World Weather - Review - Spaulding Ablemplaid

We touched briefly touched on the Windows Phone weather app, World Weather, earlier this year. It's a handy, basic weather app that covers locations world wide. World Weather was recently updated to version ii.five adding mango features such as fast resume and multiple live tile support. The app also received a major facelift in design and added new features beyond what Mango has brought to the tabular array.

To run into if the changes to World Weather helped or hurt, slide on by the break.

The changes to World Weather are to the point that the updated version is a completely different app from the original. I'll admit I haven't visited the app in months and when I first launched the updated version, it felt as if it was a make new app. In that location is more to World Weather condition with this update and to be honest, its hard to find a starting point to get into things. Then, we'll start with a summary of what the Mango update adds to World Weather.

Fast app switching back up added
Radar and satellite maps
Conditions Cams Custom alive tiles with iv custom weather icon sets
Custom or live backgrounds for Live Tiles
Unmarried or dual Live Tiles
My activeness atmospheric condition (record and receive the conditions of your favorite sports centre or activity eye, jogging park, child'south playground and more than…)
Single Urban center or Tile View

All of these features accept been rolled upwardly into a nice, well presented package. The Main Page of World Weather is a dissever screen layout. The upper window indicates your forecast city, current temperature and forecast high/depression. To the correct of this window is a title bar that will let you access to your conditions tiles (more on this in a 2nd).

World Weather Main Pages

Below your forecast city window is your detailed atmospheric condition data window. To the right is a title bar that indicates what data is being displayed.

You take pages for Current Atmospheric condition, Hourly Forecasts, Seven Day Forecast, Weather Radar, Weather Cams, and Moon Phase. Atmospheric condition radar can exist animated and y'all can switch to satellite view.

Now to the Tiles Page. This is where you lot tin can switch forecast locations and access Earth Weather'south tool set. A series of button controls line the right side of the screen that comprehend:

Adding Urban center/Location
Edit Tiles
Delete Locations
Pin Locations to Kickoff Screen
Access Settings

Calculation a metropolis/location is simple and directly forrard. Y'all can search locations by city proper name, zip code or city lawmaking. You can as well conduct a location search and add a city that fashion. There is no limit on the number of saved locations.

World Weather Tiles Page and Settings

If you tap the Location Search selection on the Add Page you can enable My Location Conditions and My Activity Weather. My Activity Weather is a neat feature where you can get atmospheric condition data for a more specific location such as a sports loonshit, golf course, lake, or park. Just enter the name, record the location and your prepare.

Edit Tiles allows you to choose the content, graphics and fashion of tile yous'll use. You can gear up the tile to your Windows Telephone theme, a custom colour, change the City name, turn on/off the extended tile (backside) and determine what information is displayed.

Deleting a tile or location is obvious every bit is pinning it to the Commencement Screen. One note on pinning is that if you want to pin your default location to the First Screen, you do so past pinning Earth Conditions from the app list.

World Weather Live Tiles

Settings cover how the weather information is displayed, how your live services are ready-up, and your notifications options. One nice matter nearly notifications is that yous have the ability to receive toast notifications when severe weather alerts are issued for your forecast city or cities (you get that choice). So if y'all have friends or family unit in other cities, you lot can exist alerted of severe atmospheric condition in those parts as well every bit your location.

Oh...speaking of switching locations, yous tin can switch from location to location two ways. You tap the locations tile from the Tile Page but you also switch past vertically swiping the location window on the main page. It's a nice feature and makes switching locations easier just be conscientious. If you vertically scroll on the hourly or extended forecast views the location can change. It's the swiping action that causes the problems and to avert this from happening, just tap/hold and scroll. We've been told by the programmer that they are fine tuning things to avoid accidentally switching locations.

The update nicely improves upon Globe Conditions. The layout is nice, the customization features helps the app meet your needs, and the overall feel is better. With the update, World Weather went from your basic run of the mill weather condition app to a more impressive source for weather information.

There is a complimentary trial version available for World Atmospheric condition with the full version running $.99. You lot tin can detect World Weather here at the Windows Phone Marketplace.