Weather

Netatmo’s Urban Weather Station is for the weather guru

Jim Gresham ∙ Updated December 28, 2016

I love the weather. No real reason in particular, but fascination started as a young child when I would rush home from school to track Hurricanes on the Weather Channel, despite living nowhere near the coast. When I first read about the first iOS specific Netatmo Urban Weather Station a month back, I was fascinated with the ability to monitor the temperature, both in and outside my house. A weather nerd at heart, I think this is an awesome piece of hardware. To the weather novice, it is still a great addition for your connected home. Below, we take a look at the personal weather station that just received CES Innovations 2013 Design and Engineering Award honoree in three categories...

The iPhone 5 Weather app can function as a world clock

Jeff Benjamin ∙ September 21, 2012

Hmm, what to do with all of that extra screen real estate? How about adding a clock?

For every city you have added to the Weather app, you can now quickly tell the time in that location, courtesy of a new clock positioned right beneath the name of said location.

There are some other subtle differences between the Weather app on the iPhone 5, and previous iPhones as well. Take a look inside as we break it down for you...

Solar: where weather melts with design

Guest Author ∙ Updated February 22, 2018

Since the dawn of the smartphone, one of the most basic informative features that everyone loves having at the tip of their fingers is weather. Regardless if you’re planning your day, making small talk, or just really into meteorology, accessing weather info almost instantly is key.

Solar is described as a hyper-sensorial, interactive display of the day's weather, rendered in dazzling colorscapes. It has no vector polygons, no dew point calibration, and it doesn’t remind you if you need to wear a jacket. It is, very simply, an exquisitely minimalistic designed weather forecast app – a modern accessory for the aesthetically inspired adventurer...

Sun is an awesome new weather web app for iOS

Jeff Benjamin ∙ Updated November 28, 2016

Developers are doing some downright amazing things with HTML5 as a late, and Sun is just the latest example of the ongoing trend.

First noted by 9to5 Mac, Sun is an HTML5 based web app for weather forecasts. It can handle up to 4 different cities at once, including a city based on your current location.

For fans of Clear — the popular task app for the iPhone, you'll feel immediately at home with Sun, because it too relies on simple gestures for navigation.

Needless to say, I came away mighty impressed with Sun. I've always said that one way to tell a good web app is if you can't tell it's a web app. With Sun, you'd be hard pressed to do so...

Review: WTHR, a dazzling weather app built on Dieter Rams’ 10 principles of design

Christian Zibreg ∙ Updated January 22, 2018

Sick and tired of glorified weather apps that overload you with a bunch of stats or distract with broadcast-quality animations costing hundreds of megabytes of storage space, developer David Elgena set out to create the simplest weather app you could think of. With one twist...

‘Forecast’ tweak places a weather widget on your iPhone’s Lock screen

Jeff Benjamin ∙ April 20, 2012

LockInfo was one of the first jailbreak solutions for getting more out of your iPhone's bland and boring Lock screen.

Now the same developer behind LockInfo is borrowing one of that tweak's best features and developing it into a standalone release.

The result is called Forecast, and it provides a cheap and simple method for accessing weather on your Lock screen without needing the full version of LockInfo...

This App Adds Weather Conditions to Your Lock Screen Without Jailbreaking

Oliver Haslam ∙ Updated January 24, 2016

If you're the kind of person that likes to keep an eye on the weather forecast without having to load the Weather app or look out of a window, then you are going to love this!

Unfortunately, Apple does not allow the Notification Center weather widget to show up in the iOS lock screen, but there are plenty of jailbreak tweaks and apps that will do just that. What if you don't want to jailbreak, though? Now there is a solution, and it's made its way through Apple's App Store, too.

Unimaginatively named "Lock Screen Weather App," this app will do just what many have been crying out for – display weather information on an iPhone's lock screen without the need to jailbreak anything...

How to Add Custom Weather Notification Center Themes

Jeff Benjamin ∙ November 10, 2011

Apparently I'm not alone in my thoughts about Apple's stock weather theme for Notification Center — it's a bit lacking in style.

NC weather widgets is a jailbreak tweak that adds custom Notification Center themes to iOS 5 via WinterBoard with just a few steps.

Step right inside to see how the improved weather icons look like on video...

iOS 5 Tip: Show Hourly Forecasts in Weather App

Alex Heath ∙ November 4, 2011

Apple added a nifty feature in the iOS 5 weather app that lets you see the hourly forecast. Instead of the daily forecast, you can drill down each day and see hour-by-hour temperatures and rain percentages.

Simple tap on the current day in the Weather app to trigger a drop down with the hourly forecast for the day. Nifty!

New in iOS 5: Weather, Hour by Hour

IDB Staff ∙ June 8, 2011

Yet another of the 200+ new features in iOS 5. This one is hardly noticeable and won't be life changing, but it's still interesting to see how Apple is continually improving every app.

This new feature can be spotted in Apple's stock weather application. When double tapping on the screen, it now brings a break down hour by hour of the weather and temperature in the selected city...

Fahrenheit iPhone App Gives Current Temp on Your Home Screen

Cody Lee ∙ Updated January 24, 2016

While everyone is making a wish list of iOS 5 features, please make sure to include something about an upgrade to the notifications system. Maybe while you're at it, ask for some form of a widget feature too. Not everyone needs them, but those of us who have experienced them on other smartphones would love to see them in iOS.

The biggest benefit they bring is information at a glance. I'm currently using the WeatherIcon tweak to help me cope with the lack of the feature. At least I don't have to pop into the weather app anymore. For folks operating on non-jailbroken devices, Fahrenheit basically accomplishes the same thing...

Google Brings Interactive Weather Results to the iPhone

Jeff Benjamin ∙ January 25, 2011

Google has been lighting it up as of late. Just yesterday, we told you about Google's Cloud Print capabilities for the iPhone, and now the search giant has rolled out something new that's closer to its roots.

You might have already been taking advantage of Google's cool location based weather results, but they've added hour-by-hour forecast results to the fray as well.

That's right, not only can you quickly locate the forecast for your area, you can also alter a slider for an hour-by-hour breakdown featuring real time weather adjustments...