Weather

Weather Planet

Posted November 28, 2009 - 5:44pm by Marc Peter
Weather Planet1Developer: First Light/Mike Smithwick
Category: Weather
Version: 1.0.0
Release Date:
Size: 12.8 MB
Price: $0.99
Rating: 10/10

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From the developer who brought you Distant Suns, the coolest star-gazing app available, now comes a very cool take on a weather app. Mike Smithwick's head is in the clouds, or stars, or deep space, or somewhere but here on terra firma. He has managed to put out the most original "weather app" available with Weather Planet.

Hurricane

Posted August 30, 2009 - 2:46pm by Marc Peter
Hurricane1Developer: Kitty Code
Category: Weather
Version: 3.1
Release Date: August 4, 2009
Size: 2.0 MB
Price: $3.99
Rating: 9/10

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It's now mid-August and Hurricane season is well under way. This week also marks the 4th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina and the destruction of the Lower 9th Ward in N.O.LAS. Two storms have blown through the Caribbean already, Ana and Bill, a third, Claudette, spun a path all the way up to Nova Scotia producing heavy rains and big surf up and down the East Coast, and now the North East is drying out after the remains of Tropical Storm Danny.

It's big news when the storm season hits the South and the East Coast, and suddenly all eyes are on the West Coast of Africa, where tropical storms spin one after another out into the Atlantic, ambling towards the Caribbean with steadily intensifying power. The intensity and destruction of even a near miss is impressive. That's why people on the East Coast pay such close attention to the storms and their development. The first two hurricane seasons that the iPhone was in existence we had The Weather Channel app and the generic Weather app to keep us posted. Now, on round three, a few hurricane specific apps have popped up, the best being Hurricane.

WeatherPro

Posted August 5, 2009 - 1:29pm by Craig Motlong
WeatherPro1Developer: MeteoGroup Deutchland GmbH
Category: Weather
Version: 1.5
Release Date: October 24, 2008
Size: 4.9 MB
Price: $3.99
Rating 8/10

Birdhouse

There are two kinds of weather people in this world. The first kind are the people that just want to know a little bit about what to wear that day, and for whom the iPhone's built-in Weather app works just fine. Then there are the people who want to know wind direction, dewpoint, air pressure, relative humidity, and real-time storm tracking and satellite images. For those people, there's WeatherPro.