Daniel Hruska There are literally thousands of weather apps out there. Some of them are very successful, some less so, but with the arrival of iOS 7 it starts again. Apps that looked great on older versions of iOS don't fit the concept of iOS 7. This creates an opportunity for new apps. I'll admit that I've tried quite a few in the past, but I've always gone back to native Weather from Apple. In addition, the revised version in iOS 7 is very successful and thanks to animations and enough useful data, there is no need to look for a replacement. However, I recently came across the App Store WeatherLine.
The application is designed in the white iOS 7 design and is based on simply and clearly drawn graphs. As in the native app, you can scroll through saved cities, with the weather from your current location coming first. The data is downloaded from the server forecast.io. Now you are wondering why to deal with other of the constellation of "dawn" applications. After all, it doesn't bring anything new at all. No, Weather Line isn't really bringing anything we haven't already seen. However, if you need to know clearly what the weather will look like in the following hours and days, read on.
The main element of Weather Line's user interface is a graph that takes up half of the iPhone's screen. In the upper part, you can switch between the hourly forecast (the next 36 hours), the forecast for the following week and an overview of statistics for individual months of the year. In each column, whether it is an hour, day or month, the temperature and an icon representing the weather (sun, drop, cloud, snowflake, wind,... or a combination) are displayed. The graph gains clarity thanks to the colors that depend on the weather itself, the temperature and whether it is day or night. Yellow means sunny to almost cloudy, red hot, purple windy, blue rain, and gray cloudy, foggy or night.
What I like about the charts in Weather Line is that without having to read anything, the forecast is immediately clear to me. Thanks to the lines in the graph, I quickly realize how the temperature will tend compared to the current moment. For the weekly forecast, I appreciate two graphs – for the day and for the night. The monthly reports serve more as an interest and icing on the cake. The only complaint I would have is the stuttering animations when moving from one city to another. I can only recommend Weather Line for myself.
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The best forecaster is the Norwegian Meteorological Institute, yr.no! both their website (can be switched to English) and the FREE ios app. they have third party data, GRAPHS! temperatures, cloudiness, forecasts, etc. in really good detail even for relatively small towns throughout Europe. CHMU and mapy.in-pocasi.cz with their radar have a lot to learn!
I agree, even recently, yr.no is a bit inaccurate, which was the case for a while. but then again I live in a village with 500 inhabitants (but it used to be ok :))
Well, that's nice, but their forecast is really "Norwegian". Their temperatures are usually colder than reality. I'd rather CHMI...