The English are famous for talking about the weather, and I’m no different. We’re also inveterate whiners and gloaters. Combine these and you’ll see why Weather Pro is important: I get to chuckle when I see how cold and wet it is in my parents’ Devonshire village, and at the same time complain about the humidity here in Barcelona.
Weather Pro beats out the weather app that ships with the iPhone in so may ways. Instead of a quick and dirty “forecast”, you get proper information. You also get as many stats and measurements as you need to do your own forecasting
First, detailed (and accurate) forecasts by the hour, supplied by data from the MeteoGroup in Germany (don’t worry, it works worldwide) which include relative humidity, actual temperature as well as perceived temperature — right now it is 80º (F) here, but “feels like” 91º (F), wind speed and direction and likelihood of precipitation (percentage).
Hit the stats button top-right and a further embarrassment of raw data is corralled into graphs, plotting everything from wind-gusts to sunshine duration over a week to temperature fluctuations. In short, everything you could need to see what is about to happen, and what has already happened.
But get out of the dull data and into the fancy animated sections and you have something with which to really impress your father. Weather Pro also pulls in weather radar and satellite information, plotting them onto maps of your area. Hit play and you get a looping animation of cloud movements in your corner of the country (radar) or your whole continent (satellite). It’s just like watching the weather forecast on TV, only without the smarmy, impossibly white-toothed wisecracker in a loud suit and “funny” tie.
Here, for instance, is a capture of South-Western Europe right now. The counter-clockwise spiral indicates that… Oh, lord, I don’t know. It indicates clouds or something. As a kid, I used to switch off when the weather came on TV and my dad would demand silence. I still shut up during forecasts to this day, but all I can glean from this chart is that my weather is hot, and England’s is cloudy. Ha!
Weather Pro costs $4 in the iTunes Store
Product page [iTunes]
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