Comments on: Quick Look… PocketWeather 2.08

By: Peter

Peter — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 08:08:06 +0000

I like the detail as well Bryan, radar images are one thing, if you add London as a tab and download images you actually get a stop frame CCTV capture that plays like an animation and get a real time view of, I think it’s Picadilly

By: breley

breley — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 12:26:46 +0000

PocketWeather is a great app. I still pine for my old Weatherpanel ( I miss my silly animated icons and layouts. ), but PocketWeather is a great substitute. In particular I very much like the ability to have a radar image thumbnail, something SPB Weather to my knowledge hasn’t yet implemented. Also, you can get a slightly more detail version of the WeatherConsole in PocketWeather by selecting Menu–>Views–>Detailed.

By: Peter

Peter — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 10:58:30 +0000

Ha, Iphitus, good to know there are some locals reading this as well. The defaults are quite sensible I agree, except for the default download options, which I disable until I want to use the program.

Welcome to JAMM, the invasion begins Eh

By: iphitus

iphitus — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 10:50:58 +0000

I thought that weather looked terribly familiar! — And it was, I’m from Melbourne too.

PocketWeather is great. The by the hour-by-hour predictions are astounding. Last Thursday it said it would be cloudy until 12, and sure enough, it cleared up at 11:30. The precipitation chance always seems accurate too. Sure, it depends on how good your national weather bureau/airport meteorologists are, but Pocketweather presents it well.

I was also overwhelmed by the options, but you don’t need to mess with most of them to get it running, the defaults are quite sensible. I have updated over a gprs connection, it was quite quick, and fortunately the data use was low (about 6kb) - though that was only basic conditions/forecast info for one location.

Good writeup!