I cannot be clear enough: I hate these apps. Relegate all other (more important) weather information to a smaller section of the screen. Show incredibly beautiful graphic of the current weather conditions.Ģ.

It’s a beautiful large graphic that is clearly taking advantage of the iPad, just not in a way that helps someone wanting weather information.īy and in large most of the “new” weather apps I see on the iPad app store take this approach:ġ. The second type of app is what I call a demo app - it’s an app that looks and works fantastic for giving a demo, or presentation, to someone - but when you get right down to it, it too sucks.

These types of apps are static, not interactive, and that’s bad. It’s not bad, but I would argue it’s not even scratching the surface of possibilities given the device that is powering it. This is the type of weather app that generally looks like this: The first display design are modeled around LCD weather “stations” that *used* to be popular among the Sharper Image crowd. There seems to only be two types of displays that developers are using. Just the other day I browsed the app store, looking only at paid weather apps for the iPad.

So we have a useable - serviceable? - weather app on our iPhones, but what about our iPads? Sadly, we face a choice between bad and useless on the iPad. A very close second is (), but it’s starting to get long in the tooth. It used to be among the bottom tier of weather apps, but the addition of the current location and hourly forecasting moved it to the top of the list. The best weather app on iOS is Apple’s own weather app, but it’s only available on the iPhone for some damned reason. Yet there is still no good weather apps out there. I have always been fascinated by weather forecasts and I have always relied on them for planning events and my wardrobe. I love to nerd out on weather apps and weather data in general.

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