Tropical Hurricane Tracker vs Metarize

Tropical Hurricane Tracker provides the most up-to-date information about hurricanes, tropical storms, and disturbances. Most apps are overly complicated and cluttered with information. Tropical Hurricane Tracker offers the unique ability to easily navigate through multiple data points to find the information you need to keep track of these potentially devastating storms. At JPL Tech, we are committed to learning and improving. We welcome feedback that will help us continue to develop this app to best suit the needs of our users. Our goal is to create an app that is easy for everyone to access, especially those in hurricane-prone areas. If there is a feature you would like to see, please let us know by contacting us within the app. Features Include: • Hurricane Tracking Maps by Region (Central Pacific, Eastern North Pacific, Atlantic) • NOAA Forecasts • Interactive Global Map • Push Notifications • Ensemble Models • Historic Seasonal Maps • Historic Storm Tracks • Saffir-Simpson Scale • Safety & Preparedness Information ----- Privacy & Feedback If you have any questions or suggestions about our service, please do not hesitate to get in touch at 'hurricane@jpltech.com'. Privacy Policy, https://jpltech.com/privacy-policy Terms of Use, https://jpltech.com/terms-of-use

Metarize is a powerful tool to consult two iconic aviation weather products — METARs and TAFs — and use them for a variety of missions beyond aviation. It leverages the properties of these weather products: - Their compact, very quick to read format - Their high quality, on which millions of lives depend - Their global availability in a standard format … and provides features to make them useful for a variety of critical missions - Push notifications - Discovery of local stations (using GPS or a map location) - Monitoring and reporting of the integrity and recency of the data using visual color codes - Offline support – refresh data in the background so it’s available to consult if connectivity is lost - Part 107 readiness indication (“go”/”no-go” badge to assist with take-off decisions based upon visibility and cloud ceiling height) - Decoding assistance, to help learn the format (it’s well worth the effort!) More subtle design goals – some of these are still actively being worked on: - Chain of trust – report any element that puts the integrity or recency of what it displayed in question - Latency – use the lowest latency source possible - Resiliency – make the app resilient to failures - Security-minded – require no permissions beyond internet access (optionally use more permissions, see below) - Tactical-friendliness – low light color scheme Permissions: - Internet – required, to download weather data - Location – optional, to automatically display nearby stations - Notifications – optional, for push notifications Background-fetching (offline support) – this feature makes the app periodically (every 15 minutes in most cases) download an up to date METAR or TAF for each favorite station/product combination. If the device goes offline, the last data fetched will be available.