Severe Weather Updates

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We’re VERY close to launching 🚀 Severe Weather Updates inside of the app!

What this means is, when you receive an update created by our team for tornado activity, damaging winds, etc., it will no longer say DETAILS ON FACEBOOK. Instead, it’ll take you to the app with all the details! 🙂

Woohoo!

Adam

Our sincerest apologies

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UPDATE: the servers are back up and running and the app should be functioning normally. Thank you for your patience.

Our sincerest apologies to Hamilton. This Tornado Warning was an error. A US county called Hamilton County caused an error in our system. We are working hard on a fix for it.

IMPORTANT: I’ve shut down our app servers until tomorrow morning (potentially as late as 10:00 AM ET) so the app will not load until then. My sincerest apologies for the unexpected downtime. I could start them up now as we have disabled the US system which will stop any US Tornado Warnings being sent to Hamilton app users. However, there could be remaining alerts waiting to be sent when I turn it back on and it’s currently 12:42am. I’d rather not risk sending any further alerts to Hamilton until we fix this bug. Thank you for your patience and my apologies for the error.

Adam

US alerts and US app availability

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Tornado🌪 related alerts are now up and running on our US Facebook pages! Woohoo! From California Tornado Watch to Florida Tornado Watch, we have a Tornado Watch page for every US state. This also means, the next version of our app will include all US alerts (tornado, flood, snowfall, etc.) and therefore, we’ll be launching the app in the US App Stores shortly there after! More details ASAP!

Adam

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Custom Severe Updates

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We’re working hard at adding our custom severe weather notification details to our new free app Instant Weather.

We send these custom severe updates out for tornado potential, dangerous wind gusts, large hail, and more.

Until we finish adding this feature, if you see a notification from us but nothing shows up in the app, please visit our Facebook page for the details.

We’re working hard to complete this feature! More details ASAP.

Thank you!

- Adam

Multiple Special Weather Statement update

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We're deploying new code to our servers soon to limit the multiple Special Weather Statements and limit many of the continued alerts that have been annoying, to say the least.

Woohoo!

The only exception will be anything tornado-related as any continued may have updated messages from Environment Canada in the details and those could be critical like "Spotter has confirmed a tornado the ground 20km east of Somethingville."

Here's hoping the new code runs flawlessly live but thankfully, if any fixes are required we can do them on our end without needing any app updates.

More details ASAP!

Emergency Alerts

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A few in Ontario are wondering why Instant Weather did not send out the Emergency Alert. To clarify, we have not integrated with "Alert Ready" government alerts as of yet.

We plan to add those in the future and also make them optional as we realize some do not receive the government Emergency Alerts if they're not connected to LTE or using the right device.

More details on that ASAP. Thank you!

Adam

Ps.

On the topic of customizing alerts, when we do add Alert Ready government alerts for all sorts of things from telephone outages to water advisories, it would be nice to also include the option to turn on/off every type of alert in the app. We flirted with this idea in the past for our Text Message Alerts and I feel it's an important option as everyone has unique needs and wants.

Multiple Special Weather Statement notifications

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Receiving multiple Special Weather Statement notifications in a row needs to be fixed in the notification logic and we have plans to limit these to 1 for at least a few hours. Sorry about that! Working on a fix for it! 

Adam