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Aeris Pulse for Android – it Feels Like Something is Missing… Since you updated to Oreo, you may have noticed that something was missing from your Aeris Pulse for Android app. One of the changes that came with our Oreo notification update is to default the persistent notification to off. If you’re missing it (like I was), here’s how to get it back! Aeris Pulse Settings Ok, first let’s turn that option back on. Open Pulse and swipe down on the main view. Next, at the top of the locations view, tap the settings icon in the upper left corner....

As spring turns to summer and everyone begins spending more time outdoors, the air we breathe is a concern for many. With most of the world’s population affected, this is not only a local concern but a global one–one that our clients care about. So we are proud to announce the addition of the Air Quality API to the AerisWeather weather API. The air quality API endpoints within AerisWeather’s API offers the ability to obtain global air quality observations and forecasts via two new endpoints: airquality and airquality/forecasts. The new endpoints are available today as part of our Aeris Premium...

by Paul Douglas An old joke insists that Californians don’t trust air they can’t actually see. Unfortunately, air pollution is no laughing matter. According to recent research, more than 95% of the world’s population breathes unsafe air, contributing to more than 6 million deaths worldwide in 2017. In the US alone studies suggest 7,000 to as many as 200,000 premature deaths occur annually as a result of unhealthy air. At this rate, a conservative estimate can state that air pollution claims as many lives as traffic accidents each year. The statistics are staggering, but the first step is understanding. Air...

It’s an exciting time to be working in the loft studios of AerisWeather development. The powerful Aeris Maps Platform has become a leading weather map service. Our radar coverage has expanded to new areas of the globe like Australia and South Korea. Aeris WeatherBlox, the service that enables web devs to easily add weather content to their sites are always adding new blox. We’re constantly pushing updates to the iOS and Android toolkits to keep them up to date with the fast-moving mobile scene. Here at AerisWeather we sometimes say “the weather never sleeps”, and for the toolkit team that...

by Ross Harrison These are exciting times in the world of Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) and advancements are moving at record speeds. UAS encapsulates the Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV/drone), its’ corresponding ground-based controller, and the communications systems between the two. With ever-improving sensors and cameras, businesses are benefiting from the increased ability to execute on mission-critical applications – from disaster relief, search and rescue missions, and fire services to commercial inspections & crop management. Add to this the advancements in package delivery from industry leaders like Amazon (Prime Air) and Google (Project Wing) and we all are sitting at a...

By Ross Machurick April 9th, 2018 It’s no secret that weather affects the buying decisions of consumers. Beachgoers buy suntan lotion and ice cream during the dog days of summer on the Jersey Shore while their friends in Minnesota stock up on fashionable snow boots and scarves as November turns to December. There’s a certain seasonal rhythm to these purchasing habits – whether it be consumer goods, food or travel. For decades, advertisers have leveraged the calendar and the cyclical nature of purchasing with what I like to call “low-tech” campaigns. But today’s programmatic advertisers require more contextual data. And...

by Paul Douglas It’s definitely not your grandfather’s weather anymore. Data suggest an uptick in severe weather, worldwide – symptomatic of a warming atmosphere and warming oceans. It’s basic physics: every 2F of warming means roughly 8 percent more water vapor floating overhead; more fuel to “juice” storms and produce heavier summer rains and winter snows. The result has been a subsequent increase in billion-dollar weather events across the United States since 1980. The United States has experienced 25 separate 500-year floods since 2010, according to NOAA. During Hurricane Harvey, the town of Nederland, Texas received 64.58” of rain. By...

Oreo might be “Milk’s Favorite Cookie”, but it’s proving to be an Android developer’s least favorite update – at least in terms of the Android Oreo notifications. When the AerisWeather Android team started updating our projects for Android 8.0, it seemed like a typical day at the office. Update Gradle, set our target SDK to 26, resync, rebuild and then fix the stuff that Google broke. In fact, the first round of changes went pretty quickly. Then we noticed the notifications weren’t working on our Oreo test device… The Deception Begins One of the things that makes the Android Oreo...

Three years ago we released version 2.0 of our Aeris’ iOS Weather SDK, which was completely rewritten from the ground up with massive improvements and tons of new features. We have numerous customers using the SDK in their own awesome weather apps in the AppStore, and we even rely on it with our own app Aeris Pulse. Now, we've released the first public beta of the next major version of our iOS SDK, version 3.0! Version 3.0 expands on all of the improvements and features we outlined in part one and part two of our 2.0 preview while making a...

by Paul Douglas “Those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it.” – George Santayana Meteorologists are preoccupied with predicting some future state of the atmosphere. Too many days it’s a thankless, seemingly impossible task. To have any real success forecasting the weather it’s essential to look back in time to see what already happened, and why? Our humbling new reality: every storm is different, each weather scenario uniquely challenging. The atmosphere has never been identical to the one outside your window right now. The only way to accurately model the future is to analyze the past, with...