Description
WeatherBug is the only source for truly live, local weather – providing users access to the largest network of professional weather stations in the US and thousands of locations around the world. This version of WeatherBug is a free, ad-supported application. If you are interested in an ad-free version that also includes several additional features and enhancements, look for our premium product – Weatherbug Elite (which is pending approval and will be available in the App Store shortly.)
Features:
• Live, local weather conditions and forecasts
• 7-day and hourly forecasts
• National Weather Service (NWS) alerts
• Daily national weather outlook video
• Radar maps with zoom feature
• View live weather cameras (up to 5)
• Fast access to saved locations (up to 10)
• Cached weather data for offline viewing
• Map auto-center function (US only)
What's New in Version 1.2
(A special note to our customers: In order to keep up with the rising cost of developing and delivering this great weather service to your iPhone, we are now supporting our product via display ads. Rest assured, the ads are not intrusive and the app will still provide the great WeatherBug user experience that you are used to. In addition, we will soon offer a paid version of our application, WeatherBug Elite. WeatherBug Elite is 100% ad-free and comes with all the great WeatherBug features you know plus: radar animation, six (6) additional map weather layers and much, much more. WeatherBug Elite is currently under review and will be available for download in the App Store shortly.)
• Enhanced 7-day and hourly forecasts
• Full presentation of NWS alerts
• Time-lapse weather camera animation
• Unlimited saved locations
• Temperature contour and satellite infrared maps
• Enhanced current conditions with 12 distinct observations
• Touch anywhere map technology allows user to "drop a pin" and view current weather conditions for that location
Customer Reviews
Exciting Features / A Little Rough Yet
This app shows great promise. I like the information it provides over and above the official Apple weather app (wind speed, humidity, etc), and especially like the breakdown of the weather during the day.
I can still tell the current weather status at a glance on the official Apple weather app with much greater ease, and I dislike that only a three-day forecast is provided. Radar looks wonderful, but even after finding my location automatically, the app forced me to zoom in on my state/region from a world map. The option to change opacity on the radar features seems entirely unnecessary and takes up lots of room. I'm also rarely interested in seeing weather from multiple locations, and dislike wasting precious screen real estate with a location-picker.
I definitely recommend this application to other users (especially at its current price), but suggest some UI tweaking to the developers.
Not bad, but buggy
It crashed three times while I was trying to delete the two default locations and replace them with my own. Make sure you hit save for every action when you're editing the configuration, so if it does crash you don't have to start over at the beginning.
I also noticed that when I went to the radar view, it was zoomed all the way out to earth level view. It would have been handy for it to start out zoomed into the location I had configured.
Overall it looks promising. The idea of having local webcam pictures is pretty cool, though there were only 3 in my "area" (all were 20 or 30 miles away). This is in a city of several million people. Maybe it's a really new idea that hasn't taken off yet.
Fix the crashes, animate the radar, and I'd give it five stars.
Great Weather App
I always strayed from using WeatherBug on my desktop or other mobile devices, but being that it was available for free through the App store, gave it a shot. With a great, easy to use interface, its a nice addition to the already installed "basic" weather info program on the iPhone for additional weather detail info. The only drawback is that initally (perhaps fixed in a later update) is that when going to the radar map link to Google maps, the entire globe was displayed and not the specific location placed in the apps settings.
- Category: Weather
- Updated Apr 23, 2009
- Current Version: 1.2
- 1.6 MB
- Languages: English, Spanish
- Seller: AWS Convergence Technologies, Inc.
- © WeatherBug
Requirements: Compatible with iPhone and iPod touch. Requires iPhone OS 2.2 or later.
