Unlike most weather apps, that just give you a straight forward weather, time, area design and no imagination, Partly Cloudy delivers an incredible re-design of how to check the weather within seven days, and at any place in the world.

Design 

Weather forecasts have never been so fun, the app creates a spinning wheel, which when turned can tell you the weather and other climate features at a certain time.

The circle time frame is incredible because it not only gives you text to identify the weather, but it will give you colour graphs and water spurts on the circle to tell you how much rain will fall and how hot it will be.

Since now, there has never been a largely recognised iOS app that takes away the traditional design of a weather app, and mixes it up so it looks nothing like the traditional app.

Partly Cloudy is truly a show of what you can do with an app if you have the right tools and ideas available.

Not only does Partly Cloudy work without having to zoom in or out, or scroll across the page, but it gives you all the information you need in more than one format.

Information 

Apart from telling you the temperature at a specific time, it can tell you what you should expect at that time, i.e, light rain, heavy snowfall.

Partly Cloudy will separate the temperature into highs and lows, giving you a general range of the temperature could be at that time.

There is also wind force and precipitation on the graph – useless if you are planning a barbecue but don’t want to be blown away by high winds.

On the wheel itself, it gives you a colour graph to tell you the amount of rain and amount of precipitation at a certain time.

It does this by filling the circle up with more water when the precipitation is heavier.  There is also wind force that is delegated in lines: larger ones show more wind force.

All this information is a lot to cook up and enough to satisfy the avid geographer when they go exploring.

You can change from 12 hours, 24 hours or 7 days on your info-graph. You can also change where you want to find the weather out.

Usability 

The app is incredibly simple to use, as soon as you hit the wheel page you don’t need to go anywhere else.

All information is in front of you, and it only takes a tap on the little ‘i’ in the top left corner to figure out what all the symbols and numbers mean.

If you do get stuck, Partly Cloudy has added a tutorial for you to understand what to do on the app. The tutorial is pretty good and gives you detailed information on all parts of the app.

We tested if the app would crash, by spinning the wheel very fast, it kept up with us but occasionally blanked for a second, then showed the weather.

Pros

• Fun way to find out the weather
• Can use it wherever
• Tons of features
• Simple user interface

Cons

• Some may not like the redesign
• Has some mishaps with guessing the weather
• Costs a chunk

Partly Cloudy – Overall 

Realistically, we couldn’t think of any bad points for this app, it is incredible and doesn’t give you and problems with the user interface, or with a lack of information. The only problem, and it isn’t really a bad point on the app itself, is that it costs a bit more than all the free ones floating about, and it has some trouble predicting weather outside Berlin, sometimes.

Pick it up on the Apps Store today.

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This device has been designed specifically to work with iDevices like the iPhone and iPad, giving you accurate real-time readings on everything from temperature and humidity, to CO2 levels and air pressure. There are two little towers–one for outdoor and one for indoor–and both of these can connect to a Wi-Fi network that can then relay the information through to the Netatmo app on your iDevice.

This is particularly useful, for instance, if you’re away from home and you want to keep monitoring the air quality in your home. This lets “users improve their indoor wellness and adapt their outdoor activities,” says Netatmo CEO Fred Potter, “creating a better way of life for everyone.” For instance, you can get automatic alerts if the CO2 concentration in your home exceeds a certain threshold. The Urban Weather Station comes with a free lifetime account, giving you a place to save and review all your station measurements and data.

You can pick up the Netatmo Urban Weather Station directly from the Netatmo website for $179. The accompanying iOS app is a free download from the App Store.

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Weather reports are useful sometimes, useless others. To make things interesting and switch it up from watching those typical forecasted weather reports, how about feeling the weather tomorrow?  I know that I still have a habit of stepping outside to “see how cold it is” and whether I need a coat or not, even if I happen to have the current conditions displayed on my phone or computer.  And it’s that kind of tactile experience that paved the way for the Cryoscope. It’s a little aluminium cube devised by Robb Godshaw, what it does is gives you the ability to literally feel tomorrow’s temperature instead of trying to wrap your head around a number. The Cryoscope uses a thermoelectric Peltier element, heat sink, and a cooling fan. It is then connected to an Arduino controller and an external power supply which then pulls the weather forecast from the Internet. Heat is pumped in or out of the cube until its surface temperature mirrors the forecast. You lay your fingers on the aluminum surface and get a real feel for what it’ll be like tomorrow. The cube also factors in wind chill, humidity, and the properties of the aluminum surface itself. The Cryoscope has an effective range of 0 to 100F (-18 to 38C) so you may actually be able to fry an egg on it.

Weather reports are useful, to be sure, but there’s nothing quite like feeling the weather to really get a sense of things. I know that I still have a habit of stepping outside to “see how cold it is” and whether I need a coat, even if I happen to have the current conditions displayed on my phone or computer.

[ source via Robb ]

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Do you remember that scene in Twister where the man and lady tie themselves to a gas pipe with a leather belt and see the guts of a passing tornado?  Me too. But apparently that was a tad unrealistic.  In reality, you would need an American-built pickup truck, loaded down with 3,600 kilos (7,937 lbs) of steel armour — and one hell of a ballsy videographer.   Which is exactly what Sean Casey assembled. The film-maker, who has been working for eight years to capture such a fictitious clip, stripped his Ram 3500 down to the skivvy and re-dressed it with kevlar, aluminum, steel and rubber (video), complete with two metre-deep ground skewers to keep the thing in place in 350-km/h winds.

“We had to build the right tool to get what in my mind was the perfect shot,” said Casey, “and that’s a tornado coming right at you.” And he succeeded. The shot is featured in his Imax film, Tornado Alley, which is now playing in Ontario, the Netherlands, and several vistas in the U.S. “It was sheer terror in filming it, but it was sheer excitement,” said Casey. “Afterwards you felt like crying. You felt like laughing.” Casey is already starting on a vehicle similar to his current “tornado interceptor,” but capable of traipsing off-road.

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