Blue Skies is a Minimalistic Weather app for Windows Phone

When it comes to weather apps on Windows Phone, there are quite a lot of them and we have covered many on this blog. Blue Skies is yet another weather app for Windows Phone, but with a beautiful and yet simplistic UI. Blue Skies brings the forecast from the highly popular iPhone app, Dark Sky, to Windows Phone.

The app uses almost the same information as the popular app Dark Sky. Blue Skies can tell you precisely if it will rain or snow in the next hour. With the app you will know whether to take that umbrella with you as you leave your house. Unlike the Dark Sky app, Blue Skies brings the weather to your home screen with a beautiful live tile.

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The app has support for Windows Phone 8.1 with transparent live tile. You can choose the time interval for updating the live tile based on your battery usage.

Features of Blue Skies:

  • Summary of next hour (Is not available for all locations)
  • Summary of next 24 hours
  • 12 hour forecast
  • 5 day forecast
  • Detailed weather information including: precipitation, humidity, sunrise, sunset
  • Displays severe weather warnings and advisories
  • Live tile with small, medium, and wide tile sizes
  • Transparent live tile perfect for Windows Phone 8.1
  • Choose the live tile update frequency to reduce battery consumption
  • Simple and easy to use

Blue Skies is available free of cost from the store and is supported for Windows Phone 8 and 8.1.

Nirmal is a big fan of Windows phone ever since it was released. He started off with Nokia Lumia 800 and then got the Lumia 920. Presently he owns the Lumia 730 and Lumia 930.