StationCast registers Siri shortcuts for each metric your saved stations report. Phrases include “in StationCast” because Siri uses the app name to route the request — without it, Siri may hand the question to its own weather source instead.
By default each command answers about the station you’ve labeled Home. If no station is labeled Home, StationCast falls back to the first station in your saved list. You can also wire a specific station into a Shortcut from the iOS Shortcuts app.
Speaks a multi-sentence summary: current temperature and conditions, wind (with gusts), dew point and humidity, today’s rainfall, pressure trend, the next sunrise or sunset, and the daily high and low so far.
Reports the current rate when it’s raining (“raining at Home at 0.12 inches per hour”) and otherwise frames the answer around the daily total (“not raining at Home right now — 0.31 inches today”).
Includes the direction, and adds a gust clause when gusts exceed the sustained speed.
Wire this one up yourself from the Shortcuts app — the Get Humidity action is registered, but the spoken phrase isn’t pre-bound to keep the suggestion list within Apple’s recommended size. The full weather summary always reports humidity and dew point.
Reports the current pressure and whether it’s rising, falling, or steady.
Speaks the index plus a risk word (low, moderate, high, very high, extreme). At night, or when the station doesn’t report UV, the command declines rather than reading a misleading value.
Always answers about the next sunrise, dated — for example, “Sunrise at Home on May 16 is at 5:42 AM.” If today’s sunrise has already happened, you’ll get tomorrow’s instead.
To ask about the most recent sunrise:
Answers with a “today” or “yesterday” qualifier — “Sunrise at Home today was at 5:42 AM.”
Always answers about the next sunset, dated — for example, “Sunset at Home on May 16 is at 8:00 PM.” If today’s sunset has already happened, you’ll get tomorrow’s instead.
To ask about the most recent sunset:
Answers with a “today” or “yesterday” qualifier — “Sunset at Home today was at 8:00 PM.”
Every metric reply (temperature, rain, wind, humidity, pressure, UV) carries an “as of N ago” clause when the reading isn’t brand-new — for example, “Temperature at Home is 62 degrees Fahrenheit, partly cloudy, as of 32 minutes ago.” If the observation is less than a minute old, the clause is omitted so the answer stays terse. Sunrise and sunset are computed from solar geometry, so they don’t carry a freshness clause.