Forecast is a Fully Featured Weather App for Windows Phone
If you live in or travel to places where the weather changes are abrupt, it is always good to have to weather app installed on your smartphone. We have covered quite a number of weather apps which includes Accuweather, SkyMotion, Amazing Weather HD and also the recently covered Simple Weather. While some of use like minimum information, other might want detailed forecast for the next few hours and also days.
If you are looking for a weather app which provides you with detailed information, then you should be installing Forecast. Forecast is a fast and flexible weather app, based primarily on the Yr weather service. But it also includes National Weather Service for locations in US. The app features detailed short and long term weather forecast for 9 million locations around the world.
It also includes live tile support, weather information on the lock screen, meteogram, as well as location (GPS) based weather. The best feature of the app is probably the ability to customize it. The theme is highly configurable with both color and image themes available. You can select the background image for the app as well as background for lock screen if you want the app to set the lock screen. The information displayed on the lock screen can also be configured.
The settings provide option to change the display units for temperature, wind speeds, precipitation and barometer.
Complete list of features;
- Detailed current weather with observation data
- Brief 7 day forecast
- Detailed 7-10 day forecast in 6 hour increments
- Detailed by the hour weather forecast for the next days
- Meteogram in landscape orientation
- Weather on the lock screen
- List of favorite locations
- Location based weather
- Live weather tiles with 4 day forecast on back
- Live tile can track your current location
- Display sunset and sunrise times
- Flexible configuration including UI themes and units
- Choice of either Yr or NWS for locations in the US
- Textual forecast for locations in Norway
Forecast provides you everything you would want in a weather app with highly customizable UI. The app is priced at $1.99 and if you use weather apps, this is totally worth the price.
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