Cloudmesh: Weather Radar & AQI
Hyperlocal Minute Rain Alerts
Free · In‑App Purchases
Cloudmesh tells you when rain will start and stop at your exact location — down to the minute.
It runs its own forecast: 39 weather sources — radar, observation networks, and multiple forecast models — fused into one hyperlocal prediction that shows you how confident it really is.
Live radar, air quality and pollen, and a Watch app with complications that put the next rain window on your wrist.
MINUTE RAIN ALERTS
Get a push notification before rain starts at your location. Set quiet hours and control alerts per city.
LIVE RADAR
A free radar layer that follows your selected city, with a precipitation overlay you can toggle on and off.
ENSEMBLE FORECAST
Multiple weather models compared side by side. A confidence ribbon shows you when the models agree — and when they don't.
AIR QUALITY & POLLEN
AQI now-cast, pollen levels, and the UV index, all in one glance.
APPLE WATCH
Standalone updates on your wrist, plus complications for rain countdown, temperature, and AQI.
WIDGETS
29 home-screen and lock-screen widgets, so your forecast is there before you open the app.
HYPERLOCAL EVERYWHERE
Works worldwide, with observation coverage across 30 countries.
PRIVACY
No accounts, no tracking. Your location is never sold.
PREMIUM
One purchase unlocks everything, with a 7-day free trial and a generous free tier. No subscription.
more • If you live in Denver, La Paz, Mexico City, or anywhere pleasantly elevated: the app quietly assumed your barometer was broken. It wasn't — our validation maths was. High-altitude pressure readings now count.
• Pressure maps were treating mountains as weather systems. Everything is now normalized to sea level, where meteorology intended it to be.
• Turning off mesh contribution now stops in-flight readings instantly, not "eventually".
• The weather report button used to say "Thanks!" even when your report never arrived. It now only thanks you when it means it.
• Switching cities fast could briefly show the previous city's weather. Slow responses now lose that race, as they deserve.
• Towns 10 km apart no longer borrow each other's weather alerts.
• Plus sturdier alert delivery and a stack of reliability fixes behind the scenes.
1.1.30 Jul 10
Fixed a widget and Apple Watch refresh issue where changing temperature units could make stale weather look newly updated. Widgets and the watch now keep the original weather timestamp, so direct refreshes and rain countdowns stay accurate.
1.1.29 Jul 9
What's new in 1.1.28
• Rain-front data used to vanish the moment our barometer smarts kicked in. Turns out "enhance" was not supposed to mean "delete." Fixed.
• Stale cached weather was being served with a straight face, pretending it was fresh. It now admits its age.
• Purchases and restores used to happen in total silence. They now actually tell you what happened — success, failure, or "try again."
• The Mac widget finally refreshes on its own instead of waiting to be asked nicely. Also, long city names are no longer beheaded on Mac.
• Watch complications now refresh themselves, gained tidy new gauge corners, and tapping one opens the page you actually meant.
• The watch now shows "updated 3m ago" so you know how stale things are — tap to refresh on demand.
• Added VoiceOver labels across the app, because "button" is not a helpful description of a button.
1.1.28 Jul 7
Your widgets were a little too zen — they'd quietly stare at the last weather they saw until you opened the app. On iPhone and Mac they now refresh themselves in the background, so the temperature and rain countdown stay current on their own.
Thanks for using Cloudmesh.
1.1.27 Jul 4
We spent this one making Cloudmesh nag you less and get the details right:
• Temperature alerts finally learned some restraint — they only buzz you when the change actually matters, not every time the thermometer twitches.
• Fixed widgets showing the wrong hours for cities in other time zones. "Rain at 3 PM" means YOUR 3 PM now.
• Taught the rain forecast to stop exaggerating how much is actually falling.
• A stack of quieter fixes under the hood, so everything runs faster and steadier.
1.1.26 Jul 2
New: switch the radar to Temperature and the map now dots the biggest cities with their live temperatures — pan and zoom and they update, like a TV weather map.
A few bugs, lovingly hunted down:
• Weather alerts had started photocopying themselves on every refresh. We've recalled the duplicates.
• Severe-weather notifications were proudly showing a web link instead of, you know, the actual warning. They now say what's happening.
• Tapping “Join” to help the community mesh during setup looked like it worked but quietly didn't. It does now — and Settings agrees.
• Colour-coded weather warnings had their wires crossed: a Red-level warning could glow purple and an Amber one turn red. Now the colour matches the level — yellow, orange, red.
• Earthquake alerts now measure the distance from where you actually are — no more being warned about a quake on the other side of the planet.
1.1.25 Jun 30
Widgets, meet Dark Mode:
• Fixed the home-screen widgets stubbornly glowing in bright daytime colours while your phone was in Dark Mode — they now go properly black at night instead of lighting up your home screen like a tiny billboard.
• All the text and icons stay crisp and readable on the new dark background.
Quieter home screen, happier 2am eyeballs.
1.1.24 Jun 25
A weather app should be honest about what it doesn't know. This update is mostly us being honest out loud.
• New — a confidence ribbon under the hourly forecast. Where the forecast models agree, it stays quiet; where they're arguing about your afternoon, it turns amber — so you know which hours to trust and which to keep a backup plan for. Most apps hand you one confident-looking number and cross their fingers. We'd rather show our work.
• New — "Rain starting in ~12 min" now appears right at the top when a shower's about to arrive, instead of leaving you to squint at a wall of percentages.
• New — a "Good window for outdoors" line reads the next 12 hours of rain, temperature and wind and just tells you when to take the walk.
• New — ask Siri. "Do I need an umbrella?" and "What's the weather?" now answer straight from Cloudmesh, hands-free.
• Fixed — severe weather alerts used to arrive as a tangle of raw forecast text and stray web links. They now read like a notification a person actually wrote — and in your app's language.
• Fixed — earthquake alerts now tell you roughly how far away it was, instead of insisting it happened 0 km from your couch.
• Fixed — the app had a quiet habit of crashing in the background while doing its chores (refreshing your forecast, sending barometer readings). It now finishes the chores instead of keeling over halfway through.
1.1.23 Jun 24
Cloudmesh 1.1.22 — the 'we believe you, it's dry out' update:
• The big one: the app used to insist it was raining while you stood in the sun. It now checks the live radar overhead before crying rain — so a confident 'rain' can't show up when the nearest cloud is miles away. You get an honest 'dry now, rain likely later' instead of false alarms.
• The home-screen widget stopped claiming 100% rain during a dry spell. It looked outside this time.
• The watch complication used to trail off mid-sentence — 'Rain in 2…' like a season finale. It finishes the thought now.
• Rain alerts stopped pinging you twice for the same shower. One polite heads-up.
• During a long earthquake, alerts no longer buzz every 30 seconds — one alert per quake.
• Smoother live radar, plus quiet battery and tidying behind the scenes.
1.1.22 Jun 17
Your watch deserves better, so:
• The complication now always shows YOUR location's weather — not whichever city you were last poking at in the app. Browse Tokyo all you like; your wrist stays home.
• It also used to quietly freeze when the weather was calm. It no longer sulks — it refreshes at least every couple of hours no matter what.
• Added proper version logging behind the scenes so we can actually diagnose your watch instead of guessing.
1.1.19 Jun 14
• Fixed a bug where one stubborn cloud refused to render its silver lining.
• Chased down a forecast that was loading at drizzle speed — it's brisk now.
• General performance tune-up across the app and your wrist.
1.1.18 Jun 12
A weather app should not need a changelog this honest, and yet:
• Air quality, nearby reports and earthquakes had silently stopped showing up after a server change. They are back. We have apologised to all three.
• Offline mode used to show confident made-up weather, including a fictional afternoon rain alert. Now it admits it is offline instead of improvising.
• Sunrise and sunset were hardcoded to 6:30, as if it were permanently equinox. The actual sun is now consulted.
• Background refresh sometimes labelled your local weather with the last city you looked at. Vienna, we are sorry about the London forecast.
• Rain countdowns tick down live now instead of waiting for you to blink.
• Widgets, complications and notifications got better at speaking your language.
1.1.17 Jun 11
• Fixed: the "Allow Notifications" prompt now appears like it always should have, and your weather alerts register properly.
• Bonus fix: a related bug that let the Apple Watch complication go stale. Watch and phone are on speaking terms again.
1.1.15 Jun 4
You know how this app is called "Weather Radar"? We finally did the radar justice.
• Live Radar now covers the ENTIRE planet — oceans, deserts, the middle of the Pacific — not just the patches near you. Pan anywhere on Earth and the clouds are right there, moving.
• NEW Temperature layer: one tap switches the map between rain and a global temperature view.
• The radar now tells you, in plain English, what the sky is doing — "nearest rain about 40 km west, drifting your way" — right under the map, with a colour key so you know light drizzle from a proper soaking.
• Smoother and cleaner, and it holds steady while you pan and zoom instead of flickering.
• Apple Watch wakes up and refreshes itself in the background now (no more "updated three days ago"), with a redesigned, actually-readable layout.
• Fixed: rain-starting and rain-stopping alerts now actually arrive.
• The route weather planner steers you AROUND the rain, not just down the least-soggy road.
Still free. Still no ads. Go spin the globe.
1.1.14 Jun 2
Apple Watch, take four. We keep promising the watch face and its complications will stay current, and they keep finding fresh ways to freeze by lunchtime. This time we caught the real culprit: your iPhone was so eager to keep the watch updated that it re-sent the same forecast over and over, burning through the watch's small daily delivery allowance — after which everything quietly stopped until the next day.
• Fixed: the watch and its complications now get a fresh delivery only when the weather actually changes, so they keep updating all day instead of tapping out by lunchtime.
• Fixed: the temperature on your watch face and in the watch app stays in step with your iPhone.
• Your °C / °F choice still carries straight over to the watch.
If it freezes again, the watch is getting a strongly worded letter.
1.1.13 May 29
Two updates ago we put weather on your Apple Watch. One update ago we announced we'd fixed it so it would actually stay current. Reader: it did not. The watch kept proudly showing whatever the temperature and rain chance were the last time it happened to listen — while the iPhone sat right next to it with the correct numbers. It turned out the watch was being handed the fresh forecast and then reading an older note to itself instead.
• Fixed (for real this time): the watch now reads the latest forecast the iPhone hands it, instead of re-displaying the stale one it had memorized.
• Fixed: temperature, rain chance, and the umbrella call on your watch-face complications now actually move when the weather does.
• Fixed: updates are delivered reliably in the background, so the watch stays current even when you haven't opened anything.
• Fixed: the watch now shows temperatures in °F or °C — whichever you picked — instead of quietly defaulting to Celsius behind your back.
If it freezes again we'll stop writing jokes in here and start writing apologies.
1.1.12 May 26
Last update we put a rain-chance complication on your Apple Watch. Then we quietly forgot to ever update it. It showed whatever the rain chance was the last time you opened the iPhone app — which could've been this morning, or last Thursday. A weather complication frozen in time. Bold choice. Not ours.
• Fixed: the rain-chance complication on your watch now refreshes in the background, instead of waiting for you to open the iPhone app.
• Fixed: when a rain alert goes out, your watch updates right then — so the number on your wrist matches what's actually about to fall on your head.
• Bonus: the home-screen widgets get the same background refresh, so they stop lagging behind reality too.
1.1.11 May 22
What's new in 1.1.10:
• Rain alerts now actually arrive. Embarrassing confession: we wrote lovely "rain starting" and "rain stopping" notifications, then forgot to ask iOS for permission to send them. They were going absolutely nowhere, with great enthusiasm. Fixed.
• Apple Watch complications were stuck forever on 14° and "Partly Cloudy" — basically a very confident weather sticker. The watch was receiving real data and then politely ignoring it. It now saves the latest weather and refreshes the face properly.
• Watch and phone now stay in sync when the forecast flips wet or dry.
Thanks for putting up with a weather app that wouldn't tell you about the weather.
1.1.10 May 19
Rain notifications got a bit of a talking-to. We promised pushes for rain starting and stopping. We delivered pushes that only fired when the app was already open, looking at your current location. So basically: never. Sorry.
• Fixed: rain start and rain stop notifications now fire from the server, even when the app is closed.
• New: "Rain in X minutes" and "Clearing in X minutes" heads-up pushes — so you can grab the umbrella before the first drop, not after.
• Fixed: the Rain Alerts toggle in Settings now actually turns the rain pushes off when you flip it. Genuinely embarrassed this wasn't already the case.
• Fixed: on iPad, the app could sit on a loading skeleton forever if no location fix arrived. App Review caught it. There's now a proper "Search for a City" button instead of grey rectangles staring back.
• Fixed: a saved city's weather wouldn't load on cold launch when location was denied. It does now.
1.1.9 May 14
What's new in 1.1.8
• Moved the "rate the app" prompt off the launch screen and onto a real success moment — saving your first new city. The old behaviour (5th launch) was a small violation of our own rule that we should never ask before you've actually used the app for something. Fixed.
• Search-listing tidy continues: long-tail phrases people type when they need precise weather (minute by minute rain, lightning alert, air quality) plus "no ads" as the real wedge against the ad-heavy weather giants.
1.1.8 May 12
What's new in 1.1.6
• Fixed the App Icon picker on iPad. Tapping an alternate icon used to do absolutely nothing because the iPad-specific icons block was missing the alternates Apple needs to register them. iPhone has been fine; iPad has been quietly mocking us. Both platforms now switch icons properly.
• While we were in there, the picker's "selected" highlight stopped lying. It now updates the moment you tap, instead of showing the previous selection until you reopen Settings.
1.1.6 May 10
Asked the clouds for an update. They said sure, but only between showers.
Minute-rain look-ahead a touch sharper. Radar a touch smoother. Forecasts as honestly hedged as ever.
1.1.4 May 8
Forecast: fewer crashes, clearer skies. We taught the app to wake up gracefully when iOS taps it on the shoulder at 3 a.m. for a pressure reading. Turns out it was a deep sleeper.
1.1.3 May 6
Rain alerts now aim for the exact minute they’re meant to happen. Also, alerts follow where you actually are, not every city you’ve ever emotionally attached to. Apple Watch sync is fresher too, so your wrist can stop spreading weather gossip.
1.1.2 Apr 30
Five forecast models, one distributed barometer mesh, zero hot-air promises. We taught the rain alert to stop crying wolf when it's just a passing cloud.
1.1.1 Apr 21
• If you live in Denver, La Paz, Mexico City, or anywhere pleasantly elevated: the app quietly assumed your barometer was broken. It wasn't — our validation maths was. High-altitude pressure readings now count.
• Pressure maps were treating mountains as weather systems. Everything is now normalized to sea level, where meteorology intended it to be.
• Turning off mesh contribution now stops in-flight readings instantly, not "eventually".
• The weather report button used to say "Thanks!" even when your report never arrived. It now only thanks you when it means it.
• Switching cities fast could briefly show the previous city's weather. Slow responses now lose that race, as they deserve.
• Towns 10 km apart no longer borrow each other's weather alerts.
• Plus sturdier alert delivery and a stack of reliability fixes behind the scenes.
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