Tramontana: Wildfire Radar

Tramontana shows what your drive will be like when you get there. Most weather apps answer a question you are not asking. The forecast at your destination does not tell you whether the pass will be under fog at seven in the morning, or whether that fire is on your road or six kilometres off it. Tramontana reads the weather along your route, at the hour you actually arrive at each point, and marks active wildfires on the same line. HOW TO READ IT Conditions are drawn on the road itself. Severity runs from 1 to 5 and is shown three ways at once, as a number, a colour and a pattern, so it still reads with sun on the screen or if colours are hard to tell apart. The pattern says what kind of hazard it is. A clear road is left unmarked, because colour is reserved for hazard. CHANGE WHEN YOU LEAVE Drag the time ruler and the whole route is read again for the new arrival times. Leaving two…