WeatherBug Elite – iPhone App Review

WeatherBug Elite ($0.99)

Version – 1.0

REVIEW – “Detailed weather without the ads!”

How would you like detailed weather information and forcasts delivered directly to your phone?  What if I told you that you would also be able to view several different types of radar, view a video forcast, and see pictures from your local weather cams?  Well what if I told you that you could have all this and more with no ads and it would only cost you $0.99?  Well now you can with WeatherBug Elite!

When you open this app you are taken to the overview screen.  In the upper left corner is a little house icon that takes you to an area where you can add locations that you would like to be able to check weather on regularly.  In this paid app you can have an unlimited amount of these locations saved.  This main overview or “Conditions” page shows you the current temperature, wind chill, humidity, dew point, wind speed and a variety of other things.

At the bottom of the screen is a menu with four other buttons to take you to different areas.  The other four areas are “Forcast,” “Maps,” “Video,” and “Camera.”  The “Forcast” tab allows you to not only view the projected highs, lows and weather conditions for the week, but also to look at projected hourly forcasts as well!

One of the best features of this app that is not in the free version is the “layers” and animations that you can view in the “Maps” area.  At the top of the maps screen you will see several buttons.  The one just to the right of the house button allows you to set how transparent the “layers” are.  The option to the right of that one will set what layers that you see on the map.  There are three different types of layers: Observations, Radar and Satellite, and Forcast.  You can view one item from these sections at a time or a combination of one from each section at the same time.  This allows you to see a graph of things like tomorrow’s projected high temperatures, current humidity or windspeed and current radar readings.

Another great feature of the “Elite” app is the ability to drop a “pin”anywhere and get current weather information for that specific area.  This allows you to check things like humidity, windspeed, wind chill and dew point in the exact area that you are looking at!

As far as other features go, the video feature is kind of nice.  It does not offer local video’s though, just one video that covers the entire United States.  The “Camera” feature is very nice though.  It allows you to see various weather camera stills and even a stop animation from the last few hours!

The information in this app is presented well and is easy to view.  Even just the fact that this app is ad-free is enough justification to go out and spend $0.99 on this app.  With all of the added functionality to the maps this app becomes simply a must have.  If you like to keep tabs on the weather at all times you simply cannot go wrong with WeatherBug Elite.  So what are you waiting for?  Head to the App Store and download WeatherBug Elite today!

- David H.

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URL: http://weather.weatherbug.com/mobile/iphone-weather-apps.html

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