Sometimes searching for the best apps in the Microsoft store makes you feel like you’re in empty desert. Even after discovering similar apps, you can feel there’s a lack of quality ones that highlight the modern look for Windows tablets and smartphones.
That’s why we’ve decided to make things easier by giving a top 3 weather apps you might want to get on Windows device.
Ambient weather
High quality app with beautiful background images reflecting to the current weather conditions. If there is precipitation, you get an excellent rain shot or snow fall view and if sunny, you get a beautiful sky shot with a few clouds. At night, whole background switches to a dusk.
As expected, weather is presented in four sections: current, today, hourly, and daily. Each one of those provides temperature, wind speed and precipitation. Current weather includes well known features as humidity levels, real feel temperature, sunrise and sunset times.
Ambient weather lets you handle multiple locations which is ideal when roaming. Unfortunately, radar support and weather notification alerts works in Continental US region only.
As usual, fee app version comes with adds. Live Tile only functions for the first seven days after install. Supporting the developer with one time purchase of $1.49, you will be able to remove ads and keep the Live Tile running.
Frost free
The layout for Frost Free feels very unique. It’s not too complicated, just different enough so it may take a little time to get used to. There’s ability to track the weather forecast by setting multiple locations or simply following your current location. App does a nice job of delivering the weather basics to your Windows device.
Broader overview includes a four day forecast and you can switch to hour by hour breakdown for the next three days. One of the greatest feature we found, is a long term forecast for the next ten days. There’s also an option to download the whole forecast information in pdf format, just in case you’d like to share it.
However, it doesn’t include weather radar with alert notifications, which may help avoiding unexpected precipitation.
MSN Weather
Definitely the most popular free weather app you can find for Windows devices. Brings a quick access to 10 day and hourly forecasts information. Weather radar comes in interactive satellite maps view. Historical weather feature shows what’s the weather’s like, month by month at the selected location. It come in very helpful, especially when planning trips abroad with outdoor activities. Favorite places can be added easily using search bar at the top.
This app makes you enjoy a good user interface design, which puts the most important information right up front. Just swipe left ant right to instantly switch for the next several days forecasts.
Need to mention, that unlike other similar apps, it doesn’t have lots of intrusive ads, which is great.
MSN Weather is smooth, clean and straight to the point app you can rely on.
