Prepare For All Weathers While Travelling With These Free Weather Apps

Download these free weather apps so that bad weather doesn’t ruin your trip! By Nivedita Jayaram Pawar

Unless you can bend the weather to your liking like Sean Connery in 1998’s The Avengers, a reliable weather app on your phone is a great way to stay alert to the weather’s whims. Apart from making note of general weather conditions, a good weather app can tip you off to storms and air quality issues that are so paramount in today’s times.

Whether you take a flight, ride a train or take a simple road trip for the weekend, these eight apps will make sure you are never caught without an umbrella or sunscreen.

AccuWeather

 

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This free mobile app is worth a look if you’re mourning the loss of the app Dark Sky. It has everything from basic air quality and humidity details, to locally accurate 15-day forecasts and a 12-hour predicted satellite weather image. Beyond sunshine and rain, AccuWeather can also give details on wind speed, solar ultraviolet radiation (UV) levels, visibility and more.

Weather Underground

 

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If you are into running, hiking or any other outdoor activities, then this is the ideal app for you. Just describe the weather you would prefer for your expedition (a sunny afternoon, perhaps) and Weather Underground’s ‘smart forecast’ tool will tell you when that forecast is expected. A bright and intuitive interface is one of its many likeable features.

Carrot Weather

 

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This charmingly sassy weather app will give you the forecast while also mocking your suffering at the mercy of outdoor conditions. When you boot it up, a quirky robotic voice chimes in with an insult or joke, often weather-related and tweak-able for various humour levels like Friendly, Snarky, Homicidal, or Overkill—which includes profanity. Apart from current weather conditions, and hourly and weekly forecasts; this straightforward app also has a precipitation graph and rain data.

Air Matters

 

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If it is pollutants and allergens that you are bothered about, then Air Matters is for you. Although it provides current weather conditions; and the probability of rainfall and wind speeds, most of it is dedicated to pollen, pollutant data and Air Quality Index. (AQI). There is also health advice for mask usage and outdoor activities, along with upcoming forecast.

The Weather Channel

 

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This excellently designed app is the smartest and most stylish way to get information on what’s going on in the sky. It provides various meteorological data such as temperature, wind and visibility on an hourly or daily basis, along with an extended 10-day forecast. The interactive maps on the app indicate rainfall and weather events, along with providing severe weather alerts. It also allows you to upload images, tweets, videos and photos.

Yahoo Weather

 

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The best part of this weather app is that it is extremely user-friendly and has a gorgeous interface that is both informative and striking. Apart from the interactive radar, heat, and satellite maps, and a detailed five-day forecast, the app also displays images of your location with the corresponding time and weather conditions.

Weather Kitty

 

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This cute weather app has kittens providing local weather forecasts worldwide, 10-day forecast and hourly forecasts for the next 24 hours. Additional features include humidity levels; current moon phase; the day’s high and low temperatures; live radar; wind speed; wind chill; sunrise and sunset; barometric pressure; UV index; dew point; heat index and projected rain or precipitation. Plus, if you’re a dog person, the same company also offers Weather Puppy.

Flowx

With the app’s travel mode, you can plan your trips in advance as it allows you to see the following week’s weather in advance. It even provides information on precipitation, temperature, barometric pressure, wind speed, wave heights, wind circulation, storm-tracking, and wave circulation.

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