“Wx is the Mac app that brings that data to your Mac screen with near real-time updates for specific locations,” Mincey reports. “If a picture paints a thousand words, then Wx will let you know why you chose the wrong place on the planet to live.”
Wx is better than other Mac weather apps for a number of obvious reasons:
• Multi-Display Modes
• Weather Alert
• Local Weather
• Forecasts
• Better Forecasts
• Radar Console
• Configuration
• Weather Browser
Read more in the full article here.
I like weatherbug elite for ipad
Yawn…if it doesn’t do weather outside of the US, it doesn’t matter how many things it can do.
Wx is excellent. It has amazing functionality, but it’s UI is a bit fugly.
Yeah, on my iPad, I like WeatherBug, and have 4 others, but on the Mac–which is what this article is about–Wx is powerful.
Que the tin foil big brother is watching types.
i just use i.wund.com. Great interface and no app required
Skimmed the article. If it mentioned how much it costs, I didn’t see it. There’s no way that I’d pay more than a pittance for a weather app. Unless you’re a weather junkie, unless meteorology is your hobby, why do you need to know anything more than current conditions, a forecast, and a good radar image?
I use the WeatherBug widget for my Mac. If I need anything more, I visit Weather.com or the radar site of a local TV station.
——RM
Local TV station says it all.
“U.S. taxpayers, “your hard earned taxes are at work in the National Weather Service and they track weather data all over the country,” Jeffrey Mincey reports for Mac360.”
If this is our hard earn tax dollars at work, then why do we have to pay somebody an additional $16.95 to register and support it? Seems like we already bought it!
‘Effn government!
“U.S. taxpayers, “your hard earned taxes are at work in the National Weather Service and they track weather data all over the country,” Jeffrey Mincey reports for Mac360.”
If this is our hard earn tax dollars at work gathering the info for the benefit of the masses, then why do we have to pay somebody an additional $16.95 to register and support it, when it would only seem logical, for those that gather all that info, the ability in all formats, now and in the future, to disseminate that info? I mean, it kind of seems like we already bought it!
‘Effn government!
I just checked. It’s $16.95.
@TSA – “Tough Sh*t, America”,
It’s not an app from the government (I thought the same thing when I read that) – it’s just a poorly worded sentence. The author means that the National Weather Service spends our money to gather all kinds of data but most weather apps only show you a few things like the forecast and a simple radar. This app shows you more of the data they collect.
I use Swackett on my Mac, and WeatherBug on my iPhone and iPad.
They are well run, efficient and serve citizens & business very well. Most of what the 3rd party services offer is retreaded information gathered by NOAA- the parent of NWS.
The price is what the developer charges for the app. If you wish to develop an app & give it away- go right ahead.
Advertorial — very surprised that MDN linked to this.
Price not mentioned anywhere, which always makes one’s spidey sense tingle…
…and app not sold in Mac App Store, so WTF MDN?!
no matter how beautifully the presentation a plate of dog poo is still a plate of dog poo – I will get my “The World is Warming… The Sky is Falling” nonsense elsewhere
Excellent app. Well done. Modest price. Loads of information. Limited to US only, but I use it often when traveling. It says National Weather Service data. That means US, not Canada or Europe or elsewhere. Many Mac weather apps are free but none provide this level of weather information. I know many business people who travel, those in construction, too, depend on such apps because the detail is more accurate and updated more frequently than menubar apps or Dashboard widgets. If weather is important to you, then it’s cheap at twice the price. And it’s cheap anyway. Only Lametards complain about such apps. Can’t wait for apps like these to show up in the Mac App Store.