Tue, Dec 21, 2010
WSI Rolls Out Advanced, Intellicast Interactive App
iPad users now have another free option for getting the
weather delivered to the popular portable device. WSI (Weather
Services International) said Monday that Intellicast.com, its
weather website, is now available as a free, downloadable, iPad
application from Apple App Store.
The new iPad offering combines Intellicast.com's meteorological
content with a slick user interface. The result is a mobile
application that Intellicast says will keep active users ahead of
the forecast with weather information for locations
world-wide.
"Combining an array of cutting-edge weather tools,
Intellicast.com's new iPad application now makes smart forecasting
information available to everyone on the go," said Jim Menard,
WSI's Vice President of Digital Initiatives. "Now, wherever and
whenever they choose, Intellicast users can get the same high
caliber of weather information they've come to expect from the
Intellicast site."
Features of the new application
include:
- NOWrad HD, the most timely high definition interactive radar
for the United States
- Blended infrared and visible high-resolution cloud imagery for
North America and the surrounding waters
- Exclusive patent pending Road Weather Index showing weather
related road hazards
- High resolution temperatures, wind speeds and snow cover
- Real-time earthquake plotting
- Doppler radar storm tracking which identifies severe weather
cells and their likely path
- Hurricane, typhoon and tropical cyclone tracking
- The industry's most accurate forecasts for over 50,000
locations around the world
- Fully integrated GPS and user defined location awareness
- Color coded severe weather alerts from the National Weather
Service
The free application is supported by advertising in the lower
left corner of the screen.
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