Weather Strip 4+

The best hi-info instant-comprehension weather app out there

Tired of looking at columns of numbers and trying to form an internal visualization out of them, or wondering how the cloud cover and precipitation likelihood will actually change over time from those crazy weather symbols, etc.? You may find, like me, that this information-loaded, incredibly intuitive, wholistic, and instantly comprehensible weather app is the only one you need ... it did away with all my favorites accumulated over years of searching, except the couple I keep for alerts & radar. This amazing app translates reams of data into a visual representation that is immediately comprehensible by the day or week. The widgets in themselves convey such a quick understanding of the detailed weather picture that opening the app is often not necessary. Weather Strip should have 10 times the number of 5-star reviews shown on the App Store.

Great first version

Excellent visualization of upcoming weather information. Hope to someday see a radar view added, especially with wind visualization like the old Storm app from weatherunderground. WU’s current app doesn’t show cloud cover, which matters to me, but Weather Strip does so, nicely. The height of the rain graph shows percentage chance of rain, but it would be nice if light versus heavy rain was depicted by paler or more saturated blue, as well.

It looks like a nice start to an app I hope to use for a long time. It will be interesting to see how Winter is shown; can’t tell yet because only USA locations are allowed, and it’s not Winter currently. I tried selecting northern Alaska, but the app crashed, and I needed to delete it to get it to stop crashing on launch. But it’s a v1.0, and I don’t live in Alaska, so not really a big concern for me. Looking forward to seeing how this app improves. Saw the announcement for it on nine2fiveMac.

Developer Response ,

Thanks for the suggestions! The blue bars along the bottom of the timeline indicate how hard it's expected to rain. (If there are no bars, that means only light rain is expected.) In the winter, there's a corresponding visual for the probability of snow and the expected inches of snowfall.

Weather Strip also now includes multiple forecast providers to ensure there is always a valid forecast available.

Intuitive, Beautiful, Efficient

What a beautifully designed, effective, visual approach to showing the current and forecasted weather in a way that is intuitive and lets you quickly get a true sense of what the day(s) ahead will be like. There are loads of details available too, at a glance, without the need for a whole lot of poking around and clicking as in some other apps. But the magic is in the well thought out interactive visualization that blends display of raw data with a representation of what the data actually means. Really nice job, a tour de force actually.
(I guess the one good thing about Apple planning to kill off the much loved Dark Sky app for their mush less usable Weather app is that it led me to discover this effective and enjoyable alternative.)