Flash Weather: Future Radar
Lightning Prediction & Alerts
Free · In‑App Purchases · Designed for iPad. Not verified for macOS.
FLASH predicts lightning before the first strike. With a patented algorithm infused with Deep Learning, you'll always know when to head inside, and when it's safe to head back out.
Whether you are outdoors for work, training, sports, or recreation, FLASH is your edge against the elements.
LIGHTNING PREDICTION LIKE NEVER BEFORE
Our patented algorithm, infused with deep learning, forecasts where lightning will be before it hits.
- Live Activities let you track the storm from your Lock Screen
- FirstStrike tells you when the strike will be in your backyard
- All Clear gives a simple yes/no answer to "Can we go back outside?"
- 5 Hour Lightning Forecast gives extra time to decide on afternoon & evening plans
CURRENT AND FUTURE RADAR
High resolution current and future radar with lightning, watches and warnings, plus Flash Weather's FirstStrike, All Clear, and Lightning Probability forecast maps.
- Up to the minute current radar and current lightning
- 18-hour future radar in 15-minute increments, updating hourly
- FirstStrike, All Clear, and Lightning Probability maps updating every 2 minutes
SMART PUSH NOTIFICATIONS
Get alerted when lightning is detected or forecast near you.
- Forecast-based warnings before a strike
- Customizable lightning proximity alerts for every saved location
NFHS-STANDARD, EXCLUSIVE HEAT AND WBGT FORECASTING
Plan your day with real-time WBGT readings, critical for outdoor safety. FLASH also forecasts heat stress 7 days out so you can avoid dangerous conditions before they start.
- Live WBGT values for your exact location
- Heat risk color coding for easy interpretation
- 7-day forward-looking heat stress outlook
HOURLY AND 7-DAY FORECASTS
High and low temperatures, precipitation chance and amount, wind, dew point, cloud cover, and UV index.
- Hourly and daily forecasts out 7 days
- Graphical temperature, precipitation, and wind outlooks
Developed by Flash Weather. Learn more at flashweather.ai
Questions or suggestions: support@flashweather.ai
Some features require a Flash Premium subscription. After a 7-day free trial, Premium is $3.99/mo or $39.99/yr.
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Auto-renewable subscriptions are governed by Apple's standard EULA: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Bug Fix
- Daily highs and lows now show correctly through the daylight saving time change
New Features
- Notification Center: A redesigned, easier notification settings screen. Users can set their own alert levels, customizable thresholds for variables like UV or rainfall, get updates for today and tomorrow, get smoke and air quality alerts and NWS warnings, and choose their units. Can be set for all, none, or some of your locations.
- Global forecast maps: Edge forecast maps for wind, gusts, temperature, rain, snow and ice cover the whole globe
- Flash in 6 languages: English, Spanish, Portuguese (Brazil), Vietnamese, Tagalog and Simplified Chinese. Each user's chosen language also sets the language of their alerts, and Spanish alerts use the National Weather Service's official Spanish wording.
- Severe storm risk alerts: Premium alerts when a saved location is at risk of severe storms or excessive rain ("level 3 out of 5"), checked against our own local forecast.
- Lightning alerts across the Pacific: GOES-West satellite detection extends lightning alerts to Hawaii, the Aleutians, Fiji and Samoa.
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Performance Improvements
- All clear levels: Organizations choose Balanced, Extended or Safety all clear timing, with one default for the whole org.
- Safer Live Activities: Live Activities show the same forecast-based status as the app's lightning card, and never show low risk when data is missing or stale.
- Clearer alerts: Alert titles lead with FLASH (for example, "FLASH Fog Advisory"), forecast wording for smoke, air quality, heat and daily highs and lows is clearer and consistent, and hourly forecasts now include air quality.
- Holds up during outages: The app handles backend hiccups gracefully instead of showing wrong data or dropping premium access.
- AI-powered corrections: Machine-learning corrections for temperature, rain chances and precipitation type (rain, snow or ice), checked against real weather station observations. Each one switches on only where it proves more accurate than the base model, and switches itself off if it ever slips.
- Better snow totals: Snowfall totals with low, likely and high ranges out to 7.5 days, no longer cut short by the rain forecast, and no more snow shown in above-freezing temperatures. Built for snow removal contractors, schools and facilities
- Better ice forecasts: AI-corrected freezing rain amounts for the Gulf Coast and Midwest over the next 2 days, ice accumulation estimates out to 7.5 days, and better rain/snow/ice calls across the US.
- Truer thunderstorm chances: The daily thunderstorm chance reflects the real odds of thunder that day, and thunder, rain chances and weather icons always agree.
- Faster updates: Each forecast update reaches customers sooner.
Bug Fixes
- Extended range no longer shows 87 mph gusts or flat highs and lows
- Rain and snow totals no longer drop from one hour to the next
- Heat index uses the full NWS formula, and the day/night flag is no longer an hour off
- Notifications: no more false hottest day of the year, odd vs yesterday trends, cloud icons on clearing skies, sunset heat alerts or duplicate digests
- Lightning go/no-go no longer sticks after all clear, and the widget and app agree
- Paying iOS customers no longer see Validation failed, and the backend going down no longer revokes premium
The developer, Flash Scientific Technology, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
Data Not Collected
The developer does not collect any data from this app.
Accessibility
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Information
- Seller
- FLASH Scientific Technology Inc.
- Size
- 77 MB
- Category
- Weather
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 15.0 or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 15.0 or later. - iPad
Requires iPadOS 15.0 or later. - iPod touch
Requires iOS 15.0 or later. - Mac
Requires macOS 12.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later. - Apple Vision
Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- iPhone
- Location
- This app may use your location even when it isn’t open, which can decrease device battery life.
- Languages
English and 5 more
- English, Filipino, Portuguese, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, Vietnamese
- Age Rating
4+
- 4+
- In-App Purchases
Yes
- Flash Premium Monthly $3.99
- Flash Premium Yearly $39.99
- Copyright
- © 2026 Flash Scientific Technology Inc.
