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OpenWeather App: Your Weather Companion

OpenWeather App: Your Weather Companion

Posted on 08 Aug 2024

Staying informed about the weather is essential for planning our daily lives and future adventures. The OpenWeather App provides a wealth of features in a sleek, user-friendly way to give you access to accurate and detailed weather information, right at your fingertips.

Weather forecasts have always relied on the latest developments of modern technology. The first 19th century forecasts used the newly invented telegraph to instantly transmit data long distances. Today, the OpenWeather mobile app is powered by OpenWeather's advanced One Call API™ that provides data from a vast network of weather stations, radars, and satellites. Combined with cutting-edge modeling and a precise geocoder, this technology ensures hyperlocal forecasts for any location on Earth, presented in an accessible, usable and customizable mobile app.

OpenWeather has developed an advanced ML-based numerical weather model that performs at up to 500 m resolution and allows its users to consider highly local nuances of climate and build accurate, efficient products. The model`s resolution varies from 500 meters for UK territories to 2 kilometers for the other world. The model uses a number of data sources - radars, models from global meteorological agencies (e.g., Met Office, NOAA, ECMWF), weather satellites, and a vast network of weather stations. Our model is updated every 10 minutes and provides data on all essential weather parameters such as temperature, precipitation, wind, pressure and others.

The interface prioritizes simplicity and clarity, presenting essential details like temperature, "feels like" temperature, wind conditions, humidity, and more in an easy-to-read format. If rain or snow is on the horizon, a 60-minute precipitation chart gives you a minute-by-minute prediction, helping you avoid unexpected showers. Looking further ahead? Hourly forecasts for the next two days, followed by 3-hourly forecasts for the subsequent six, allow for thorough planning. Dive deeper into any day to see sunrise/sunset times, a visual temperature graph, and detailed weather conditions.

Convenient widgets give you quick access to current conditions and a four-hour forecast. If you're mindful of battery life, switch to the elegant dark mode, which also offers a visually pleasing experience. In addition, widgets can also be used to give a notification for active severe weather alerts in your area, as well as a 60-minute precipitation forecast.

The app also recognizes the importance of community. Save up to six favorite locations to track weather conditions around the world, and contribute to the accuracy of our forecasts by reporting real-time weather conditions in your area.

The OpenWeather App is more than just a weather app – it is an ad-free & free-to-use application designed to empower you with accurate, relevant, and easily accessible information about the weather conditions that impact your daily life. The OpenWeather app is available for free on Google Play as well the App Store.

About OpenWeather:

OpenWeather provides weather data for any location on the globe using a proprietary hyperlocal forecasting model with a resolution from 500 m to 2 km, globally. More than 6,000,000 customers from logistics, agriculture, insurance, energy, retail, and many other sectors, are working with the company's weather products.

OpenWeather cooperates with global meteorological agencies such as MetOffice and NOAA, and enhances its model with data from radars, weather stations and satellites. The company provides great availability of service at 99.9% for enterprise-level products.

The products can be easily integrated into complex IT systems and are ideal for ML analytic systems. OpenWeather is a member of Royal Meteorological Society and an Achilles-certified supplier. OpenWeather ethical initiatives include support of educators and students, not-for-profit subscriptions for the general public to increase weather awareness, and recent Ukrainian donation programme.

For more information on how to gain access to our OpenWeather products, please email us.

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