Storm Analysis Inc. (SAI) 1.3B (8/11/24) Changelog
NEW FEATURES
- Added chasing
- Added tutorial menus
- Added Shop
- Storms are re-worked to look a lot better
- Added hail reports
- Added Fujiwhara and storm mergers
- Velocity now depends on the wind profile
- SPC Risk loads very quickly now
CHASING
- You can earn credits via chasing
- Press “Space” to zoom in on your chaser dot
- Press “T” or middle click to move your chase dot
- Active in public servers
SHOP
- You can now buy color tables with credits
- 16 Base Reflectivity color tables, 6 Velocity color tables, 2 CC (correlation Coefficient) color tables
THERMOS
- Reworked thermodynamics
- New way forcing is determined
- Added Effective inflow layer
- Hodographs now go to 16km
- Added MU Parcel
- All parcels are now more accurate
- Added MU MPL
- Re-added jet stream
- Wind profiles are a lot more realistic (no more 700 srh with North West surface winds)
- Temperatures are colder in the morning and north of the jet stream
PARAMETER MENU
- Added 15-20 new parameters
- Added wind barbs and combo plots
- Added parameter information in the parameters menu
- Parameter menu loads faster
- Added a value displayer for parameter (hover to see a point’s value)
SOUNDINGS
- Sounding is now skewed closer to SHARPpy
- Added theta-e v pressure, mixing ratio v height, sr wind v height boxes
- Soundings now include Effective-inflow layer
- Added wind-barbs with height
- Added Effective-inflow layer indicators on skew-t and hodograph
- Hodograph centers near the right motion instead of being locked at the center
- Added Wet Bulb Parcel
- Hodographs now display MU and SB parcels respectfully
- Added Time/Location to Soundings
- Added “Get SHARPpy/CM1 Format” button to obtain soundings in CM1 format
- Added SigSvr composite
- Added Temperature labels
UI
- Unified all GUI under a theme
- Rewrote the back-end to reduce lag and bugs
- History menu now includes tornado area, time otg and averages
- Tornado surveys now include tornado area and time otg
- Organized UI, side-bar menu now includes most buttons
- Moved main UI buttons to the side
- Mobile UI Scaling is fixed
- Warning UI has been improved slightly
- Added 50 new splash texts
- You can now collapse each level of EF tornado in the archive menu
MISC
- Special weather statements now give points to sub-severe storms
- Marine weather statements now remove points if not over water
BUG FIXES
- History menu not displaying a day’s information
- Supercell composite displays SCP instead of STP
- “Swiss-cheese” risks are less common
- Camera bug should happen less
- Mobile buttons blocking model viewer
- SPC Risk loading on a new day despite being turned off
- Day archive should display the correct day of the week
- Colortable inventory will not refresh every scan update
- Soundings zooming in too far