Aura Radar 1.2.7 — The Pro Update
Aura Radar 1.2.7 is the pro release: dual-pol, MRMS swaths, satellite, the official NWS forecast and a hands-off Storm Mode. Grab the installer at yforest.ai/radar; it upgrades over your running copy and keeps your settings and licence.
Pro radar
Dual-pol storm view: reflectivity beside storm-relative velocity on tornado-warned storms.
Possible-debris flag from low CC and near-zero ZDR in rotation, labelled "a signature to check, not a report".
Hail swaths (24 h and 60 min) and rotation tracks (4 h) from MRMS.
Storm reports (tornado, hail, wind) from SPC and local NWS, marked preliminary.
GOES satellite under radar, IR or visible, with 1-minute imagery during storm visits.
Storm story card: a plain-English summary built only from the NWS warning text.
Colour-blind safe palette for radar, velocity and every engine image.
Forecasting
Official NWS 7-day forecast on air for roll-call cities, home and visit markets, and any extra cities.
7-day forecast desk between storms.
Forecast block in the hourly show, plus forecast pages in the ticker.
National forecast maps: highs, lows, rain chance, SPC Day 1–3 outlook and rain totals.
Whole-country future radar run, always labelled as a model.
"When it reaches you" cards with rain and storm arrival times by town and time zone.
Storm tracker: path with 15-minute marks and town arrival times, from NWS warning motion.
Broadcast
Storm Mode (Off, Auto, On): locks onto the worst storms, with a badge and ticker page, and never overwrites saved settings.
YouTube chat forecasts: viewers type a city and get an on-screen forecast, read aloud if voice is on.
Chat corner card airs during ordinary warnings without taking the camera.
Live broadcast-style captions: pop-on pages that never cover cards.
Space weather and aurora segment: Kp, NOAA G/S/R scales, the aurora oval and the best states to see it.
Hourly show: a spoken rundown with feature cards, the camera following each place named.
Daily SPC outlook post draft, for you to review; nothing is posted automatically.
Data-stale alerts to Discord.
Audio mixer: music, rain and voice sliders with ducking, and voice-hours limits.
Install, upgrade and uninstall
Upgrade over a running copy: the app closes itself, updates and relaunches, with settings and licence kept.
Installer detects downgrades and same-version repairs and asks first.
Old leftover copies are cleaned up safely, and nothing installs into a stale folder.
Uninstall keeps your settings by default. You can choose to remove data or release your licence seat.
"Deactivate this computer" in the app frees a seat for another machine.
Mac: licence agreement screen on first launch, Uninstall in Settings > Account, and Start at login.
Windows: Start with Windows on by default for new installs.
Settings are backed up automatically before every upgrade.
Improved
New Settings window with a left rail: Display, Map, Radar, Alerts, Audio, Director, Hourly show, Forecast, Stream, Account, Health, Advanced.
Cleaner map: crisp vector borders, smooth zoom-faded city names, pin your own town, fewer on-screen boxes.
Redesigned storm panel: threat tags, time left, hazards and Up Next.
Radar time stamp in every view; radar over 30 minutes old is flagged OLD RADAR.
Accuracy: towns, times and storm motion come only from the NWS warning; arrival times use true ground distance.
Smoothness: frame hitches removed and draw calls cut from about 32,700 to about 500 in heavy scenes.
Fair airtime: forecasts, floods and tropical alerts take turns, and tornado-tier warnings still take the screen at once.
Reliability: fixed a first-start crash on Windows, the engine recovers from bad downloads, voice survives restarts, and the hourly show never repeats an hour.
The "update available" notice never shows your own version.
Fixed
Magenta flash on new warnings.
Captions dropping their last word.
Card text clipping, labels behind the ticker, and duplicate town labels.
Marine card blanks.
The soundscape fading quieter over time.