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Weatherzone Plus app for iPhone and iPad


4.6 ( 2576 ratings )
Weather Utilities
Developer: The Weather Company
1.99 USD
Current version: 4.3.0, last update: 7 years ago
First release : 02 Nov 2009
App size: 53.25 Mb

► Weatherzone uses Bureau of Meteorology forecasts and our meteorologists to produce accurate forecasts for Australia and the world.

For serious weather watchers, who rely on weather for work or play, Weatherzone Plus+ gives you all the free app features plus more. These include 3 hourly forecasts, graphs of forecast temperatures over the next 48 hours and more detailed rain forecasts. You can also store unlimited favourites for rapid access.

► What features are exclusive to Weatherzone Plus?
- Exclusive 3 hourly temperature, icon and rain probability forecasts graph for next 24hrs and data for the next 48 hours for all major Australian locations from Opticast®
- Lightning and Wind Streamlines on radar animators using your Weatherzone Pro subscription
- 7 day forecasts for 2000+ Australian locations for minimum, maximum temperature, icon, rain probability/likely amount and 9am/3pm wind.
- 1000+ international location forecasts and observations
- Exclusive Pollen forecast for Capital Cities (excluding Darwin)
- Exclusive Australian synoptic map with rain areas and amounts for 7 days (drawn by Weatherzone meteorologist every 12 hours)
- Exclusive national video forecast with cloud rainfall, wind streamlines, rain and forecasts across Australia.
- Exclusive interactive local Radar animator featuring 64km, 128km, 256km, and State radars. Layer, duration, speed and dwell settings.
- Exclusive High Resolution Radar images (enable in settings)
- Exclusive ability to view high resolution state satellite domains
- Exclusive ability to view high resolution state/national radar domains and zoom to local radars

► What are other features of Weatherzone Plus?
- Get up to date local weather information easily using the GPS "My Location" feature
- Real-time observations for temperature, wind speed, gusts and direction, dew point, relative humidity, rainfall, pressure and rain since 9 am
- Past 24hrs, Month to date charts and almanac
- State or District Warnings
- Push Notifications for State or District Warnings, forecasts and App Badge
- Easily cycle through nearby observation locations
- Sunrise and Sunset times
- Fire Danger Rating (where available)
- UV Alert Times
- Tide Charts
- Moonrise /Moonset for 7 days
- Marine forecast
- Dynamic backgrounds that change as the weather does
- Your location shown on the local radar
- Radar animation speed and dwell options
- Animated Interactive radar from 58 locations around Australia
- Animated National and State composite radars
- Animated satellite of Australia
- Can store and display UNLIMITED favourite locations

► Snow & Ski
- Australias only 14 day snow forecast
- Snow Reports
- Lift Status
- Road Conditions

► How do we make 3 hour forecasts?
Opticast® uses real time observations and up to 10 global weather prediction models that are intelligently combined to build the most accurate high resolution short term forecasts available to the Australian public.

► How do we provide more forecasts than the others?
We source data from the Bureau of Meteorology and then fill the gaps with our own team of professional meteorologists and in-house high resolution forecasting models.

► Who are Weatherzone?
Weatherzone are Australias largest commercial meteorological organisation supplying most of Australias media, electricity companies and other weather sensitive industries. Weatherzone uses Bureau of Meteorology resources and unique internally developed computer modeling to produce the most accurate forecasts available in Australia. We are a team of meteorologists and developers that are dedicated to providing innovative weather services.

Australian weather, Aussie weather, Sydney Weather, Melbourne Weather.

Support: http://help.weatherzone.com.au

Pros and cons of Weatherzone Plus app for iPhone and iPad

Weatherzone Plus app good for

There is plenty of data and forecasts are generally accurate. I like how you can shift between different stations in the city to get a more concise read of where you are a well.
Much better! For an IPad it now sits in the right direction. Lots more information and even more user friendly. Good job!
Love the info provided by this app. Shows weather systems, daily forecasts, warnings, etc. Even has a short daily video on the entire countrys weather. It has a variety of options to choose from.
I regularly visit from Canada and this is my favoured app while in Oz. It ticks all the boxes!!
I am very happy with this app. It presents everything I need to know in a very nice layout. I am particularly happy with the radar portion. Works well!
I live half a world away from WeatherZones home base, yet it works better than local weather apps....!

Some bad moments

Weather info is useful of course and design wise the app is OK but it is so slow and crashes all the time so dont bother until performance is better.
Not worth it at all. The satalite images is just for Australia although it says over 400 locations worldwide.
Would be a great app except that it crashes every time I open it.
Details are ok but horrible slow. Keep sticking me at loading city list. Pocketweather AU ways better. Fix it or keeping it 1star
New with this current version: You cant view 7 days from front page You cant view detailed forecast from front page You cant view temperature extremes front front page I use this app a lot in my car and cannot scroll down through pages and pages and press options to view all the necessary weather info that the previous version displayed on the front page. Very Disappointing
A good app except one crucial flaw: the app badge switches to showing the temp in Celsius when Ive set it to Fahrenheit. It eventually changes back, but goes to C again once I open the app and then close it (that is, just go back to the home screen). Very annoying! (Im running latest iOS on iPhone 4.)