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PureWeather — User Manual
Version 1.3

Welcome to PureWeather

PureWeather is a comprehensive weather app for iPhone built around six core experiences: Home, Detail, Maps, Pilot, Cams, and Settings. This manual walks you through every feature.

Home Tab

The Home tab is your at-a-glance weather dashboard for your current location.

Current Conditions
The top of the screen shows your city name, current condition, temperature, chance of rain, and today's high/low. The background animates to match current conditions — rain falls during storms, stars appear at night, wind streaks blow through breezy days.

Outlook Card
A brief natural-language summary of current conditions followed by a scrollable hourly forecast showing weather icons, precipitation percentage, and temperature for the next several hours.

Sunset Quality
Predicts how visually dramatic tonight's sunset will be on a 1–5 flame scale based on cloud cover and atmospheric conditions near sunset time.

Weather Detail Grid
Key metrics at a glance: dew point, humidity, UV index, visibility, pressure and trend, wind chill, and cloud cover.

Precipitation Timeline
A minute-by-minute chart showing rain intensity for the next hour, when available.

Sunrise & Sunset
Today's sunrise and sunset times with a visual arc showing daylight progression.

Space Weather
Solar wind speed, magnetic field orientation, Kp geomagnetic index, and solar X-ray activity from NOAA. Includes a northern lights visibility estimate for your latitude.

Wind Detail
A compass rose showing wind direction, speed, and gust strength.

Air Quality
Real-time AQI (Air Quality Index) on the standard 0–500 US EPA scale with a color-coded bar. Powered by OpenWeatherMap.

Weather Time Machine
Look up historical weather for any day in the past 10 days at your current location.

Weather Stats
Tracks your local weather history since you installed the app. Shows hottest day, coldest day, sunny days, total days tracked, and a rolling list of the last 5 days with highs, lows, and precipitation.

Detail Tab

Expands on today's conditions with a full 10-day forecast. Tap any day to see a detailed breakdown including:

• High/low temperatures

• Precipitation chance and type

• Wind speed and direction

• UV index

• Sunrise and sunset times

• Moon phase

Maps Tab

An interactive weather map with multiple data layers and road trip navigation.

Layer Toggles (bottom bar)

• Radar — Live precipitation radar from RainViewer, animated with past frames and nowcast

• Clouds — Cloud cover overlay

• Precip — Precipitation intensity overlay

• Temp — Temperature overlay

• Wind — Wind speed overlay

Playback Controls
Scrub through past radar frames or watch the animation play automatically. The timestamp shows the current frame time.

Weather Alerts
Active alerts for your area appear as a banner at the top. Tap to expand the full alert text. Tap outside to collapse.

Navigate
Tap Navigate to plan a road trip:

1. Tap the search icon and type your destination

2. The route draws automatically

3. Use the search chip bar to find gas stations, restaurants, EV chargers, hotels, parks, and more along your route

4. Tap any pin to see current weather at that stop

5. Tap + to add a stop to your trip

6. Tap Start with X Stops to begin navigation with optimized stop order

Search This Area
After panning the map to a new location, a Search This Area button appears in the center of the screen. Tap it to re-run your last search in the currently visible map region.

Pilot Tab

Aviation weather tools for pilots and aviation enthusiasts.

Airport Search
Type an ICAO or IATA airport code (e.g., KMSP, LAX) to retrieve:

• METAR — Current observed conditions at the airport

• TAF — Terminal Aerodrome Forecast (multi-hour/day forecast)

• Flight Category — VFR / MVFR / IFR / LIFR color-coded status

Space Weather Panel
Live solar wind conditions, geomagnetic Kp index, and aurora visibility estimate — useful for HF radio operators and high-altitude flight planning.

Cams Tab

Live webcam viewer powered by Windy.

• Browse webcams near your current location

• Search by city name or drag the map to explore

• Tap any webcam marker to view the live image

• Webcams update automatically

Settings Tab

Units

• Temperature: Fahrenheit or Celsius

• Wind Speed: mph, km/h, or knots

Notifications

• Severe Weather Alerts — notifies when NWS or WeatherKit issues alerts for your area

• Storm Approach — warns when precipitation is detected approaching your location

• Notification Sounds — toggle alert sounds on/off

Saved Locations
Add up to 5 locations to monitor alongside your current location.

Road Trip Preferences

• Preferred fuel brands for stop suggestions

• Vehicle range for fuel stop spacing

Tips & Tricks

• Expand alert banners — Tap a red/orange alert pill to read the full text. Tap outside to collapse.

• Weather on map pins — Tap any search result pin to reveal its current weather badge.

• Waypoint order — When building a road trip, stops are automatically reordered for the most efficient route regardless of the order you add them.

• Auto radar refresh — The radar map refreshes automatically every 2 minutes in the background.

• Dark sky mode — The background automatically switches to a dark star field at night.