Comments on: iPhone Weather Apps I’d Like to See

By: Current Weather

Current Weather — Sun, 12 Sep 2010 03:36:00 +0000

Really like some of these ideas. Will be implementing some of these features into a current geolocation project. Stumbled over to this post while researching possibilities of including historical data. I always thought it would be fun to know and visualize within some current location aware web site.

By: james braselton

james braselton — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 21:40:50 +0000

hi there i would like a weather 3d hud weather insterments they have a hud for driving soo it would not be hard for a weather hud or heads up display and may be in the future hlao graphic 3d weather apps

By: Kelly

Kelly — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 13:44:15 +0000

If I had an iPhone, I could develop most of this. :)

As for a Weatherbuggy API? (HA!) Never. Not a chance would I ever use weatherbuggy on anything.

By: Ethan Baker

Ethan Baker — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 13:10:28 +0000

I really would find the weather wallpaper helpful when out and about. I can say that I would use it on an iPod Touch or iPhone

By: Ethan Baker

Ethan Baker — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 13:08:39 +0000

I have an idea for a weather app, though I’m not exactly sure what it would be called. I think that a good weather app would launch showing a satellite image of Earth (kinda like Google Earth when you launch it). You would be able to spin the globe to any location in the world where you could either double tap or pinch out to zoom in to the desired location. Once you are zoomed in, it would be nice to be able to view possibly both a satellite weather and a radar image. Even better, perhaps if you tapped once on the map you could bring up a basic pop-up with important weather statistics such as temperature, humidity, and wind speed. It’s only an idea, but it might just work.

By: Rectorna or Nick Rector

Rectorna or Nick Rector — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 22:52:13 +0000

I think all of those sound like great apps. The one that i think is the coolest and probably the most useful to me is number one the back ground changer. I was wondering did you submit these to the weather-bug and apple.

Keep up the great and awesome work

By: Coreburn

Coreburn — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 21:15:42 +0000

How about an iPhone version of an application called GRLevel3, which is used by stormchasers for viewing radar data in a GIS type map view. The addition of GPS and the touch-screen interface would be great. I don’t own an iPhone currently, and I have no idea if something like GRLevel3 or GR2Analyst could be made to work on the iPhone. But if was available I’d buy an iPhone in a heartbeat, and a lot of stormchasers probably would too.

By: Tom Williams

Tom Williams — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 20:08:49 +0000

2 4 7 9 10 are awsome ideas. The others are too but I think number nine is an everyday useful “tool”. and with tommorrow fast approaching of is very possible for us to see these happen. Make them happen Chris!! :)

By: cananito

cananito — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 17:20:35 +0000

Well, I would like to actually see all those apps in one :)
That would probably be way better.

By: Howard Pinsky

Howard Pinsky — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 14:57:53 +0000

Some of the ideas are really great, but Apple’s SDK limitation might mess with the process. They aren’t allowing applications to run in the background. All apps must be launched and stay in the foreground in order to function. Sucks, I know.

Hopefully, Apple makes some exceptions or changes. I really like these ideas.

By: Nick

Nick — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 13:14:12 +0000

All those idea are GREAT! I use it just about everytime I turned my iPhone on, you may want to add somthing about canceled and delayed flights due to weather.

By: Ookami

Ookami — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 07:26:31 +0000

Thunderclap sounds like a great idea. Would be fun and entertaining, you know, those small little things.

For watch warning, that would be a good idea. I think they should also make it so you can get a broadcast or visual on other warnings. If you go traveling, you can change the area code or check the area code of friends of family.

Cloudopedia sounds like a good idea but I can see it having problems. Light, distance, etc. Also that there can be more than one cloud out at any given time, so I see there might be a bit of difficulty.

By: pflodin

pflodin — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 07:18:05 +0000

Hmmm, I like that ThunderClap idea, though what would be really neat, would be to use the camera to detect the lighting and then use the microphone to detect the thunder, and the speed of sound calibrated to the air temperature downloaded from a nearby location using gps (iPhone 2 will have gps, it will have gps, it will have gps….please Mr Jobs, say that it will have gps….)

By: Michelle

Michelle — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 07:04:04 +0000

I would absolutely use Weather Wallpaper and Watch Warning.

I can see myself putting Weather Stylist to good use too. As much as I use the weather icon on my iPhone I still head over and get a more complete outlook online so having an all in one would me a time saver.

And Thunderclap really sounds like something I’d use to pass the time, educate and annoy people. A perfect app!

By: 4four1ones

4four1ones — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 06:44:33 +0000

StormTag or WeatherJot – application that works similar to britekite, user takes image of storm, tornado touchdowns, flooding, etc. and outputs that image to googlemaps according to the users zipcode. send link to your friends?

CountyDoppler – Outputs a list of counties affected by oncoming storms. Each county would have a link to the local city office, and emergency numbers. It could also have closest gas station and closest stores according to your home address.

RainGuage – Outputs recorded rainfall to a rainguage that fills up according to reported measurements for your designated area.

Movieman – suggests potential movies to rent from Netflix, blockerbuster, whomever – according to the users local weather info.

CountStormula – suggests links to scary stories, books, images, games when you are in the mood to be frightened by stories from the dark side according to your weather patterns.

Dang this post is fun Chris. Thanks for getting my brain going when I need to be going to sleep. LOL.