If you’re anything like me you ride often, whether weekend day trips, daily commuting or extended multi-day trips. I commute in southeastern Pennsylvania throughout the year which means I ride in all types of weather, rain, occasionally snow, fog, high winds. Now on weekend rides or day trips that’s fine; but one thing I don’t do is commute in bad weather. My work occasionally involves being outside and I prefer not to have to deal with inclement weather on work days and the requisite clothing considerations that entails. With that in mind I’ve been using the WeatherBug weather app for a while now and with good results.
The widget on my Galaxy S5 (which I refer to often without ever needing to open the app) is unobtrusive and shows current weather conditions and any alerts at a glance. WeatherBug’s main page shows the weather for your currently saved location (you can save multiple locations and flip through them as you like), displayed on four customizable tabs: Now, Details, Hourly, and 10 Day which you simply scroll through by swiping left. Each tab presents different information in different formats. The Now tab contains links to weather news, photos, live cameras and the Spark map (see below). Each tabs information can be re-ordered to put the information you’re most interested in at the top whether that is wind speed, pollen count, UV index or whatever your concerns are for your trip. As an allergy sufferer and someone who’s b...