AccuWeather.com announced that it has launched a new Location-aware application for iPhone. In addition to the weather forecast information, the free application also offers weather alarms and health indices.
The new AccuWeather.com Application for iPhone offers a wide range of weather information benefits including:
- Location-aware, limiting the need to enter user locations
- Animated, user-centric radar and satellite
- 5-day local forecasts with high and low temperatures and sky conditions for day and night
- Hour-by-Hour Forecasts
- Weather Videos including national, regional, and local forecasts as well as breaking weather news, lifestyle weather, and several other entertaining and informative choices
- Health weather indices including the UV, air quality, Arthritis Index, and Flu Index
- WeatherRiscM graphs, which show probability of severe weather conditions over the next 8 hours
- The unique AccuWeather.com Weather Alarms
The proprietary AccuWeather.com Weather Alarms issue notifications to users based on certain bad weather parameters that are independent of government-issued alerts. The Weather Alarms warn users of impending rain, snow, ice, wind, wind gusts, and thunderstorm. The AccuWeather.com application also relays government-issued weather alerts when applicable for the user’s area.
