I am genuinely excited to release this update! (v0.31.0)
it introduces a tornado logbook, consisting of personal bests/records and an individual record of every tornado you intercept. Each photo you take is associated with each tornado, so you can go through your logbook, see key stats about the tornado, and flick through the photos that give an overview of the tornado's life cycle.
This is really nice because it introduces continuity between chases, and it's just really cool watching stats tick up in real time and feel like you're building your own personal collection of unique chases and tornadoes.
I have also updated tornado behaviour so they have an actual life cycle, so they may cycle, rope out, intensify, weaken and generally act a bit unpredictable. I think this is preferable over the previous "steady state" tornadoes where they would rapidly intensify, then just stay like that until they go off the map. Also, the sandbox 2d preview is now fixed and gives a preview of one hour of gameplay instead of 20 minutes like it did previously.
Tornadoes will now not cause injuries and fatalities until the F2 strength wind field reaches towns - the F1 wind field was so broad that it was almost impossible to warn everyone in time.
Pictures are worth a thousand words so here are some screenshots of the new logbook:
