Monday, January 6, 2014

Top 5 Weather Apps

Check out our top 5 weather apps for the iPhone, iPad, or Android smart phones. Whether avoiding tornadoes, monitoring hurricanes, preparing for snow storms, or actively looking for lightning bolts, these apps will keep you one step ahead of mother nature.

1. Tornado Warning and Alert App
This free app from the American Red Cross tracks a tornado as it approaches with step-by-step advice about what to do before the storm hits. A siren warning is built into the app and goes off when the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration issues a tornado warning in your area. There's also a customizable notification system to let friends and family know when the user is safe via social media, text, and e-mail.

2. The Weather Channel App
This app includes weather forecasts from more than 200 meteorologists and lets you check what kind of weather lays ahead, complete with storm prediction maps. The Weather Channel app also alerts users to storm warnings in the area.

3. Lightening Finder
If the goal is to get to the storm, rather than avoid it, this app is here to help. The Lightening Finder color-codes the age of the lightening bolt, and estimates a safe distance from which to watch it. 

4. NOAA Weather Radio HD
This app broadcasts radio reports from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, and gives you around-the-clock updates on the latest weather warnings, watches, advisories, and forecasts. Push notifications alert you to serious storm warnings in your area even when you are not currently using the application. The app also gives detailed four-day forecasts based on your GPS coordinates, or a chosen location.   

5. Dark Sky
Stay dry with Dark Sky, which offers ­hyperlocalized weather reports, including minute-by-minute rain forecasts for your exact location. To keep its predictions as accurate as possible, this app forecasts only one hour into the future. If you don’t own an iPhone or iPad, the company behind Dark Sky also runs the excellent website www.Forecast.io

Rain, shine, snow, or sleet, our top 5 weather apps can help you make the most of whatever weather you’re up against.

Source: http://www.csmonitor.com

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