Weather Reports: Design and Customize Your Own Outlook (Premium Feature)

https://support.tomorrow.io/hc/en-us/articles/24301652448148-Gale-Suite-Maximizing-Weather-Intelligence-With-AIThe Weather Reports feature enables you to create, customize, and distribute weather reports across your organization. Designed for operational and communication use cases, reports can include forecasts, alerts, maps, summaries, and more.

🔒 This feature is available to premium customers only. For access, please contact your Account Team or sales@tomorrow.io.

Capabilities Overview

Weather Reports support:

• Daily automated reports sent to internal or external recipients

• Event-specific reporting for operational decision-making during critical weather events

• Stakeholder communication through shareable links or emailed PDFs

• Custom formatting using widgets, maps, and optional AI-powered summaries (Gale)

1. Report Creation

Reports are created by account admins using a drag-and-drop interface of pre-configured widgets, maps, and text blocks.

Available Widgets

• Daily Forecast
  Provides daily conditions for a single location. To display multiple locations, add multiple widgets.

• Weather Table
  Select from templates showing daily or hourly data. Customize parameters and highlight key thresholds like wind or humidity.

• Trends and Charts
  Visualize trends in temperature, precipitation, wind speed, or gusts.

• Hard Coded Text
  Add static notes such as daily instructions or operational context.

• Formatting & Images
  Use bolding, highlights, bullet lists, and inline images.

⚠️ Note: Hard coded text and images are not dynamic and won't update automatically.

AI Summaries (Gale*)

• Textual Summary
  Auto-generates a plain-language weather overview across up to 75 locations, with the 5 most impacted featured at the top.

• Table Summary
  Produces AI-written summaries of your selected weather table.

🔒 These options are only available to users with access to Gale, Tomorrow.io’s premium AI weather assistant. Contact sales@tomorrow.io for more information.

Map Capture Widget

This widget allows for dynamic weather map snapshots.

• Automatic Map Generation for a selected forecast time

• Grid Selection of up to 6 locations per image

• Layer Customization (up to 15 layers per map)

• Value Filtering for thresholds (e.g. wind > 20mph)

• Tile Color Editing

• Legend On/Off Toggle

• Template Library to reuse map styles

• Supported Layers include most weather options

⚠️ Satellite clouds, global radar, and surface fronts are not supported in map reports.

⚠️ To ensure accurate map data, align the map capture start time with the report’s forecast period.

2. Report Sharing

Reports can be shared in multiple ways:

• Copy Link to manually share a view-only report

• Email recipients with an optional message

• Public Access via a shareable link (no login required)

• Private Distribution limited to users in your account

• Export to PDF for offline use or attachments

You can also attach PDFs to automated report emails.

⚠️ When selecting “My Account Only,” recipients must log into the Tomorrow.io platform to view the report.

3. Report Automation

Reports can be scheduled to generate and send automatically.

• Set frequency and time for daily or weekly delivery

• Use templates to update content and layout without starting from scratch

⚠️ The report’s scheduled time is separate from the map capture time. Aligning both improves forecast accuracy.

⚠️ Privacy Restrictions:
- Only account admins can create automated reports
- Reports can only be sent to users on the account
- Users must be logged in to view the report

Need Help?

For usage support or to provide feedback, contact your Account Team or support@tomorrow.io.