Fat Tail Weather
Cameron Melcher Weather iPhoneiPadiPod touch
Fat Tail Weather is a free Weather app for iPhone and iPad by Cameron Melcher. Rated 5.0/5 from 5 ratings. Requires iOS 16.4. Updated August 24, 2026.
- Rating
- 5.0
- 5 ratings
- Price
- Free
- on the App Store
- Size
- 37 MB
- Age 4+
- Updated
- Aug 24
- 2026 · v1.0.5
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About Fat Tail Weather
Fat Tail is weather without the guesswork. Most weather apps show you a model's estimate, interpolated for your area. Fat Tail shows you what's actually happening — live readings from professionally maintained, calibrated sensors at the airports nearest you. It's the same data pilots trust before takeoff, decoded into a clean, bold report anyone can read. REAL MEASUREMENTS, NOT ESTIMATES Temperature, feels-like, humidity, dew point, wind, gusts, visibility, pressure, and cloud layers — measured at the source and updated the moment conditions change, not just on the hour. YOUR LOCAL FIELD REPORT Open the app and it finds the closest reporting stations automatically. See exactly which airport your reading comes from, how far away it is, and how fresh the observation is. Compare nearby stations with one tap. A WIND ARROW THAT ACTUALLY POINTS Enable the compass and the wind arrow tracks as you turn — it always points the true direction the wind is moving, like holding a hand compass. FORECASTS FROM NOAA'S BEST Hourly and 7-day forecasts powered by the National Blend of Models — the multi-model blend NWS forecasters themselves start from. Rain, snow, and storm chances shown big and clear, with the peak hour called out. MORE AT A GLANCE Conditions rated with aviation color codes — green when it's clear, red when it's rough Sunrise and sunset, calculated for your exact location Save up to 10 locations for one-tap checks The raw station report included, for the curious No accounts. No ads. No tracking. Your location never leaves your phone. Weather's biggest days are the rare ones — the fat tail. Know what's really out there.
Ratings & reviews
5.0
5 ratings
What’s new
Version 1.0.5 · Updated August 24, 2026
Fat Tail 1.0.5: • Search by city. Start typing and pick from the list, no ZIP required. Works for 31,000 US places, including the small ones every other app forgets. It's all on your phone, so it's instant and nothing you type leaves the device. • ZIP codes still work exactly as before. • A cleaner search field, and it clears itself when you're done. Still free. No accounts, no ads, no tracking.
App privacy
The developer, Cameron Melcher, reported these privacy practices to Apple.
Data Not Collected
The developer does not collect any data from this app.
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