Radar "look ahead" not working (desktop)

AlanTheBeast

When dragging radar forward in time, the predictor is not working. It stopped working about 2 months ago. (This is the 1h radar plot extrapolation).
(Safari on Mac OS [desktop]).

[ It works fine on iOS 26. ]

I reported it here about 2 or 3 weeks ago ... but can't find my report anymore.

Would be nice to have this back!

Thanks,
Beast.

schilpat

@AlanTheBeast
Hi, thank you for the report. Could you answer us a few questions on that?

Does it happen every time you open the radar overlay?
Does it also happen in the satellite overlay (either with radar data (you need to enable it via overlay with radar) or even with satellite data)
What MacOS and Safari versions are you using?
Could you send us a short video, where you drag the timebox from past to future, so we can see, what actually happens?

Thank you very much!

AlanTheBeast

@schilpat
Mac OS Tahoe 26.0.1
Safari 26.0.1

This has been persistent for 2 months or more in Safari on Mac OS. (Prior version and current).

{another thing that doesn't work in Mac OS, + Safari is this comments section! I could not reply to your reply. Had to switch to Chrome}

With Chrome in Mac OS the radar lookahead function works fine.

Screen vid: (Safari)
https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/mhkexvwba6jeewxm7uo3c/Screen-Recording-2025-10-31-at-09.18.37.mov?rlkey=abqhtecteeqybsm10ndcesfi3

Thanks

schilpat

@AlanTheBeast Hi, the reason why the futurecast is not working for you is because of Smooth radar and satellite animation setting is turned off (you can change this in settings). The current implementation does not support extrapolation when smooth animation is turned off.

AlanTheBeast

@schilpat
Oy - right - setting it smooth works. Thanks.

(I get it... smooth interpolates (and extrapo?) between frames and future is extrapolation - same maths.)

But - All these obscurities make for bug reports I guess.

Cheers,
/Beast

schilpat

@AlanTheBeast Hi, we already discussed with colleagues about this topic (whether to extrapolate when smooth animation is turned off). Both approaches make sense in their way, but in the end, we'll probably implement it in the future :)