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Foreca Weather & Radar app for iPhone and iPad


4.6 ( 6416 ratings )
Weather Utilities
Developer: Foreca Oy
Free
Current version: 2.55.6, last update: 3 months ago
First release : 29 May 2012
App size: 91.24 Mb

Extremely accurate, clean interface and convenient weather app which is widely customizable to your preferences.

5 REASONS TO CHOOSE FORECA:

1) FORECAST ACCURACY: Foreca is ranked the most accurate weather provider in rain forecasts globally. In general weather forecasts, Foreca has long been the most accurate especially in Europe, and is also placed among the top providers globally.*

2) VERSATILE FEATURES: Unlike other weather apps, Foreca provides all the Premium features for free.

3) CUSTOMIZABLE VIEWS: Choose what weather information you want to see in the app from the wide selection of weather parameters available. You can also hide the information you don’t need as some of the parameters might be irrelevant to you, or beneficial only in winter or summer, for example.

4) CLEAN AND CONVENIENT: Our principle has always been to invest in the clarity of weather data to make the app easy and convenient to use. This has also been praised by our users.

5) SERVICE QUALITY: We respond personally to all the feedback and support requests we get, because we want to continuously develop the app according to your wishes.

PREMIUM FEATURES – ALL AVAILABLE FOR FREE!

– Extremely accurate and convenient radar with radar forecast for the next few hours**
– Governmental weather warnings**
– Rain notifications**
– Current conditions calculated into your exact location
– Measurement results of the nearest official weather stations
– Weather observation history – your time machine to past hours, days and years
– Meteogram with showers and continuous rain separated
– Editable home screen widgets
– Dark theme and light theme
– Theme color options
– Optional weather symbol set
– Past forecast for the current day
– Active hurricanes nearby the USA
– Lock Screen widgets

FREELY CUSTOMIZABLE VIEWS AND WEATHER PARAMETERS BY HOURLY, DAILY AND AS GRAPHS:

– Temperature and weather symbols (°C, °F)
– Feels like
– Chance of precipitation (%)
– Hourly amount of rain, mixed and snowfall (mm, in)
– Total rainfall (24h water value: mm, in)
– Total snowfall (24h snow value: cm, in)
– Wind direction (arrow, icon or cardinal direction)
– 10-minute average wind speed (m/s, km/h, mph, Bft, kn)
– Max wind speed in gusts
– Relative humidity (%)
– Atmospheric pressure (hPa, inHg, mmHg, mbar)
– Dew point (°C, °F)
– Probability of thunderstorm (%)
– UV index
– Air quality index, AQI
– Daily sunshine hours (hh:mm)
– Day length
– Sunrise time
– Sunset time
– Moonrise time
– Moonset time
– Moon phases

ANIMATED WEATHER MAPS:

– Rain radar and accurate radar forecast for the next few hours**
– 24-hour rain forecast map in hourly steps
– 3 day weather map with atmospheric pressure (isobars) and rain
– Satellite images map in hourly steps
– Cloudiness forecast map in hourly steps

OTHER FEATURES:

– Location search – all location names worldwide
– One-time positioning and continuous tracking
– Weather in your favorite locations
– Choose your start page (tab in the app)
– Adjust the speed of the map animation
– Share the weather with your friends
– Info/user guide
– Feedback channel and app support
– Time format (12h/24h)
– 12h tai 24h aikamuoto
– 15 languages supported

*) Based on 3rd party reporting, where forecasts are continuously being verified against the real observations from the official weather stations globally.
**) Country-specific limitations

Terms of Use: https://www.foreca.com/foreca-weather-terms-of-use

Privacy Policy: https://www.foreca.com/privacy-policy

Pros and cons of Foreca Weather & Radar app for iPhone and iPad

Foreca Weather & Radar app good for

The snow forecasts are not steady. However the most probable forecasts are here.
The weather forecasts are very accurate. An excellent app for motorcyclists.
Not much more to expect from a weather app. It does what it says, and does it well. Oh, and did I mention it is reliable? Wish navigation was more user-friendly, but at the same time I realize I have not paid for such extra.
Seems more accurate in forecasts than even weather underground and weather channel apps.
Far easier to use, intuitively, than any of the major weather apps, by far. That means I get the info I need faster and with less hunting and frustration. Helps that their forecasting for Cleveland, OH is among the top 5 or less consistently. High visibility buttons to get weather data graphs and satellite maps. Cant praise it enough
I like this app but it contains ads and there is no room for buying full version

Some bad moments

I guess targeted my review for developers. I understand that this is a fairly fresh app, so here are a few things I noticed: 1) really slow on updating, searching the city 2) unresponsive/ slow responsive, when clicking on search and on a little "target" (I think this is supposed to be locator, and it didnt respond at all on my click) 3) crashed when I searched for a city at first 4) I dont remember if it prompted to use my location, but it definitely doesnt. Thats why I had to search for my city 5) would be cool to see drop-down of hints/ suggestions when typing the city 6) adding to favourites is super slow... It took a few minutes to get a verification thing like "add ... to favourites" and it took like 5 minutes to the city to appear in favourites. 7) missing "back" buttons, when I click anywhere from the main weather screen, I get lost because I think there is more than one level further. 8) hard to understand the "weather map". I didnt noticed tabs on top at the beginning. There is no hints on "swipe up/ down to change time" [Im using iPhone SE, iOS 9.3.2]
This app beats every other weather app Ive tried. Theres just one glitch. In the detailed forecast view, and in the Meteogram, the day "begins" at 7 pm on the preceding day. Im guessing the breaks between days are correct if one is in Helsinki, where Foreca is located, but it is a tad awkward for us here in the U.S. Looking forward to an update, after which this will be the perfect weather app.
The foreca.com website is one on the best weather forcast. But the application of this website is so dull and full of crash!
Simple interface, all the information you need, including precipitation amount, nice "MeteoGram" graph of temperature, precipitation and wind speed. I hope the iPad version will be available soon and will keep this level of functionality / simplicity.
One of the few apps that forecasts precipitation amounts. The Meteogram graphical interface is an exceptionally intuitive way to see trends. The radar map time-slider shows promise but the maps currently lack zoom. Overall, I rate ForecaWeather a close second to Weather Underground.
WOW! Nice! Especially ten-day meteogram and weather maps. But please remove ads. Thank you so much for foreca app