It puts the winds in a chart format, simple to read unlike a SKEWT chart. Winds aloft is another feature I like about this app. I don’t know of an app that does this so eloquently. It gives you the clearest insight of forecasted movement of highs, lows and fronts for the next 7 days. It will pull up the next 7 days worth of synoptic maps and you just swipe left to view the maps. The absolute best feature for me is the prognostic maps. To quickly start, just select the third choice and you will get a host of weather related information with one tap of a button. It’s a very basic app on first glance giving you 3 choices to start with. If you miss weather maps with fronts, then the app Navmonster may be the app for you. Jury still out on this so I use both for now using features in RadarOmega not available to me in RadarScope. Would I recommend replacing RadarScope with this program. Overall, it’s a great program with additional features that RadarScope doesn’t have in it’s base app price. The radar display on my iPad Pro is not as good as Radar scope (seems pixelated a bit). It shows storm spotter data like Radar scope. There is no subscription based mode for Radar Omega as of this post but based on past correspondence with developer, new features may come out as subscription base.Īs stated above, this app is not refined as radar scope, menu interactions are somewhat cumbersome but doable. RadarOmega includes lightning data and scrubber in the base price of 9 bucks where radar scope charges extra for this. It is not as refined as radar scope but it just came out and I am sure will be refined as developer is adding additional features in the future per his apple store description and Facebook page. This app is a new app that directly competes with Radar Scope. I’m just a satisfied consumer, no relationship to any of the apps in this thread. This is well worth the money as you will see in this video and brings out the power house capability of this radar program. If you want the velocity and other advanced radar products, you will need the 10 buck yearly subscription. If 3D radar is all you want, the 2 bucks will more than suffice for your needs. The base program cost 2 bucks and only gives reflectivity with no further ongoing expense. I may try to create another video with voice over explanations of what I displayed in the video below.Ĭouple of things to note. I created the video somewhat early in my learning curve of this app as I have found so much more it can do so please bear with my amateurish approach to it. This is weather technology at it’s finest. If this is a duplicate posting of weather lab, my apologies, I did glance through recent postings and didn’t see this app talked about. I will highlight the weather aspect of weather in aviation apps I put in here and post good bad and ugly experience as appropriate.Ĭame across this gem of a radar program for apple products in the past few weeks. The apps that I put in this thread will be a combination of aviation and weather apps, but all of them contain weather. I fly a small plane for a hobby so weather is a rather critical element of a successful flight. I have created this thread to share what weather related apps I use on iPhone and ipad. Maybe it doesn't exist? I don't know, but if anyone has any questions for other apps to try, I will certainly give them a look.It will be interesting to see what weather apps others use. I still have a few of them installed for various reasons, but I'd sure like to find one that provides everything I'm after. I like AccuWeather because it gives the longest future forecast, and I like Weather Underground for the personal weather station information so it gives hyper-local details.Īll of that to say I'm still searching. I hate ads and will always purchase an ad-free version, but they don't give that option. The thing I don't like about the app is the ads. Their radar map looks the nicest, has the best looking colors and smoothest animations inside the radar. They all have their pros and cons but in my opinion, The Weather Channel app has the best radar of the ones I've tried. So far I have installed and tried AccuWeather Platinum, Weather Underground, 1weather, The Weather Channel, NOAA Weather Radar & Alerts.among a few others I can't remember right now. Living in Oklahoma and with storm season approaching, I'm looking at radar quite frequently. Funny this thread should pop up, as I too am on a quest for "the one" weather app that will do it all.
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