Weather Strip 4+

Great first version

Excellent visualization of upcoming weather information. Hope to someday see a radar view added, especially with wind visualization like the old Storm app from weatherunderground. WU’s current app doesn’t show cloud cover, which matters to me, but Weather Strip does so, nicely. The height of the rain graph shows percentage chance of rain, but it would be nice if light versus heavy rain was depicted by paler or more saturated blue, as well.

It looks like a nice start to an app I hope to use for a long time. It will be interesting to see how Winter is shown; can’t tell yet because only USA locations are allowed, and it’s not Winter currently. I tried selecting northern Alaska, but the app crashed, and I needed to delete it to get it to stop crashing on launch. But it’s a v1.0, and I don’t live in Alaska, so not really a big concern for me. Looking forward to seeing how this app improves. Saw the announcement for it on nine2fiveMac.

Developer Response ,

Thanks for the suggestions! The blue bars along the bottom of the timeline indicate how hard it's expected to rain. (If there are no bars, that means only light rain is expected.) In the winter, there's a corresponding visual for the probability of snow and the expected inches of snowfall.

Weather Strip also now includes multiple forecast providers to ensure there is always a valid forecast available.

Intuitive, Beautiful, Efficient

What a beautifully designed, effective, visual approach to showing the current and forecasted weather in a way that is intuitive and lets you quickly get a true sense of what the day(s) ahead will be like. There are loads of details available too, at a glance, without the need for a whole lot of poking around and clicking as in some other apps. But the magic is in the well thought out interactive visualization that blends display of raw data with a representation of what the data actually means. Really nice job, a tour de force actually.
(I guess the one good thing about Apple planning to kill off the much loved Dark Sky app for their mush less usable Weather app is that it led me to discover this effective and enjoyable alternative.)

Great information clarity and density, but a bit dull

Weather Strip earns it place on my home screen with the amount of information it packs into each glance. It is a brilliant portrayal of the immediate situation and what’s to come. I think the design is brilliant, but I can’t say the same for the color scheme. The poor color choices are my reason for giving the app only four stars.

Weather Strip makes every day seem a bit gloomy and flat. I wish the developer at least provided one or two alternative color choices, and that one of these was a bit brighter. I would like a brighter sun in a bluer sky for the sunny days, darker more brooding clouds for the cloudy days, shinier snow, wetter rain. It would be wonderful if Weather Strip not only gave me the information at a glance, but helped me feel the weather at a glance.

Still, nothing else in the App Store comes close to matching Weather Strip yet. It will stay on my home screen even if it is a bit dull to look at.