Excellent and Accurate Hyperlocal Weather Forecasts

A friend recommended this app to me. Like another reviewer I noticed wrote here, I too am a big fan of the Dark Sky app for iOS which uses Forecast.io weather data for accurate pinpoint local weather conditions and forecasts. I had wished I could get that app for OS X when I learned about this one from my friend. It’s wonderful and gives me the same useful weather info right from my menubar in OS X anytime I want to glance at it or drop it down for details.

The app uses very little system resources when idle which is goodness. I check stuff that I allow to live in my menubar for this and it was not long ago I found a competing free app was utilizing a ridiculous amount of system resources for no justifiable reason. So you can rest assured this can be running all the time with no hit to your system performance.

I like the customization options too. I also enjoy seeing the attractive picture at the top when I open to check the weather which is always some nice scene reflecting current conditions. That’s a nice little attractive touch. I think you can turn it off if you don’t like it but I wouldn’t want to do that myself. You can adjust its opacity too if you like.

Anyway, this is much like Dark Sky which is a big compliment. I love it and will not be without it going forward. It’s really nicely done. I do have a couple other weather apps that provide me more detailed maps in one case for when I want that and another one just for fun that mocks me in Siri’s voice. If you are looking at weather apps, you probably know which one I just referred to. This is my go to app though for anytime checks of the weather and I am really glad to have it. It’s a bargain at its regular price too. I could live easily enough without the others but this one is a must have for me now.

Don’t be scared off by the In-App purchases and worry they will greatly inflate the cost for this to be useful. I find that not to be true at all even though I purchased it thinking I would surely buy the lowest tier In-App purchase for more frequent updates. I haven’t bothered since buying this and it has not mattered in my own use at all. Out of the box here it updates hourly. More frequent updates are something they offer via In-App purchase simply because they have to pay Forecast.io every time the app accesses data from there. So they set the price they did which should meet most user’s needs just fine but they do provide options to purchase more frequent updates for those wanting or needing them. Normally, I just check the weather over coffee in the morning myself and might occasionally during the day as I notice outdoor conditions changing or I know a storm is coming from the earlier forecast or whatnot and I find it is just fine for this without needing to spend anything extra. So I wanted to be sure to point this out because I did hesistate a little when I first noticed the IAPs and wouldn’t want someone to miss out on this great app worrying it costs a lot more to be useful when it truly does not. If I need constant updates on the weather at some point chances are I should be watching it on television and battening down the hatches around here, etc. Fortunately, this app will let me know when I should probably be tuning in for live updates in advance of needing to.

Five Star app all the way.

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