Movable Weather Radar for the iPhone and iPod Touch

by Elijah Nicolas on Wednesday, November 5, 2008

Finally a solution for an animated weather radar.  (thanks Zaphu)  There currently two applications that can do just this, but it requires a nominal fee of $0.99.  With the current reviews nearing the low 2 stars, I’m a little hesitant.  The author of Radar-In-Motion has mentioned that he will accommodate the quirks that others have been complaining about which might make it worth it later on.  

iWeathr

iWeathr is the best radar app for the iPhone that I have found so far. Navigate to iweathr.com and locate your nearest radar location. Note that you won’t be entering the city where you live but rather the location of a radar installation. For help finding the nearest one to you go here. This implementation allows both rotation and zooming in – very nice!

iWeathr.com

iWeathr.com

Another nifty weather iPhone web application can be found at http://iphone.my-cast.com/ It’s a basic forecasting web-app but all that more powerful and simple.

*Update: kurt mentioned below that he prefers i.wund.com for it’s simplicity and the mass information that is displayed on the iPhone screen for that particular location. I have to say that it definitely does show great information, but the moving map on iweathr.com is the basic one that is hosted by the government’s weather website: http://adds.aviationweather.gov/radar/ which is the one that prefer using when scoping out the weather prior to flying. Thanks for the comments!

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Matt Thursday, November 6, 2008 at 18:25

This web app is da bomb! This makes it unreasonable to get a specific downloadable pay app, because you still need to be connected to the internet to get latest internet radar feeds. Its now on my ‘front page’ applications (took YouTube off)! Thanks for the link.

-Matt

kurt Saturday, November 8, 2008 at 0:25

Not to bad, pretty clean. I’ve been using http://i.und.com and still like it better.

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