Forest Weather

Forest Weather helps landscape and nature photographers plan their early morning shoots. Get weather forecasts optimized for forest photography conditions - fog, sunrays, snow, humidity, visibility, and sunrise times - all at a glance.

No ads, no tracking, no data collection. Just the weather data you need.

WIDGET

- Home screen widget showing visibility, humidity, sun percentage, and rain
- Color-coded indicators highlight when conditions meet your thresholds
- Sunrise and sunset times displayed at a glance
- Customizable background color and transparency
- Automatic weather updates at configurable intervals

FORECAST

- Conditions at sunrise - the golden window for forest photography
- Fog, sunray, and snow alerts based on your custom thresholds
- Hourly forecast graphs for visibility, humidity, sun percentage, rain, and snow
- Sunrise markers on graphs to plan your timing
- Automatically switches to tomorrow's forecast after sunrise

TABLE

- 3-day hourly weather table with cloud cover (low, mid, high, total), afterglow, sun percentage, sunshine duration, visibility, temperature, dew point, humidity, dew, frost, rain, snow, wind speed, and wind direction
- Optional aurora row showing the Kp index
- Sunlight and moon bars showing daylight and moonlight periods with solar noon and moon transit markers
- Color-coded cells for quick visual assessment of conditions
- Custom table alerts: define up to 5 alert profiles with your own rules on any parameter (e.g. visibility < 1000 and humidity > 90) and get notified when conditions are met within 24 or 48 hours
- Enable or disable individual alert profiles independently

MAP

- Sunrise visibility map with smoothly interpolated visibility conditions on a meteorological color scale
- Sunrise alert map showing fog, sunray, and snow conditions with color-coded alerts
- Toggle between visibility and alert views with one tap
- View current conditions or +24 hours ahead with one tap
- 48-hour map: step through the next two days with the time slider, or press play to animate
- Hourly layers: visibility, alerts, humidity, cloud cover (total, low, mid, high), and snow
- Map types: Standard, Satellite, Terrain, and Topo
- Tap the map to read the values at that spot
- Configurable grid area: 200×300, 400×600, or 600×900 km around your location
- Color-coded alerts: blue for fog, yellow for sunrays, green for both, white for snow

LOCATIONS

- Fog, sunray, and snow alerts for popular forest photography locations across the Netherlands
- Add your own custom locations by name or by tapping on the map
- Per-location notifications so you never miss the perfect morning
- Select which locations to monitor

ALERTS & NOTIFICATIONS

- Push notifications for fog conditions (based on visibility threshold)
- Push notifications for sunray conditions (based on humidity + sun thresholds)
- Push notifications for snow conditions
- Forest location notifications
- All thresholds fully customizable

SETTINGS

- GPS or custom location
- Metric or Imperial units (°C/m/mm or °F/mi/in)
- Multiple weather models: Auto (best available), KNMI HARMONIE (Netherlands/Europe), DMI HARMONIE (Northern Europe), DWD ICON-EU (Europe), HRRR (USA), CMA GRAPES (Global)
- Configurable update intervals (1 to 12 hours)
- Automatic refresh on screen unlock
- Light, dark, or system theme
- English and Dutch language support

PRIVACY

- No personal data collected, no analytics, no ads
- Location is only used to fetch weather data, and all data stays on your device

SUBSCRIPTION

Forest Weather is free to use for 7 days, no subscription needed during the trial. After that, a monthly subscription is required to keep using it.

- Price shown in Google Play, charged to your Google Play account
- Renews automatically each month, cancel anytime via Subscriptions in Google Play

Built with care by Martin Podt - www.martinpodt.com

Recent changes:
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