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AccuWeather has more details than The Weather Channel for each hour, though you're left to figure out where to flick and touch to get those details.ĪccuWeather's map is adequate, but doesn't offer as many options as The Weather Channel's.Īs for location, the Android version has a target icon on the home screen (it's buried in the other apps) to quickly pull up information on where you are. By contrast, you get more than three days on its website, and even more with a paid subscription. You can click on a day to get those details.Ĭomparable with The Weather Channel, AccuWeather offers just 24 hours of hourly forecasts on its app. Its extended forecasts are also more detailed than the Weather Channel's. The iPhone version has information on dew point, while Android does not.ĪccuWeather goes beyond The Weather Channel in offering 15 days of forecasts, not just 10, and offers dates on both the iPhone and Android. The Android version lists wind gusts, not just wind speeds.

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The home screen also offers temperature, humidity, wind, UV index and visibility conditions, plus sunrise and sunset. There are also tools for seeing what people are saying about the weather on Twitter and for sharing your weather-related photos and video.

The app offers video of weather forecasts and news, with those from your city or region coming up first. This screenshot shows the Weather Channel's app for mobile phones. Flick the screen left or right to check weather in other locations you have stored. On the iPhone, you're left to figure out that you need to click on the magnifying glass or the 'i'' button for settings. There's a location icon at the bottom of the Android version. Or click on a target icon for the weather where you are, as determined by your phone.

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by entering a city name or ZIP (area) code. You can check weather anywhere in the U.S. You can also add details such as rain or snow over the past 24 hours. You can switch that to show cloud cover instead of radar, or show both. During my travels, I've used this feature to gauge how quickly heavy rain might pass. The map shows you the radar for your region, giving you an idea of how far away a storm might be. Click on '36 Hour' for brief written summaries for today, tonight and tomorrow. The Android version doesn't include dates, so you're left to figure out whether Saturday means this Saturday or next weekend. On both, you get daily forecasts for the next 10 days. Navigating the tabs, you get hourly forecasts for the next 24 hours on the iPhone and 15 on the Android. You also get information on sunrise and sunset times. When you open this app, the home screen presents you with current conditions, including temperature, humidity, wind, visibility, UV index (a gauge of the strength of ultraviolet radiation) and dew point (which I have yet to figure out a use for). The ones I tested operate similarly on iPhones and Android phones, though there are some differences in how information gets presented or accessed. Rather, I evaluated each based on features and ease of use. They are all generally good, but not error-free. I didn't try to determine which is more accurate at predicting the weather. (Versions for tablet computers also are available, but I didn't test those extensively.) During recent travels, I tried several free weather apps for the iPhone and Android phones.

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