https://furcastweather.com/blog/ Recent content in News & Updates on Furcast — Weather with Personality Hugo en-us Sun, 28 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://furcastweather.com/blog/hello-furcast/ Sun, 28 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://furcastweather.com/blog/hello-furcast/ <p>Weather apps don&rsquo;t have to be grey grids of numbers. <strong>Furcast</strong> is our attempt at a forecast with a little soul: accurate, fast, private, and genuinely fun to open.</p> <h2 id="what-were-preparing-for-launch">What we&rsquo;re preparing for launch</h2> <ul> <li><strong>Live conditions</strong> for wherever you are, with temperature, feels-like, wind, humidity, pressure, next-hour precipitation, and alerts on a living pixel diorama.</li> <li><strong>24-hour charts</strong> for temperature, wind, humidity, precipitation, cloud cover, UV index, visibility, and pressure.</li> <li><strong>7-day and 10-day outlooks</strong> with clean temperature-range bars and hourly detail for Plus.</li> <li><strong>Animated radar</strong> built into the Now flow, so you can watch rain roll in.</li> <li><strong>Widgets</strong> for Home Screen, Lock Screen, and Mac.</li> <li><strong>Severe-weather alerts</strong> as push notifications, free for everyone.</li> <li><strong>Condition-aware themes</strong> that re-skin the whole app for sun, rain, snow, fog, storms, day and night.</li> <li><strong>A cast of hand-drawn pixel characters</strong> that show up to match the weather.</li> </ul> <h2 id="furcast-plus">Furcast Plus</h2> <p>For folks who want more, <strong>Furcast Plus</strong> adds the <em>Furcast Daily</em> morning paper, the full cast of animated characters, a 10-day forecast with hourly detail, unlimited saved locations, iCloud sync, a full hour of radar history, rain start/stop notifications, seasonal normals, and twice-as-frequent updates. There&rsquo;s a Family plan, too.</p>