{"id":1415,"date":"2016-09-22T10:30:00","date_gmt":"2016-09-22T14:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wyomingjarbo.com\/blog\/?p=1415"},"modified":"2017-09-08T16:32:38","modified_gmt":"2017-09-08T20:32:38","slug":"weather-geek-apps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wyomingjarbo.com\/blog\/2016\/09\/22\/weather-geek-apps\/","title":{"rendered":"Weather Geek Apps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am a weather geek and as a weather geek I\u2019ve compiled a few of my favorite sites just for you to get accurate weather updates. What I\u2019m about to provide you will be better than weather.com or the default weather app on your mobile device.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wunderground.com\/\" title=\"Weather Underground\">Weather Underground<\/a> &#8211; This is my go to site. Weather Underground<sup id=\"fnref-1415-1\"><a href=\"#fn-1415-1\" class=\"jetpack-footnote\">1<\/a><\/sup> collects data from thousands of personal weather stations, and provides a ton of data at a glance. Their WunderMap feature can show storms, temps and more. Their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wunderground.com\/download?mr=1\" title=\"Weather Underground Mobile Apps\">mobile apps<\/a> are also very great.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1412\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1412\" style=\"width: 2560px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"1412\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/wyomingjarbo.com\/blog\/2016\/09\/22\/weather-geek-apps\/draggedimage-png-3\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wyomingjarbo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/DraggedImage-4.png?fit=2560%2C2112&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"2560,2112\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Weather Underground\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Weather Underground shows a lot of information at a glance.&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wyomingjarbo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/DraggedImage-4.png?fit=300%2C248&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wyomingjarbo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/DraggedImage-4.png?fit=1024%2C845&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1412\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wyomingjarbo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/DraggedImage-4.png?resize=2560%2C2112\" alt=\"Weather Underground shows a lot of information at a glance.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"2112\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wyomingjarbo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/DraggedImage-4.png?w=2560&amp;ssl=1 2560w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wyomingjarbo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/DraggedImage-4.png?resize=300%2C248&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wyomingjarbo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/DraggedImage-4.png?resize=768%2C634&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wyomingjarbo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/DraggedImage-4.png?resize=1024%2C845&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wyomingjarbo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/DraggedImage-4.png?w=2000&amp;ssl=1 2000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1412\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Weather Underground shows a lot of information at a glance.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/darksky.net\" title=\"Dark Sky\">Dark Sky<\/a> &#8211; My second go to, Dark Sky started out as a <a href=\"https:\/\/darksky.net\/app\/\" title=\"Dark Sky Mobile App\">mobile app<\/a> for iOS focusing on down to the minute predictions for precipitation. It was fairly reliable. After that they created a very cool site called <a href=\"http:\/\/forecast.io\" title=\"Forecast.io\">forecast.io<\/a> which incorporated the accurate precipitation predictions along with forecast data, and climate history with the time machine. Now they\u2019ve updated all that with beautiful design and maps.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1411\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1411\" style=\"width: 2560px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"1411\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/wyomingjarbo.com\/blog\/2016\/09\/22\/weather-geek-apps\/draggedimage-1-png-3\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wyomingjarbo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/DraggedImage-1-1.png?fit=2560%2C3052&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"2560,3052\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Fantastic looking forecasts with even better maps.\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Fantastic looking forecasts with even better maps.&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wyomingjarbo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/DraggedImage-1-1.png?fit=252%2C300&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wyomingjarbo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/DraggedImage-1-1.png?fit=859%2C1024&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1411\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wyomingjarbo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/DraggedImage-1-1.png?resize=2560%2C3052\" alt=\"Fantastic looking forecasts with even better maps. \" width=\"2560\" height=\"3052\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wyomingjarbo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/DraggedImage-1-1.png?w=2560&amp;ssl=1 2560w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wyomingjarbo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/DraggedImage-1-1.png?resize=252%2C300&amp;ssl=1 252w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wyomingjarbo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/DraggedImage-1-1.png?resize=768%2C916&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wyomingjarbo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/DraggedImage-1-1.png?resize=859%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 859w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wyomingjarbo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/DraggedImage-1-1.png?w=2000&amp;ssl=1 2000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1411\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fantastic looking forecasts with even better maps.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/ventusky.com\" title=\"Ventusky\">Ventusky<\/a>&#8211; A map based web app that shows all kinds of weather data present and historical on a map.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1413\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1413\" style=\"width: 2560px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"1413\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/wyomingjarbo.com\/blog\/2016\/09\/22\/weather-geek-apps\/draggedimage-2-png-3\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wyomingjarbo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/DraggedImage-2-1.png?fit=2560%2C1306&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"2560,1306\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Ventusky Displays really cool maps, but it will use your computers resources.\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Ventusky Displays really cool maps, but it will use your computers resources.&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wyomingjarbo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/DraggedImage-2-1.png?fit=300%2C153&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wyomingjarbo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/DraggedImage-2-1.png?fit=1024%2C522&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1413\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wyomingjarbo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/DraggedImage-2-1.png?resize=2560%2C1306\" alt=\"Ventusky Displays really cool maps, but it will use your computers resources.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1306\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wyomingjarbo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/DraggedImage-2-1.png?w=2560&amp;ssl=1 2560w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wyomingjarbo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/DraggedImage-2-1.png?resize=300%2C153&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wyomingjarbo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/DraggedImage-2-1.png?resize=768%2C392&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wyomingjarbo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/DraggedImage-2-1.png?resize=1024%2C522&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wyomingjarbo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/DraggedImage-2-1.png?w=2000&amp;ssl=1 2000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1413\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ventusky Displays really cool maps, but it will use your computers resources.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/weatherspark.com\" title=\"WeatherSpark\">WeatherSpark<\/a> &#8211; WeatherSpark can provide all kinds of historical climate data for an area that can be used for predicting if it will be rainy, windy, or more for any time of year.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1410\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1410\" style=\"width: 1064px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"1410\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/wyomingjarbo.com\/blog\/2016\/09\/22\/weather-geek-apps\/draggedimage-3-png-2\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wyomingjarbo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/DraggedImage-3-1.png?fit=1064%2C518&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1064,518\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"WeatherSpark Graph\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;WeatherSpark has several visual graphs for all kinds of historical climate data.&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wyomingjarbo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/DraggedImage-3-1.png?fit=300%2C146&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wyomingjarbo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/DraggedImage-3-1.png?fit=1024%2C499&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1410\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wyomingjarbo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/DraggedImage-3-1.png?resize=1064%2C518\" alt=\"WeatherSpark has several visual graphs for all kinds of historical climate data. \" width=\"1064\" height=\"518\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wyomingjarbo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/DraggedImage-3-1.png?w=1064&amp;ssl=1 1064w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wyomingjarbo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/DraggedImage-3-1.png?resize=300%2C146&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wyomingjarbo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/DraggedImage-3-1.png?resize=768%2C374&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wyomingjarbo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/DraggedImage-3-1.png?resize=1024%2C499&amp;ssl=1 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1410\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">WeatherSpark has several visual graphs for all kinds of historical climate data.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<div class=\"footnotes\">\n<hr \/>\n<ol>\n<li id=\"fn-1415-1\">\nWeather Underground has been around since the 90s. They were bought out by the Weather Channel, which was in turn purchased by IBM for all of their data collection.&#160;<a href=\"#fnref-1415-1\">&#8617;<\/a>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here are a list of apps I use for looking at the weather.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1414,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"aside","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"Here are a list of apps I use for looking at the weather.","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[14,119],"tags":[269,271,270,179],"post_format":[182],"class_list":["post-1415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-aside","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-howto","category-technology","tag-apps","tag-forecast","tag-precipitation","tag-weather","post_format-post-format-aside"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wyomingjarbo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/DraggedImage.137a11459855476db8dc4a76ce866b0c.png?fit=1024%2C1024&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdZ9O-mP","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wyomingjarbo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1415","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wyomingjarbo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wyomingjarbo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wyomingjarbo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wyomingjarbo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1415"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/wyomingjarbo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1415\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1699,"href":"https:\/\/wyomingjarbo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1415\/revisions\/1699"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wyomingjarbo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wyomingjarbo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wyomingjarbo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wyomingjarbo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1415"},{"taxonomy":"post_format","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wyomingjarbo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_format?post=1415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}