![]() And even though a two-week forecast is never going to be very accurate, it’s dead handy to have a rough guide as you plan your days. Plenty of desktop calendars will add the weather into the mix, but Horizon does it with such clean good looks that I like it quite a lot. You can also choose to ignore empty days, view in degrees Celsius and use a 24-hour clock, as any smart human would want to do in this year of 2013. Horizon puts a 14-day forecast right there in your calendar, showing the conditions and high/low temperatures with added emphasis (read:size) for today. I made a cup of delicious coffee instead, and then typed the code to add the break to this post… “Use two apps when you leave the house?” I would ask, before wrestling with the punchline, and somehow turning the original “Not me – I just want to Wash… And Go!” into something clever and calendar/weather related.īut as you can plainly see, I failed. I was thinking that I’d make an incredibly clever play on the Wash’n'Go ads here, drawing a comparison between the new Horizon app, which lets you check the weather and your calendar at the same time. On the iOS side, Nooly’s release says it isn’t available for the iPad yet but it looks like it is, as it’s a Universal App - although the iPad version’s UI looks a little low-rent. ![]() But it’s free, so you can check it out for yourself.Īn Android version of the app can be found here. ![]() Frankly, claims of a more accurate weather prediction system always have the same ring to them as claims that someone has found definitive proof that Sasquatch exists. Using San Francisco as an example, This means the app can predict it’ll rain, say, ten minutes from now in the Mission District, but remain dry just down the road in Noe Valley.Īgain, all this is from the press release. How does Nooly do this? The app siphons data from a “new and experimental” radar network - which, up until now, Nooly says wasn’t available to the general public - set up by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, then uses a customized algorithm to produce weather predictions that are higher resolution in both location and timeframe. Nooly is so accurate, its press release claims, the app “is capable of predicting the exact minute it will rain or snow and can do so effectively, wherever you are, for every 0.4 square miles.” That’s pretty precise. There are weather apps, and then there are weather apps Nooly is, apparently, the latter. There are a ton of fun little gestural extras in WeatherCube too, as promised in the settings page of the app. Swipe downward and get the next five days forecast, with little weather icons you can tap to get the high and low temps as well. Swipe with one finger to the right to get tomorrow’s forecast, or swipe upward to get an hourly forecast. Tap again to get the afternoon temp, and a third time to get the evening temp. ![]() For example, if you tap on the degrees square, you’ll get the morning temperature for your location. Pinch back inward to get to the main weather screen again, and tap on any one of the squares for more fine grained information. Tap on Facebook to share to that social network, or Twitter to share to that one. Now, pinch out vertically, to get to the sharing settings. You can add more cities in the Settings panel. Swipe the city name at the top to change cities. Pinch inward again to get back to the main weather page. Use two fingers to pinch out horizontally in the middle of the screen, and you’ll be in the Settings screen. It’s a universal app, and chances are you’ll dig it’s clean, functional lines enough to use it often on your iPad 3, 4, or Mini.ĭownload WeatherCube from the App Store, and let it install on your iPad. However, if you’re a big fan of apps like Clear, where the interface is simple, minimalist, and just gets out of the way, you’ll love WeatherCube for iPad. If that’s good enough for you, then keep on enjoying it there’s nothing wrong with that. Weather apps are fairly thick on the ground in the App Store, and iOS even comes with its own Weather app, and has done so since day one.
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