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Sometimes you just have to draw a line in the sand and say something is ready. I've spent the last month or so not only adding level II site functionality to Heimdall, but what I consider to be genuinely novel functionality and interactivity. It's live for you to try at heimdall.stormscale.io

This includes an often requested change to the default QPE color tables, which I think is more in line with what people want and expect.

As you can probably already gather, this also includes the often requested warnings functionality in both live and archive modes thanks to the wonderful Iowa State Mesonet (IEM)!

Speaking of colormaps... Don't like my defaults, or just enjoy your personal colormaps? Just click/tap on the colorbar, or go to Settings (Cog Wheel) -> Palettes. You can import your GR color tables directly into Heimdall and assign them accordingly.

This was a **lot** of work. About a month and 1200 commits. Everything works out of the box on mobile, too. Just because you can use LLM tools to generate code quickly doesn't mean you have to unleash the slop cannon on people. A lot of hard work went into testing, design, and correctness.

I’m biased, but I also think this is hands down the best mobile experience for radar tilt selection of any app out there, full stop. Everyone else treats browsing multiple tilts as a second-class citizen. You don’t have to go through a sea of menus to interrogate a storm.

Finally: since it’s not immediately obvious, level II radar sites can be quickly accessed with a right-click or a long-press. You can add multiple sites, remove sites, go to nearest site, and replace sites through this menu system without having to open a drawer.

As always your feedback directly drives the work I do on this. Many of the features and functionality have been added owing to feedback emails, personal correspondence, and messages here. If something is broken, something has too much friction, or you have an idea for a feature: I want to hear it!