Weather Power Year In Review!

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Weather Power Year In Review!

WeatherPower · 2025 Recap
2025 Year in Review: WeatherPower’s First Season Online

2025 was the year WeatherPower went from “what if…” to a live platform. We flipped the switch in June 2025 and have been building, testing, and upgrading nonstop ever since.

Launched June 2025
Focus Hyperlocal severe weather intelligence
Mode Always in beta, always improving
Launch · June 2025

From Concept to Live Platform

When WeatherPower first went live, the goal was simple:

  • Give people clean, easy-to-read weather data.
  • Focus on local relevance, not just big-city blobs.
  • Build something that could grow into a severe weather ops hub, not just a daily forecast page.

Early builds centered on current conditions, short-term details, and a first-generation radar that set the stage for everything that came later.

2025 Snapshot

What We Shipped This Year

  • Live viewer dots on the radar so you can see where everyone is.
  • Photo submissions flowing straight into an ops dashboard.
  • WeWatch — custom WeatherPower-issued watch boxes.
  • A full Ops Dashboard that acts like a command center.
  • Account-based access, Privacy Policy, and Terms of Service pages.
  • Smarter threat tools: hail/wind inputs, population in polygons, and a Storm Threat Meter.
  • A cleaner, Pro-style UI with mobile-friendly navigation and themes.
Radar · Community · Custom Alerts

Viewer Dots on the Radar

The radar isn’t just “where the storm is” anymore — it’s where you are in the storm.

  • Viewers can send their location and appear as live dots on the radar.
  • Dots auto-expire quickly to keep the map clean and current.
  • Perfect for live streams and situational awareness during severe events.

Photo Submissions & Ground Truth

Radar can hint, but photos confirm. In 2025 we added a direct pipeline for visual reports:

  • Storm structure, wall clouds, shelf clouds, hail, damage — all in one feed.
  • Photos land in the Ops Dashboard for quick review and triage.
  • Dashboard sound cues notify you the moment a new submission arrives.

WeWatch: WeatherPower’s Own Watch Layer

With WeWatch, you can draw and issue your own watch-style boxes on top of official alerts.

  • Shows as a dedicated WeWatch layer on the public radar.
  • Each box includes configurable hail and wind thresholds.
  • Population data pulls into the warning card so you see how many people are inside.
  • Each WeWatch lists a clear issuer name based on who’s logged in.
Ops Dashboard · Behind the Scenes

WeatherPower Ops Dashboard

The Ops Dashboard turned WeatherPower from a “cool website” into a working operations console.

  • Viewer locations panel with a live list of dots.
  • Photo submissions panel with review and delete tools.
  • WeWatch creator to draw polygons, set hail/wind, and push updates live.
  • Refined warning & WeWatch cards with population and threat details at a glance.

Sound Alerts & Status Awareness

To keep critical moments from slipping by:

  • Audio cues fire on new photos, viewer dots, scanner feeds, and other key events.
  • Simple status indicators show when radar, APIs, or backend services aren’t behaving.
  • The whole thing is built to feel like a mini EOC, not just a settings screen.
Platform · Intelligence · Design

Growing into a Real Platform

In 2025 we laid a lot of “boring but important” foundation:

  • Account-based access for admins and future user features.
  • Fresh Privacy Policy and Terms of Service pages that match the brand.
  • A dedicated blog home for outlooks, feature notes, and year-in-review posts like this one.

These pieces make it easier to scale WeatherPower to more users, more roles, and more serious operations.

Smarter Weather Intelligence

Beyond the UI polish, a lot of work went into making WeatherPower smarter:

  • Storm Threat Meter summarizing risk as None / Low / Moderate / High / Extreme.
  • Hail & wind inputs wired into WeWatch for clear, human-readable expectations.
  • Population in polygons so you always know the scale of who’s affected.
  • More APIs (UV and others) brought online to keep things flexible for future features.

Design Glow-Up: From Basic to Pro

Visuals leveled up too:

  • A sharper Pro-style layout focused on data cards and readability.
  • Old pages and unused files cleaned up to keep the project lean.
  • Mobile nav with icons for Now, Hourly, Radar, Alerts, and Blog.
  • Early theme controls that pave the way for storm, midnight, and heatwave modes.
What’s Next

Looking Ahead to 2026

2025 was WeatherPower’s first year alive on the internet. 2026 is where it really stretches its legs.

  • WeBot — a WeatherPower chatbot that can talk warnings, pull scanner feeds, and read WeWatches.
  • Deeper Storm Threat Meter logic using more advanced parameters.
  • Better school and community dashboards for buses, events, and local impacts.
  • More polished themes, smarter automation, and faster tools for on-air and online coverage.

Thank You

WeatherPower isn’t a giant corporate weather machine — it grew out of real storms, real towns, and real people paying attention. To everyone who opened the site, tested a feature, sent a bug report, dropped a viewer dot, submitted a photo, or simply hung out on the radar during a warning:

Thank you for being part of WeatherPower’s first year online.

Special shoutout to AurøricS: thanks for stress-testing new features, breaking things in the best way possible, and helping shape what WeatherPower looks and feels like today.

Here’s to a safer, smarter, and way more interactive 2026. 🌩️

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