Google has just added a neat weather layer to Google Maps, letting Brits see just how miserable their summer is – and gaze enviously at sunnier climes around the world.
We’ve lost count of the amount of weather apps that we’ve installed over the years, and although the fantastic Palmary Weather PRO remains our #1 fully fledged weather app, the widget wasn’t quite getting our meteorological muse going.
After trawling through the depths of the Android Market and rejecting one hopeful contender after another, we finally clapped our eyes on what has emerged as as our new favourite weather widget: the Aix Weather Widget.
Google are insisting that their new weather website for mobiles manages to add some ‘fun’ to a week full of rainy forecasts, serving up the meteorological news in an “app-like way.”
Whatever mobile platform you’re using, you can be sure that there’ll be no shortage of weather vying for your attention, most of them decidedly average.
The UK media is famed for screaming, “SNOW CHAOS!” whenever 0.2cm of snow gently dusts the land, but with big snowfalls forecasted for the coming week, a new site has been created to search Twitter for real-time snow reports and display them on a map.
If you’re like us, you’ll probably have weather widgets on your phone, on your PC desktop and maybe even your own personal weather station keeping you permanently updated in all matters meteorological.
Bruce Springsteen’s “go-cart Mozart” may have been checkin’ out the weather charts see if it was safe outside, but these days meteorological matters can be consulted speedier with Oregon’s new Helios Solar Weather Station.
Their new weather gizmo comes with a built-in solar panel to extend the battery life, and lets you monitor the current temperature and humidity in up to 3 locations around your home.
Being British, the WireFresh crew take an unnatural, nay perversely, keen interest in all matters meteorological, and despite having constantly updating weather gizmos and widgets galore on our desktops and mobiles, we just can’t get enough of a weather-related fix.
Thanks to desk-based weather stations like the Oregon Scientific Wireless Easy Weather System Pro (which we reviewed on urban75 back in 2006), we can already check out the hot cumulus action occurring in our ‘hood, with an external sensor transmitting the isobar activity from outside our window.
Much as we’ve enjoyed using the Easy Weather System (and loudly commenting on current temperature trends to disinterested passers by), it has to be said that its two-tone plasticky looks are beginning to look displeasingly out of date.
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