![]() They’re clunky at the best of times on a desktop PC. Government websites like that of the National Weather Service are, quite frankly, awful to interact with in a mobile environment. So I’ve been dragged kicking and screaming to the metaphorical LinuxInsider App Lab to try out WeatherBug, and now calmed down a bit, can say I quite like the software. Looking at the tight isobars on the graphic behind Fish during the piece, it was clear that even if there wasn’t a hurricane on the way, there was going to be hurricane-force winds that night - tight isobars indicate a lot of wind.īritain experienced its worst storm that night in over 300 years, and 18 people lost their lives.Īs journalists, we are trained to go to the source - and the source is your local weather office, its forecasters and its computers. BBC TV news weather forecaster Michael Fish famously denied a hurricane was barreling down on the UK, where I was based at the time. It was the blooper forecast broadcast on Oct. For years I have gone to my National Weather Service website and interrogated that raw, scientific data for my weather news. I’ve always pooh-poohed commercial weather forecasts, including apps, as I have also done with local television news weather forecasts. The paid $1.99 version from Google Play is ad-free.īeing a weather app skeptic, I was keen to see if WeatherBug would pick up on the obscure severe weather alert and tell me about it. Extreme weather alerts and social network sharing functions are built-in too. It was a late-summer day on which the National Weather Service had just issued a Red Flag fire weather warning for my brush-fire-prone, tinder-dry neighborhood.Īndroid weather app WeatherBug provides a set of current conditions, forecasts and maps. I picked a beautiful day to road-test Earth’s WeatherBug Elite app. ![]()
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