Weather by WeatherBug is an accurate weather application developed by WeatherBug that provides environmental intelligence for all aspects of people's lives for free. This live weather app offers user-customizable fastest weather alerts, real-time weather conditions, accurate hourly and 10-day forecasts, view projected snowfall by the hour and track snow depth for the week ahead, and more.
Weather by WeatherBug- Live Radar Map & Forecast has 1,818,040 reviews in Google Play store and a review of 4.7 stars out of 5. And it has also been collected in the most authorized "Editors' Choice" list. In US Apple App store it has 4.8 stars rating and ranked as #4 in Weather. There are 1.9M ratings received in iOS App store. In Amazon store, it has 5,114 reviews and a review of 4.2 stars out of 5.
Weather by WeatherBug has always been updated and optimized to meet the continuous demand for its performance, and this latest update is no exception. Among the new additions to the app's developers are a powerful hurricane prediction feature that has been updated to be available year-round, and a new feature that allows users to see hurricane outlooks for parts of the Atlantic and Pacific for up to seven days.
From here users can see the current temperature, "felt" temperature, dew point, humidity, sunrise, sunset, wind speed, wind direction, conditions, alerts and barometric pressure. There are also seven customizable shortcuts for today's WeatherBug page. Evening forecast, 10-day forecast, user-submitted photos, news-heavy Spotlight section, real-time cameras showing weather conditions, Spark lighting detection system, and pollen levels. Swipe left to display 10-day forecasts. Each entry displays icons for the date, forecast conditions, high and low temperatures, and chance of precipitation. Each section can be expanded to display written forecasts. Continuing to the left is the hourly forecast, which shows conditions, temperatures and most of the information in the Now page for the next 12 hours. The list of days at the bottom makes it easy to see hourly forecasts for the entire week. This is easily the most informative hourly forecast the user has ever seen. The last page of WeatherBug is called Details, which summarizes the weather information for the day in more detail. This page not only informs the user of the likelihood of precipitation, but also the projected precipitation rate. Here the user can find the current moon phase, sunrise time and sunset time. However, users will only see this information today, not future forecast data.
Spark is WeatherBug's lightning detection feature, and lightning detection is a very neat feature that is unique to WeatherBug. If there is lightning in the user's area, the user will see an alert on the home page. Tap this button to bring up the Spark map, and players will see lightning icons appear at lightning strike locations around the world, not just the player's community. Users can see it's useful for planning long car trips, and Spark will also tell you how close you are to the nearest lightning strike and give users advice on what to do in your area. Users also have the option to easily share screenshots of Spark maps with friends.
Pros:
- It has a unique lightning detection service
- There is a lot of weather information
- Live camera support
Cons:
- System is very sluggish at times
- There are many advertisements
- Not many widgets for user-friendly operation