Weather on the 8s — Reimagined for Apple TV
A retro weather channel for your living room, with local forecasts, live radar, urgent alerts, and a daily severe weather outlook inspired by the classic WeatherStar.
OldWeather 8
Apple TV · Free
What is OldWeather 8?
Remember watching the Weather Channel and waiting for "Local on the 8s"? OldWeather 8 brings that feeling back with a nonstop weather loop featuring current conditions, today's outlook, a five-day forecast, live radar, urgent alerts, a daily severe weather outlook, and a persistent ticker that keeps local weather moving across the bottom of the screen.
Designed from the ground up for the big screen, with TV-safe typography and couch-distance readability.
Just launch the app. OldWeather 8 automatically cycles through weather slides with no interaction required.
Powered by trusted public weather sources, with local forecasts, live radar, and NOAA severe weather outlooks tailored to your location.
The Carousel
Your hometown weather at a glance, with crisp day-or-night icons and the essentials you want to see the moment the app starts.
A friendly day planner with five time-of-day snapshots, rain chances, wind, and a rolling 12-hour strip that highlights sunrise and sunset when they matter most.
A clean five-day look ahead with highs, lows, rain chances, wind, and easy-to-read summaries for planning the week.
A smooth live radar loop centered on your area, complete with time and station details plus highlighted warning outlines when storms get serious.
When active weather rolls in, alerts step forward automatically with bold severity styling, readable auto-scrolling text, and enough time to cycle through multiple warnings in severity order.
A daily national storm outlook from NOAA's Storm Prediction Center, with color-coded risk areas and a priority spot in the loop when your area is included.
Weather data refreshes automatically every five minutes in the background, keeping your display current without any interaction.
Video Demo
Hit play for a quick tour of the app.
Screenshots
Audio Experience
Ambient music bundled right in the app plays softly in the background, just like the original Weather Channel broadcasts. Tracks shuffle automatically with no immediate repeats.
During high-impact alerts, OldWeather 8 can briefly switch to a severe weather cue before easing back into your normal mix.
Optional voice narration gives each slide a polished broadcast feel, including more natural callouts for your local conditions, alerts, and severe weather outlooks.
Keep it to the first pass for a quieter room, or let it narrate every loop in Settings.
Display Options
OldWeather 8 gives you control over how it looks and how it lives on your TV. Fill your widescreen set, go retro with classic 4:3 framing, or enable OLED-friendly burn-in protection for longer always-on sessions.
Fills your modern TV completely.
Authentic pillarbox borders evoke the look of the original WeatherStar 4000 on a CRT television.
Optional CRT-style horizontal scanlines for maximum nostalgia.
Optional pixel shifting every few minutes plus an inactivity dimmer after 12 minutes, designed for OLED TVs and long-running displays.
Upgraded Ticker
One smooth continuous crawl for current conditions, alerts, forecast highlights, and app messages
Simple Remote Control
Left and right switch slides, Play/Pause holds the loop, and Select reveals Settings when you need it
OLED-Friendly Mode
Burn-in reduction can gently dim the screen after inactivity and instantly clears on the next remote press
