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I got tired of inaccurate forecasts. I reached the point of having two weather apps on my phone just to try and average out a forecast. One app says it’s gonna be 8° and fine. Another app says it’s gonna be 10° and rainy in five minutes. Often neither was right. Ironically, both apps say they source their data from the BOM. So I thought, why not ditch those two and get the official BOM Weather app. I haven’t looked back. The layout is superb. The map is great resolution with fantastic pinch in and out zoom. It even comes with a nice big pause button. Furthermore, it’s a free app and there are no pop-up ads. Thank you BOM for giving us this gem.Show lessMikinozz
Developer Response
Thank you for your review and rating. We are glad to read you are enjoying the app.Quite good but could be improved.
The general layout of the forecast is good and the hourly information well set out. However hourly rainfall is confusing. There is a row which says, for example, “Rain 50% chance of at least” and the a row which can say 0mm in the hourly column. That to me means no rain. A whole day can have hourly 0mm amounts, but the forecast might say 1mm of daily rain. Perhaps replace 0mm with “drizzle” or some non zero amount. Perhaps some more though could go into how better to describe the chance of a certain amount of rain in every hour?
The radar rain map is very good. Could the Himawari satellite images for the previous few hours be presented in the same way as the radar map please?Show lessTriton 10
Generally ok app, but three things need improvement
Generally ok app, but three things need improvement:
Sometimes the app shows “Rain” for periods of a day (under “Today” or “Tomorrow”) and under the “Rain” section shows “chance of at least 0mm”. In my book that means there is no rain and therefore the rain icon under “Today” or “Tomorrow” shouldn’t be shown.
It’s useful to sometimes show the weather as it was before now, maybe even up to yesterday or a week ago. However, this app just discards everything that is before “now”.
In the past decades the Australian government has been hammering home the message of UV protection. While the app shows a “Max UV Index” it would be for more valuable to know not only when that hits, but also at what the UV index is at what times of the day – similar to temperature, rain, wind etc.Show lessinvenio