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 1.3.0
The new version 1.3 of WeatherBug allows users to force an update of the conditions and forecast data without exiting the app. Simply, while in the current conditions screen or any forecast screen shake the device to refresh the data. In addition, we fixed issues related to the data update logic and frequency.
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.
Giant adverts minus features = fail
This app used to be my favourite weather app on the app store. The latest version includes intrusive adverts and removes features that were in the prior version. Those old features are now in an "elite" version which is a pay app. This is exactly the way to alienate your userbase.
- Category: Weather
- Updated Mar 12, 2010
- Current Version: 1.3.0
- 1.7 MB
- Languages: English
- Seller: AWS Convergence Technologies, Inc.
- © WeatherBug
Requirements: Compatible with iPhone and iPod touch. Requires iPhone OS 3.0 or later.
