while a block loads, and only the map holds still.
• Viewers no longer get a stutter from the stream sending some frames twice and losing the next: every frame the Output draws now goes out once, in order.
• The mouse pointer no longer shows in the stream: while live it is hidden when it is over the Output window.
• The log file now says each minute how many frames were new and how many were repeats.
• The log file now says each minute how each destination did, down to slowdowns too small to count as trouble.
• The stream now runs in a process of its own, with the picture and sound going straight to it, so a moment’s hold-up in the rest of AtmoDeck no longer holds up what goes out. If that process ever stops it starts again by itself and the stream carries on, and the log file gives the rest of AtmoDeck’s hold-ups on a line of their own.
• The log file now says, at a hold-up, whether all of AtmoDeck was held or only its main thread, and notes a quiet second each minute to compare with.
• Saving the backup of your settings no longer holds up a live stream while it writes to the disk.
• The log file now says when a destination is stopped from AtmoDeck, says “Raised” when the rate climbs back, and notes how busy the whole machine was.
• A moment’s hold-up inside AtmoDeck no longer puts a silent gap in the stream’s sound or loses a little of it.
• The log file now says how much of a hold-up was AtmoDeck working, and how much picture each step of a show made.
• The new Log file button beside Go live opens a file of every warning and destination error, each with its time, so there is no need to copy them as they go by.
• The picture reaches the graphics card’s encoder by a quicker route, so it is kept waiting less.
• A destination that falls behind now skips ahead after about 2 seconds rather than 8 or more, and its sound keeps playing while the picture catches up.
• While the map is moved on air it is drawn no faster than the stream sends, which leaves the graphics card more room for the stream.
• Go Live says in one line what is holding the stream back (the network, the graphics card or AtmoDeck itself), with the figures underneath and a Copy button.
• If the connection really cannot carry the stream (measured at its limit for 10 seconds, so not a moment’s hold-up when a show switches), the stream lowers its own bit rate without disconnecting and raises it again after half a minute without trouble. It can be switched off on Go Live.
• While live, the Console and the Output draw no faster than the stream, which leaves more of the graphics card for the encoder.
• The stream health line shows what each destination is really sending, and counts only the destinations that use the upload.
• When a show switches maps or products, the still held on air while the next one loads no longer stops the rest of AtmoDeck to be made, and neither does reading a new National Blend file for the forecasts, so the stream’s frames keep moving.
• Each RTMP connection can now have more on its way at once, so a long or busy route to a service is less likely to slow that destination by itself.
• When data has been waiting to send for 10 seconds and less has gone out than the encoder made, Go Live says the network is not taking it, how much got out, and how to tell a limit the destinations share from one on the way to a single service. A short dip no longer triggers that line or lowers the bit rate.
• Each destination now shows the rate it has been sending lately, not its average since the stream started.

A Console that crashes comes back

• If the Console’s page crashes it now reloads itself about a second later, rather than staying a black window until AtmoDeck is restarted. If it keeps crashing, it asks before reloading again.

Rotation markers on the Output

• With Rotation on, the markers now show over every block of a Show, including one saved with them off, and the Rotation button works while a block is on air.

New: forecast videos that replace themselves

• A video step of a Show can follow one file: Add to show > Video > Keep up to date from a file, or Choose file in the step’s card. Record a new forecast, save it over that file under the same name (a Dropbox folder works), and the step plays the new one, in the same spot in the show. The row says when it was last updated, and the last good copy keeps playing if the file is gone or will not play.

New: commercials in a Show

• Add to show > Video > Choose commercials adds your 15 or 30 second spots as steps, or tick Commercial in a video step’s card. Each play and its time on air go in the sponsor report (Content > Content Widgets), with its CSV and PDF. Presented by credits a sponsor, with no logo over the commercial.

Legend text size

• Map appearance > Header and legend > Color legend has a text size slider (60% to 200%) for the legend’s words.

Long map header titles fit instead of ending in …

• A title too long for the header is made smaller until it fits on one line, however long it is, and fitted again when the time beside it grows or the fonts finish loading.

Stream out shows the lighter way into OBS

• For OBS on the same computer, the Stream out panel now says to use a Window Capture of AtmoDeck Output and an Application Audio Capture of AtmoDeck, with the steps. It is sharper, has sound without a virtual audio cable and uses far less of the computer. The output stream stays for vMix, other computers and web-page monitors.

The map header gives its title more room

• The time and date side of the header took up to 42% of it even when the time needed less, so long slide names were cut off. It now takes only the room its text needs, at most a third of the header (more with a bigger Clock size), and the title gets the rest.

A camera overlay keeps this computer’s camera through a sync

• A teammate who picked their own camera for a camera overlay and synced back made this computer look for that camera, and the box went black on the air. Each computer now keeps the camera it picked for each overlay; the sync no longer changes it.

A block’s color legend shows while you edit it

• Choosing On or Off in this block under Color legend now shows on the Console’s map while the block is open, as the Output will play it; after Save changes, Map Studio goes back to its own legend and the block keeps its choice.

A Show in its own box fills the box

• A Show placed in a box of its own (Look > Layout & Widgets) left room on the right for the sidebar, so the Almanac and the cards stopped short of the box’s edge; they now fill the box.

Wind gusts in a show read the right numbers

• A wind gust map that came after a temperature map in a show had the temperatures written over the cities as miles per hour (60s and 70s); the values are now read only from the block’s own map, as they were when the block was loaded on its own.

The threat box shows the whole warning

• The Situation Overview or Anticipated Impacts in the Active Threats box was cut off after 200 letters or five lines and sat in the middle with empty space above and below; it now fills the rest of the box and shows every word, its type sized to fit. A warning too long to fit even in small type scrolls up slowly instead, and its page stays up until the last line has been seen.

The Almanac fills the slide area

• The Almanac was a smaller box of its own size in the middle of the slide area; it now fills the same area as the 7-day cards, wherever the Show is placed in the look.

Webcams change over without a black gap

• A live stream was put up as soon as its playlist was read, a few seconds before its first picture came, so the camera box and the Output went black in between (longer on a slower connection). The camera before now stays up until the next one’s first picture.

The color legend on or off by block

• Save block has a Color legend choice: as the map is, or on or off in that block alone, so one block can show the legend while the next plays without it.

A camera overlay sent by the team sync shows on the other computer

• A computer camera or capture card added in Look > Layout & Widgets was kept by this computer’s own id for it, so on a teammate’s computer the box stayed black. Each computer now finds the camera of the same name, and the Console says when a camera is not on this computer.

Saved show schedules stay saved

• A schedule saved on the Show page while Map Studio was in Explore went only to the preview, so it was gone after a restart or a send to the Output; it is now saved at once, and a teammate’s change to the map no longer takes it away.

In Live mode the Console plays the loop with the Output

• With the map in Live mode the Output keeps the time and the Console follows it, so the radar picture on the Console is the one on the air at that moment; after a hitch on the Console (a menu, a pan) it jumps back in step, and the air keeps its even pace.

Radar loops play evenly on the Output

• The Output plays the loop at its own even pace and only runs a touch slower or faster, or holds the newest scan a moment longer or shorter, to stay with the Console. It had copied every hitch on the Console (a menu, a pan, a layer being made), so the loop on the air kept stopping and starting.

Hail is no longer read as tornado debris

• A hail core lowers the correlation, and the three-body scatter spike behind it is low correlation too, so both could be marked as a tornado debris signature (TDS). Echoes 60 dBZ and up that still correlate, and anything in or within 12 km behind a 63 dBZ core along the beam, are left out of the TDS layer and of the rotation markers’ debris and correlation-drop checks.

A broad circulation is a mesocyclone, not a tornado signature

• A rotation wider than 3.5 km (or than 2.2 beam widths far from the radar) is marked as a mesocyclone unless there is real debris under it. A 5 km circulation 108 km out had been marked as a tornado signature from its hook and a hail core’s correlation drop.

The Hail growth card uses the warning’s hail size

• The card works out the hail the air around the storm can grow, and a supercell grows far more. Where a Weather Service warning over the spot gives a bigger hail size, the card says that size at the ground and names the warning.

The play bar: End pause works, and Smooth on a single radar

• End pause (how long the newest picture stays before the loop starts over) did nothing: the setting was dropped each time the settings were saved, and so were a set time on each frame, Through time and the Timeline choice. They are all kept now.
• Smooth is no longer greyed out on a radar product with its smoothing off, such as one radar’s Level 2 reflectivity. Ticked, the loop blends from scan to scan and the picture itself stays as sharp as it is; left off, it steps from scan to scan as before.

Up to 100 webcams

• The Webcams page lets you add up to 100 cameras (it was 30).

A radar picked to add is put on as the main map

• In the Weather products window, Add product layers showed a dead Main map only button on a radar (a radar is the main picture, not a layer over it). It is Use as main map now, and puts it on the map.

Pin the scope

• The Scope menu can pin the scope where it is (or press O with the mouse on the spot): it stays there when the mouse moves off the map, so the Export menu’s screenshot keeps it, and the Output shows it too. Unpin it the same way, or switch the scope off.

Temperature against normal follows today’s high

• From 10 in the morning the graphic shows each climate site’s high so far today (its weather station’s warmest reading since midnight) against today’s normal high, so it matches the temperature you see now. Made again later in the day, it is asked again each hour and the highs climb through the afternoon; the subtitle says highs so far, as of the time. Before 10 in the morning it shows the last finished day’s climate reports, as before.

Bigger numbers on the social graphics

• The numbers on a social graphic’s map (a town’s departure from normal, a rain total, a temperature) are drawn nearly twice as big and bolder, with a thicker dark edge, and the number at the start of each row of the list is bigger too.

Storm reports at their time is kept

• The storm reports’ At their time box (each report appears as the loop reaches it) went back on each time the settings were saved. It stays as you leave it now.

Storm tracks: a product of their own, black over the reflectivity

• Storm ingredients has a new product for the HRRR and the other models with 2 to 5 km updraft helicity: Storm tracks (updraft helicity over 75). Where a rotating storm passed in the hour, it is shaded a see-through black with a black outline.
• Picked from the product list, it goes over the same model’s simulated reflectivity, which becomes the main layer. The Storm tracks box on a reflectivity layer adds the same thing (it was a gray line before), and the legend shows it as one chip, Rotating storm passed.

A product renamed in one block stays in that block

• Renaming a product (Header settings > Rename a product) while a block is open renames it in that block only. Before, a block saved before any rename followed the live map’s names, so two blocks of the same product, such as 30-day and year-to-date rainfall from Stage IV, both took the new name.
• Every other block keeps the names it shows at that moment.

A Day setting on a model’s highs and lows

• A model’s daily high and low temperature layer has a Day select in the layers panel, as the measured highs and lows have: every day (the week as a loop), today, tomorrow or a day of the week ahead. The day is counted from today, so a saved scene, show block or still of tomorrow’s highs shows tomorrow’s highs whenever it is played. Before, a saved map kept no day and showed whichever day the slider was on.
• If a model’s runs do not reach the day yet, the layer says so instead of showing another day.

Webcams you put in place of the stock ones stay

• Webcams with no small line above the name (a state’s road cameras found on the Webcams page) were dropped by a team’s sync or a settings push, and the stock Missouri cameras came back in their place. They are kept now.
• Taking every webcam off on one computer now holds when a teammate still has the stock ones.

More severe weather maps for every model that has them

• New: the 0 to 1 km energy-helicity index, the 0 to 3 km lapse rate (alone, and only where the surface CAPE is over 500 J/kg), and an estimated cloud base height from the dew point spread for the models that give none of their own.
• Updraft helicity (2 to 5 km) as the strongest of the last 3 hours and the strongest since the run began: the storm tracks of a whole run on one map.
• Over a model’s simulated reflectivity, a Storm tracks box in the layer outlines in gray where the updraft helicity passed 75. It is an ordinary layer of its own, so its line can be restyled or taken off.
• A model layer has a Product list in the layers panel: pick another field of the same model there without going back to the menu.

A timeline for every explain card

• Each explain card (storm ingredients, hail, lightning, fog, frost, heat, snow, the river and the others) has a Timeline button. It draws the card’s answer hour by hour for that spot: a colored strip of when conditions are what, the card’s main numbers as lines, the worst hour and a line for now. A model card reads the same model again at up to nine of its hours over the next day; the Blend cards use their own hours, and the river its readings and forecast against the flood stages.
• ◀ Card goes back to the card. The timeline shows on the Output too, and Save loop records it like a card.

Hatch boxes in the outlook legend

• The intensity levels of the tornado, wind and hail outlooks show a box of their hatch in the legend (dashed, solid the other way, crossing), as the Storm Prediction Center’s own legend does, instead of words describing it.

Fixed: the Output went black while a show’s loop loaded

• A show’s radar loop (the national one, a state one) kept the Output black behind a dip to black for some 20 seconds. The loop is up in a second or two now, and while a block, a camera or a graphic loads the picture on the air stays up: the curtain only covers the change.

The satellite picture under the Real 3D clouds

• The Real 3D satellite look has "Flat picture on the ground underneath", next to Lowest cloud top raised: what is not raised shows the flat satellite picture instead of the map. On the Output too.

Undo on every line of the Sync log

• Every change the Sync log lists (received, sent, and an Undo itself) can be undone with its Undo button, for the last 40 changes, the pages' own settings too. Before, only the last ten received changes could be, and a big one such as a list of blocks pushed the others out. The sounds and photos that came stay: delete one under Content.

Syncing never takes a block away

• The team's blocks are added to the ones on this computer, whatever is chosen, "Use the team's" too: a block is gone only when it is deleted.

Up to 300 saved blocks

• Map Studio keeps up to 300 blocks (it was 60).

Pick the satellite, then the product

• The Satellite tab of Weather products now starts with a Satellite list and a View list (full disk, CONUS, a mesoscale sector and so on), then shows only the products of that view, grouped as before. Show satellite puts the product up from the satellite and view you picked. It opens on the satellite on the map; searching still looks through every product.

Saved blocks and show plans are combined across the team

• With "Also keep saved items the same on every computer" on, the blocks, show plans, map cues, map slides and layer sets of the team's computers are put together, item by item. Before, the newer list took the other's place, so blocks saved on one computer could go missing on it when a teammate changed theirs. An item deleted on one computer comes back while another still has it; delete it on both.

Webcams reach the whole team

• The webcams are now their own part of the team sync, apart from the area, counties and cities. The webcams of every computer on the team are put together by their links, so a camera added on one computer shows on the others, and the cameras AtmoDeck starts with give way to the ones a teammate added. Before, a teammate could keep the starting Joplin cameras and never get yours.

Fixed: 3D satellite loops froze the app

• A satellite loop in 3D (Terrain, Columns, Real clouds) no longer freezes the map while it loads: the clouds' heights are now worked out in the background, not on the page, and the map keeps moving smoothly.
• A 3D loop also keeps to the graphics memory a flat one does (its heights were not counted, so it held three times as much), and the 3D clouds are drawn again only when the picture or the view changes.

Fixed: older backups could not be restored

• Keys & Backup › Backup & Restore now lists every backup it keeps, by day, not only the newest 12 (Sync makes a copy before each change it takes, so a busy day pushed the day before off the list). Restore from a file now opens the gzipped copies in the backups folder too, and starts in that folder.

A late feed no longer covers the map

• In the Console, a feed that is late or stale (the radar, satellite or warnings) is now a small chip at the end of the line under the play bar, with its Recover button, instead of a strip across the top of the map. The whole message is in its tooltip.

Fixed: the ocean layer and city lights blinking

• With the layers arranged in your own order, the ocean layer and the city lights could flicker on and off many times a second. The map kept putting the layers back in order, and the warning fills and the night shading, which lie over the sea, kept moving them out of it. The layers now settle once and stay.

Fixed: shows could not be renamed

• Manage › Rename on the Show page now opens a box for the new name. It did nothing before, and neither did Save as template, deleting a template, or renaming and moving an item in the Team bucket. They all use the same box now.

Google DeepMind's WeatherNext 3 on the map

• WeatherNext 3, Google DeepMind's AI ensemble for the whole world, is in the AI models of Forecast models: a run every hour, out 15 days from the 00, 06, 12 and 18 UTC runs and 2 days from the others.
• Each field comes as the ensemble's mean and its low end to high end (10th to 90th percentiles), on its own 10 km grid: temperature, dew point, wind at 10 and 100 m, pressure, the last hour's rain, total, low, middle and high cloud, sunshine and direct sunlight, and the sea surface temperature. Temperature and dew point also come tuned to weather stations at 5 km, and rain tuned to satellite rain.
• Every hour to the end of the run; rain added up over 3, 6, 12 and 24 hours and the whole run; relative humidity, feels like and an estimated cloud base worked out from it; and for a field with percentiles, the spread of the ensemble and the chance of going over a value you type (read off the percentiles: an estimate).
• No account of your own is needed: AtmoDeck reads it for your license through its own server. It is an experimental forecast, not an official warning.

Music and sounds reach your whole team

• Music, sounds and photos added on one computer now arrive on every teammate's computer even when there are many or they are large: the team's list of files is combined, so a computer still fetching files no longer sends a half list over the team's, and pieces the team server asks to slow down are sent again rather than lost.
• A file over 100 MB cannot travel through the team server; Sync says so, so you can copy it to the other computer yourself.

Adding a block to a show no longer copies it

• With a saved block open on the map (picked in the Library, or its Edit button), Export › To the show now adds that block itself, with your changes saved, instead of saving a second copy of it in your blocks.

Snow, sleet or rain works like the other cards

• Snow, sleet or rain here is now drawn on the same card as the other Explain the weather here cards: Source, Valid, Play again and Save loop (MP4 or GIF) in the bar under it, your logo, the little map in the answer panel and the Output in Live mode.
• It also works Over a box, where the worst spot is the one with the most dangerous precipitation, freezing rain first.

Pick the time on a forecast card

• An Explain the weather here card read from a forecast model now has Valid in the bar under it: pick any hour of that model run and the card is read again for the same spot or box at that time, while the map stays where it is.
• The fog, frost, heat and snow cards pick the hour the National Blend of Models' hours start from. Cards from the SPC's latest analysis and river gauges have no time to pick, and the picker stays off the Output.

Pick the hour of a model sounding

• A sounding from a forecast model now has its time under the picture: pick any hour of the model run, or step with the ◀ and ▶ buttons, and the sounding is read for that hour at the same spot. Map time goes back to the map's own time.
• The ◀ and ▶ buttons are also next to Valid under the Explain the weather here cards and in the Box sounding panel.

Soundings and cards read the model on the map

• With a forecast model on the map, the sounding, Create a sounding here on the right-click menu, the Box sounding and the Explain the weather here cards read that model at the map's time. Step the map to another hour, or put another model on it, and an open sounding follows.

RAP hodographs are right

• A sounding or rotation card read from the RAP showed the wind as a straight line on the hodograph. It now shows the RAP's real winds at each height.

Box sounding

• The area sounding in the Soundings button's dropdown is now the Box sounding: drag a box over the map and the model's columns over it, 49 spots, are averaged into one profile.
• Its panel has the model and a Valid time from that model's latest run, starting at the map's time, and Draw another box starts over.

A model layer's model and run in Active layers

• A model layer's settings in Active layers, the main one and every added one, now start with Model, which switches the layer to the same field from another model, and Model run: Latest run, Latest full run or one of the last runs.

Titles fit on one line

• A map header title, or the line under its time, that is too long for the header now gets smaller until it fits on its one line instead of going on to a second line.

Webcams save as you add them

• A webcam added, changed or removed on the Cameras page is kept at once and goes to your team straight away, without pressing Apply changes; webcams a teammate adds appear on your Cameras page while it is open.

Save just the card's loop

• Save loop, under an Explain the weather here card, saves the card alone as an MP4 or a GIF: its animation once from the start, held still for two seconds at the end, with the Powered by AtmoDeck badge under it, in Pictures\AtmoDeck.
• The GIF loops forever and is 800 pixels wide; the choice of MP4 or GIF is remembered.

The card names the nearest town

• A card for a spot in the mountains, the desert or the open plains now names a town, such as 40 mi E of Mayhill, NM, instead of showing its coordinates; the town is looked for up to about 250 miles away, so only open water far from land shows coordinates.

Your logo on the card

• Explain the weather here cards now carry your logo at the top right: the map header's own logo when you gave it one, otherwise your station logo from Look > Logos, even with the header's logo switched off. It is on the card on the map, on the Output, in Save loop and in Clip of the card.

A box is named by its area

• A card over a box now names the area, such as Southeast Iowa, or Southeast Iowa and western Illinois when it spans two states, or just Iowa when it holds most of the state. Worst or average of 9 spots goes on the line beside it, with the town of the worst spot when it fits.

A map on the card

• The bottom of The Answer panel on an Explain the weather here card now shows a little map of the spot, marked with a dot, or of the box you dragged, outlined, with the state and county lines and the worst spot marked. It is on the Output, in Save loop and in Clip of the card.
• Where no map can be drawn, such as a spot out at sea, the panel shows the explanation as before.

AtmoCast reads the storm hours, and is titled by date

• For Days 2 to 9 the tornado outlook now reads each forecast model at 18, 00 and 06 UTC (1 pm, 7 pm and 1 am Central), the hours storms form, instead of at 7 pm alone; on the 15 months since August 2025, which it was not fitted on, this beat the old outlook on every one of those days.
• The header, the card and the Day list now name the date (AtmoCast Mon, Nov 2) instead of the day number.

Eight more cards in Explain the weather here

• Gusts: how deep the air mixes during the day and how much of the wind above it can bring down to the ground.
• Flash flooding: the water in the air, how slowly storms move and whether they keep forming over the same place, and the rain that fell against the flash flood guidance.
• Rotation: the hodograph and helicity, the spin the wind feeds into a storm (the Full edition adds the significant tornado parameter).
• Snow quality: whether the snow will be fluffy or wet and heavy, and why.
• Fire weather: humidity, wind, how high the air mixes and where smoke would go.
• Frost or freeze: tonight’s low hour by hour, and whether it means frost, a freeze or a hard freeze.
• Heat stress: the heat index hour by hour, with the National Weather Service’s categories.
• River flood: the nearest river gauge, its last three days and forecast crest against its flood stages.

Storm day

• At the bottom of the Explain the weather here menu, Storm day plays the storm, hail, lightning and downburst cards one after another for the spot, and shows each on the Output; Esc stops it.

Cards over a box

• At the top of the Explain the weather here menu, Over a box lets you drag a box on the map instead of using one spot. Nine spots in the box are read, and the card shows the worst of them (by its own answer, then its main number) or the typical air (the columns averaged). The bar under the card switches between the two.
• The river card over a box shows the gauge that is highest against its flood stages, now or in its forecast.

Clip of the card

• In the Export menu, Clip of the card plays the card on the map (or the whole Storm day) from the start and records it as an MP4 for social media, upright, square or wide, with the question, the place, the answer and the Powered by badge. It is saved in Pictures\AtmoDeck and Social Posting opens with it attached.

Storm ingredients card: no cap where the air never rises

• Where air lifted from near the ground never rises on its own, the cap (CIN) now reads none instead of a huge number added up through the whole sky.

A smoother map on a large setup

• With many slides, shows and blocks, the map no longer stops for a moment every 2 seconds: the Console kept the Map Studio preview with all of its undo steps, each a whole copy of the setup, and wrote it out again and again.
• A change in the Map Studio preview (a slider, a color, a setting) is about a hundred times quicker on a large setup, and so is undo.
• The warning that the Output is slowing no longer counts the first two minutes, while it loads.

Explain the weather here

• Right-click a spot on the map for Explain the weather here, a menu of animated cards for that spot, each saying in plain words what the air there will do and why: Snow, sleet or rain here (below), Storm ingredients (moisture, instability, the cap and the wind shear, and whether storms can form and organise), Hail growth (the updraft lifting stones through the growth zone between -10 and -30 °C and how much they melt on the way down), Lightning (charge built where ice and water mix in the cloud), Downbursts (rain cooling the dry air under the cloud and the gusts it can bring down, from DCAPE), Fog (when it forms tonight, how thick it gets and when it burns off, from the National Blend of Models) and Lake-effect snow (cold air over the open Great Lakes, the fetch and where the bands set up).
• Like Snow, sleet or rain, the cards have a Source picker underneath: Auto reads the SPC's current mesoanalysis on the latest hour in the United States for the storm, hail, lightning and downburst cards, and the model on the map otherwise (and for fog's depth and lake-effect snow); pick the mesoanalysis or any one model instead, and the pick is kept. No made-up percentages: each card says which numbers and which method it used.
• Every card shows on the Output too, without the Source picker; Esc or Clear all takes it off. Free open data only.

Snow, sleet or rain here

• Right-click a spot on the map and pick Explain the weather here, then Snow, sleet or rain here: a card shows snowflakes falling through the air at that spot, melting where it is above freezing and refreezing in the cold air under it, beside the temperature by height, and says what it lands as (snow, rain, sleet, freezing rain or a mix) and why, with the melting and refreezing energies against the thresholds of the energy-area method (Bourgouin 2000).
• By default it reads the SPC's current mesoanalysis on the latest hour in the United States, and the model on the map on a forecast or archive frame; the Source picker under the card picks the mesoanalysis or any one model (HRRR, RAP, NAM 3 km, GFS or IFS), and is remembered. The Output shows the same card; Esc or Clear all takes it off.

A clearer map speed test

• When the map stalls between frames, Health > Performance > Test map speed now says where the time went (scripts, by name; drawing and the hand-off to the screen; or waiting), how busy the shared graphics process, the Console and the Output were, which graphics chips the computer has and which one is in use, and how much memory is free, and its last line names the cause with what to try.

Snow and ice chances

• Winter > Snow and ice chances (WPC): the chance of at least an amount of snow or freezing rain over the next three days, or its low, middle and high-end amounts; click an area for its range and times.
• Snow ratio (National Blend of Models, under Snow and ice in Models): how many inches of snow an inch of melted precipitation would make.

Map speed test

• Health > Performance > Test map speed now names the processor, times the program’s own work on each frame and its stalls, says when the window was hidden, and ends with one line on what holds the map back.

A faster map on slower computers

• The moving weather icons and the frosted panels of the Output take far less of the graphics work every window shares, so the map is no longer held back by them (the icons move the same).

Fixed

• In Archive mode the satellite and the overlays cover the whole map, over land and sea.
• When a security program has quarantined the updater, Version & updates says so and how to restore it, instead of “Can not find Squirrel”.

Hurricanes in Archive mode

• A Hurricanes menu in Archive mode opens any storm back to 1851 by year and basin, at its peak or a landfall.
• It plays on the nearest radar that was scanning, with the track, the NHC cone and coastal warnings (from 2008), inland tropical warnings (from 2005) and the satellite of the time.
• Storms before 1991 play on a clock of their own without radar, and the radars from 1991 to 2008 now open too.

New on the map

• Wind power density and a generic turbine’s output at 80 m (under Wind), and contrails at cruising altitude (under Upper air), for every model with the fields.
• Right-click a spot, Air trajectories: where the air at 850, 700 and 500 mb goes over the next 48 hours, or came from over the past 48 (GFS).
• Wind profilers (NOAA) under Fronts, air and aviation: the measured wind at a chosen height, and a click for its last 12 hours.
• Ocean currents from NOAA’s global ocean model.

The MJO and the big patterns

• Graphics > Climate outlooks has the MJO on its phase diagram, and the AO, NAO, PNA and AAO with their last 15 days and the GEFS outlook for the next 15.

Teams

• Saved map styles and saved views from two computers are now combined: a teammate’s new style shows up even when you have styles of your own.

A faster, smoother map

• The Output and the Console no longer redraw while the map stands still, and the radar caches are trimmed in the background.
• Hide place names while I move the map (Health > Performance) fades names, icons and values while you pan, and Test map speed shows where the time goes.
• Blocks keep their own layer names, and AtmoCast’s header says which product is on.

Viewer photos

• Make the link in Storm reports > Viewer photos: viewers open your station’s page (with your logo) from its QR code and send their weather photos.
• Approve or reject each one in Storm reports, the Viewer photos layer’s settings or On Air; approved photos with a place are pinned on the map.
• Click a pin, or Open in the list, for its box: drag it, make it bigger by its corner, close it with its ×. Full screen on air puts a photo on the Output.
• On a team, the photos are in the team’s folder on the AtmoDeck server, and every member sees them live.
• The link is on photos.atmodeck.com, or your own web address with the embed code. Save QR code, and Post picture or Story picture saves a social media picture asking for photos, with your logo, colors and QR code.

Ice accumulation

• The Ice accumulation product shows the day’s ice from freezing rain, and the Ice Accumulation List slide ranks your cities by it.

Base map panel in tabs

• Its sections sit in five tabs: Style, Ground, Roads, Lines and Names. It remembers the tab, and the find box opens the tab a setting is on.

Earth & Quakes

• A tsunami’s travel time is drawn as sharp lines that stay crisp however far you zoom in.
• Flyover, and the video export, zooms in on the chosen quake from where you are and slowly circles it.

Fixed

• On a team, a teammate panning or zooming the map no longer takes away your saved map styles and saved views.

Space Weather and Earth & Quakes on the Output

• Both pages have Send to output, Explore / Live and Output on / off in their top bars; the Output shows the page full screen, a quake’s card as its only box. Sending the map, or turning the map’s Output on, takes the page off.

Saved map styles

• Under Save style, a My styles row holds a button for each saved style; a click puts it on the map.
• Styles are their own type in the Library (Map styles), with Apply, All blocks, Update and Organize.

One map position for the blocks

• Each block has a Position button (where the map looks now) and a Viewpoint picker for a saved view; Give every block this map position, or a saved viewpoint, does it for all of them, and the Slides menu does the same for slides.
• Opening another block while one is being edited saves the changes first.

A new app icon

• The rainbow A in radar rings with a teal sweep, on deep navy, in the window, taskbar, installer and on the website.

Earth & Quakes

• A new page in Weather, after Space Weather: the Earth in 3D on Map Studio’s own globe, with the quakes at their depths over the subducting slabs, a block view, a cross-section along any line and a flyover to export.
• A quake’s card has its ShakeMap, Did You Feel It?, PAGER and the USGS aftershock forecast; right-click the globe to survey an area (its quakes now and since 1900, the nearest fault and plate boundary, the rock there). Layers add the geologic map, volcanoes and ash, and the DART tsunami buoys.

The Webcams page

• Every camera AtmoDeck finds by itself on one map: state DOT and 511 cameras across the US and Canada, the National Park Service’s webcams, USGS river cameras and Creative Commons YouTube live streams (now in the US Virgin Islands too).
• Live video and Picture in the key turn each kind on and off; a camera can be added to your webcams or shown live on the Output, its title and place in the top left.

Wind streaks through the storm in 3D

• The 3D radar draws the storm’s wind as streaks read from the radar’s own velocity, no model: ribbons that climb in the updrafts (orange-gold) and sink in the downdrafts (blue).
• Color them by the way the wind blows, and set how much stronger the rising and sinking are drawn, and the streaks’ length, opacity and number.

3D radar runs smoothly

• Turning, tilting and panning the 3D radar no longer skips and lags, and a decoder put away no longer fails the next 3D build (“The radar decoder stopped”).

The Weather Map

• An Output on / off button beside Send to output takes the map off the broadcast and puts the last sent map back.
• Export of a video works in Explore, and says so when the Output has no map.
• The header’s time box shows the day, not the clock, on a forecast of days; Time shows (Automatic, The clock, The day and date) sets it for each block.
• A saved map style is a theme for every block: under Color theme, on all blocks at once, and what a block changes of it stays with that block.
• Map Studio panels load in half the time.

A more helpful guide

• Help (F1) and the website’s guide start with Find it fast, a chapter of everyday tasks with a link to each, and search every word of the guide, not only the headings.
• Long sections keep their first part open and fold the rest under More detail, which opens by itself when what you searched for is inside.

Live or Explore on the Weather Map

• A Live / Explore switch sits beside the map’s modes: in Live, what you do on the Console’s map shows on the Output as it happens, with ON AIR and a red ring round the map.
• Explore keeps the preview with Send to output and Reset, and the switch reopens as you left it.

Blank slide templates

• Six empty layouts on your station’s background (Header only, Title and words, Picture and words, Two columns, Three numbers, Full picture with a band) to fill with your own words, pictures and colors.
• Pick them in Slides > Builder’s New slide or in the Show picker’s Slides, which also lists your own templates; each fills the Show space of your layout like the built-in slides.

The slides’ content and background in boxes of their own

• Look > Layout & Widgets has Pick where content of slides goes and Pick where background of slides goes, each opening Edit Mode with that box picked.
• The background can Fill its box or be Cropped to show the whole picture with black behind; until it is placed it sits where the Show is.

The aurora is a smooth band on the flat Space Weather map

• It was drawn in stripes toward the poles on the flat map; the globe is unchanged.

A Moon view and a header on every Space Weather view

• The Moon view has NASA’s picture of the Moon for the hour, how much is lit, its age and distance, moonrise and moonset here, the next phases and a month’s calendar.
• Every view has a header with its title, the time and source of what is shown, its legend and the Powered by AtmoDeck badge.

A timeline and a Space layers panel on the Space Weather map

• The map has a play bar like Map Studio’s: a day back, ahead as far as a forecast goes, play and Now.
• Its layers are in a Space layers panel on the right, each with its eye, its settings and an x to take it off; the USGS magnetometers and WAM-IPE’s forecast are new layers.
• The Sun view also has SDO, SOHO and STEREO-A pictures from Helioviewer, and Now has GFZ Potsdam’s Hp30 index.

Export any Space Weather view as a photo, a video or a GIF

• Export in the header saves a photo, or a video or GIF with Map Studio’s options: where it starts and stops, the speed, how many times it plays and the pause on the last picture.
• The map plays through its timeline, the solar system through its two years, and the Sun and the Earth turn round.

Storm tracks draw again

• The track lines, cone and dots were hairlines when the map was set up while another page was shown; they are drawn at their full size now.

Space Weather has its own page

• Under Weather in the side bar (Full edition): the scales, Kp, solar wind and X-rays along the top, and four views, the solar system, the Sun, the Earth and the map.
• Click anything for a card of what is there: a planet, a sunspot region, a place on the globe, a satellite.
• In the Map view the toolbar and settings are only the space weather ones: Flat or Globe, the six space layers and a settings panel for each layer that is on.
• Every SWPC product is on the side: a card for each reading, the pictures and movies, the text forecasts and the alerts.

Space weather on the map

• The Space Weather page's Map view has the space layers only (Map Studio no longer has them): the aurora forecast, HF radio absorption, the ionosphere, the geoelectric field, the GOES satellites with the Sun and the Moon, and the ICAO advisories.
• Each has a card when it is clicked; a click on the aurora gives the chance there and the Kp now.

The Earth from the satellites

• The Space Weather page's Earth view is a live picture of the whole world: the GeoColor full disks of GOES-19, GOES-18, Himawari, Meteosat-12 and Meteosat-9, laid together, with city lights at night.
• Fetched again every ten minutes; the aurora, HF absorption and the rest are drawn over it.

Asteroids, comets and dwarf planets

• The solar system has Ceres, Pluto, Vesta, Bennu, Halley, 3I/ATLAS and more from JPL, and the asteroids passing nearest the Earth in the next 60 days.
• Zoom to any planet or body (or double-click it); its card says what it is, how big it is and how far away.
• A search box finds anything in JPL's Small-Body Database by name, number or designation and keeps it in the view.

Open any space weather panel large

• Click a card, a picture, a text or an alert to look at it large, with a header and the Powered by AtmoDeck badge.
• Export it as a photo, and an animated picture as a video or a GIF.

The Sun (EUV) popup has a 3D tab

• Today’s SUVI picture laid on a globe you drag to turn; double-click goes back to the Earth’s view.
• The numbered sunspot regions are marked with their C, M and X flare chances, and the week’s flares are dots by class around the region they came from.
• The far side, which the Earth cannot see, is grey and striped.

Outlooks: the fill and the outline each switch off

• In an outlook’s menu (SPC, WPC, fire, winter, HeatRisk), How it looks has a Fill switch and an Outline switch, so an outlook can be only lines or only shading.
• The fill opacity goes up to 100%.
• The CPC hazards outlook is drawn as shapes in CPC’s own colors, with the same Fill and Outline switches, a fill opacity and an outline width.

AtmoCast covers the West

• AtmoCast now covers the lower 48 states, Arizona, New Mexico and the West included: it stopped at the east of the Rockies, so a day of storms in Arizona showed only their edge in New Mexico.
• Its tornado, hail, wind and flash flood models were fitted again over the whole country and tested on the months since August 2025; the East is forecast as well as before.

A blank canvas in the Slide Builder

• The template Blank canvas puts words, boxes, circles, lines, weather icons and pictures anywhere on a slide, in any colors or gradients.
• Drag a thing to move it and its handles to size it; the boxes under the slide set its font, border, corners, shadow, turn and see-through.
• Words like {temp}, {hi1} and {day1} fill in with the city’s forecast each time the slide plays.

Ready-made pieces on the blank canvas

• Ready-made, next to Add, puts in any part of the usual slides in your slides’ colors and font: the station’s header, one, three or seven forecast days, high and low, a message box, current conditions, the Right Now panel, a list row or a list of ten, the intro band and your logo.
• A piece moves and sizes as one; its panel sets the day it shows, its font and its colors, and Take apart separates it. Click it again to change one part alone.
• The station’s header now shows in the editor, named for the slide when it has no title of its own, instead of a thin empty bar on air.

Colors, templates and live backgrounds on the blank canvas

• Every thing on the canvas, words, icons and pictures included, has a fill, a gradient and a border; Copy colors and Paste colors (Ctrl+Shift+C, Ctrl+Shift+V) move colors from one thing or piece to another.
• Save the thing chosen or the whole slide as your own template, then put it on a slide, make a new slide of it, download it as a file, load it on another computer or delete it. Your templates are in Ready-made too.
• A slide’s background can be one of the station’s photos or a live camera from Content › Webcams; Put its name on, or {cam} in any words, shows the camera’s name. A downloaded picture of the slide has a snapshot of the camera at that moment.

Any Google font, words that fill their box, and a color dropper

• The Font box of words on the blank canvas takes any Google Fonts family: pick one from the list or type its name. It shows on air and in a downloaded picture.
• Size a text box by a corner or side and its words grow or shrink to fill it.
• Every color box in AtmoDeck has a dropper: click it, then click anywhere on the screen, a slide, a camera or a photo, to take that color.

Forecast days and slide pictures

• A forecast slide shows each date once, so a 3-Day Forecast never repeats the same day.
• When the forecast comes from the NWS, each day’s high and low are that date’s own, even when the forecast starts with Tonight.
• A downloaded slide no longer has a dark strip down its right edge.

Slides of the Builder, by name and full size

• A slide you made in Slides › Builder shows its own name in a show plan, not a code like my:epepsopk.
• The team’s bucket has a Slides folder for them, and a show plan goes in with its slides.
• Download saves the slide at full size, 1920 by 1080, ready for social media; it was the small 480 by 270 preview.

Team chat shows its messages

• Messages in the team chat on the Dashboard now appear on every computer of the team, yours too; before, the chat stayed empty.
• A team that shows one person also says person, not people.

Saved items travel through the bucket

• Map cues, show plans, blocks, map slides, layer sets, looks, layouts and alert color presets are no longer kept in step, so a teammate’s list never goes over yours.
• Share them through the team’s bucket instead, one at a time.
• Two computers that must be alike, a main and a backup, can turn on Also keep saved items the same on every computer on the Team page.

The team’s bucket

• The Team page has a bucket for your team: map cues, show plans, blocks, map slides, looks, layouts and the rest, each kind in its own folder with a picture.
• What is put in stays on the AtmoDeck server until someone presses Take, so nothing changes on a computer by itself.
• A show goes in with its map slide and layout, and a show plan with its blocks.
• Each folder says in a line what its kind is, so a block (timed, for a show plan) is not taken for a map slide (a saved map) or a layer bundle.

One name for each thing you save

• Map cues set up a whole segment in one click: layers, views, a map slide and a layout (they were called Shows in Map Studio).
• Show plans are the run of show on the Show page, and blocks are the map as a timed step of one.
• Map slides are the map as a slide of the slideshow (once Map views or Saved maps), layer sets turn several products on together (once Layer bundles), and alert color presets switch the alert colors (once Alert bundles).
• Each kind says in a line what it is in the Saved menu, the Library, share packs and the team’s bucket. Nothing you saved moved.

Your setup on your AtmoDeck account

• Keys & Backup > Backup can keep a copy of your setup on the AtmoDeck account you sign in with, without your keys, passwords or logins, so a new computer gets it back by signing in.
• Each computer of the account keeps its newest copy and the one before it.

A watchdog that reaches your team

• The watchdog can say in the team chat each time it restarts or refreshes the output.
• A computer of the team can stand by for another: when that one drops off, it shows its own output in its place and says so.

Two, three and four maps at once, instantly

• Panel 1 is now the main map with all its tools, and the other panels are kept ready, so the 2, 3 and 4 buttons switch at once.
• The maps move together as you drag any of them, and step through time together.
• Sync between maps can now also share the product, the forecast hour, the overlays and playing the loops together.

Your team’s show plans arrive

• Show plans, blocks, map cues and map slides a teammate sends now appear on your Show page and in Map Studio at once, even if you had changed one of your own before.

The scope at a press of Ctrl

• On a Level II radar, hold Ctrl and the left mouse button over the map to see the scope under the mouse, even when it is off; let go and it goes away. A quick Ctrl-click still pins a warning’s box.

Rotation inside an observed tornado warning

• A rotation marker inside a tornado warning the Weather Service says is observed now gives the tornado chance as 100%, and its box says it is inside an observed tornado warning.

Lightning Safety

• A new widget counts down the 30-minute rule from the last flash near a town or a spot of your own, and says ALL CLEAR when the wait is over.

Storm reports and tornado paths on the loop

• On the live map each storm report of the day appears as the loop reaches the time it was made.
• Archive draws the Weather Service’s surveyed tornado paths (DAT survey tracks) along their lines as the loop goes, with their damage swaths once each is over.

Your built slides reach your teammates

• A team’s sync now carries the slides you built, their folders and the Event Forecast slide, so a show synced to another computer keeps its steps. Both computers need 2.7.12 or newer.

500 slides, in folders

• The Slide Builder keeps up to 500 slides (it was 40), and the Folder box beside a slide’s name puts it in a folder.
• Each folder folds shut under its own header, and Add the folder puts every slide of a folder at the end of the chosen show.

A color for the LIVE CAM letters

• Look > Colors > Camera and music has a color for the LIVE CAM letters, so they can be black on a light badge.

The Show runs your slides

• The old slideshow is gone: add slides as steps of a show, and each step can have its own sponsor and its own background, a mood photo, a picture of your own or a live camera.
• Slides of many cities (Current Conditions, the Day Planner, the commutes and the top-ten lists) can have any towns you choose, in order.

Forecast slides read like the NWS

• Current conditions come from your NWS office’s own grid for this hour, and the forecast slides use the NWS’s own words for the sky and wind (Mostly Sunny, SSE 3 to 7 MPH).
• The slides’ hours and days follow this computer’s time zone, so they are right in Eastern, Mountain and Pacific time too.

Air Quality and the Almanac

• Air Quality shows the air quality, ozone and fine particles (PM2.5) for the slide’s city, each level in large words, and a card says No report where there is no reading, never a made-up number. Pollen is gone: there is no free U.S. pollen count.
• The Almanac is for the slide’s own city, and This date in history is gone.

Whole interstates on the map

• With Only interstates, every interstate you pick is drawn end to end, without gaps.

Your settings are back, and backups restore again

• After 2.7.8 and 2.7.9 the Weather Map could open with the default map in place of yours, and a restored backup was covered over the same way. Your saved settings were never lost: they show again on the first start of 2.7.10, and restoring a backup sticks.
• If you sent the default map to output while that happened, restore a backup from before the update in Setup > Backups.

Saved map styles can be picked again

• Color theme in the Base map panel lists My styles again: Save style keeps the style, and choosing one applies it. The Map appearance menu opens with the same picker.

The map header fits its title

• On a wide header the title shrinks to fit its row instead of being cut off, and stays centered in the header’s height.

Forecasts that match the NWS

• Today and the next three days come from your local NWS office’s own forecast (NDFD), with the National Blend of Models after that, in the 5-day, the conditions bar and the slides.

Your shows and map settings stay put

• Shows and Weather Map settings come back after a restart even when your logos and slides make the settings large, and the preview keeps changes you have not sent to output yet.

On-air fixes

• The play bar keeps its choices out in the open instead of in a Playback options menu.
• The 5-day forecast lets you pick its details and leave the state out of its title.
• The logo box in the bottom bar can have its own color or logo.
• The conditions bar is centered.
• DOT cameras can have a short on-air name, with the state line optional.
• Only interstates draws each picked route without gaps.
• The map header clock has its own size.

A simpler weather map with your existing colors

• Open on the weather map, find a city or radar, and browse radar, satellite and model products.
• Add products stays open while you build a stack of weather layers. Done opens their visibility, opacity and ordering controls. Settings sections have clearer backgrounds.

Explore privately, then send your map to output

• Map changes stay in a private preview until Send to output. Sending publishes a snapshot and immediately starts another private preview.

Quick buttons and team settings stay connected

• Quick-button definitions save independently of private weather changes. Incoming shared settings refresh the preview while preserving unpublished local edits.

A day of weather: highs, lows, peak wind and gusts, rain total and humidity

• Add product > Conditions & Observations has High temperature, Low temperature, Peak wind, Peak wind gust, Precipitation total, Lowest humidity and Highest humidity. Each layer’s settings have a Day: Yesterday, Today so far, Today (forecast), Tomorrow and the next five days by weekday.
• Yesterday and today so far are measured from the hourly analyses over each place’s own calendar day. Today (forecast) and later days are the Weather Service’s forecast (rain goes about three days ahead). Today is the date where the map is, so just past local midnight it is already the new day.
• A point value takes the place of the city under it instead of moving aside.

Plain product names in the header, and a Subtitle of your own

• Every product layer’s header title is its plain name (Temperature, Wind speed, Visible); the time, day and date are in the time box and the source (RTMA analysis, NWS forecast, HRRR, the satellite and its band) is in the line under the title. A name you type still wins.
• Header > Title and product names has a Subtitle box under Header title: what you type replaces the line under the title. Leave it empty for the automatic one.

Export to the show

• Export has To the show: pick the show, then As a slide (the map as it is, held 5 to 60 seconds) or As an animation (the loop, 1 to 5 times round). It is saved as a block and added as the show’s last step.

Slide Builder is its own page, and the Slideshow moves to Run

• The Build group has a Slide Builder page, where any of the slideshow’s 30 templates and the 108 graphics of the Graphics page become slides of your own: your own name, city, title and numbers, kept up to 40, and listed as My slide in every playlist and show. Preview, Download as a PNG and Add to the show are there.
• The slides page is now Slideshow (Play, Setup, Look) under Run, after Show. Voice and the Teleprompter are folds at the foot of the Show page.
• Slides wear Map Studio’s header (its colors, font, logo and alert look), and previews and exports show the full header. Forecast slides name their city under the title.

Show schedule: shows by the clock

• The Show page has a Schedule fold of up to 24 time slots, each a show, a time from and to, and the days it plays. With Play the shows by the clock on, each show starts when its slot begins and plays again from the top until the slot is over, then the next slot’s show comes on. A show started by hand is left alone until the next slot, and Auto-pilot stays out while a slot is on.

AtmoCast: hail, wind, significant severe weather, any severe weather and flash flooding

• AtmoCast’s new Hazard choice sets what its chance is of: a tornado (as before), large hail of 1 inch or more, damaging wind, significant severe weather (hail of 2 inches or more, wind of 75 mph or more or a tornado of EF2 or more), any severe weather, or a flash flood report. Each is the chance within 25 miles (40 km) of a place, Days 1 to 14 (flash flooding Days 1 to 5).
• The fill, lines, point readings, legend, header name, click card and the record in How far to trust it all follow the hazard chosen, and each hazard keeps its own record.
• Each was fitted on years of forecasts against the Storm Prediction Center’s reports (flash flooding: the Weather Service’s flash flood reports and the rain the GFS, NAM and GEFS forecast) and tested on the days since August 2025, which it was not fitted on: on Day 1 every one ranked places better than the time of year and place alone (0.96 to 0.98 against 0.84 to 0.87 for the four severe-weather hazards; 0.93 against 0.87 for flooding).
• The chances are small numbers and the top ones are less sure. From Day 9 they are little better than the usual for the time of year.

AtmoTor is now AtmoCast

• AtmoDeck’s own outlook is called AtmoCast, since it covers every kind of severe weather and not only tornadoes. Maps and slides saved with it open as before.

Storm sky: the storm as it looks

• Storm sky on the tool rail draws a storm in a box you drag over it: the clouds from the satellite, the rain, snow and hail falling from them from the radar, and the lightning lighting the clouds. Tilt the map to look at it from the side.
• The GOES cloud mask and measured cloud-top heights decide where the cloud is and how tall: towers over the storms, anvils, decks and cirrus, with overshooting tops over the deepest storms.
• The HRRR can add the cloud base, the layers and the up- and downdrafts, and the radar’s cores can glow through the cloud.
• With The sky follows the sun it is lit by the real sun and casts a shadow on the ground; at night the Moon and the towns’ lights light it. Old storms in Archive get their clouds and lightning from NOAA’s archive.

Models in 3D, with their wind

• With the HRRR or the GFS as the main product, 3D stands its forecast up: the clouds, ice, snow, rain and graupel at every level, as clouds or as what a radar would see.
• Wind streams in 3D draws the model’s wind round its clouds as light moving along it, colored by speed.

Real clouds in 3D

• 3D has a Real clouds look: the radar volume in white and grey cloud, lit by the real sun when the sky follows the sun.

Precipitation type in 3D

• With Precipitation type on, the 3D radar is drawn in the table of each type: by height from the HRRR’s temperatures (snow above the melting level, sleet or freezing rain under a warm nose), or by the type at the ground.
• A warm-season storm whose freezing level is over 2 km up is rain from top to bottom.

Map Studio panels: blank, one large and two small, a header each

• A new panel is blank and loads nothing until you put a product on it; a third layout has one large map and two small ones.
• Each panel has a header with what it shows (click it to choose the product, or its cross to empty it), drags on its own and fills its panel. One 3D and one cross section can be among the panels.

Saved map styles

• Color theme has My styles: Save style keeps the map’s look (base map, colors, roads, borders, names and fonts, ocean, imagery and grid) under a name to choose again, and the cross deletes it.

Rotation markers at the lowest rotation

• A rotation marker stands where the rotation is lowest: a circulation joins a lower one turning the same way within 5 km.

Graphics: Day 2 and Day 3 chances, and pictures that no longer sit on a blank map

• New SPC pictures: Day 2 tornado, wind and hail chances, and a Day 3 chance of severe weather (the Storm Prediction Center draws one chance for Day 3, not one for each threat).
• A picture that has nothing to do with the map (the Sun and its flares, space weather, the Moon, meteor showers, a safety tip, a scorecard) has its own graphic in the place of the blank map: the reading on a colored scale, the Moon as it looks tonight, a poster of the words, or the list as large cards.
• The big number’s card takes the color of what it says (a C-class flare is yellow, a 10% tornado chance the color of 10%), not one color for every picture.
• The picture list is grouped the same way everywhere (Storm Prediction Center first; Sun and space weather, Astronomy, Sky and satellite and Earth hazards each in one place) and the hatched areas of the outlooks are no longer read as a chance.

Alert sounds and notifications by type

• The Console’s alert box has a Sounds & notify button: four quick choices (Everything, Tornado · Severe · Flood, Warnings only, Notify with no sound) and a Sound and a Notify switch for each kind of alert, from tornado warnings to storm reports.
• Sound governs the box’s chime, the storm-report tone and the Output’s severe alarm; Notify governs the bell, the watched places’ alerts and the followed types on the Dashboard.

Warnings and watches settings made simpler

• The Alerts box’s Map settings and the Warnings row of Layers share four quick choices (Tornado · Severe · Flood, Warnings only, Watches only, Everything) and a warnings / watches grid. The choices only set the switches that were always there.
• A kind switched off now leaves the map at once, and flood and flash flood go together on every frame of a loop.

Public-safety alerts on the map

• Civil emergency, civil danger, evacuation, shelter in place, law enforcement, AMBER, blue alert, hazmat, nuclear and radiological products are drawn under Other warnings; a product with no polygon is drawn as the zones it names.

Solar flares and the Sun

• The Space Weather menu and the right-click menu turn on The Sun (EUV), a pop-up over the map with a tab for each SUVI wavelength and the thematic map, and a play button for the last hour. Drag its bar to move it, use the wheel to size it, double-click to put it back.
• New on the Graphics page: Solar flares (the GOES X-ray flux, flare class, radio blackout level and flares of the week) and The Sun right now.

Thirteen more Graphics pictures

• Aurora viewline, sunrise and sunset with the golden hour, the Moon and the dark nights, meteor showers and eclipses, GOES satellite and lightning pictures, HMS smoke, marine hazards, tsunami alerts, burn-scar and debris-flow flash floods, the biggest temperature swings, rain and snow records, and the wettest places this month. A picture can now be any shape in the place of the map.

AtmoTor: tabs, point readings and a season record

• AtmoTor in Layers has Fill, Line and Point tabs like a model layer, its chance can be written above each city, and it is named AtmoTor in the header, legend and card.
• It loads about three times faster, and its record on this computer is kept for a year, with a season line once it is longer than 30 days.

Fewer phantom rotation markers

• Low-level rotation must begin near the lowest the radar sees and be strong in two tilts (or clearly a vortex in one); sidelobe cases need real debris. On 61 volumes of past storms every tornado signature and mesocyclone was kept, and low-level markers fell from 60 to 39.

Click readings, soundings and the tool rail

• The Readings button has an arrow with how the readings look and a Clear button. Font sizes in points now work everywhere they are set.
• Soundings turn on and off one way (the button, the cross or Esc). Tool buttons are lit exactly when their thing is on the map, including the cross section.
• A quick button for a model or mesoanalysis product keeps its kind, and can add its product over the map as a layer.
• Text and pictures you add with the Draw tools are drawn over the city names (a note on a city is no longer read through the city’s name).
• Layers can be put under the ocean layer: the Under the ocean group is always in the list, and a layer can be dropped on its heading or on the lower half of the ocean layer (the down arrow of the lowest layer above still does it).

Header titles, and a steadier Show page

• A right-click on the map header types a title kept with the map. Every weather layer can be renamed and is named so in the header and its legend.
• On the Show page the step on air is known by its identity, so editing a running show no longer plays the wrong step next.

Steadier radar and crash reports

• Two 3D builds at once no longer fail with The radar decoder stopped.
• With Error reports on, a stopped helper process or a last run that did not end by itself is in the report; crash dumps stay on this computer.

A slide of a show for another city

• A step of a show that is a Today & Tonight, 3-day, 7-day, weekend, current conditions or day planner slide can be made for another city of Content > Cities: open the step and choose its City. The slide shows that city’s own forecast and its name.

Chance of precipitation in tens

• The chance of precipitation is quoted to the nearest 10% (0, 10, 20 ...) as the Weather Service does, not to the percent (2%, 3%). Units & language has Chance of precipitation to choose the nearest 5% or the exact number.

The look syncs, and a speed for each product

• A look changed on one computer (the fill from gradient to solid, the finish, corners and edges, the logo box) now reaches the others when the setup is synced; the look was left out of the station part before.
• The play bar has Remember per product: the loop speed is kept for each product, so the simulated reflectivity can play at Normal and a daily high at the slowest, each coming back at its own speed.

Every warning with a box is highlighted

• A click on a warning brings up its box and the warning glows on the map as the chosen one does; with several boxes open, every one of their warnings glows, on the preview and the Output.

A base color for the simulated satellite map

• Base map > Ground, water and buildings has a Base color and how strongly the ground takes it, for a dark or gray map.

Type exact sizes, and size the header’s words

• Every slider in Map Studio has a box beside it to type the exact value, such as 14 pt or 135%.
• The header’s title and the product name under it each have a size (a percent or exact points), and point readings can be sized in exact points.

Pick the interstates, and turn the rivers off

• Only interstates has a box for the route numbers to keep (80, 35): only those are drawn, with their signs and numbers. The number along an interstate is larger when signs are off.
• Base map > Water > Rivers and streams turns the waterways off.

A product switch stays on the newest scan

• Switching reflectivity to velocity (or a tilt) on the newest scan no longer steps back to a scan ten minutes old: the picture stays until the new product’s newest scan is in.

Tornado guidance measures the scan its marker is on

• A rotation marker on a real-time scan is rated from that same scan, not from the archive’s newest, about ten minutes older.
• Closing a rotation card takes its EF badge off the map too.

One Storm reports layer, hail in pink

• The Weather Service’s local storm reports and the SPC’s reports are one layer, with the kinds to show as choices.
• Hail reports are pink on the map and in the legend.

Add product in sections

• Alerts & Outlooks is laid out under headings (Severe storms, Flash flooding, Winter, Heat), so Day 2 tornado, wind and hail and Day 3 chances are easy to find; a search for probability finds them too.

A simpler Show page

• The program and next monitors with Start, Next, Hold and Break in stay pinned at the top while the rundown scrolls; a step with no picture shows its sign and words.
• The show’s settings fold into one line that says how it is set, the step list shows the step, its seconds and its time, and pause, transition and the rest open in the step’s own panel; Duplicate, Rename, Save as template and Delete are under Manage.

A presenter’s clicker and the Presenter segment

• With Presenter clicker on and a show running, Page Down and Page Up step the show and the full stop takes the picture to black and back, from any program.
• The Presenter segment template lays out a weekly weather segment in its order and makes the map steps you have no block for.

Show steps presented by a sponsor

• Each step can be presented by one of your sponsors: its logo sits at the end of the header of what is on air, and the sponsor report counts its time.

Show Frame and the Event Forecast slide

• Show Frame is a presenter’s set under the map in the colors of your Look, with a starter layout that puts the map in a 16:9 window beside your camera.
• The Event Forecast slide shows one event at its own times (kickoff, halftime, the fourth quarter) from the hourly forecast.

One number per county

• Point readings can give each county of your area one value (the highest, the average or the lowest), with its biggest town under it: a county rain-total or low-temperature map.

Fronts that move with the future radar

• Surface fronts can follow the map’s timeline, so a future radar plays with the fronts of each of its hours.

A calmer Map Studio

• The toolbar, tool rail, map, play bar and layer list are soft cards with air between them, and only the chosen thing is filled.
• Live, Prepare next and Explore are one switch; Find a place, Views, Tilt, Radar scan and Zoom sit in the toolbar; every rail tool is the same round button and says its name at once.
• The background work moved to Status & Health, and the alerts and the threat share one card in the top bar.

A warning can leave the header alone

• Header settings > What the header shows: turn off A warning takes over the header to keep the header’s own title and colors while a warning is chosen.

Rotation: no sidelobe imposters, one word for strength

• A low couplet painted by a strong storm’s sidelobes into its clear-air inflow is no longer marked as rotation.
• A rotation says its strength once, in the words of its AtmoSpin number, on the marker and its card alike.
• The intensity guidance no longer says no debris signature beside a Debris signature chip: it says its rotation is measured at the lowest tilt, and when the debris seen higher up was not measured there.

3D no longer closes the app

• Each radar decoder has its own memory limit, and a 3D volume is built in a decoder of its own with the room it needs.

The 7-day slide fits seven days

• The high and low are sized to their card, so seven days across no longer break the low onto its own line.

Watch posts: the whole watch, its threats, no list of counties

• A watch is posted once for the whole watch, all of its counties under every office, not one office part at a time.
• Its post and picture name its states (parts of Oklahoma and Texas) and give the Storm Prediction Center threats (a tornado or two possible, hail up to 2 in, gusts to 75 mph) and the people in the whole watch, instead of the list of counties.

Watches: their threats in boxes, and the whole watch counted

• A watch box shows its tornado, hail and wind threats from the Storm Prediction Center (a tornado or two possible, hail up to 2 in, gusts to 75 mph) instead of the watch text, and its title is the watch alone.
• The people in a watch are counted for the whole watch and include everyone (2020 Census), as the Weather Service counts them: 1,187,410 for watch 685, where the Weather Service gave 1,180,572. Warning boxes count everyone too, not only the named towns.

No tornado signature on a wind farm

• A rotation that stays at the same spot scan after scan (a wind farm, a tower) is no longer marked, and a rotation needs more rain round it: a wind farm 33 km from KFDR had been marked as a tornado signature of 9.9.
• A tornado signature now has to show in two tilts or more: one seen in a single tilt, with the beam just above it seeing nothing, was clutter inside the rain.

Rotation markers stay up

• A rotation marker stays on the map while a new scan is checked, and goes only when its answer says the rotation has ended.

No debris without a tornado

• The tornado intensity guidance gives a debris height only with rotation of 30 kt or more: low correlation beside weaker rotation is hail, a melting layer or the edge of the echo.

Shells for both directions of the wind

• 3D Shell levels take up to twelve values, so storm-relative velocity can have shells for its inbound and its outbound wind (-50, -30, -10, 10, 30, 50).

Radar decoders keep within their memory

• On an evening with storms on every radar, a radar decoder could run out of memory and stop the live scan and the debris check. It now lets go of its oldest scans when its own memory runs high.

Hospitals and schools that cannot be counted

• When the map data servers do not answer in time, the box leaves the hospitals and schools out instead of the request failing with an error.

Edit a saved block

• Edit on a saved block (or a click on it in the Library) puts its map back on the preview and its settings in the form. Save changes keeps it the same block, so its shows play the new one; Save as a new block and Cancel editing are beside it.

One map look for every slide

• Give every slide this map look copies the base map, colors, lines, roads, place names and fonts you have now onto every saved slide; where each looks and what it shows stay its own. Show blocks have the same button.

Potential tropical cyclones

• A disturbance with Hurricane Center advisories is drawn with its own P symbol and color and named as a potential tropical cyclone on the map and in the header, with a switch to hide them.

No blending without smoothing

• A radar product with its smoothing at 0 steps from picture to picture with no fade, on the preview and the Output, and the play bar says why Smooth is off.

Only my cities, only interstates

• Only my cities’ names shows just the cities of Content > Places until the zoom you choose, on its own switch.
• Only interstates hides the US and state highways, the streets and their signs.
• The map shows the zoom it is at, in the same numbers as every zoom setting, beside Find a place and Views.

Warning fills under the radar

• With Draw the fill over the radar off, a warning’s fill now really lies under the radar while its outline stays on top.

Explore off air

• Look round the map and follow storms while the Output keeps showing what it shows; Back to the map on air puts everything back.

Settings take effect at once

• Station & Text, Output & Display, Layout & Widgets and Logos apply a change as it is made, without their Apply button.
• An option under a switch in Map Studio shows or hides as soon as the switch is clicked.

A softer Console

• Rounded cards with space between them, one color for the chosen thing, and every color swatch opens one box with the hex code and your saved colors. Map Studio’s Base map shows one card per thing: borders, each kind of road, each kind of place name.

Fixes

• The Output holds the newest picture for the whole end pause, in step with the preview.
• The smallest places are spaced like cities.
• Marker names take their exact size in points.
• With Both radars and Fill off, Canada’s picture no longer covers the US.
• The Header card: the logo box color shows with its box, a typed tagline shows at once, and the single radar has a name of its own.
• With no camera, the camera box shows your logo and station name instead of NO CAMERA SET.
• The radar decoders keep their scans within memory on an evening with storms on every radar.

Your logo stays your logo

• An uploaded logo is no longer lost when a look is applied, a pack is added or a sync is taken. It used to turn back into the AtmoDeck logo.
• The severe theme wears your main logo when it has no logo of its own, as day and night do.

3D: the newest scan is drawn as far as it has got

• The scan the radar is still making is drawn in 3D with the tilts it has so far, as before 2.7.1. Filling it out with the last scan’s tilts, added in 2.7.1, is taken out: it read two radar volumes at once and could run the program out of memory and close it.

No tornado signature without a storm

• A rotation marker now needs rain round it. Ground clutter or a wind farm near a radar could be marked as a tornado signature in clear air.

Color by precipitation type: no hail color

• Color by precipitation type colors rain, snow, sleet and freezing rain. Hail no longer has a color of its own and is drawn as rain.

Radar loops: smoother, steadier, and paced frame by frame

• A loop now plays frame by frame: every picture gets the same time, however far apart the scans are. Each frame on the play bar has By speed (through time) for the old pace.
• Smooth carries the echo along between two scans of one radar when the whole picture moved one way, so a storm advances instead of fading out and in. Where parts moved different ways, it fades in place.
• One radar’s loop has each scan once: the real-time and archive copies of a scan are one picture, and so are the two sweeps a radar makes of its lowest angle.
• The Output keeps to the picture the Console is on. It no longer steps ahead by itself and gets pulled back, which made loops stutter and double back.

The header’s clock runs with the loop

• While a loop plays, the time in the header passes minute by minute from one picture to the next, in radar, satellite and data-layer loops, with Smooth on or off. Paused, it is the time of the picture on show.

3D Surfaces: choose the levels of the shells

• With Look set to Surfaces, type up to six values under Shell levels (for reflectivity: 20, 35, 50, 60) and a shell is drawn at each. Each product keeps its own. Empty is automatic.

A map in a show is titled by what it shows

• A block’s header now takes the name of the product on its own map, not the title Map Studio happens to have. Header title in the Save block form is for your own words. Blocks you already saved follow without saving again.

A new base map: Simulated satellite

• Simulated satellite (fast), in the list of base maps, draws the ground as it looks from above without downloading imagery: forest, farmland, desert, water and the built-up ground of every town, from the same map data as the other maps.
• Interstates, highways and streets each have a color, and so does every kind of ground. Saturation, contrast, brightness and hue shift change the whole picture, as they do for the satellite imagery.
• Buildings stand up in 3D from zoom 14 (tilt the map), and airports, parks, schools, hospitals and other places of interest are labeled. Each kind of label has its own switch. All of it is under Base map.

Lightning keeps time with the storms

• While a loop plays, the lightning is drawn for the moment the loop is at, not for the scan before it, so the flashes stay in the storm instead of trailing behind it. A flash now dims steadily as it ages, so the newest ones stand out.

Simulated satellite: houses too

• Houses too, under Base map > Ground, water and buildings, draws every building from Overture Maps, in 3D with the rest. The map’s own data has few houses in most American neighborhoods. It is on to start with; untick it for only the buildings OpenStreetMap has.

3D shows the newest scan whole

• The scan the radar is still making is drawn whole in 3D: the tilts it has finished, with the last scan’s above them until its own come in. The note on the map says how far along it is.
• 3D pictures are now made one at a time and shared by the Console and the Output. Several at once could run the program out of memory and close it.

The storm arrival times are a box on the map

• The list of cities in a storm’s path now shows on the Console preview, and you drag it there to where you want it. On the Output it stays clear of the layout’s widgets, and Size of the box makes it larger or smaller.

Rotation markers keep up with the newest scan

• Markers follow a scan as its higher tilts arrive, and each new sweep of the lowest tilt gets markers of its own at once.
• A rotation marked on the scan before is kept for the first three minutes of a new scan, so it does not vanish while the new scan has only one or two tilts.
• The marker’s card no longer says which way a rotation turns.

Map Studio edition: a Dashboard

• The Map Studio edition has a Dashboard, first in its menu: the alert activity, headlines, the outlook dial, announcements, alerts, radars, storm reports and the data feeds, without the cards of the broadcast.

New map layers: fronts, air quality, the UV index and aviation

• Surface fronts, highs and lows: the Weather Prediction Center’s newest analysis, or its forecasts to 48 hours as a loop, drawn in the Forecast builder’s look. While the builder is open or on air, its own map comes first.
• Air quality: every AirNow reporting area as a dot in the EPA’s colors, this hour or the forecast for today or tomorrow. Click one for all three.
• UV index: the NOAA and EPA forecast for 58 cities at solar noon.
• Aviation hazards: SIGMETs, the current G-AIRMETs and pilot reports of moderate or worse turbulence and icing. Click any of them for its text.
• All four are in + Add product, and searching AQI, SIGMET, pilot or turbulence finds them.

The radar is marked on air when it is late

• While the newest radar picture is older than it should be, the Output map carries a small “Radar delayed” tag with its age, so viewers are not shown an old picture as if it were now. Map Studio settings > The map turns it off.

Graphics: your area and your look

• My area fits the map to the counties you chose in Content and outlines them. It is the starting choice unless you had picked states yourself.
• The colors follow your Look (Day, Night or Severe), so a brand change is made once in Look > Colors. Colors you had set by hand are kept.

Graphics: today’s story, joined to the show

• Build today’s story picks the three or four pictures that fit the day. Make the Right now show puts them in the Show page’s Right now show after the map; Post the story takes the first one to Write a post with the Right now intro as its words.
• After the story is built it is watched until midnight: an outlook raised a level or the first warning rings the bell.

Graphics: videos, history, before and after, and posts on a schedule

• Make a video turns a picture into a short MP4 that builds up: the areas fade in, the points appear and the number counts up.
• History keeps the pictures you post, save, copy or download for 30 days. Open one again, make it again with new facts, or set it beside the same picture made now as one before-and-after picture.
• Schedule posts a picture by itself at a time of day on the days you choose, always or only when it has something to say, and can ask you first. The Console has to be open.

New pictures: the weather map, a storm recap and a scorecard

• The weather map and tomorrow’s weather map: fronts, highs and lows from the Weather Prediction Center.
• Storm recap: the warnings and storm reports of the last one to three days in one picture, with the tornado reports, the biggest hail and the strongest gust.
• Scorecard: how the highs, rain, snow and warnings did over the last two weeks. Rain and snow now keep a two-week record too.
• Air quality now comes from AirNow and the UV index from NOAA and the EPA, the official sources, and there is a picture of tomorrow’s air quality forecast.

Graphics that tell a story

• The pictures zoom to the areas that matter, name the cities and towns inside each level, and say in one sentence what to expect.

Map Studio settings window

• One window for what Map Studio starts from, by kind of data, with what a click does, playback, the map, pictures and memory. Every control is the same setting as the menus. Precipitation type is one click on the tool rail.

Town names that keep City and Village

• A town whose name has City or Village in it (League City, Jersey Village) is now named in full on the maps, the graphics and the warning boxes. Before, the word was taken off as if it were the Census’s label of the place. The list is read again once to put this right.

“In effect” everywhere

• The Console now says an alert is in effect, the Weather Service’s own words, where it said in force: the Dashboard (Alerts in effect, In effect now), the show conditions (Only while a warning is in effect), Archive mode and Alert posting.

Fixed: places from Sync reach the Console too

• Cities and counties that arrived through Sync showed on the Output but the Console kept its old ones (on Places, and for the counties its alerts, posts and graphics use) until it was restarted. They now reach both, and an open Places page shows them at once.

The tornado outlook: closer past days, and a record of how it does

• The closest past days now show the real number of tornadoes and the strongest rating, from the Storm Prediction Center’s final record (through 2024).
• Each day’s AtmoDeck outlook is scored against the reports the next morning, and How far to trust it shows how the last 30 days went on this computer.

Several boxes at once, compact or detailed

• Ctrl-click (or a quick Shift-click) adds a box instead of replacing the one that is showing, whatever kind it is: a river gauge beside its flood warning, several gauges, several warnings. The boxes step aside from one another and each has its line to its spot; a plain click shows one thing alone, and Clear all or Esc takes them all off.
• Double-click a box, or press its Less / More button, to switch it between a compact form (the name, the time, the numbers) and the detailed one. The B key does every box at once.
• A click on a warning no longer closes the gauge card that was open, when it is added with Ctrl.

Several radars: a radar that is down is passed over

• With several radars drawn automatically, a radar the Weather Service reports down (or one found silent) gives its place to the next closest radar that is on the air, and the group is chosen again when one goes down or comes back. The single automatic radar does the same.

The lightning card: its own place on the preview

• Lightning > A different place on the preview puts the lightning activity card somewhere else on the preview than on the Output, so it is not over what you are working on.

A clip for social in one click

• Clip for social in Map Studio’s Export menu makes an upright 1080 by 1920 video of the loop with the header, legend and badge, and opens Social Posting with it attached. It is taken from an upright Output opened off the screen, so what is on air is not touched.

Verification: the day after

• The Graphics tab has a Verification group: yesterday’s warnings with the storm reports (which warnings had a report, which reports had a warning), and yesterday’s forecast highs, lows and snow at your cities against what was measured.
• AtmoDeck now keeps a journal of each day’s forecast for tomorrow, so the forecast pictures have their first comparison the day after it has run for a day.

Right now: a show made from the weather

• The Right now button on the Show page builds a show of three to five blocks from the warnings in effect, the storm behind the worst of them, a river in flood, the severe outlook, the local radar and the HRRR futurecast, each with a line for the Voice. Edit it like any show; pressing the button again replaces it.
• Every show has a Voice choice of its own: as each step says, on for every step, or off for the whole show.

Click anything: its story comes up first

• A click on a river gauge, a rotation marker, a hurricane hunter, a storm report, an earthquake, a fire, a buoy or a station brings up a story box: a broadcast graphic with the headline, the numbers large and a line to the spot, the same on the Output. Raw data on the box (the preview only) shows the full card.
• A rotation marker’s story has the tornado intensity guidance as its own panel, with the chance of each EF class. Story box size in Map look > Cards sets how large the boxes are.

A click on a warning brings up its box, with the people, hospitals and schools

• Clicking a warning puts its box on the map instead of taking the header over, in the look of the story boxes: when it expires, the affected areas, large the people, hospitals and schools inside it, and the warning’s own hazard, source, impact, where, when and what to do. Ctrl-click keeps several boxes; Clear all or Esc takes them off. Show a clicked warning in the header (the header’s settings) brings the old way back.
• The header’s settings have a Time zone part: turn Follow the map off and pick a zone, and every clock of the map stays in it.
• The public alert feed is asked again, then state by state, before it is shown as failed: the Weather Service’s occasional error to the first request no longer marks alerts as down when the app opens. The NWWS status says why it is not connected.

3D radar: cleaner, finer, and seen through

• The Smooth and Solid looks keep their dense body without the bands that crossed them, Surfaces draws up to six shells and is about six times quicker, and Blocks follow the light settings.
• Grid in the 3D menu (Standard, Fine, Ultra fine) builds the volume in finer cells; Ultra fine is best with a box drawn round one storm.
• The map, the warnings, the city names and their lines, the height guides and the radar’s marker are seen through the storm by how dense it really is: hidden behind a core, showing through thin echo.
• With hail size, composite reflectivity or one of the radar’s own finished products chosen, 3D stands the storm up in reflectivity over that product on the ground.

Archive mode: only the products the radar has, and the 3D box

• The Product list of Archive mode holds only what the chosen radar has for the window, read from one of its scans; a product that is not there is not offered, and if it was the one chosen the archive goes to reflectivity and says so.
• The box button on the tool rail makes 3D of one part of the archive’s radar, and the menus of the tool rail no longer open behind the map.
• The newest scan of the live map is no longer added to the end of an archive loop.

Standard and Pro: the Powered by AtmoDeck badge can be switched off

• On the Standard and Pro plans (3 and 6 computers), Powered by AtmoDeck in Look > Layout & Widgets is no longer locked on: untick it, or hide it from its right-click menu in Edit Mode, and the badge leaves the Output, the radar map and every screenshot, recording and clip. On Map Studio and Solo it stays as it was.

Look: the colors are in one place

• The Looks tab of the Look page no longer repeats the Day, Night and Severe colors: it holds the style of the panels (finish, fill, corners and edges) and your saved looks, and the colors are edited in the Colors tab only.

Under the hood

• The Product options menu no longer jumps from side to side, and the map no longer keeps a comparison panel’s settings after the panels are closed. When the Weather Service’s alert feed fails as the app opens, it is asked again and then state by state. A built app can now test itself before it is released.

A river gauge as a graphic

• Click a river gauge and choose Make a gauge story: a panel on the map and the Output with the forecast crest and the flooding it brings, the flood stages, any flood watch or warning that covers the gauge, and a large hydrograph.

Canada’s thunderstorm outlooks and alerts

• With the SPC day 1, 2 or 3 outlook on the map, Environment Canada’s thunderstorm outlooks are drawn with it in their own colors, and Canadian alerts show whenever the view reaches into Canada.

A warning’s box says the numbers

• The line in a clicked warning’s box is the sentence that carries the wind, hail, snow, rain or flood numbers, not a repeat of the warning’s name and area.

The wind profile reads itself

• The one-radar wind profile panel lists the storm motion, the 0-1 and 0-6 km shear and the 0-1 and 0-3 km helicity beside the barbs, with their change over the last half hour.

Hurricane hunters: mission extremes

• The aircraft recon settings list what each recent flight found (lowest pressure, strongest winds, heaviest rain, with times), and a card can put the newest flight’s extremes on the map.

The Glass look, and an opacity for every color

• Every color in Look > Colors has its own opacity slider. Glass panels have no edge line until you choose an edge color, and the conditions, hourly, clock and ticker panels take the frost’s colors so every panel matches.

Hidden errors in Status & Health

• Status & Health lists the errors the program caught and carried on from, for the Console and the Output; one whose count keeps climbing is worth reporting.

Under the hood

• The map’s code is split into more parts, checked at every test run, and several radar and map faults found by the new error list are fixed.

Radar that keeps up: instant switching and fast loops

• Changing the product, the tilt or the frame of a single radar shows the new picture at once, and switching product on an older frame stays on that frame. Only the part of each archived scan that is needed is downloaded, the rest of the loop is decoded in the background, and a radar’s extra low-level passes arrive as frames of their own.
• The line under the play bar says what is on the map and how much has loaded, also when no radar is on.

Daily highs and lows, one map for each day

• The National Blend of Models’ daily high and low are a picture for today, tomorrow and each day of the week ahead. The map opens on Today, stays on the day you pick, and the header reads FORECAST HIGHS or FORECAST LOWS with the day where the clock goes.

A storm’s story

• A tracked storm keeps its whole life: its hail, tops, VIL, lightning, rotation and warnings at every picture. Its card has a Story view with how long and how far it has gone, its peaks, warnings, nearby storm reports and a timeline.

Heights in 3D, and better cross sections and soundings

• The 3D radar has a height ruler with temperatures, the freezing and hail growth levels and wind barbs at the corners of its box, a cloud look, and debris that stands out in correlation coefficient.
• Cross sections can show temperature lines and wind barbs, open large and save as a picture. The sounding that follows the cursor changes instantly, and the meteogram is redesigned.

The scan line and the live sweep are back

• The Scan line button beside the tilt picker turns the radar dome, the turning scan line and the live sweep (a new scan painted as the line passes over it) on and off.

Panels that are each their own map

• In two or four panels, each panel has its own layers, and the Sync between maps menu chooses what they share: the view, the time, the radar site and the model run.

The header: accent bar, time box and diagonal edges

• New header options: an accent bar down the left side and along the bottom, a color of its own for the time box, and a background behind the logo. With diagonal edges both ends of the header slant, and so do the edges between its boxes. The legend and a warning’s box meet the header with no gap.
• The header names every radar of a joined picture, can count the lightning flashes in view, and titles a forecast map like the radar’s. The lightning activity card is its own box you can place.

Values above the cities never cover a name

• A value that would cover another city’s name moves beside or under its own; with no room, the city behind it is taken off the map. Weather icons stay where they belong.

One font for the whole map, and a tidier Base map panel

• Map font (first in Map appearance) puts one font on every name, the header, the legend and the values, and each font setting shows it; turn it off and every section gets its own font back.
• The Base map panel is grouped by subject: Map style; Ground, water and buildings; Place names and fonts; Roads and highway signs; Borders, counties and coast; and more. It no longer jumps to the top when you change a setting.

Cleaner maps

• City name boxes have an even outline on every side, buildings and green areas are drawn without outlines, the Console zooms in to street level like the Output, and road shields are the right size.

Alerts that keep coming

• If a refresh of the warnings fails, the ones still in effect stay on the map and the next refresh tries again. NWWS-OI pushed alerts (Keys & Backup > API Keys) are optional and shown as off, not as a fault, when no login is set.

The Storm desk is gone

• The storm tools stay on the Storm button and the storm cards; the separate Storm desk was removed.

Live cross sections: on the tilted map, in a panel, or both

• Drag a line across the selected data product, then drag either end, the whole line, or the upright curtain to move the slice live. Choose the product and On map, Panel, or Both in the Section menu. The tool keeps your radar and playback settings.
• Radar and model slices use native vertical data and matching colors. Model panels can use a height or pressure axis. Surface products show a distance profile, and RGB satellite imagery shows an image transect. Drag the panel title to move it and its lower-right corner to resize it.

Soundings mode: a sounding that follows the cursor

• The new Soundings button on the tool rail turns on a sounding that changes as you move the mouse across the map: one model’s forecast column, up to four models on one skew-T, the SPC analysis, or the nearest observed launch.
• The same panel shows the meteogram of the point (the National Blend of Models) and a few lines in plain words about what the numbers mean. Shift+click pins it, and a button shows it large to read. Every source is free and open: nothing is asked of a weather website or a keyed service.

Studio: panels, setups, storm desk, watched places, events and export shapes

• A new Studio menu in the top bar holds the tools for working an event: two or four linked map panels (each its own product, place and zoom and moment linked), one-click setups for tornadoes, hurricanes, winter weather, flooding and everyday forecasting, the storm desk, watched places, events with times and explanations, and export shapes.
• A small chip by the play bar says whether the picture is whole and how old it is; the header says so too, but only when a radar is missing or the data is late.

Models compared with themselves

• Any model field can be shown as its change since the run before, and the National Blend of Models also as the spread of its members and the chance of going over a value you type (gusts over 50 mph, 90 °F ...). Another run side by side is a Compare maps panel set to that run.

Location alerts that do not repeat themselves

• Watched places are told once about a warning, when it is updated, when a warned storm is about to reach them (by the storm’s own motion), when a forecast number crosses a limit you set, and when a warning ends.

Layers work on their own: a model layer keeps its timeline

• A model on the map as an extra layer (RAP tornado environment, HRRR ...) can set the time by itself. Choosing Next 24 hours follows that layer: the main picture is no longer turned into a model reflectivity, taking the main layer off no longer sends the window back to the past hour, and the model layer plays and loads its whole window on its own.

Fixed: the radar loop loaded only two scans on every site

• The older scans of a loop were thrown away after 20 seconds of waiting for a map source that super-resolution radar does not have, so only the two real-time scans were left. The whole loop loads again.

Add custom layer, and every outlook in the product finder

• A new + Add custom layer button under + Add product opens the form for your own layer: a GeoJSON, KML, KMZ or shapefile, a placefile, or a link to one.
• The Storm Prediction Center’s severe outlook for days 4 to 8 (the 15% and 30% areas) is a new product, and the product finder lists every outlook (SPC days 1 to 8, the excessive rainfall, fire weather, winter and heat risk outlooks); each one turns the Outlooks layer on with that product, and the header names it properly.

The radar tilt picker is back, and the header only talks about the radar when it is on

• A small tilt list sits beside Find a place and Views while one radar with tilts is on the map. With no radar layer, the header no longer says Live radar or shows a radar site and tilt: it names what is on the map instead (the outlook, an extra layer, or just Weather map).

The Map Studio edition has no Places page

• The Map Studio edition keeps the account, shortcut, data-key, backup and health pages; the cities, counties and cameras belong to the broadcast widgets.

Map Studio subscription

• Map Studio is $4.99/month or $49/year on one computer. It includes Live Map and Archive with photo/video exports, legends and alerts, and a glass header with adjustable colors, text and logo. Forecast Builder remains part of the full broadcast plans.
• One Windows installer supports both editions. Your license opens Map Studio or the full broadcast suite; existing Solo, Standard and Pro subscriptions keep their full features.

One window to add anything to a show

• The row of lists under the rundown is now one button, + Add to show. Its window has Your blocks (with their pictures and folders), Map products, Layer bundles, Map slides, Slides, Graphics, Cameras, Video file, and Intro and break, with a search box. Pick a map product (a radar, the satellite, a model field, an outlook ...) and the block is made for you, from the map as it is now, and added as a step: no trip to Map Studio, and the live map and the Output are not touched. Tick several and add them together, put them after any step with the Goes list, or use the + on a row of the rundown.

Cameras in a show, and behind the slides

• Every camera of Content > Webcams can be a step of a show: it fills the picture with the live view, with its name and a LIVE tag (which can be turned off). A live camera can also be the background of the slides (Slides > Background Image), under the header and cards, and a step of a show can have a camera of its own behind it.
• New: a delay (0 to 60 seconds) before the slide’s header, city and cards come in, so the background shows alone first. It is in Slides > Background, and a slide step of a show can have its own.

A side panel for the current conditions

• A new slide, Current Conditions (side panel, over a camera): a narrow panel on the right with RIGHT NOW, the temperature, humidity, dew point and wind, and nothing else. It uses your colors (the accent, header and card colors), and goes well over a camera.

Map Studio: Add product, Find a place and Saved maps

• The Live Map has an Add product library: search every radar, satellite, outlook, model and analysis product, star favorites and see what you used lately; Add layer puts a product over the map and Use main replaces the main picture. Find a place takes a city, a radar ID or coordinates. Saved maps holds the map slides, layer bundles, show blocks and map playlists.

Prepare the next map without touching the air, and refreshes that keep the picture

• Map Studio can edit in Prepare next map mode: the Console’s map changes while the Output keeps what it has, and Take to Air makes the change when the radar, satellite, layers and map are loaded. A refresh now keeps the picture on air until the new one is ready, and the on-air health lights say which picture is on and how new the newest is.

Tropical watches and warnings use your Alert Colors

• The hurricane, tropical storm and storm surge watches and warnings drawn along the coast (and their swatches and legend) now take the colors of the same alerts in Colors & Text > Alert Colors; the separate set of tropical colors there is gone.

An Earthquakes layer, with tsunami bulletins

• Map Studio has an Earthquakes menu (and the layer in Layers): every earthquake of the USGS as a circle sized by its magnitude and colored by depth, age or magnitude, with the magnitude written beside it (at the label size you choose), rings for the PAGER alert level and for a tsunami threat, ShakeMap shaking lines for the strongest, the tectonic plates and the active faults. The NOAA tsunami warning centers’ bulletins are on the map and in the earthquake’s card. Click an earthquake for its details.
• The size of the labels is now a setting of the layers that write on the map.

Watches and every alert that covers many counties are one thing

• Click a tornado watch, a thunderstorm watch or any alert that covers several counties: the whole alert is outlined and filled together, and the header reads out the alert as a whole (every county it names), not one county. Watches that were missing counties are drawn whole now.
• The details of a clicked alert can replace the legend (the setting is in the header: A clicked warning’s details), also when the legend is inside the header, and the legend comes back when the alert is let go.
• Right-click an alert on the map: Show only this alert hides every other warning and watch until you right-click it again and choose Show all alerts again. It works for warnings, watches and every other alert.
• Alerts now lie under the 3D radar and the other 3D data, not over it.
• The warning bar under the header gives the hazard with its impact (it read “Tornado.”).

Stinger transitions for the show

• The Transition of a show, or of one step, can be a Stinger video: your own video (WebM or MOV with transparency, or any MP4) plays over the picture and the show cuts under it at the moment you choose. AtmoDeck also has ready-made stingers in your colors and with your logo, so you need no video of your own.

Help: the contents list works again

• The Help window opened on one page and would not change it; picking a part of the contents now opens that part.

Every seat of a license can have its own account

• A license with several computers now takes one account for each seat: the first account uses the email the license was bought with, and each teammate then creates their own with their own email and password (and the license key). Team invitations and roles follow each person’s own email. The computer limit is still shared across the license.

Fixed: the boxes on the tropical forecast points could go missing

• The time and wind boxes beside a storm’s forecast points could disappear as you zoomed or moved the map (other names on the map took their place), leaving only the line, or be left out after the map reloaded its style. They are now always drawn, kept clear of the storm symbol and the track, and made again whenever the map asks for one.

Desk notes are a live chat for the team

• When you are in step with a team, the Desk notes card on the Dashboard becomes a live chat: lines go at once to everyone of the team who is on line, with their name and avatar, and the bell tells you when one comes in while you are elsewhere. The Notes button goes back to the desk notes. People who are view only may chat too.
• The AtmoDeck server has to be updated for chat to work (it is the same update as the team roles and the error reports).

Team has a page of its own, and what the team changed is in your headlines

• Sync and teams moved out of Keys & Backup to a Team page in the System group, redrawn: a status card that says at a glance whether you are in step (with the people on line as colored avatars), switches for what is kept in step, a timeline of who changed what with Undo, and each team with its people, their roles and who is on line.
• What the team sent, received or undid now shows in the Dashboard’s Headlines (with a new Team filter); click one to open the Team page.

The show: click a step to go to it, a voice for each step, a break-in picture, and graphics that fill the Show widget

• On the Show page the number of each step is now a button: while the show runs it cuts to that step, and when it is not running it starts the show at that step.
• Each step has a Voice choice: as the Voice page says, reads this step aloud, or silent on this step (warnings are always read).
• Break in has its own picture, apart from the transition picture of the steps.
• A graphic in a show now fills the Show widget; right-click the widget (edit mode) to choose whether its background covers the whole screen or only the widget.
• A radar block of one site is loaded ahead of its turn too (its volumes are downloaded while the step before is on), so it comes up much quicker.

The Glass look uses your colors, and storm reports are kept for a day

• The Glass look no longer has a section of its own in Colors: it is made of the colors you already set (the panels’ top and bottom, the titles, the three borders) and of the element colors, and the letters on its title bars turn pale or dark to suit the bar’s color.
• Storm reports in the headlines and the alert box now cover the last 24 hours, not 3, so reports from earlier in the night are still there in the morning.

Wildfires, wildfire smoke and the Drought Monitor on the map

• A new Fire, smoke & drought menu in Map Studio (and the same three layers in Layers). Wildfires shows every fire burning now as a dot colored by how much is contained and sized by acres, with their mapped perimeters and, if you want them, the heat the satellites saw in the last day; click a fire for its size, containment and county. Wildfire smoke draws NOAA’s satellite smoke (light, medium, heavy). U.S. Drought Monitor draws the week’s map from D0 to D4 with the share of the country in each level.
• Each has its own legend and strength, lies in the stack of layers like the others, and needs no keys.

Safer and more reliable under the hood

• The kiosk-mode window now runs with the same protections as every other window (no Node in the page), and the page has a Content-Security-Policy that stops it loading scripts from the internet.
• The weather icons are now inside AtmoDeck, so they appear without a connection and never depend on a web service being up.
• What is shared with a team is now limited to the settings AtmoDeck knows about, so a setting added later is never sent by accident, and the Listen button uses the newer audio engine.

Team roles, a review way of syncing, and Undo for what the team changes

• The owner of a team can now make a person an editor (the default) or view only, when adding them or later, with a small menu beside their name on Keys & Backup > Sync. A view only computer gets the team’s whole setup and keeps it in step, but never sends anything: an intern can watch the on-air setup without being able to change it, and a change made on that computer is put back.
• A new way of syncing, Review: you still get the team’s changes live, but your own changes wait on your computer. A box lists each part that differs from the team’s with a short account of what changed (for example “1 added, 2 changed”), and Send my changes to the team (or Send this one, or Drop mine) puts them on the team only when you are happy with them.
• Who changed what lately lists the last changes, with the name of the computer, and every change taken from the team has an Undo that puts back what this computer had before (the last ten are kept). The change you undo then goes to the team like any other change of yours.

Error reports you can switch on, and the Now Playing widget follows your music

• Status & Health has a new Error reports card, off until you switch it on. When it is on, a short list of what goes wrong inside AtmoDeck (where, the message, a few lines of detail, how often) is sent to the AtmoDeck server so a problem can be fixed before anyone has to write. Paths with your name, emails, keys and tokens are taken out first, no settings, places or weather are sent, and Show what would be sent shows the exact report.
• The Now Playing widget shows the artist and title of the track the music player is playing (read from the file’s tags, or its file name), and the text file again when nothing plays. Each track on the Sounds and Music page has editable Title and Artist boxes, and a Now Playing choice in the Background music card lets you keep the old text file instead.

A Help button with the whole documentation and a search box

• A round ? button at the top right of the Console, after the Feeds pill, opens Help: the complete documentation inside AtmoDeck, with no internet needed. A search box at the top lists every part of the guide that has all your words, best match first, with the words marked in a short piece of the text; a contents list on the left shows every chapter and opens the one you are in; links inside the guide open in Help. The first time it opens at the part of the guide for the page you are on, and after that where you left it. F1 opens it too, Esc closes it, and Ctrl+K has Open help and the documentation. Help is made from the same text as the documentation on the website for every new version.

Sounds and Music: playlists that play in time periods, an equalizer, a Listen button, and music that steps aside for a video, a voice or an alarm

• The Sounds page is now Sounds and Music. A Listen to the Output button, in the card of the sound device, plays what the Output is playing on this computer’s own speakers or headphones (the music, and the videos, voices and alarms of the Output that can be captured), with its own level and a meter of what is heard. Add your own tracks to a library and put them in playlists: each track has an Add to playlist list, and a playlist can be renamed, reordered and emptied. Time periods choose which playlist plays when: a playlist, the days of the week and a from and to time (a period can cross midnight), the first period from the top that holds the moment wins, and outside every period the default plays (all the tracks, a playlist, or nothing). The Output changes playlists by itself, fading the old one out and starting the new one from its first track. A ten-band equalizer (31 Hz to 16 kHz, plus a preamp) shapes the music, with presets (More bass, More treble, Voices stand out, Broadcast, Loudness, Rock, Acoustic, Soft and dark) and the live spectrum of what the Output plays drawn behind the sliders. The music plays on the Output under the slideshow and the shows (all the time, only while the slideshow runs, or only while a show plays), with shuffle and a fade in. While a video with sound plays (your recorded daily forecast on the Show page), or a voice reading, an alarm or the intro sound, the music fades down and, when it is over, fades back in: you choose how far it goes down, the fade times and how long it waits after the clip ends. Video files on slideshow camera slides can now play their own sound too. A Music volume slider sits above live meters of what the Output is sending (left and right, in dB, with a peak mark), a ducking gauge and a line saying what is playing, the track and its time, the playlist and which device it goes to. The device chooser stays at the top of the page, and the music, alarms, voice and show videos all follow it (Nowhere silences them). The music settings, playlists, time periods and tracks travel with the rest of a team’s setup.

Numbers and degree signs no longer squeeze together when the widget font is made bigger

• The temperature in the bottom bar (77°) and the temperatures of the hourly forecast now space their digits in proportion to their size, and the degree sign keeps a small gap of its own, so a larger widget font keeps clean spacing instead of the numbers and the degree sign running together.

Team sync: the whole setup, live, on every computer of a team

• Keys & Backup > Sync keeps everyone on a team on the SAME setup, live: everything except keys, passwords, tokens, the license and what belongs to one computer (the output shape, the sound device, file paths). That is the layouts, colors, looks, alert bundles, all of Map Studio (its tables, bundles, slides, blocks, shows and run of show, and all its other settings), the places, the station, the widgets, the content widgets, the voice, the forecast numbers, the slideshow, the teleprompter script, the posting settings, the saved graphics and the uploaded sounds, photos and videos. The people of a team are added by email, and AtmoDeck’s server only passes the changes along to the teammates who are on line and keeps none of them. There is nothing to choose and no folder to look for: a folder is made for you automatically (Documents > AtmoDeck Team > the team’s name) that holds the whole setup, every setting and the uploaded files, and that folder is what is kept in step with the team through the server; the Sync page has an Open the folder button for it. Each person accepts the invitation in AtmoDeck. The first time a computer syncs nothing moves until you say which way: this computer sends everything (it is the one the team uses), or it takes the team’s setup (a backup is made first). After that, Live puts a change on every computer a few seconds after it is made and on screen at once, and when two computers change the same part the newer change wins; Careful looks every 20 seconds and asks; Manual only when you press Sync now. Syncing can be paused for half an hour, an hour, four hours or until you resume it (also from Ctrl+K), and nothing is sent or taken while it is paused. The page lists what the team did lately.

Tropical systems: watches and warnings as counties, a clearer storm header, and labels off the track

• The watches and warnings of a tropical system (hurricane, tropical storm and storm surge, warnings and watches) are now drawn as the counties and zones the Weather Service issues them for, each in the color of its kind, warnings over watches, instead of as lines along the coast. The Hurricane Center’s coastal lines are still there as an option: Tropical & marine > Watches and warnings > Also draw the Hurricane Center’s lines along the coast (their width, outline and “follow the coastline” settings show with it). The header of a storm is easier to read: its name, then its category and wind speed in big type with a line between them, and its readings (the time, the pressure, where it is moving, where it is, the product on the map) in a block of their own; what does not fit beside the name is left out whole instead of cut. The boxes of the track points (“7 AM Fri 115 mph”) now sit off to the side of the track and never over it, and never over each other or over a point’s symbol: the nearest clear place on either side is taken at every zoom.

Teleprompter: its own page, your own lines in any place, and a pop-out window

• The Teleprompter (Run) is a script for the person on air, written from the live warnings and weather (the opening and closing are the ones from the Voice page), in English, Spanish or French, as sentences or talking points. Add your own lines one by one (a sponsor read, a reminder) and move any line, or any block, where you want it in the script: the arrows, or drag the handle; turn a line off, edit it or take it out. It shows over the Console, or in a pop-out window of its own: choose which screen it opens on, and full screen there if you like. Space plays and pauses, the arrows change the speed, Escape closes it; the Show page has a Start teleprompter button, and the phone remote’s Presenter page opens it on a tablet.

Voice: the slideshow and alerts read aloud, in a natural voice

• The new Voice page (Run) is one simple page. Pick a voice from one list, and add a free natural one if you like: pick Add beside a voice (women and men, US and British English, Spanish and French) and AtmoDeck downloads the free Piper program, about 22 MB once, and that voice, with nothing downloaded before you pick Add; it then works with no internet and sends nothing anywhere, and if it cannot speak a voice of the computer reads the same words. Write the opening and the closing ({greeting} and {station} are filled in). Then choose what is read: the slideshow (which playlists, morning, afternoon and evening, and which slides, in a normal friendly or an urgent tone, with your opening before the first slide and your closing after the last, cut to the time each slide is up) and the alerts (which kinds, friendly or urgent, said in the same plain words as the social posts). A tornado, severe thunderstorm or flash flood warning goes first and a slide never cuts a warning off, and the alerts already in effect when AtmoDeck starts are not read. It plays on the Output, so Sounds decides where it goes. Speed, volume and language, and the paid cloud voices (your own Azure or OpenAI key, kept encrypted on the computer), are folded away under More.

Map Studio: every product explains itself

• The SPC / NWS tab is now Outlook/Forecast. Every weather model product, every Mesoanalysis map, and every section of Tropical & marine, Water & flooding, Winter and Space weather has an ⓘ beside its name: hover it to read what it shows and how to read it. Roadway flood and hydroplaning risk moved from Tropical & marine to Water & flooding.

Long hints are an info icon

• A long explanation under a setting is no longer cut off with “More”. It is a small ⓘ icon: hover it, tab to it or tap it to read the whole text, and press Escape to close it. Also: the on-air buttons say what they do (Hide alerts, Hide map) instead of ON and OFF, “Back to normal” is now “Back to live data”, Look is now one page with tabs (Looks, Layout & Widgets, Colors, Alert Colors, Logos, Station & Text, Weather Icons, Output & Display) in the Build group, the Lower Third editor on On Air is folded away until you open it, the Dashboard starts with Ready for air and Go live and ends the setup checklist with links to Script & Voice, your own forecast and Sync, the dimmest text is brighter, the smallest text is 12 pixels, and the data feeds are named the same way everywhere (Open-Meteo, SPC outlook, NWS alerts).

A setup pack can be opened in the layout importer

• Layouts > Import a layout file now takes a setup pack as well (a pack made with Share part of your setup): the layouts in it are added, and the page names what else the pack holds and where to open it. Other big files that are not layouts (a backup, the sync file) are told what they are instead of “too large to be a layout”.

Fixed: alert and ticker text, the alert color, and the tornado legend

• Copies of seven functions stood in the page and replaced the real ones (the ticker, the alert strip, the alert map, the bottom bar, the impact check, the camera loader). They are now one: the alert strip and the ticker show the Weather Service’s alert text and news headlines as text, never as page code; the alert color reaches the rest of the screen; the alert map legend names a considerable-damage tornado warning; and the cameras, the impacts across all your cities and the Canada alert map stay as they were.

Your own forecast numbers over the forecast

• Places > Forecast: type a high, a low, a sky, a chance of rain or a wind for any of the next seven days, for one city or for every city, and every widget and every slide of the slideshow shows it, the hours of that day following it. A box left empty keeps the National Blend of Models’ number (shown grayed in the box); a day that is past is dropped by itself, and the self-check says when your numbers are over the forecast.

Fixed: the widgets’ hourly and 5-day forecasts were not coming from the National Blend of Models

• A copy of the weather fetch that stood in the page took the place of the one in the program, so the widgets (not the slideshow) still asked only Open-Meteo and never used the NBM, a WeatherAPI.com key, or the weather source light. There is now one fetch, with the data-quality check kept in it, and the widgets show the NBM’s forecast (the source light and the Status page say which station).

Compare: swipe between two maps

• Map Studio > Layers > a data layer > Compare with the main map: the main national map or model shows on the left of a divider and that layer on the right (the radar against the forecast, one model against another, the temperature now against tomorrow’s). The divider is on the map on the Output as well; the Console’s can be dragged, or it can sweep from side to side by itself (the Console and the Output swing together), and each side can be named. Both pictures keep their own colors, opacity, legend and timeline. It needs a national map or a model as the main layer.

Sync between computers

• Keys & Backup > Sync: computers that run the same station keep the same setup through one file in a folder they all can reach (a OneDrive, Dropbox or Google Drive folder, a network share). Each part (layouts, colors, looks, alert bundles, Map Studio’s tables, bundles, slides, blocks, shows and show plans, the places, the station’s name and text, the layout of the widgets, the content widgets, the voice, the forecast numbers) is kept in step by itself, so two people changing different parts do not get in each other’s way; if the same part was changed on both, nothing is overwritten and you choose. A backup is made before anything is taken, and keys, passwords, the license, sound files, logos and everything that belongs to one computer are never in the file. A new computer picks the same folder and chooses Use the folder’s for all.

French, and the names of the alerts in Spanish and French

• Output & Display > Language has Français beside English and Español. The fixed labels are translated, and so are the names of the alerts and watches (Tornado Warning is Aviso de tornado or Alerte de tornade) wherever they are on the output. The text the Weather Service writes inside an alert stays in English; the voice and the script say the event, the places, the time and what to do in the language chosen.

On Air: Lower Third and Breaking

• The Ticker and Lower Third card on the On Air page is now Lower Third, and holds the lower third’s own content (the place it was entered before). Beside it, where the Status box was, is Breaking: the headline entry that goes to the ticker, the lower third or both. The feeds’ status is still on Status & Health and in the top bar. A show step’s title strap no longer puts the name of its block or slide on the Lower Third: only the words typed for the strap show, and with none typed nothing does.

The automatic warning view: warnings in my area, the nearest radar, and the show

• “Only warnings within … km” is now “Only warnings in my area”: the warning has to name one of the counties you watch (Content); with none chosen every warning counts. The map goes to the nearest radar to the warning (its own scan; the national map or leaving the radar as it is are the other choices), the warning is selected so it takes over the header and goes on the threat matrix, the alert strip and the ticker, even if clicked warnings are not put there. A new choice says what happens to a show that is playing: the warning takes the Output over, the show waits, and when the warning is over the same step starts again from its beginning (or, if the warning came between two steps, the next one); switched off, the show is not interrupted.

Fixed: the radar light was red with no radar on

• The Radar light judged every main layer by a radar’s limits (a picture no older than 12 to 25 minutes). A national map of the weather such as RTMA is made every 15 minutes and is published about 20 to 30 minutes later, so it showed red as “radar feed down” whenever it was on. It is now judged by its own cadence and called Map data, and a stored archive on air is no longer judged at all.

The live advisories slide shows where the warning is

• The counties the warning names are on the slide: the first three under the title and all of them in the footer. The region name set for the slides no longer replaces them while a warning is on the slide.

The show no longer depends on Map Studio

• A slide of the slideshow letting go of the map no longer takes a block of the show off it: the map used to go back to whatever bundle Map Studio had set up (new data) behind the banner of the block’s product. The show lets go of the map itself. The check before a show no longer asks for “On output” in Map Studio: a block plays on the Output with it off, and the Output goes back to what Map Studio has when the show lets go.

The city names are over every layer

• The names of the cities, towns and neighborhoods are now always the top of the map: every layer, the weather, the warnings, markers, storm tracks, reports, drawings and every custom layer, lies under them, whatever order the layers are in. The layers list says so: the group that was “over the names and roads” is now over the roads and street names, which is the place for a layer that must be over the roads but under the names. A layer put under the roads (a custom layer too) is under them whatever “Draw roads on top of the radar” is set to; that setting now only decides it for the radar, the satellite and the data layers.

View menu: the viewpoints of the group are listed first, each one to fly to

• The View menu now opens on the viewpoints: pick a group and its views are listed right under it. Click a view’s name to fly there (the one you are on is lit), tick the ones the tour goes through. Ctrl+K names the group in front of each view it can fly to.

Hourly and daily forecasts from the National Blend of Models

• The widgets’ hourly and 5-day forecasts and the slideshow’s forecasts now come from the NBM’s own point guidance, from the nearest of its stations (within 100 km), instead of a weather website’s API: no key, no daily limit. The three files (hourly, 3-hourly and the week) are downloaded once for each cycle, about 40 MB an hour, and kept on disk. The temperatures, wind, cloud, chance and kind of precipitation and thunder are the NBM’s; the weather icon is worked out from them, and sunrise and sunset from the place. The conditions of now (temperature, humidity, pressure, UV, air quality) still come from the weather source, which also stands in whenever the NBM cannot answer. System > API Keys > Where the hourly and daily forecasts come from switches it back.

A seamless show: the next blocks are loaded ahead and kept up to date

• The radar blocks that come next in a show are loaded by the Output behind whatever is on air, and asked for again every thirty seconds, so a block comes up with its whole loop in and the newest picture in it, and the curtain never waits for the radar. Measured on the real app: a block that has been warmed comes up in about half a second; one that had not took six seconds. The show waits, where nobody sees it, only at the start (what is on the Output stays on until the first block is ready) and for a moment at the end of the step before a block whose last warming was a while ago. The Output also asks for the newest radar picture every twenty seconds instead of every minute.

Show: no Map Studio banner on a block, and a shorter dip to black

• The header named the product the map had before (a 24 hour rain total from Map Studio) over a radar block until the block’s own loop was in: the block now waits for the pictures of its own product before it comes up. A warning clicked in Map Studio is also let go when a block comes up. The dip to black waited up to 18 seconds for the whole loop of the block to load, and the block was loaded all over again if it had been waiting a minute: now it waits at most six seconds, and a loop that is already in only asks for its newest pictures.

Ctrl+K finds a product, and opens its menu

• Type a product (dew point, velocity, rain total ...) in the search box and pick "Product: ...": the map shows it and the top bar tab it belongs to opens with it lit. The NWS and Conditions tabs now name their own product (a forecast grid, not the RTMA map that is on).

Header: the product name as the title works for every product

• Use the product name as the title now covers every product: the national maps, one radar, the archive, the satellite and extra layers, and it shows even if the title itself is switched off.

Fixed: a layer drawn under the ocean layer was dimmed; the ocean layer is locked at the bottom

• A layer moved under the ocean layer went under the night shading, the city lights and the terrain too, which dimmed it. It now sits directly under the ocean layer, so only the sea is over it. The ocean layer is locked as the bottom of the layers under the roads and names, as the base map is the bottom of the whole list.

Export a loop as an MP4 or a GIF

• Export (top bar) > Video and GIF > An export of the loop: pick the format, where on the timeline to start and where to stop, how fast, how many times it plays and how long to hold the last picture each time round. The pictures are taken one at a time, so the result is smooth however slow the computer. The live recording (real time, MP4) is still there; its length stays where you put it (10 seconds went back to 20).

Coast and state lines over the weather layers, with their own color

• A layer that covers the whole country (RTMA, a model, the satellite) hid the coast and the state lines under it, which on the satellite map style left no coast at all. They are now drawn again over the weather (Map Studio > Map > Coast and state lines on top of the weather layers, on by default). On the satellite style the coast can be turned off and given its own color and width.

Header: the product name in the place of the title

• Header settings > Use the product name as the title shows the name of the product (as renamed at the bottom of that list) where the title would be, so the header does not say Live Radar over a temperature map.

Fixed: a paused loop stayed on an older picture (RTMA and the other grids)

• The pictures of a loop load newest first, five at a time, and the first to land was shown and kept even when it was not the newest, so a paused RTMA map said, for example, 1 hr 10 min ago while a newer picture was there. The map now moves on to a newer picture as it lands (until you move it yourself), and the list is always oldest first, so the last picture is the newest.

Blocks stay live

• A model run picked when a block was saved is let go, so the block plays the newest run; the slides of a block are asked for again every ten minutes instead of being kept from the first time they were loaded.

Fixed: a fine overlay of small squares on the Real 3D clouds (since the solid sides)

• The solid sides made for the Real 3D look turned every single point with no cloud in the middle of a thin cloud deck (the picture’s pixels come and go round the thresholds) into a little pit with walls, and over a whole deck those were a lattice of small squares, like an overlay that smoothing did not touch. Such a point is now filled at the height of the cloud round it, and only the edge of a real cloud (a kilometer high or more) gets a wall.

Fixed: the little squares and fine hatch over the 3D satellite clouds

• In Real clouds a regular fine hatch of small squares lay over the clouds when the view was zoomed out over a whole storm (not on the flat map). The cloud’s billows are a few kilometers across, and with a pixel a kilometer or more, that is a hatch, not billows. Each size of billow now fades out where its features would be only a few pixels across (zoomed in, all of them show as before), the billow noise has no sharp creases between its cells, the heights are read between their pixels along smooth curves, and each map pixel takes the average of the picture over the area it covers.

Fixed: the stripes and terraces across the 3D satellite clouds

• The 3D clouds are raised to heights read from the infrared picture, which has only 256 levels (a step of 100 to 160 m each), so the surface came in steps that, lit from the side, looked like contour lines across the clouds (the Smooth slider smooths the picture, not these steps). The heights are now smoothed where neighboring points are within half a kilometer of each other and kept in finer than a byte, so a step melts into the slope it is part of while a storm tower’s cliff stays sharp. It works for the visible and other bands as well as the infrared.

Fixed: a satellite’s legend can be set, and its words make sense

• Each satellite picture has its own Legend values as choice in its settings (numbers with units, numbers only, the temperature in °F or K, words for the product, your own words), as the radar has. Words for this product were the generic Low, Moderate, High, Extreme for a satellite; the infrared now says Coldest, Very cold, Cold, Cool, Warm along its colors, and the other channels Darkest, Dark, Bright, Brightest.

A slow turn of the camera round a point

• Map Studio > View > Slow turn around a point: the camera turns slowly round the middle of the picture, a point you choose (Use the middle now, or Choose on the map), or the tropical storm shown (it follows the storm), once in 20 seconds to 10 minutes, clockwise or counter-clockwise. It turns the preview and the output together, from the way the map is turned and tilted when it starts; the point stays where it is on the screen, which is what makes video that circles a storm. Touching the map in the Console stops it. It is kept with a map slide, a block or a show, so a slide made with it on turns when it is shown (a slide made before this does not).

The satellite sandwich works in the 3D looks, and the 3D sides are solid

• A sandwich (a second satellite picture over the first, with its blend mode, strength and colors) now shows in Real 3D, Columns and Real clouds as well as on the flat map; before, the second picture was left out of the 3D looks. In Real 3D the sides of the clouds are solid walls in the cloud’s color, down to the cloud’s base (its top less its thickness), instead of see-through sheets with lines through them; the cloud floats over the ground as clouds do.

Fixed: a dark patch with stars in the satellite map (Eglin Air Force Base)

• The imagery source sends a blank tile for places it has no picture of (it does over Eglin Air Force Base, Florida), and the sky and stars behind the map showed through it. The satellite map now has dark ground under the imagery, so such a place is a dark patch, not a hole.

Fixed: big color tables for precipitation types (and every color table) now install

• A color table with more than 256 colors (a color every quarter of a dBZ, say) was refused with a message that was gone in a moment, so the precipitation-type tables seemed not to save. It now installs, with the colors that add least dropped to fit 256 (a smooth ramp looks the same), and the message says it was reduced.

Share part of your setup as a pack file

• Keys & Backup > Backup & Restore has Share part of your setup: tick what to hand over (layouts, colors, looks, alert color bundles, radar color tables, layer bundles, map slides, blocks, shows, show plans), name the pack, and save one small file. Someone else opens it, sees what is in it, and adds the parts they want: lists are added to theirs and nothing of theirs is replaced (an item with a name or id they have is added as another), and colors replace theirs only when ticked. A pack holds no keys, passwords, places, cameras, logos or sound files, and what is added is checked like a whole setup is when it loads.

Overlays and live feeds: pictures, cameras, streams and guests

• In Look > Layout & Widgets, Overlays and live feeds adds widgets that have no header or frame, as many as you like: a Picture (a PNG with a clear background works well, up to 25 MB), a Computer camera (a webcam or capture card on this computer, picked by name), a Stream link (HLS, MP4, YouTube, Vimeo, a snapshot or MJPEG address or a web page), and a Guest camera. Each is a widget like the others: place and size it in Edit Mode, switch it off, set how it fits its box (whole, filled or stretched), its strength and rounded corners. A guest opens the link AtmoDeck gives (it needs the phone remote on and Secure https), allows the camera on a phone or computer on the same network, and appears in the box, several guests at once; the link works for that one overlay and nothing else of the remote.

The show and the map are widgets of their own, and a layers list

• The show (the slideshow and intros) is now a widget like the map (Show in Look > Layout & Widgets and in Edit Mode): move it, size it, switch it off, with the map as its own box beside it. A Layers list under Overlays and live feeds puts the overlays in order, from the top of the picture down: over the panels, then the panels and widgets, then between the show and the panels, then the show and the map; ▲ ▼ moves one up or down, and across the panels line to the other side.

The tornado outlook is smooth

• The Storm intel tornado outlook (days 1 to 3) is drawn as rounded areas, one for each level, the way a forecaster draws an outlook, instead of one square for every half degree. Each level is the ring between its edge and the next level up, so the colors do not pile up, and a place’s chance is blended between the cells round it (the card a click opens says that chance).

Fixed: “the map was asked to redraw … times a second” on every start

• The map speed notice (and the Map speed light) no longer comes up when the map is asked to redraw very often but is drawing as fast as it is allowed to (30 times a second): the redraw clock already holds those asks back, so nothing is wrong. It still says so when the map cannot keep up, and names the layer that asks.

Fixed: the forecast point boxes came back after the tropical layer was hidden

• With the tropical cyclones hidden (the eye in the layers list, or the layer off), zooming or tilting the map drew the boxes of the forecast points, and their lines, again. They stay away until the layer is shown.

Fixed: HAFS models that could not load

• The Models menu listed HAFS-A and HAFS-B for every storm, but HAFS-B is only run for some (it was run for 09L and 18E, not for 15E, 26W or 27W), so picking the missing one said no run was published. The menu now lists each system only for the storms it is run for. A storm that was only in the newest run, still coming out, was listed too early: the list now looks at the same run the map loads.

The cross section works with the Cross section button

• The hurricane model’s cross section is made with the Cross section button on the rail, beside the national maps too (it was a switch in the Tropical cyclones menu): pick it and drag a line near a hurricane, and a slice from the ground up through the storm’s model (HAFS) is in its own panel. Drag an end or the line to move it; right-click the map clears it. If the map shows a hurricane model, that one is cut; otherwise the model of the storm nearest the line. Its settings (what it shows, HAFS-A or B, a line through the storm’s center instead, smoothing, top, size) are in the Section menu beside the button. With one radar (Level II) the same button cuts the radar’s volume, as before.

Hurricane watch and warning lines follow the coast

• The lines of the tropical layer’s watches and warnings now follow the coast the map draws along their whole length. Before, a stretch between two breakpoints stayed a straight line whenever the two were on different pieces of coast (the mainland and a barrier island) or the shore between them wandered a long way round a bay; on a live hurricane watch only about a fifth of the line followed the shore. Now the line walks the shore near the straight line, crosses short gaps of water (an inlet, the mouth of a bay) in a straight line, and no longer goes round the whole bay. A gap wider than 20 km, or a coast that wanders far more than the line, still leaves a straight line.

No legend for the storm itself

• The tropical cyclones’ legend (the depression, storm and category colors with the cone, track and past track) is gone, since the icons and lines say what they are on the map. The watches and warnings keep their legend, and so do the surge, wind field, arrival and outlook legends.

Hurricane watches and warnings show at once

• The coastal watches and warnings of the tropical layer are read from the Hurricane Center’s own file, which has them about a minute and a half before the map service, and the layer looks at the Hurricane Center every 30 seconds (with a new address each time, since its files wait five minutes in a cache otherwise). The moment a new advisory, watch or warning is out, the cone, track, points and watches are drawn again, instead of up to five minutes later.

With alerts on, every alert shows

• The alerts on the map were only the polygon warnings and a few watches. Two new switches in Warnings add the rest: Hurricane, tropical storm and storm surge watches and warnings, and Every other alert (advisories and statements, heat, wind, fire weather, fog, coastal flood, marine and the others), each drawn in its own color. Both are on, so every alert the Weather Service has out is on the map; turn either off to leave that group out.

Hide and show the legend of each layer

• Each layer in the layers list that has a legend has a legend button beside its eye: one click hides that layer’s legend, another shows it again (a layer with several legends, like the tropical cyclones, hides them together). The new Legend menu in the top bar lists every legend on the map by layer with the same click, plus Show all, Hide all and the switch for the whole legend. A legend you hide stays hidden, even when its layer is turned off and on, until you show it again.

The Window goes out to 16 days

• The Window has Next 5 days, Next 7 days, Next 10 days and Next 16 days, for the models that reach that far (the GFS and GEFS 10 days, the NBM 8, the ECMWF IFS and AIFS 15, NOAA’s AIGFS 16). A model that stops sooner shows what it has.

The strip under the slider matches the slider

• The marks under the play bar’s slider are placed by time, on the same line as the slider’s steps, and the strip ends where the pictures end, instead of always filling the bar. With the radar’s pictures in the past and a model reaching ahead, the marks sit in the past part of the bar and the white mark is under the thumb.

Fixed: “Pace set by” kept the old model’s name

• After the main layer was changed to another model, the Pace set by buttons under the play bar kept showing the name of the first one (for example a hurricane model) until something else redrew the bar. They follow the layer’s name now.

The category on the storm icon follows the icon

• On the moving storm, the category number now grows and shrinks with Marker size (it stayed one size before) and is drawn in the font and weight chosen for the map’s labels. The category on the forecast points and other hurricane icons uses the chosen weight too, not always Bold.

Find any setting from the top of the Console

• The search box at the top of the Console (Ctrl+K) now finds Map Studio’s settings too: every layer’s (the tropical layers, lightning, the satellite, the sea, rivers, winter, terrain ...), the base map’s and the Models, View and Export menus’. Picking one opens Map Studio on it. Map Studio’s own find box finds the same, including the settings of a layer that is switched off.

A simpler Window; the nowcast is gone

• The play bar’s Window is plain stretches of time: Past hour, Past 3 hours and the next 36 hours, Next 3 days and so on. The nowcast (the radar carried ahead) and the separate “now, then the forecast” switch are gone from the Window, the Models menu and the layers list.

Fixed: changing the layout style could wipe the station name, units and language

• Opening Look > Layout & Widgets first and changing the Layout Style (or pressing Apply background) saved empty values for the station name, the ticker label, the font, the rotation times, the units, the language and the output shape. They are kept now, and the Layout Style box shows the style that is really in use.

Console tidy-up

• The first-time setup window has the Console’s look, and Skip for now no longer ticks “Your area” on the checklist. The output stream has its own port (8770), apart from the remote control’s, with a warning if the two are set the same. Lists that scroll have dark scrollbars. The saved layouts and slideshow groups are listed inside their own cards. The colors of the lower third are swatches. Wording left over from the flood, heat and winter modes is gone.

Pick the run of a weather model

• In the Future menu, Model run lists the last ten runs of the model (for example Run of 00Z Oct 7) as well as the newest run. The run you pick is used for every model layer on the map: the main one, the added ones and the hurricane model under a storm.

Every layer’s settings in the same three parts

• Each layer’s settings are sorted into What it shows, Look and Time, in that order, so a setting is in the same part wherever it is. The tropical layers, the storm tracks, the warnings, the satellite, the lightning and the rest all open that way; a layer with only a few settings stays as it was.

The storm’s track animation has its own timeline

• With Animate the forecast on, the play bar gets a Storm track lane: a step every 3 hours from now to the end of the storm’s forecast. It needs no model; a model under it is only a picture shown at the same time. The header shows the time the storm is at, the same clock as the play bar. The icon turns once every 2 seconds (the slider goes from 0.5 to 10), and the timing choices (Smooth, Repeat, Each frame, End pause, Header) sit on the bar beside Speed.

Choose which radars are shown together

• With several radars on (Radar menu, Several radars), Which radars is The nearest ones to the map or The ones I choose: pick up to six from a list or by clicking their domes on the map; the first one chosen is the main radar.

The base map has a sidebar

• The Map button at the left of the map opens the base map’s settings (the map look, the style under the radar, labels, roads, borders, terrain, globe, sky, night) in a sidebar beside the map. The layers list keeps a row that opens it, and now holds only layers.

A legend for the tropical layers and the sea layers

• The map’s legend now says what the colors mean for every tropical layer (the chance of hurricane-force, damaging or tropical-storm-force winds, the peak surge, the surge flooding and risk maps, the outlook areas and invests, the strength colors, the wind field, the arrival times, the watches and warnings), the hurricane model tracks, the aircraft, the tide gauges and the surge forecast, the road flood risk, the sea surface temperature, the waves and the lightning, and for the satellite’s infrared and water vapor channels.

Looks and colors, cleaned up: one palette, starter looks, and no more flood, heat or winter modes

• The flood, heat and winter modes are gone (their themes, threat panels, sounds, logos and switches); the severe mode stays. Look > Colors & Text starts with One palette: five colors (brand, accent, panels, text, severe) that color the whole picture in every layout, Glass included, with each layout keeping its own shape and look; a color set one by one still wins, and the element colors are folded into groups you open. Look > Looks has six starter looks (a corner style and a palette in one click).

A simpler timeline

• The play bar has one Window choice (the past, the model’s forecast, or both) in place of Length, Show and Nowcast, Speed is Slow, Normal, Fast, and any layer with pictures in time (the main picture, the satellite, each data layer you add, a storm’s track) can set the pace with one click under the bar. Smooth, Repeat, Each frame, End pause and Header sit on the bar beside Speed.

A size for your logo in the header and the bottom bar

• Look > Colors & Text > Logos has a width for the bottom bar’s logo box and a height for the logo in it, and the Map Studio header settings have a height and a widest width for the header’s logo, so a long logo can be as wide as it needs to be.

Hurricane models: cross sections

• A cross section through the storm’s hurricane model (HAFS-A or HAFS-B): a slice from the ground up along a line you drag with the Cross section button (or through the storm’s center, so it moves with the storm), in its own panel. It shows the wind, the simulated reflectivity (in your color table), the temperature, the humidity, the vertical motion or the absolute vorticity, at the model’s own detail (every cell as the model has it), with a Smoothing slider. The map can show something else under it, for example the model’s simulated radar.

Hurricanes: invests, an animated track, and boxed forecast points

• Invests are storms in the Storm shown list and take the header (wind, pressure, movement and chances). Animate the forecast moves the storm along its forecast points: its icon changes with its strength, tropical storms and hurricanes turn, the header follows each point, the storm is moved only by the timeline (Play, Pause, a drag on the bar and the Window you choose), the HAFS model can be put under it, the camera can follow the storm’s center, and the swirl turns slowly (you set how slowly). Each forecast point’s label is a box in the color of the strength at that time, set a little out of the way with a line to its point, with a white border that can be turned off. A new storm’s cone and track show at once, and watches and warnings the map service still holds from an old advisory are left out.

Archive: the On output switch ticks, and the Output plays the archive

• Fixed: the On output switch of Archive mode could not be ticked (it switched itself back off), and an archive put on the Output stayed on one picture. The Output now plays the loop. The bar of parts under the map only shows for a window of several parts.

A color for every element of every theme

• Look > Colors & Text > Colors now lists every part of the picture for the theme you are editing, grouped by where it is: the bottom bar, the clock, the hourly bar, the ticker, the camera, scanner, Coming up and 5-day panels, the Powered by badge, the map header and legend, the slideshow, and the five colors of the Glass look (the frosted blue, the edge, the pale title bars and their dark letters). A part you do not change keeps the look of the theme; a changed one has its reset arrow lit.

A new look: Glass

• A new install now opens in the Glass look with the widgets joined into an L along the right and the bottom (an install that already has its own look and arrangement keeps it; Starter layouts has "L-Bar (Glass)" to add the same arrangement). Layout Style has a new choice, Glass: frosted blue panels you can see the picture through, pale title bars with dark capitals, big light numbers and hairline dividers. Warnings keep their own colors. The slideshow follows it when it matches the broadcast.

Social Posting: Alert posting is renamed and has Graphics and Slides in it

• The Alert posting page is now Social Posting, with tabs for Write a post, Automatic alerts, Graphics, Slides and Accounts. Graphics moved into it.
• Every graphic has Post it and Download. The new Slides tab lists every slide of the slideshow: press Generate to see its picture, then Post or Download it. You can type your own cities (up to 10, one on each line) and the pictures use them. Slide pictures are made in seconds and have no widgets on them.
• In Write a post, choosing an alert writes the post for you. An alert picture leaves out the people, hospitals and schools box when it cannot be counted, and can be downloaded. Every alert the Weather Service can issue (111 kinds) now has its own color on the Colors page.

Console look: slate, mint and a clearer top bar

• The Console opens in a slate theme (AtmoDeck) with a mint accent; green is kept for ok, on and live. The alert chart is red for warnings and yellow for watches. The top bar text is larger, the Feeds pill carries a mark as well as a color, and long explanations under settings fold to their first sentence with More.

A new logo and a new look for the Console

• The new AtmoDeck icon and logo replace the old ones everywhere: the program’s icon and the installer’s, the windows, the splash and the license screen, the Powered by badge, the default station logo and the website.
• The Console now opens in AtmoDeck, a slate theme that uses the colors of the logo: green for what is chosen, buttons and good news, yellow for warnings, red for errors, and the bars of the A as a line under the logo. The other themes (Ocean is the old blue one) are still in the palette menu at the top right.
• The menu logo: folded, the menu shows only the A; opened, the rest of the name slides out of it.

Alert posting: radar in your color table, people, hospitals and schools, and a map for every alert

• In Alert posting, Write a post > An alert now has Radar over the map (the national radar from the Weather Service, about every 2 minutes, painted in the color table you choose: the built-in ones and any you installed in Map Studio, with a floor for the weakest echoes to hide) and People, hospitals and schools in the alert (the people from the 2020 Census, the hospitals and schools from OpenStreetMap, shown as at least that many). Your choices are remembered.
• Fixed: alerts for forecast zones and marine zones (a gale warning, a heat warning or watch, a winter weather advisory, a freeze warning, a small craft advisory, high surf) never had a map, because the picture looked for county names in them and zones have names of their own. The picture now asks the Weather Service for the shape of each zone the alert lists and draws them all. An alert for open water says nobody lives there; an area too big to count its hospitals and schools in a reasonable time says so instead of waiting.
• Fixed: counting the hospitals and schools in an alert (in this picture and in the warning boxes on the map) could wait for a minute and then give nothing, because the program’s browser network stack never got an answer from the map data servers for that question; it now asks the way the rest of the program does.

The ocean layer and the map’s weather icons work again

• Fixed: the ocean layer was never added to the map when the lakes were on (the map library refused the layer description), so it did not show at all or covered what was under it. It is added now, under the radar and the labels.
• Fixed: the weather icons on the map were taken from the place names that happened to be drawn, so with the place names off there were no icons. They now take the map’s own cities when too few names are drawn.

Console threat block: a lone mountain top no longer says Winter

• A tiny patch of winter impact (a single mountain top drawn as a Minor or Moderate area on a mild day) used to set the Winter face and a Blizzard risk. Winter patches smaller than about 8,000 square kilometers are now left out.

Graphics: 53 more pictures to post

• The Graphics page now makes 76 pictures, in groups: Storm Prediction Center (the biggest storm reports of the day, yesterday’s reports, mesoscale discussions, this month’s tornado reports, the Day 4 to 8 severe outlooks), Alerts (emergencies and PDS watches), Flood and water (the excessive rainfall outlook for Days 1 to 3, rivers in flood, the most rain reported), Winter (the winter storm severity index for Days 1 to 3 and snow amount, and snow reported), Fire and air (the fire weather outlook for Days 1 to 3, the largest wildfires with how much is contained, air quality alerts and air quality in big cities), Heat and cold (the hottest and the coldest places right now, record highs and lows set, the high against normal, HeatRisk), Wind and visibility (the strongest gusts, fog), Radar (where it is raining or snowing right now), Coast and ocean (rip currents, high surf and coastal flooding alerts, tropical storms and hurricanes, the highest waves, water temperature), Climate outlooks (6 to 10 day, 8 to 14 day and seasonal, temperature and precipitation), City forecasts (highs, the weekend, UV), Earth and space (volcano alert levels, the aurora, space weather), Travel (airport delays and ground stops) and Features (today in weather history, a weather safety tip).
• When you choose states, the pictures made from many places show many more of them: the city pictures (forecast highs, the weekend, UV, air quality) put a number on the big cities and then on weather stations 10 to 20 miles apart across the states, up to 70 (the whole country shows the 40 biggest cities), and the weather station pictures (hottest, coldest, gusts, fog, where it is wet) ask for the stations of those states, instead of the few that were left of the nation’s 400.
• Dots can now carry a number (a forecast high, an air quality reading), and a long label under the big number no longer gets cut off. The Drought Monitor’s shapes were redrawn: they kept only every third or fourth point of each outline, which made the edges jagged and chopped off small areas, and they spilled over the coast and the border. They are now cut to the land and keep their real outline.
• Not made, because there is no free feed to read: power outages, road conditions, the radar mosaic as a picture, sea surface temperature maps, lake levels and soil temperature.

Use a graphic as a slide in a show

• On the Graphics page, Use as a slide makes the picture you have set up a slide of the slideshow (Graphic: its name, in the Add slide list of the Slides page, for any playlist) and adds it as a step to the show you choose beside the button (or to none). It is made again, from the newest facts, each time it plays, and every ten minutes while a playlist or a show uses it; if the service cannot be reached, the last picture made is shown. It fills the picture on its own background color, 12 seconds as a show step (change it like any step). On the Show page, + Graphic adds one you saved before, and the check above the rundown warns when one is gone.

Your own picture as the transition between steps

• On the Show page, Transition picture takes a PNG, JPG, WebP, GIF or SVG file (up to 25 MB). The new Your picture transition slides it across the screen when a step changes, and Wipe and Push use it too in place of the colored bar. It is read ahead of time, so it appears the instant the step changes.

Blocks can pop up forecast slides from the map

• Right-click a spot on the map and choose Block pop-up: current conditions, hourly forecast or 5-day forecast. Save block lists them (up to 6 per block) with a time to come up and how long to stay. While the block plays on the Output the slides come up from the map at their times, and go when their time is up or the block ends. Their forecasts are fetched with the block, so there is no wait.

Show: radar blocks play, and are ready before their turn

• A radar block that was the first thing to bring the map up on the Output used to start paused, so its loop never ran. It now plays, counts its laps and ends on time. While a slide, an intro, a video or a graphic is on, the next radar block is loaded behind it (its map and its whole loop), and a block is not shown until its whole loop is in, so it no longer stutters. A radar block that follows another radar block can only be ready ahead of time when it uses the same radar.

Invests, the I symbol and the models’ tracks for tropical systems

• The Graphics picture of tropical systems now shows storms, hurricanes and invests together on a sea map of its own (the world’s land, lines of latitude and longitude, framed on the systems). An invest is an area the Hurricane Center has numbered (like 92L or 92E) and is following closely before it is a depression or a storm: it is an I in a ring, colored by its chance of developing (yellow low, orange medium, red high). Each system has its wind, pressure, movement and, for an invest, its 2-day and 7-day chances; the forecast models’ tracks (the spaghetti: GFS, ECMWF, UKMET, Canadian, NAVGEM, HWRF, HMON, both HAFS, COAMPS-TC, the GEFS and ECMWF ensemble means, the consensus and the official forecast) are drawn from each system, with the track so far as a dotted line, how far the models disagree at 5 days, and where the intensity guidance peaks.
• In Map Studio, the Tropical cyclones layer has a new switch, Invests: each invest is an I on the map, in the color of its chance of developing, and a click on it opens its card (wind, pressure, movement, the chances in 2 and 7 days, when it was last placed). Turn on Hurricane model tracks to see the models for it.
• Fixed: invests were never listed in the Hurricane model tracks Storm menu, because the list of the Hurricane Center’s files was read as one line. They are listed now, with their numbers (92L, 92E).

Graphics: pictures of maps for social media, for any states

• A new Graphics page (Build group) makes a picture of a map to post, from what the Weather Service, the Storm Prediction Center, the USGS, the fire center and the Drought Monitor say right now. The first 23 products: radar sites not reporting; tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings; watches; winter, cold, heat, fire weather, flood, wind, fog and tropical alerts (each drawn as the counties they cover); alerts counted by state; the Day 1, 2 and 3 convective outlooks and the Day 1 tornado, hail and wind probabilities; today’s storm reports; earthquakes (24 hours and 7 days); wildfires; and the Drought Monitor. Pick any states, or a group such as Tornado Alley, and the map zooms and crops to them, with the numbers and the list counting only what is inside (the states around can stay, dimmed). Choose the shape (wide 16:9, square, portrait 4:5 or story 9:16), a title of your own, the background color and the number and marker colors, and the logo at the top right: your own from Colors & Text, a picture from your computer, or none, with a plate behind it when it is hard to read. Write up to six bullet points of your own (one on each line) and they appear on the side, above the list, which you can turn off. The key under the map wraps onto more rows instead of cutting a label. Text turns dark on a light background by itself. Save picture puts a PNG in Pictures\AtmoDeck\graphics, Copy picture puts it on the clipboard. A picture is a snapshot, so post it soon after making it.

Unwarned in the path: towns a rotating storm is heading for with no tornado warning

• A new switch under Storm tracks in Map Studio. AtmoDeck follows each rotation marker the radar has tracked for two scans, works out which way it is going and how fast, and lists the towns on its path (for the next 10 to 60 minutes) that have no tornado warning over them when the storm gets there. A warning that will have ended by then does not count. On the map each town gets a red dot, its arrival time and the words NO WARNING (or SEVERE T-STORM WARNING ONLY when only a severe thunderstorm warning covers it), with the storm’s path drawn in red; the same picture goes to the Output. The bell at the top of the Console tells you the moment a new set of towns appears, so you can call the Weather Service or say it on air. A young heading is rough, so the path is wider for a storm followed for only two or three scans. You choose how far ahead to look, the smallest AtmoSpin value to follow, how many towns to list and the smallest kind of place. It is off until you switch it on, and it works from the live radar only (a replayed loop is ignored).

Alert posting: watches and warnings to social media

• The new Alert posting page posts each new watch and warning, with a picture of the area (your counties picked out and the alert’s own shape drawn on the county map), to X, Facebook pages, Bluesky, Mastodon, Telegram, Discord, Slack, Microsoft Teams or any web address. The words are written from what the Weather Service says (what, where, until when, the hail, wind and tornado details and what to do) in a plain, urgent or friendly tone, and cut to fit each service. Updates are posted as replies under the first post (comments on Facebook). You choose which alerts and which counties, add your own hashtags and link, set a limit of posts an hour, and can have every post wait for your click first (the default). It is off until you switch it on, and it never posts what was already in effect when AtmoDeck opened. Passwords and tokens are kept encrypted in the main program and never shown on the page. The picture can carry your logo (the theme’s, or one you choose for posts) and, if you like, the live radar under the alert. An update is only ever a short comment under the first post, and only when something a reader would want to know changed (a new end time, a stronger threat, more counties), at most three times for one alert; posts to X never carry a link, which X charges far more for. X is included with your plan: choose X (connect your account), approve it on X’s own page, and AtmoDeck posts your alerts to your account, up to a monthly limit, without you handling any keys. You can also write a post by hand: type your own words and add a picture of an alert, a picture of one of your slides, or a picture or video file from your computer (MP4 and MOV videos go to X, Discord, Telegram, Mastodon and Facebook), tick where it goes and post it at once. A Quick Take is a five-second video of the alert over the radar of the last fifty minutes, made in a few seconds; post one by hand, or switch on Post tornado warnings as a radar-loop video to have each tornado warning go out as a video where the service can take one, and as the picture elsewhere. Alert posting also covers tropical storms: when the National Hurricane Center starts following a storm, one post goes out with its own cone picture, and each later advisory is a short comment under it, only when something real changed (a new category, 10 knots of wind, 8 millibars, or every 12 hours) or on every advisory if you prefer. You choose the oceans (the Atlantic by default), each storm can be paused, and a storm can be posted by hand at any time.

Alert posting: extra-urgent alerts

• A tornado emergency, a PDS (particularly dangerous situation) tornado warning and a flash flood emergency, as the Weather Service itself marks them, now get their own treatment under Extra urgent: the name in capitals with what it means and the order to take shelter, a frame in the alert’s color round the picture, and a post even if that kind of warning is switched off. They are posted at once, without waiting for your click and outside the posts-an-hour limit (switch that off to have them wait like any other post). A warning that becomes one of these after it was posted gets one new post of the urgent kind, since a comment would not tell anyone.

Alert posting: team approval

• Producers can approve the waiting posts from their own computers or phones. Under Team approval, add each person by name: AtmoDeck makes a private link for each (no account to make) and copies it for you. A person opens their link, sees what is waiting with the picture and the words, changes the words if they like, and presses Approve and post or Reject; the computer running AtmoDeck posts it within seconds and their page shows that it was posted. The first to decide has it, and a decision made at the AtmoDeck computer shows on their page. Your connected accounts never leave that computer: only the words and the picture of a waiting post go through the AtmoDeck server. Remove a person and the link stops working at once; up to ten people.

Quick setups, a self-check and Go live

• The Dashboard has a new Ready for air card. Quick setup puts the map the way a kind of day needs it with one click: Severe weather (Level II radar from several radars with rotation markers, warnings, lightning, storm reports, the outlook and your counties), Winter weather, Tropical, Flooding or an Everyday forecast. Each sets the radar, warnings and layers that belong to it and switches the others off, and leaves your view and look alone. Under it, the self-check says in plain words what the on-air lights say (the radar’s age, the Output, the internet, your license) with a button to reload the radar or fetch again, and Go live checks everything, puts the map on the Output and starts the show chosen on the Show page. The quick setups and Go live are also in the command palette (Ctrl+K), as is Cut to block for each saved block, and the first-run list now asks what you are showing.

Faster start-up, and a fresh radar picture sooner

• A map with several radars now asks every radar for its newest sweep the moment it opens and puts that picture in the loop as soon as the loop has its first scan, so the first live picture appears in about 15 seconds instead of nearly a minute (the archive’s own scans are ten minutes old). A radar that had no finished sweep of its new volume yet is asked again after five seconds. The rotation markers of the radars are now made one after another instead of all at once, so they no longer hold up a live picture. The program no longer waits on the internet for d3, the video player or its Poppins and Inter fonts: they are inside the app, which also lets the windows load about 0.4 seconds sooner and start with no connection.

Choose where the Output’s sound goes

• Settings > Sounds has a new Where the Output’s sound goes card. Send the alarms, music, show videos and camera sound to any sound device in the computer, such as a virtual audio cable that OBS picks up as its own source (so it no longer comes from your speakers), or to Nowhere to silence the Output completely. If a device has been unplugged, the sound goes to the Windows default instead of being lost.

Video files as steps of a show

• On the Show page, + Video file adds an MP4 or WebM file as a step. It is copied into AtmoDeck, so it still plays if the original is moved, and it fills the Output until it ends (or for the length you set), with a choice of the whole picture or filling the frame, and of muting its sound. The check before a show warns you if a video file is missing.

Choose where the slide content sits

• In the Slideshow, Customize has a new Where the content sits panel: put the header, city name and cards in a corner, along an edge or in the centre, make them bigger or smaller, and nudge them. The background photo or video keeps filling the whole picture. As designed leaves your slides exactly as they were.

Live radar mosaics follow the newest sweep, minutes sooner

• With several radars on the map at once, the picture used to wait for each radar’s whole volume (about five minutes of scanning) and was labelled from the start of that volume, so it was always five to ten minutes behind. Each radar is now followed to its newest finished sweep of the chosen tilt, the way a single radar already was, about every twenty seconds at most per radar, so the mosaic is usually a minute or two behind the radars. A radar that has not finished its first sweep of a new volume is drawn from its last whole volume, and a radar put on the map is fed live after twelve seconds instead of forty-five. The rotation markers are made for the scans of the last 25 minutes only (older pictures of the loop are drawn without them), so the loop is built much sooner.

Counties, weather icons and map libraries no longer depend on the internet

• The county shapes (county lines, my counties and the county spotlight), the map libraries and the usual weather icons are now inside the program instead of being fetched from public servers each time. If one of those servers is slow or down, county lines, the spotlight and weather icons no longer disappear; the public server is only a fallback now. The single-radar (Level II) decoder also now starts correctly in the installed program, and a live radar with rotation markers on no longer falls behind: the markers (about two and a half seconds of work a volume) are made again at most once a minute for each live radar, so they cannot hold up the pictures.

Setup: Whole county or zone, whole state or province

• In the setup, the question How much area? now starts with Whole county (the old Just my county) and ends with a new choice, Whole state, which watches every county of your state for alerts (115 in Missouri, up to 254 in Texas). In Canada the same two ends are Whole zone and Whole province, which watches every forecast zone of the province (37 in Manitoba, 67 in Quebec). The forecast towns come from the 30 nearest counties or zones, so the slideshow does not rotate through hundreds of towns.

Only one AtmoDeck at a time

• Starting AtmoDeck a second time (the shortcut pressed twice, launch at login and a hand start) now brings the first window forward instead of opening a second copy. Two copies on the same data fought over its cache and settings, which could lose the map’s state and wrongly show “AtmoDeck restarted after it stopped unexpectedly”; that notice now appears only after a real crash, and no longer after a restart, a sign-out or Windows shutting down.

Choose the drive when installing

• The new setup, AtmoDeckSetup-ChooseDrive.exe, asks which drive to install AtmoDeck on (any NTFS drive in the computer, with its free space shown) before it installs. AtmoDeck, its radar downloads and every later update go to that drive. Choosing the system drive installs it in the usual place. If AtmoDeck is already installed, the setup updates that copy where it is.

A start-up screen, and the windows come up already laid out

• AtmoDeck now opens with a start-up screen: the globe fades up behind the AtmoDeck name, as it does on the website, while the program gets ready. The Console and the Output stay hidden until they have loaded and settled, so the saved layout is no longer seen being put on top of the old one; both appear together and the start-up screen goes.

Tornado outlook for the next three days

• Storm intel has a new layer: AtmoDeck’s own tornado outlook for Day 1, Day 2 and Day 3 (each a 12 UTC to 12 UTC day). It is made on your computer from the newest forecast models by a model of AtmoDeck’s own, fitted on years of forecasts against the Storm Prediction Center’s tornado reports, and gives the chance of a tornado within 25 miles of each place in the United States east of the Rockies. Click for its chance and how the model did in testing; the settings list the closest past days (2022 to 2025) to the forecast, with how many tornadoes each had.
• How good it is, tested on years it had not been fitted on: it picks out where and when tornadoes happen much better than season and place alone (0.92 against 0.80 on a scale where 0.5 is a coin toss), and it loses only a little from Day 1 (4.1% better than climate) to Day 3 (3.2%). Its chances up to about 15% match how often tornadoes came. It rarely goes above 30% and it under-forecasts the largest outbreaks, and it is much simpler than what forecasters at the Storm Prediction Center do. It is an experiment, not their outlook: use theirs for a decision.

Space Weather tab: the aurora forecast on the map, and what the sun is doing

• Map Studio has a new Space weather menu, built like Winter and Water. The aurora forecast from the Space Weather Prediction Center’s OVATION model is drawn on the map as soft coloured dots (the chance of seeing the aurora overhead in the next half hour; both ovals, and you choose how faint a chance to show). The menu also reads the sun for you: the Kp index for the last three days and the forecast, the NOAA storm scales (G, S and R), the solar wind and its magnetic field, and the newest space weather alerts. The aurora has its legend.

Storm Intel tab: ProbSevere, the lightning jump and the record of past tornadoes

• A new Storm intel menu. ProbSevere (NOAA and CIMSS) puts a polygon round every storm the radar sees, coloured by its chance of severe weather, a tornado, hail or damaging wind in the next hour, with the chance beside it; click a storm for its card (lightning, hail size, rotation, motion, shear, helicity, CAPE). A bolt marks a storm whose lightning has jumped (its flash rate climbing faster than twice its recent spread: ProbSevere’s own flag and our own check of its last quarter of an hour), and you can show only those storms. It is a model’s chance, not a warning.
• Past tornado paths draws every tornado since 1950 from the Storm Prediction Center’s record, from where it touched down to where it lifted, coloured by EF rating. Choose the years and the lowest rating, or show what has happened on today’s date in any year. Click a path for its card. Archive mode already had the tornado tracks and the damage surveys for a past event.

Warning scorecard: how well your office’s warnings did

• Storm intel also scores a Weather Service office’s warnings over the last 7, 30 or 90 days (tornado, severe thunderstorm or flash flood), using the Iowa Environmental Mesonet’s verification against the storm reports: how many tornadoes were warned (POD), how many warnings had no report (false alarms), the overall score, the average warning time, and the latest warnings with what became of each. The office is the one over the middle of the map unless you choose one.

People in the path

• When a warning is selected on the map, its panel now says about how many people live inside it (for example, ABOUT 170,000 PEOPLE). The count comes from the 2020 Census, block group by block group, and is worked out on the computer, so it needs no internet. It is an estimate to two figures: a block group is counted when its centre is inside the warning, so a warning over open country may count none and then says nothing. Warnings drawn by whole zones (with no polygon) are not counted.

Rotation markers: ZDR arc, KDP foot and correlation drop

• The rotation detector now also looks for the dual-polarization signs of a tornadic supercell round each vortex: the arc of high differential reflectivity on the inflow side, the foot of specific differential phase (KDP), and the drop in correlation coefficient where debris is lofted. Each shows on the marker’s card (Yes, Partly or No) and adds to the tornado probability. They are only read where the radar gives those moments. Tried on 64 past storm days, adding them changed nothing that could be measured (the score was 20% with them and 20% without), so they are shown for the forecaster’s eye and carry little weight.

AtmoSpin Value: one number, 0 to 10, on every rotation marker

• Each rotation marker now carries an AtmoSpin Value from 0 to 10: six tenths is the tornado probability and four tenths is how fast the rotation turns (40 m/s, about 78 kt, is the whole of that part). Near 10 is rotation that is both violent and very likely to be a tornado; strong rotation that is unlikely to make a tornado, such as a mesocyclone aloft, sits in the middle. The label shows it (ATMOSPIN 7.4), the card says it in words (Weak, Moderate, Strong, Intense, Extreme), and once a marker has been followed through the scans its history is part of the number.

The rotation detector now sees the storm’s air and the hook echo

• The detector adds two things to the radar picture. A hook echo: rain wrapped round the rotation with a notch of clear air beside it. And the storm’s environment, taken from the HRRR model at the hour of the radar volume (significant tornado parameter, low-level helicity, cloud base height and SHERBE), using the most favorable air within about 40 km. Both are on the marker’s card. A storm whose environment is not known is neither helped nor hurt.
• Tested on 64 storm days (446 radar volumes, the HRRR environment for every one) against the SPC’s tornado tracks, the honest result is modest: at its best setting the tornado signatures find 31% of tornadoes with 58% false alarms (CSI 20%), against 15% for the old markers, and 115 of the hits came before the tornado touched down, 11 minutes ahead in the middle case. The environment and the hook each add only a point or two, which is within the noise of the test, and false alarms remain the main weakness. Models fitted to the storms did not beat the built-in one on storms they had not seen, so the built-in model is still the one in use.

SHERBE and the Craven-Brooks parameter in Models

• Models has two new composite maps for every model that carries the fields they need: SHERBE (the severe hazards in environments with reduced buoyancy composite) and the Craven-Brooks significant severe parameter (mixed-layer CAPE times 0-6 km shear), each with a legend whose labels are the real values and a word for what they mean. Craven-Brooks is now drawn on its published scale in thousands of m³/s³, and the effective-layer scale of the supercell composite is 0 to 40 as the SPC draws it.
• A bug in the maps that use wind shear is fixed: the model’s shear was multiplied by the depth of the layer a second time, which made the shear and the composites built from it far too big.

Rotation markers rebuilt: a detector of our own, from the whole radar volume

• The rotation markers of a single radar no longer come from one tilt of shear cut at a threshold. A new detector looks at every tilt of the volume: it measures shear in a way that the radar’s velocity folding cannot fool, fits a model of a turning column to the wind round each candidate (so a straight line of shear such as a gust front is not marked), joins the tilts into a column to get its depth, base and top, and follows each one from scan to scan. A marker now says what it is (a tornado signature, a mesocyclone, or low-level rotation, always radar-indicated), its rotational velocity in knots, its core width, its depth, whether there is a debris signature, a tornado probability, how long it has been there, whether it is strengthening and where it is moving. Tried on 128 radar volumes from 14 past storm days against the SPC’s tornado tracks, the new tornado signatures found about as many of the tornadoes as the old markers (54% against 50%) with far fewer false alarms (32 against 118). It is still a radar: far from the radar the beam is wide and high, and few tornadoes beyond about 120 km are found. The markers of the national maps are as they were.

Show tools: a check, a hard out, conditions and breaking in

• The Show page now checks a show before it airs and lists what would go wrong (a block that was deleted, a tour whose viewpoints are gone, an intermission that would stop a show playing by itself, a show that runs past its slot); click a line to open that step. A show can End on time: give it an end time and it leaves out the steps you marked optional and shortens or lengthens its pauses to end then, working it out again at every step. A step can be set to play only while a warning is in effect, only when it is raining here, on weekdays, in the morning and so on; one whose condition is not met is left out. Break in (a button, B, Control+Alt+X or the phone) cuts the Output to a block you choose, or to the radar map as it is, and holds the show; press it again to go back to the step that was interrupted.

Program and Preview, title straps, map boxes and a report

• The Show page shows a picture of the block that is on (Program) and the one that is next (Preview), with their cue notes; blocks keep a small picture of the map when they are saved or updated. A block or slide step can put a title strap on the Lower Third for as long as it plays, and can move the radar map into a box for that step (the whole picture, the left, the right, or a corner over a slide); the layout is back when the show lets go. New shows can be made from a ready-made one (Morning, Afternoon, Evening, Severe weather) built from your own blocks and slides, or from a show you saved as a template. When a show ends, a report lists what played, when, and for how long against the plan, to copy or save. The phone remote has a presenter’s page with what is on, what is next, the cue notes and a countdown.

Blocks in folders, blocks that follow your moves, and stills

• Save block has a Folder, a search box once there are more than a few blocks, and a new camera: Follow moves I record. Press Record, pan, zoom and tilt the map the way the block should move, press Stop, and the Output repeats it. Each saved block has a Still button that plays it on the Output and saves a clean screenshot of it, and one button does that for every block. The clean screenshot (the map, the header and the boxes you tick, with a Powered by AtmoDeck box) can now be square, 4:5 or 9:16 for social posts; the header and the boxes are brought inside the shape.

The map speed light is quieter

• The Map speed light no longer warns about redraws the map library asks for itself while tiles arrive (only a layer of the app that keeps asking is reported), and it says when a map is still loading.

The Show page: a rundown for your whole broadcast

• A new Show page in the Run group builds a show the way a TV switcher does: a list of steps (a block from Map Studio, a slide of the slideshow, an intro with your own words, or an intermission), each with the seconds it plays, the pause after it, the transition into it and whether it moves on by itself or waits for you. The page works out how long the show is and the clock time each step will play, and keeps those times true while the show runs, with a Now and Next strip, Hold, Back and Next. Play it on auto-pilot (now or at a time of day, and again when it ends) or step by step with Space or keys that work even while OBS has the focus (the phone remote has Next, Back and Hold too). Rehearse runs the clock without touching the Output. The auto-pilot hours, warnings giving way and the Dashboard’s run card moved here, and the shows and run of show you had become blocks and a show the first time the page opens.

Blocks: save the map as a still or an animation

• A new Save block menu in the Radar map, the Forecast builder and Archive mode keeps what the map shows as a block for the Show page. A block is one picture held for some seconds, or an animation played some laps with a pause on its last picture, from where the map is looking or on a tour of a group of viewpoints, with each stop playing its own laps before the map flies on. Radar blocks choose Now, Now + forecast or Forecast and the speed; Forecast builder blocks hold a keyframe or play the timeline; Archive blocks keep their window, radar and overlays. Try it on the output before saving, and update a block from the map later. This replaces the old Shows menu.

The radar map is a widget

• In Edit Mode the radar map is now a widget like the others (Radar Map, in the Layout & Widgets list): it starts as the whole picture exactly as before, and you can move it and resize it with its 16:9 shape locked (9:16 in the vertical shape), to put the map in a box beside other widgets. The header, legend and popups stay where you put them.

A menu that follows the work

• The Console’s menu is regrouped into Run (Dashboard, On Air, Show), Build (Map Studio, Slides), Look, Content and System. The Slideshow page is now called Slides. Transitions between steps of a show (cut, dip to black, wipe, push up, iris) and an intro slide with a title and a line of your own are new.

A second output at the same time

• Show a second on-air window next to the first, in the other shape: 9:16 for social while the stream stays 16:9 (or the other way round). It is the same show with its own widget layout for its shape: arrange it with the new Edit the second output’s layout button, and what you move there never touches the first output. The slideshow, the map, the alerts and the settings are shared; the sound comes from the first output only. Point a second OBS source at the window called “AtmoDeck Output 2”. Its size can be the full size OBS captures, fitted to your screen, or half.

Archive mode: a radar of the past

• A third mode beside the Radar map and the Forecast builder. Pick any radar and a window of up to 3 days since 1991 and it plays the radar of the time, with what was going on round it: the warnings and watches as the Weather Service sent them, mesoscale discussions, storm reports, NCEI Storm Events (deaths, injuries, damage and the narrative), DAT damage surveys, every tornado track growing from touchdown to lift, airport observations, river gauges, lightning, GOES satellite (infrared or water vapor), the whole country’s radar mosaic and the SPC categorical, tornado, wind and hail outlooks in effect at each picture. Texts reads a warning, watch or discussion in full; Sounding draws the weather balloon of the time. 3D radar and a 3D satellite (cloud tops standing up at their height) work from the archive too. Put a title on the header (“Joplin tornado”) and a line under it, and the date with its year. The start, end and length are chosen in the bar under the map. Only what the archive holds is offered: a product, an overlay or a radar that did not exist yet for the dates is greyed out. The live radar map is not touched: leaving the mode puts it back exactly as it was.

Highway Travel from your own area, a real Almanac

• The Highway Travel slide now finds the interstates and US routes round your own area (from OpenStreetMap) and reads the weather at points along each one: the temperatures along it, the worst spot, the wind and a Good, Fair or Poor for the road. The Almanac slide loads the normals, the records with their years, yesterday against normal, and the month’s and year’s rain so far from the nearest NOAA climate station by itself. Agri-Cast no longer invents a soil temperature or a wind when it has none: it says there is no data.

As-run log

• Status & Health has an As-run log: every change made to the map, each Show set up, step of the run of show, layout switched, slideshow started or stopped, “Back to normal” and archive opened, with the time. It is kept across restarts (the last 4,000) and exports as a CSV.

A backup for the national radar

• When the national (MRMS) reflectivity map gets nothing, the map now draws the National Weather Service’s own radar picture instead (about two hours of it as a loop), and if that is not there either, the Iowa Environmental Mesonet’s NEXRAD mosaic (the last hour). The Radar source light and the bell say a backup is in use. The main picture comes back by itself at the next refresh. The backup is for reflectivity only: rotation, rain totals and the other products have no second source.

Run of show, Show hotkeys and auto-pilot

• The Dashboard has a Run of show card: your Shows in order, each with its minutes, a countdown, Next, and an option to set the next one up by itself (the bell says a minute before). Every Show can have a hotkey (Map Studio > Shows > Edit), and the phone remote lists the Shows with a Next button, so a Stream Deck button can start one with a web address. Auto-pilot (Automation) runs the Output by itself during hours you set: it sets up a Show, runs the slideshow, stops it while a warning is in effect and starts it again after a quiet spell.

Command palette, desk notes and a list of changes

• Ctrl+K opens one box that finds and runs things: pages, Shows, layouts, viewpoints, map slides, layer switches, Console themes and actions such as undo, demo mode and Next in the run of show. Desk notes on the Dashboard are shared with the phone remote page, so a second person on the same network sees and adds to them. The clock button beside Undo and Redo lists what was changed in the map’s settings and goes back to just before any of them.

Looks you can share, broadcast color swatches, and a longer memory

• A look can be exported to a file and imported by another station. The palette button also has Broadcast colors: one click sets the Output’s Day and Night colors to a pack (six new ones: Graphite, Violet, Crimson, Forest and Sunset). Status & Health shows the last 24 hours of every feed and on-air light, 15 minutes at a time. The bell now warns about the internet going down, running on battery, and the computer waking from sleep; and after AtmoDeck stops unexpectedly it puts the map and the last Show back.

Console themes

• The palette button beside the bell changes the colors of the Console: Ocean (the blue it has always had), Graphite (black and gray), Black (true black), Slate, Forest, Teal, Violet, Ember and Crimson. Map Studio’s buttons follow the theme; the Output, the broadcast and the map keep their own colors. The choice is kept on this computer.

Fewer weather requests

• A city’s forecast also draws its map weather icon, so that place is asked for once; WeatherAPI.com answers a city and its icon with one call; the slideshow keeps each place’s forecast for ten minutes instead of asking again for every slide; and place names are looked up once a day.

A steadier map, and a Low quality mode

• Every map layer now asks the map to redraw through one shared clock: a still map is drawn at most 30 times a second, and a moving one as fast as ever, so a layer that asks too often can no longer slow everything down. A watch on each map names the layer to blame when it is asked too often or draws slowly, as the Map speed on-air light and a notification. Status & Health has a Low quality switch for older graphics cards: standard resolution, a slower clock, and no glows, shadows or animations. Weather icons have a Still icons option of their own, and turning the county spotlight off puts the county lines back as they were.

Weather source, usage and the API log

• When the first-choice weather source stops answering (a daily limit, an outage) the Output says so: the Weather source light turns amber and the bell gets a notification, and the Weather source card on Status & Health shows which service is really in use. A usage card counts the calls made to Open-Meteo (today) and WeatherAPI.com (this month) against the limit of your plan, which you type in, with an amber bar and a notification at 80%. The API status log now lists every request to a weather or alert service (keys are never shown).

Headlines you can search, pin and follow

• The Dashboard headlines have a search box and a filter for alerts, reports, products and pinned ones. The star pins a headline (it stays, as last seen, after it leaves the list) and the bell tells you when a new one of that kind comes: a Hazardous Weather Outlook, a watch from the Storm Prediction Center, a Tornado Watch. A text product opens as sections with the words that matter marked, with a switch back to the raw text.

Undo, Shows, demo mode and a get-ready checklist

• Map Studio keeps the last 60 changes to its settings: Undo and Redo sit beside the On output switch (Ctrl+Alt+Z and Ctrl+Alt+Y). A Show saves a whole segment under one name: the layers, the group of viewpoints, a slide to cut to and the layout, set up with one click. Demo mode (On Air) puts sample warnings on the real map with no rehearsal banner, for pictures and practice. A Get ready for air checklist on the Dashboard walks a new station through its area, its weather source key, its layout and a working Output.

WeatherAPI.com, and a daily budget for Open-Meteo

• Add a WeatherAPI.com key (Keys & Backup > API Keys) and AtmoDeck asks it first for the cities' conditions, forecasts and air quality and for the map's weather icons, then Open-Meteo, then the Weather Service. Every Open-Meteo request is now counted per day, from both windows, and stops at 64,500 a day with a key (9,000 without one); the weather icons give way at 60% of it, share what they fetch between the Console and the Output, and keep it for an hour.

Dashboard headlines and outlook for your area

• The Headlines list now holds every alert in effect, the storm reports, and all the text products of the Weather Service offices over your area plus the Storm Prediction Center and Weather Prediction Center (click one to read it). With the whole country chosen it shows the Storm Prediction Center, Weather Prediction Center and Hurricane Center products and the alerts and reports for the U.S. The flood and winter faces of the outlook dial also cover only your area unless the whole country is chosen.

Hurricane model tracks (spaghetti plots)

• Tracks, in the Tropical and marine menu, draws every model track the Hurricane Center publishes for a storm, each model in its own color with its name at the end, from the GFS and Euro ensembles to HAFS, HWRF and HMON. Choose the models, the number of hours, the colors and the labels.

Aircraft recon, live

• Hurricane hunter flights as they happen: the flight track, center fixes, flight-level and surface winds and dropsondes, read from the Hurricane Center’s own reports, drawn with the storm.

Storm surge and tide gauges

• Water level gauges from NOAA CO-OPS with their flood levels, the STOFS surge model, and its flooding pictures, in Water and flooding.

Flooded and slippery roads

• Road flood and hydroplaning risk drawn on the roads themselves, from radar rain rate compared with a terrain model.

More models

• HAFS-A and HAFS-B for each storm, and the GFS wave model with wave heights, periods, directions and swells. Regional model grids written from 0 to 360 degrees now draw too.

Notifications

• The bell lists announcements from us, updates, payment and account notices, a data source that stops answering, and a freeze. Opening it marks them all read, each one opens the screen it is about, and you can turn on Windows notifications.

More than one map of the same type

• Two model maps, two mesoanalysis maps, and so on, each with its own settings. The mesoanalysis wind speed no longer shows impossible values (a 112 mph reading), and Smooth color tables now blends cells on every map.

Layout styles and the output

• The diagonal layout style comes with rounded and square corners, a switch turns the green output border on or off, custom layers can show lines and fills separately, and the sounding shows the state with the city. The app always opens to the Dashboard.

Terminal radars, and radar sources of your own

• The radar list has the 45 terminal radars (TDWR) at the big airports, with reflectivity and velocity from their last day of scans. And you can add radars from sources of your own the way GR2Analyst does: in the Level II radar menu, Radar sources of your own, give a polling link (a folder with a grlevel2.cfg) and a list of the radars’ places. Their radars join the Radar site list in their own group, with every product of a Level II radar (stored scans, no real-time feed). Each source is read again once a day, so radars added to or taken off its list follow on their own. Automatic stays with the NOAA radars.

Radar domes

• A small dome button beside the Radar menu puts every radar on the map as a dot with its name (NOAA blue, terminal radars amber, other countries green); click one to put the radar on that site. A radar that is down is shown red (from the Weather Service’s own status for the NOAA and terminal radars).

A new Console look

• Every page of the Console is redrawn in Google’s Material 3 style, flat, in AtmoDeck’s dark and light blues: bars that touch instead of boxed cards, circle and pill buttons, a connected pill in place of tabs, and Inter as the font (Poppins stays the font of the broadcast and the map graphics). It opens at 1920 × 1080 and resizes down to 860 × 600. There is a profile card (click your name for Account & billing), a status bar, a health ring and a memory meter in the menu, and a bell with the number of warnings and watches in effect.

A Dashboard for the whole show

• The Dashboard opens first: the alerts in effect hour by hour, headlines for your area (alerts, the Storm Prediction Center’s outlook at your place, the forecast discussion and your news feeds), a radial outlook dial with the day’s chances of tornadoes, wind and hail that swaps to flash flooding or winter when that is the bigger threat (or when you pick it), announcements, the alert table, the radars that are down, storm reports, the data feeds and the alerts of today.

Account & billing, and announcements

• Click your name in the menu for your plan, the computers using your license, billing in the browser and signing out. Messages from AtmoDeck show on the Dashboard, and are kept for when you are offline.

Accounts

• Sign in to AtmoDeck with an email and a password. Make your account once (it is linked to your license key), then you only sign in. A forgotten password is reset with a code sent to your email. Copies already activated with a key keep working.

Road shields

• Road shields keep their number large and centered at every size (the number came out small and near the top of the sign when the signs were made bigger), and the zoom each kind of road shows from is yours to choose: Interstates, US highways and State highways each have a Show from zoom slider in Map look > Lines, and their signs start at the same zoom as their roads.

Length controls the loop

• The Length box on the play bar now shows the real setting (it could show 1 hour while the loop was set to 12), and it is the one place the length of a loop is set: how far a forecast or a map carried on into the forecast looks ahead follows it, and the Look ahead and For the next choices are gone.

No more freezes

• The program no longer stops for up to a second when the map keeps new tiles on the disk: the folder of kept tiles (ten thousand files) was gone through one file at a time on the part of the program that also passes the Console’s view to the Output and answers every tile, which froze the Output for a second or more while the map was moved somewhere new. It is counted now in the background, and the radar and model files are read and written in the background too.

The Output glides

• The Output follows the Console’s view smoothly: instead of jumping to each position the Console sends (which arrive unevenly and showed as steps of about 20 frames a second), it glides to it at its own frame rate.

Map and layer fixes

• The old radar site goes at once when a new one loads; city names are raised above MRMS and the 3D satellite like they are over NEXRAD; the city label box has an outline you can choose; the list of installed color tables holds 48; and the MRMS tab lists the precipitation type once and no longer carries the install-color-table section.
• Radar scans move you to the newest one as it loads, a copied theme no longer leaves the dropdowns and color swatches unclickable, and the stray rotation marker in the sky above a tilted map is gone.

Lightning

• The lightning layer answers within seconds with the newest half hour and fills in the history behind it, asks again if nothing is in yet, and its menu shows a live status line and a row in the Loading list.

A smoother map

• Panning, zooming and tilting are much smoother, most of all with the map tilted: the map’s own layers that have nothing in them (alerts, storm tracks, reports, gauges, buoys, markers and the rest) are no longer drawn until something is put in them. Tilted, a plain map drew in about a third of the time.
• The base map of North America (the ground, state and county lines, roads and names, for every map style) is kept on the disk in the background, so a new place on the map has its lines and names at once.
• The 3D radar box is drawn on a flat map (the map levels itself when you choose Draw a box), so the box is the part you dragged and not as big as the whole radar.

Retro layout

• A new Layout Style, Retro (Look > Layout & Widgets), in the look of a 1990s broadcast: pixel fonts, blue panels with a light edge and a pixel shadow, yellow titles, a header band with a slanted dark end for the time and date, and a rounded logo box with a gradient that holds your logo.
• The ticker is one plain band along the bottom, and an alert is a red ticker that scrolls over it, covering it, until the alert ends.
• It has its own color scheme choice (classic purple and orange, daytime blue, night, emerald, crimson, gray), and the weather icons of the 1992 broadcasts, which can be switched off; a look you save or export carries them.

Storm reports, models and the map

• Storm reports have round badges with a picture for every kind (tornado, funnel, wall cloud, hail, wind, wind damage, flood, flash flood, heavy rain, blizzard, snow, ice, snow squall, lightning, dust, fog, extreme heat, high surf, landslide, wildfire), all in one Storm reports tab, with a card when you click one. They arrive in the alerts box in a soft tone, and clicking one zooms to it.
• The 3D satellite works on every band, not only band 13, and zoomed out the whole picture is drawn. The real 3D ground no longer covers the 3D clouds.
• New free models: NOAA’s AI global model (AIGFS) and the European Centre’s IFS and AI model (AIFS); Rapid Refresh loads; the Models tab is in groups.
• Smoother map: the mouse wheel zooms in smaller steps, names, labels, signs, point readings and weather icons fade in and out, the preview wears the Output’s theme, and the preview is flat unless you turn on 3D terrain there.
• Liberty map: a building opacity slider, a switch and look for every label, and no green ground unless you switch it on. Coastlines are as bright and wide as the state lines, and interstates, US highways and state highways have their own colors.
• The header shows the time for satellite pictures too.

Water and flooding

• A new Water & flooding menu in Map Studio. River gauges: every NWS gauge as a dot colored by flood category (what the river is doing now, the highest level in the forecast, or whichever is worse), with the stage beside it; click one for its reading, its flood stages and its hydrograph, measured and forecast.
• CoCoRaHS rain and snow reports from the volunteer network: the newest report from each station with the amount beside it, over the last one to three days.
• Stage IV rain totals from the River Forecast Centers (last 1 hour to the last 365 days, month, year and water year to date, with percent of normal and difference from normal), and River Forecast Center flash flood guidance for 1, 3, 6, 12 and 24 hours.
• The National Water Model: the Weather Service’s forecast of every stream, short range (the next 18 hours) and medium range (five to ten days), and what the model says is happening now.

Winter

• A new Winter menu in the top bar of Map Studio, with every winter layer in one place. Snowfall that has fallen (the National Gridded Snowfall Analysis: the last 6, 24, 48 or 72 hours, or the season, with the amount under the pointer), snow depth and snow water equivalent, snow and ice cover from the satellites (NOAA, MODIS, VIIRS and sea ice), the Winter Weather Outlook for days 4 to 7, and the Climate Prediction Center hazards outlook.
• Reports of snow, ice and cold from the Weather Service as dots with the amount, SNOTEL mountain snow stations, avalanche danger by zone (avalanche.org), Great Lakes and Arctic ice charts, and the river breakup in Alaska.
• Winter watches, warnings and advisories on the map (winter storm, blizzard, ice storm, lake effect snow, winter weather, freeze, frost and wind chill), each in its usual color, with switches for watches, warnings and advisories; the winter maps already in Map Studio (the WPC outlooks, the snow and ice forecasts, precipitation type, freezing level) are one click away in the same menu.

Alert colors

• A color you change in Colors & Text > Alert Colors now shows on the map at once, here and on the Output. The colors of the hurricane, tropical storm and storm surge watches and warnings are chosen there too, with all the others, and the winter products that had no color of their own now have one.

Map Studio

• 3D MRMS: the national radar standing up. The new 3D button beside the radar tools builds a volume from all 33 heights of the MRMS reflectivity round the middle of the map; tilt the map and fly through it. It is its own layer, apart from the 3D of one radar.
• MRMS for Alaska, Hawaii, Puerto Rico and the Caribbean, and Guam: the same products (145 for Alaska, 163 for each of the others) in their own groups in the Radar menu; the map flies to the region when you choose one.
• Map markers: click a marker on the map (or place a new one) and a card opens to change its name, color, shape, size, the color of its name box and of its name text, or delete it. The Map markers list changes a marker as you type.
• Keys for Map Studio: 46 of them in Settings > Keybinds, each one yours to change or clear. Play and pause (Space), back and forward a picture (Left, Right), first and newest picture, speed, repeat; tilt, turn and zoom the map; My area, United States, Canada, North up, the next and previous saved viewpoint and the tour; open the next or previous scene and cut the Output to it; the tools (markers, measure, pen, text, eraser, click readings); radar, warnings, satellite, markers, header and 3D on or off; the settings panel and its search; and Ctrl+1, 2, 3 for On Air, Map Studio and Slideshow. They are ignored while you type in a box.

• The sky of a tilted map shows its clouds, stars, sun and moon again.

• The sky is behind the map: when the map is tilted, the 3D radar, the city names and signs and your data that rise above the horizon are drawn over the sky instead of fading into it.

Look, layout and on-air widgets

• The shadow under the Lower Third is now one soft shadow round everything that shows, like the other panels (it was cut off hard at the widget’s edge), and its color can be chosen in On Air > Lower Third > Colors.
• New layout style: Diagonal, square corners (Look > Layout & Widgets): the diagonal look with its slanted label boxes and dividers, with square panel corners instead of rounded ones. The layout style now applies as soon as it is chosen.
• New Weather Icons page in the side bar (under Look): upload your own picture for each kind of weather (clear day and night, partly cloudy day and night, overcast, cloudy, fog, drizzle, rain, snow, thunderstorms, and the eight moon phases). PNG, GIF, WebP, AVIF, JPEG and SVG work, and GIF, animated PNG, animated WebP and animated SVG pictures move. They are used everywhere an icon is drawn: the bottom and hourly bars, the slideshow, the forecast slides of a right click, the icons on the map and the moon card. A kind of weather with no picture of its own keeps the usual animated icon.
• Lower Third settings moved to the On Air tab. When the title changes only the words change over and the boxes stay put (a subtitle that is added or removed still comes or goes as a whole). Breaking news (a headline pushed from On Air) now comes as its own layer over the whole lower third, the subtitle line too, and goes away to show the lower third that kept cycling under it.
• Edit Mode: when widgets overlap, click again in the same place to pick the one behind (the one picked comes to the front so you can see it, and drag it); the Lower Third can now be moved and resized like the others. The lower third keeps its title where it is when the subtitle is on (the label and the subtitle keep their room), and has a Breaking look: pick the colors it turns into for a pushed headline or a title marked Breaking.
• The LIVE CAM tag is red, and the background of the Now Playing (music) bar, the Live Scanner and the LIVE CAM tag each have a color in Look > Colors, for every theme. The radar header’s logo box matches the bottom bar’s logo box.
• New Lower Third widget (Look > Layout & Widgets to place it, Content > Content Widgets for what it says): cycling titles, an optional label box connected above (WEATHER, BREAKING, or a label of its own for each title) and an optional smaller subtitle line under. It follows the layout style and the theme colors (any part can be given its own colors, letters, sizes, font and how solid its box is, down to fully transparent), and each part comes in and goes out with the Layout change animation, again each time the title changes. On Air > Ticker and Lower Third: a pushed headline can now go to the ticker, the lower third, or both.
• Classic (solid, flat) is the style a new install starts with, and its colors follow the ones chosen in Look > Colors (flat black until you change them); the radar header, storm list and legend are flat in it too. In every layout but the diagonal one the Hourly and ticker titles are centered, and the chance of rain under the hourly icons is no longer cut off by the bar’s bottom line.
• Layout style moved from Output & Display to Layout & Widgets. Classic is now fully solid: flat black panels, one flat color on every label and title bar, no gradients, no slants and no colored lines along the bottom of the widgets. A new Classic with gradients keeps that squared, plain-bottomed shape with the soft gradients on the panels, labels and title bars.
• The forecast slides and the soundings you ask for with a right click appear in a new Popup Box widget: place and size it in the widget editor (Edit Mode on the Output, Look > Layout & Widgets) and every slide and sounding fills it. The slides are the slideshow’s own: its header and logo, its city line and background, its cards, animated in the way the slideshow does.
• Settings > Keybinds: choose the keys for taking a screenshot and for fitting the Output to the screen (F12 and Ctrl+PrintScreen are the usual ones).
• Looks: save the whole styling of the app under a name and switch between looks in one click (Look > Looks, and On Air > Looks). Tick what a look remembers: colors, logos, weather icons, fonts, corner style, the layout of the widgets, and the map look (base map, labels, header and legend, alert style, color tables). Places, cameras, content and keys are never part of a look.
• F12 fits the output to the whole screen: no green border, and a 1920x1080 output on a 1920x1080 screen is exactly 1:1 (it covers the taskbar). Turning it off brings back the native window with its border.

Soundings, mesoanalysis and the right-click menu

• Slides keep their custom layers: a map saved as a slide remembers which custom layers were on and how each looked, so turning a layer off or restyling it later no longer changes the slide (a layer added after the slide was saved is off in it). The layer’s data is still the layer’s own and keeps updating on its Check for updates interval; slides saved before this keep using the layers as they are.
• Warning boxes now appear on Ctrl-click (a plain click only chooses the warning). Each shows the people it covers and, new, the hospitals and schools inside it (counted by name from OpenStreetMap). The Clear all button on the toolbar takes off every warning box, sounding, forecast slide and marker card, on the preview and the Output.
• Soundings are worked out with SHARPpy’s own routines, ported to the app and checked against SHARPpy’s output on 47 real soundings: parcels (surface, forecast, mixed-layer, most-unstable), CAPE and CIN, the effective inflow layer, storm motion, helicity, every severe, winter and fire index, the precipitation type, the possible hazard type and the SARS analogue soundings. The display is SHARPpy’s: the Skew-T with the parcel traces, effective layer, heights, wind barbs and the wind speed profile, the hodograph with storm motions and Corfidi vectors, the thermodynamic and kinematic tables, and three insets to choose (storm-relative winds, storm slinky, theta-E, temperature advection, STP, SHIP, winter weather, fire weather, SARS analogues). Choose the parcel and the right or left mover under the card.
• Right-click the map in Map Studio for a menu about that spot: the nearest NEXRAD radar, a sounding (the SPC’s analysis for that exact spot, or the nearest radiosonde launch), a mesoanalysis map (instability, shear, helicity, the severe-weather composites, the levels, the surface and the upper air: 45 maps drawn by the app from the HRRR, each an ordinary model layer with its own colors, contour lines and readings), and a current conditions, hourly or 5-day forecast slide for that spot, in the format of your slideshow, that fades in and goes when you press Esc.

Forecast builder

• One button smooths the edges of a painted area: the nicks where the brush turned and the lumps where two passes met are cleared and the sharp corners rounded, without the shape moving or the thin parts filling in.
• Click any text on the radar with the Select tool to open its own panel: change the words, the color, the size, the weight, the alignment, the outline, the shine and the shadow, save it to the gallery or delete it — drag it to move it, scroll over it to resize. Forecast builder labels have the same weight, alignment and outline.
• The radar map’s text (shine, shadow, your font, the gallery, resizable) is in the forecast builder too.
• Forecast builder paint: spray areas on the map in any color, with hard or faded edges, opacity, blend modes, the ocean over it and outlines; painting over a color replaces it and the edges smooth themselves.

Warnings, outlooks and alerts

• Watches: each watch is outlined once round its whole area again, with no lines along the county borders inside it. The county pictures come simplified one by one, so the borders two counties share did not line up and bits of them were drawn; the outline is now worked out from what lies beside each edge instead of from matching corners.
• Warning and watch outlines are solid (a watch is no longer dashed, and there is no Dashed or Dotted choice). The glow goes with its outline: turn an outline off and its glow goes too, for every type or for one. A watch is outlined once round its whole area, not county by county. Warnings and watches each have a global style of their own (fill, outline, width, edge color, glow), with a tweak for each type below them.
• Click a warning and a box sticks to it: its name in its color, when it ends, where, the hail and wind tags and the people it covers (the people living in the named places inside it, from the 2010 Census). Put as many on the map as you like, drag each where it reads best, close them one at a time or with Clear all; they are on the Output too (Settings > Warnings can turn them off).
• SPC outlooks draw the new conditional intensity hatching: tornado and wind have levels 1 to 3 (dashed one way, solid the other way, both crossing) and hail has levels 1 and 2, each with its own color and switch in the Outlooks settings.
• Special weather statements are drawn on the map (Settings > Warnings has a switch for them). The header text is always white: a light alert color such as the yellow of a tornado watch is dimmed until white words read on it, instead of the words going black, and the header time no longer stays black after such an alert is let go.
• The glow round an alert name in the header is a real glow now: it was cut off by the box around it, which made it look like a glowing box.
• Rotation markers: a small patch of wind that has wrapped past the radar’s limit is no longer read as a violent couplet (a false “Extreme”), and a tornado warning now gets a marker on the rotation inside it even when it is too weak, far from the radar, to be marked anywhere else; its card says so.
• Layers can be re-ordered (drag a layer or use its arrows) to change what is drawn over what; the header and legend, point readings, weather icons, lightning, warnings and watches stay on top and the base map stays at the bottom.
• The warnings no longer follow the loop off the newest scan: leave the radar standing on its last frame and the warnings in effect right now are the ones shown, however old that scan is. Only a frame the loop has stepped back from shows the warnings of its own time.
• The threat block at the top now carries little day boxes whenever the product reaches past today, so you can see which day it is on and click straight to another.
• Every outlook shows its whole scale — all the levels with their names and colors, whether or not today’s areas reach them — in the settings and in the legend, and the header names the outlook on the map.
• The outlook layer is called “Outlooks”: every outlook is in one place — the Storm Prediction Center’s, the flash-flood, fire-weather, winter and heat outlooks too.
• Rotation on outbound velocities, and at the edge of a hook echo, is found and rated; the scan line no longer jumps when the map is tilted and the radar is out of view; warning outlines and fills are formatted in Warnings, with a white or black stroke.
• Warning outlines and fills have Global style settings (fill and outline on or off, opacity, inner width, outer ÷ inner thickness, style) with a tweak for each alert type; the defaults are the look you already have.
• Map Studio is streamlined: the settings drawer is one list of layers (the tabs are gone) and each layer opens with all of its settings, including the base map, the warnings, the storm tracks, the markers and the header and legend. The quick buttons sit in the top bar, Tilt and the 3D, scope and cross-section tools appear only when one radar is on the map, and the play bar keeps speed, length, show and nowcast in view with the rest under More.

Radar, rotation and 3D

• Rotation markers: no more false “Extreme” markers in plain rain. When the wind is a steady 24 m/s or so, right at the radar’s limit (its Nyquist velocity), the radar cannot tell +24 from -24 and the jump between the two looked like a violent couplet; the app now repairs those wrapped gates and does not mark rotation where most of the wind around it is at that limit. A real tornado couplet (checked on the Moore, Oklahoma radar scan of 20 May 2013) is still marked.
• Mapping fixes: the map no longer waits for the tile cache to answer before it loads; the ocean and the coastlines are on every map, satellite included, and the coast follows the state line color (the satellite map has a state and country line color); county lines have their own color, width and style (solid, dashed or dotted); the satellite pictures of the United States, Canada and Mexico are kept on disk from the first start (zoom 0 to 8, about 7,400 tiles); the shadow round your counties is stronger on satellite and the city names outside your area go while it is on; the edge of the globe has no pale band over the land; terrain shows on the globe; the layers list has a Drawn under the ocean layer section; and the mesocyclone card no longer fails when rotation markers are on.
• Big cities show again at the zoom the map sits at: MapLibre places names from the top layer down, and the style listed the cities below the towns and villages, which took their room. Satellite tiles come from memory, then the disk, and are fetched once for both windows, with the tiles round the view fetched ahead and no fade-in. Weather icons appear and go with their city as the map moves. The interstate sign replaces the bare route number beside the road. The widget backdrop shows over the map. A rotation marker is no longer made where there is no echo picture to check it against.
• The radar’s own mesocyclone and tornado vortex markers are back, as an option beside the rotation markers: a ring for a mesocyclone, red for a tornado vortex signature. Click one for its card (it can be dragged and is on the Output too): the radar’s strength rank, rotation near the ground and at its peak, base and depth, the storm it belongs to and where that storm is going, where it is from the radar, how old the product is, any rotation marker on it, and the tornado intensity guidance when it can be measured.
• Live sweep (Radar > scan line options): draws the radials of a new scan as they come in, over the picture before, and the new picture takes its place when the sweep is whole; a sweep that replaces the one before is let in as the scan line passes. The sweeps lie on the ground however the map is tilted. The Rotation button (rotation markers on or off) is in the side bar with 3D and the scope.
• The newest radar picture is fresher: a scan from the real-time feed is drawn from the latest finished sweep of the lowest tilt (radars rescan it two or three times in a volume, about every two minutes instead of every six and a half), and every new sweep is fetched as soon as it is there, instead of eight chunks at a time. The header time is that sweep’s own time.
• Terrain is a layer (Layers > Terrain): shaded relief (five shading styles, light direction and height, strength, colors), colors by height (four color sets), and real 3D ground that rises and falls with the land, from the free AWS elevation tiles.
• Changing the radar product is quicker and the preview and the Output change together: the product starts loading the moment it is chosen (no half-second wait), the newest real-time scan is fetched while the loop is found instead of after it, and the two windows share one decode of each picture instead of taking turns at two.
• A box drawn for 3D ignores the Distance from the radar setting (the box is the volume). With 3D up, no new scan moves the picture off the scan you are on, even when the loop is built again. A radar picture made for another product than the one asked for is no longer kept (storm-relative velocity showing reflectivity): it is read again within seconds, and the loop is built again within a minute.
• Storm-relative velocity no longer turns the whole storm the wrong color when the inflow grows past what the radar can measure (it came out orange, outbound, when the wind was really coming in): the unfolding is guided by the storm motion you set. Two rotation groups a few kilometres apart are one marker.
• The Level II loop keeps its newest real-time scan when it is built again (every fifth minute, or after a setting changes); it used to throw it away and fall back to the archive, a scan seven minutes old. A rotation marker that cannot be measured shows its facts and no explanation.
• The rotation marker card stays where it is on the screen in the preview and on the Output (it used to follow the map on the Output only), and you can drag it anywhere on the preview; the Output puts it in the same place.
• Far fewer false rotation markers: wind that has wrapped round past the radar’s limit (whole lines of it across a big storm) and single noisy gates are no longer read as violent couplets.
• Opacity goes all the way down: 0% is fully transparent for the radar, every data layer and the ocean.
• Map Studio remembers everything you have on: rotation markers, readings, weather icons, data layers, the product you were on and all their settings are all still there the next time the app opens. Only the camera (centered on your area, flat) and the 3D volume start fresh.
• The map follows the newest picture: sitting on the latest frame, a new radar or national map picture takes you to it, while a frame you went back to stays where you left it.
• The Smooth 3D volume no longer stretches the base of a storm down to the ground.
• Rotation markers find more real tornadoes: tight, strong couplets are kept, the velocity as measured is searched as well (so wind going away from the radar on both sides of a couplet counts), debris is no longer cleaned away before the shear is taken, and the sensitivity starts lower.
• Velocity and storm-relative velocity in 3D show rotation: a rotating column glows yellow to magenta where the wind turns across the beam, and the ordinary wind is dimmed (Level II > 3D volume > Rotation).
• Settings now shows how much the app has cached (the radar volumes and scans, the model pictures, the place names, the web engine cache) and has a button to clear it. Nothing you have chosen is in there, and it all downloads again as it is needed.
• The Level II scan is now let in as the radar sweeps it, instead of waiting for the whole volume: on the flat map the newest picture is seconds old rather than one full volume cycle behind, which on a slower radar is six minutes or more.
• The Level II sweep no longer restarts itself when the map is tilted or zoomed: the scan line only ever moves forward, so a radial arriving out of order no longer makes the whole sweep play again from the beginning.
• The radar keeps pulling its scans while the map is out of sight. The map stops drawing when you are on another tab (so it does not cost the processor), but the pictures keep arriving in the background, so coming back to it has the last several minutes already on it instead of starting over.
• More than one map can sit under the radar at once: add a second map and it is drawn over the first instead of replacing it, and each map can be brought in whole, as its place names only, or as names and areas together.
• The loop no longer jumps at the end: with Follow the storms on, the wrap back to the start of the loop is guided along the first step backwards instead of dissolving a whole loop of movement at once.
• Add any national map or model field as a data layer (Layers > Add a data layer): up to four draw over the radar and over each other, follow the timeline, and each can be on the map only once.
• 3D radar has two new looks (Level II > 3D volume > Look). Solid is an opaque body with a defined surface and its own light, following your alpha table level by level. Surfaces draws a lit shell at every level of the color table, and the alpha table is how solid each level is, so you pick which levels close over. Smooth and Blocks look exactly as they did.
• Panning and zooming are smooth: the map no longer redraws itself over and over while nothing moves (the band-edge lines were rewriting their style on every frame), and the storm-motion measuring for “Follow the storms” now runs in the background instead of holding up the map. The night shading and the city lights are now drawn in the background too (they froze the picture for a moment each time the loop moved on or a zoom asked for new tiles), route signs are drawn once per size instead of again at every zoom step, and the log no longer fills with route-sign chatter. The map also starts paused on the newest frame.
• The radar’s own mesocyclone markers are gone; rotation is marked by the rotation markers alone, and clicking one opens its card (with the tornado intensity guidance) on the preview and the Output.

The map: layers, terrain, sky and speed

• The sky: tilt the map until the horizon is on the screen (it can now tilt to 85 degrees) and the sky above it is drawn for the time of day, with the real stars at night, clouds drifting by day, and the sun and moon where they are, the moon in its true phase (Settings > Sky and space). The city lights are sharp close in: from zoom 9 the streets and built-up ground are lit from the map itself, over the night shading.
• Custom layers: placefiles made of objects now work, with their icon sheets, text placed beside each icon and hover words (click a place for its card): the Iowa Mesonet road weather feed (rwis.php) and the Spotter Network positions (gr-p.txt) both load. Any layer that comes from an address or from a file on this computer can be checked for updates as often as every ten seconds (a file is read again as soon as it changes). Save a layer to My saved layers to add it again later, and give each one a title for the header.
• Custom layers (Layers > Add a custom layer): bring in your own GeoJSON, KML, KMZ, shapefile (a zip, or the .shp with its .dbf and .prj) or placefile, from a file or a web address. Each is a layer of its own over the names and roads, with the colors and widths the file asks for (and its own color where it does not), names, fill and opacity, and it can be moved, hidden or taken off like any other. A layer from an address updates itself (a placefile says how often); Update now does it at once.
• Cities, towns and villages no longer disappear as you zoom in: the dark map style ended its big cities at zoom 12 and its other cities at 14; they now stay.
• Layers can be moved across the names and roads: drag a row past the line (or press the up arrow on the top row under the names, the down arrow on the bottom row over them) to draw it over the roads and names or under them, and it stays there. A data layer’s row keeps counting its frames as they arrive.
• Point readings are the Point tab of each layer, side by side with the weather icon when icons are on, with a Move up or down for each.
• Wind streaks fill the screen at any zoom, move the way the wind blows and faster in a stronger wind, fade out toward their back, and have a length setting; band-edge lines now show for smooth color tables such as wind, every few mph.
• Every layer’s Fill tab has a switch to turn the fill off and keep its lines, points, barbs and streaks, and shows its own color table, floor and smoothing; Edit color tables is in the top bar.
• Every data layer has Fill, Line and Point tabs (the fill, a line along each color edge, and its value above the cities), and wind layers add Barbs and Particles.
• The map you have looked at is kept on the disk: the ground, roads and names (and the satellite imagery) are fetched once and drawn from the disk next time, so the map is there before the network answers. Settings > Caches shows how much it holds and can empty it.

• A false TVS is fixed: the radar’s mesocyclone table is read correctly, so a mesocyclone is no longer flagged as a tornadic vortex signature.
• Click a mesocyclone or TVS marker for its card: what the radar says about it, and the tornado intensity guidance measured there.
• Menus from the Map Studio top bar open over the drawing tools.

Map Studio

• Real 3D satellite: every pixel raised to its cloud top as one solid surface (colder is higher), sharp like a satellite 3D loop or rounded into domes, with a height slider and its own light, on the flat map and the globe; it plays with the loop.
• The satellite loop plays every picture inside the play bar’s loop length, and leads the timeline when it has more pictures than the radar.
• Globe mode opens out smoothly into the flat map as you zoom in (and curls back as you zoom out), so the 3D radar stands up when zoomed in.

Storms, radar and data

• Storm track lines can be drawn in any shape (a bow, a curve, a hook), and where the line will be moves in that shape.
• Screenshots are the whole Output as it airs: the header, legend, storm arrival times, clock, Powered by badge and every widget.
• Multiple radars is its own choice in the Radar menu, right under One radar, with the same settings.
• Every RTMA and NDFD product: surface pressure, wind direction, moisture, the hourly rain analysis, ceiling, snow level, ice, wet bulb globe temperature, waves, the significant severe chances and the tropical wind chances, and forecasts out to a week.

Updates and fixes

• When AtmoDeck opens it checks for an update and tells you if there is one, then asks to restart when it is ready.
• The Output plays in step with the Console: the loop and the camera match within a frame.
• Loop speed is tied to time: radar and satellite move through time at the same rate, whatever the spacing of their pictures.
• When alerts are issued at about the same time, the Console’s warning box shows the most severe one.
• What’s New keeps every update: the newest on top, the earlier ones below.

Radar Map Studio

• A full radar map behind your widgets, run from the Console: live NEXRAD Level II from any radar, the national radar with 240 products, satellite, hurricanes, outlooks and 3D. It opens the way you left it: every layer and setting that was on is still on.
• A new Console: tabs for Radar (with its tilt, lightning, the storms and the nowcast), Conditions, SPC / NWS, Models, Satellite and Tropical & marine, then Map, View, Slides and Export.
• Settings > Layers lists every layer on the map: hide one, add one, remove one, or click it for all of its settings (color table, smoothing and more). A loading box shows each product’s progress with Stop and Restart.
• The warnings are set from the Alerts box at the top (Map settings), and they now follow the loop: each past frame shows the warnings in effect at its time, with their polygons as they were.
• 3D, the scope, cross sections and the 3D box sit on the tool rail beside the radar. A cross section also stands on the map along its line, in place when the map is tilted.
• Layer bundles: save the layers on the map and all their settings under a name (Map > Bundles), show them again in one click, edit or delete them, and put them on a quick button. There are now 16 quick buttons.

Forecast Builder

• Draw cold, warm, stationary and occluded fronts, troughs, drylines, squall lines, highs and lows, arrows, the jet stream and labels, flat and glossy or as 3D solids over the map.
• Load the Weather Prediction Center’s fronts and forecasts in one click: the pieces travel between keyframes the way the weather does, following their own motion, curving smoothly, and fronts stay on their lows.
• Arrows turn around highs and lows, fronts bend gently as you draw, and the whole forecast plays as a video or a slide.

Radar and storms

• Insight, rebuilt: every storm is a dot in the color of its threat, with where it has been, where it is going in the next hour inside a cone, and a card with its hail, rotation, top, lightning and the places it reaches when you click it.
• A nowcast for the national radar or any single radar, 15 minutes to 2 hours ahead, from the loop bar, the Models tab or Insight.
• New: a tornado debris signature product for single radars (strong echo, low correlation, ZDR near zero, next to rotation), and tornado intensity guidance on rotation markers.
• Real lightning from the GOES satellite as a bolt, a plus or a pulsing circle, with a soft glow and a density slider.
• The loop loads every picture there is (every 2 minutes on the national radar, every scan on one radar), plays up to 20 times as fast, or holds each frame a set time.
• Loops up to 24 hours. The play bar has first, back, play, forward and newest above its settings, a Timeline choice to follow the radar or the satellite, and an End pause for the newest picture.
• The nowcast is as fine as the national radar and glides straight on from the last scan.

Models and the future

• Now, then the forecast: a loop of the radar or of the temperature now carries straight on into the model’s forecast of the same thing, in the same colors. Now / Now + forecast / Forecast on the loop bar.
• HRRR, NAM Nest, NAM, National Blend, GFS and GEFS with every weather-map field of their newest run, or their newest full run.
• A Smooth button for the model maps on the tool rail, and a model’s radar and clouds glide from hour to hour; Smooth on the loop bar turns the in-between frames on or off.
• A narrated futurecast that stops every few hours with the time in words.
• Now, Now + forecast and Forecast switch at once, and the last scan dissolves into the model’s first hour.

On air

• Record the map as a video from Export, and save the map as slides that cut in with a hotkey or the phone.
• Animated weather icons above the cities that follow the radar, a legend as wide as the header, SPC and NWS outlooks named once per area in your font with colors, fills and outlines of your own, and every product renamable, satellite and models too.
• Map text with a shine and a shadow in your broadcast font, glows that follow their shapes, and the selected warning’s fill kept under the radar.
• Recordings take the whole output with its overlay (header, legend, ticker and widgets), or the map alone.
• The legend lists the warnings and watches on the screen now, and a clicked warning’s details can slide out the right side of the header.

Satellite

• Satellite loops are smooth: each picture fades into the next, and the timeline moves with them.
• Sandwich pictures: infrared over visible (or any two), with the top one’s colors, strength and a blend mode (multiply, screen, darken, lighten, overlay and more).
• Edit any satellite color table (each color’s value and opacity), show only the levels you want, and palettes written on the picture’s 0 to 100 scale (like cyclonic IR) come in right.
• 3D clouds as they look from above: a volume of cloud colored by the satellite picture, standing at its real height, billowing at the edges, lit by the sun where it really was at the time of the picture, with sunlit tops, shaded sides and their shadows on the ground (Satellite > 3D clouds).
• Smooth any satellite picture, and take the ground and sea out of a visible picture so only the clouds show.

Also

• Band edges: draw the boundary between the color bands as a line over any national map (Map > Color tables and smoothing > Band edges). The lines are worked out from the same numbers and the same color table as the picture, so each one sits exactly on a color change; any color, width, strength, dashes, and thinned out when a table has many bands.
• Satellites keep taking in new pictures and never stall on a slow download.
• SPC outlooks: every level of the categorical, tornado, wind and hail outlooks with its own color and a tick to show or hide it.
• Globe mode stays a globe at every zoom, with the radar and satellite drawn on it.
• Viewpoints (View menu): save the whole camera (place, zoom, turn, tilt) and fly a tour between them, gliding without a stop or pausing at each, at the speed you set, on the preview and the output together.
• Cross sections: raw blocks, soft or smooth, on the map only if you like, and drag the line to read it live.
• The timeline stays where you put it; lightning and the Insight storms move with it; Automatic skips a radar that is off the air; My area can be the whole country.
• Automatic backups outside the browser profile, an output stream for OBS and vMix, and on-air health lights (System > Automation and Status & Health).
• The Output keeps playing when another window covers it, day and night and the outlooks lie under the radar, and sea borders no longer draw lines across the Gulf.

• Canada is now supported: choose Canada in Content > Counties. Alerts and radar come from Environment Canada, and storm-chaser mode works across the border.
• Storm-chaser upgrades: a breadcrumb trail of where you have driven, storm motion arrows on warning boxes, a notice and colored map border when you are inside a tornado or severe thunderstorm warning, and the nearest warning with distance and direction on the phone page.
• New option: use your GPS town for everything while chasing (Conditions strip, Hourly bar, alerts and alert themes) in System > Automation.
• New: Discord and webhook alerts. Post tornado and severe warnings to a Discord channel or any webhook (System > Automation).

• Resizing a widget now changes only its box: the content reflows and keeps its size. Right-click any widget for Content size and Title size sliders and a Lock title height option.
• New: a Power Outages widget, a "Powered by AtmoDeck" badge (always on; move and resize it), a filter menu for the Tropical widget, and a scrolling-ticker style for the Closings list.
• Live Scanner: choose the title gradient colors, and the text bar fills red during a transmission. The Threat Matrix border now matches the threat color, and the severe theme can match the alert color (Look > Station & Text).

• The Alert Map now has the same look options as the Radar: satellite, topographic and relief maps, map colors and a circle shape (right-click it in Edit Mode).
• Updates now come through the license server, and the app checks that its own files have not been changed.

• The two windows now have different names: OBS Window Capture lists "AtmoDeck Output" and "AtmoDeck Console" separately, so you can capture only the Output. If you set up OBS on an older version, choose the window again once.
• Point the live scanner and now-playing readouts at any text file (Content > Content Widgets > Scanner and now-playing files).

• Storm-chaser mode now moves only the Radar widget: it follows your phone, shows a YOU marker and the warnings around you. Your other widgets stay on your normal area.
• New radar map styles: Satellite, Topographic and Shaded relief, plus a Circle shape (right-click the Radar).

• Radar upgrade: velocity, rotate between the two, tornado and severe thunderstorm warning polygons, map colors and city names (right-click the Radar).
• Sponsor on-air report: how long each sponsor logo and text card was on air, by day, as CSV or PDF (bottom of Content > Content Widgets).
• Storm-chaser mode: the phone remote page can send your location and AtmoDeck re-targets around you (System > Automation).
• Find webcams near my area (Content > Webcams): Missouri, Colorado, Iowa and California DOT cameras.
• Watchdog: restarts a frozen output and refreshes stale data by itself (System > Backup & Restore).

• Vertical (9:16) output for TikTok, Shorts and Reels: Look > Output & Display > Output shape.
• Remote control: run AtmoDeck from your phone or a Stream Deck (System > Automation).
• Choose which alert types are hidden (Look > Alert Colors).
• New widgets: Countdown and World Clock, plus Custom Data widgets that show any JSON or RSS address.
• Kiosk mode and start-with-Windows for always-on weather screens (Look > Station & Text).
• Seasonal theme packs in Look > Colors.
• A referral link for every customer, and this What's New box.

• Community is now three widgets: Earthquakes, Wildfires and Drought Monitor.

• OBS scene switching, Twitch chat weather requests and scheduled actions (System > Automation).
• New widgets: Watches, Space Weather, Air Quality, Tropical and My Weather Station.
• Starter layouts, °C / km/h / hPa units and a Spanish language option.