We sure as heck don’t have any shortage on weather applications. Some of the more popular ones include BeWeather or Beautiful Widgets. No matter which weather application you personally use, the purpose is the same, get the latest weather for the area you are in or traveling too. A new weather application is now available via the Android Market that offers a slightly different perspective on how the current weather is, yours.
Weddar is a location-based weather service run by you and everyone else that has it installed. Simply open the app and click report. You can select how sever any of the four main weather conditions are, Cloudy, Rainy, Windy or Snowy. Then you select the ‘cloud’ that best fits the overall temperature. You don’t have to add any specific temperature or guess on the humidity or anything. It is all based on real-time weather according to you. It could be slightly breezy at my house but feel great outside, yet a mile away it could be really windy just feel ok.
You can do a variety of other things in the app as well. under the ‘check’ tab you can set up specific locations that you want to keep tabs on, put in a request for certain area and hope a fellow Weddar user sees it in that area and gives you a report. You also have options to check on Weddar statistics and a search section. Under the profile tab you can see how many reports (we will explain this in a minute) you have made and in how many locations. You can check on your requests and see what your reporters have to say. You also can keep track of how many points you have earned. I am not sure just exactly what the points system does other than progress your title from Weddar Rookie all the way to Weddar GOD.
Additional settings allow you to share your report via Facebook or Twitter if you so desire. Now, the reporters section. This is a rather cool feature. Lets say you live in California but plan to visit Las Vegas in a few weeks. Open up Weddar and check out Las Vegas. Find a cloud and click on it. You will be directed to the person’s profile that placed the cloud. You can see their stats and how often they make reports and so on. From that screen you add them as a reporter so you can see what is going on over in that area or add their location to your locations sections. If you add the location you can easily see what all Weddar users are saying in a given area, where as if you just ad the reporter then you only get what they have to report on.
It is a rather cool little application. It has had a fairly large following since its original release on iOS a few months ago. They are boasting 70,000 downloads in 92 countries. There is a pretty good chance that some where you live or plan to travel too has a Weddar user close at hand. Of course a service like this is only going to be as good as the users that actually install the app and use it. I know it could come in handy where I live since we can have rain, snow, hail and a 75 degree day all rolled into a 12 hour period.
I would love to see this app get a dedicated widget of sort. Maybe a 4 X 1 with the information for that areas you are watching or what your favorite reporter has updated saying. Hopefully that will be a feature in the future.
Weddar was just launched on the market today and is available for free if you would like to check it out, just scan or click the QR code located below.
Application: Weddar
Developer: Weddar
Cost: FREE
