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Hurricane Hound

Wed, 13 Jul 2011 21:05:26 +0000

Ad-free version of Hurricane Hound! In addition to more no ads, we've added support for current radar and weather satellite overlays. Radar is available currently from US based radars, satellite coverage is most of the Atlantic and Eastern Pacific basins.

Hurricane tracking on a Google Maps background. Shows the tracks and forecasts of active hurricanes tropical storms. Also highlights areas the National Weather Service (NWS) is watching for possible development. Covers the Atlantic and Eastern Pacific Basins. Provides access to NWS forecast information including tropical outlooks and discussions, public advisories, forecasts, and satellite imagery. Also includes up-to-date US radar and weather satellite data.

The toolbar on the left allows you to toggle on or off each of the storm, radar, and weather satellite layers.

Check out the options -- you can select the ocean basins you are interested in, choose between three graphical themes, and select your preferred wind speed units.

Contact us with suggestions or bug reports.

You must have a device that has Google maps installed to use this app.

Looking for free? Try our ad-supported version. (No radar or weather satellite overlays) --
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.stkiconcepts.hurricaneHound.free

Recent changes:
3.0 -
-- New layers added -- previous storm track, storm models.
-- New actionbar UI
-- Support for mapquest maps for devices without Google APIs
-- Bug fixes

Please report errors to info@stkiconcepts.com

Onguard Weather Alerts

Mon, 16 May 2011 18:49:39 +0000

Prepare. Plan. Stay Informed.
Be OnGuard... Weather Alert & Weather Alarm.

OnGuard Weather Alerts monitors the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) active weather alerts for advisories, watches, and warnings for your location (Within the Continental United States. Alaska, Hawaii, or Puerto Rico).

When an alert is detected for your current location or any of your static location entries, an appropriate audible, sensory (vibrate), and visual alert will be generated depending on the severity of the NOAA alert type (Advisory, Watch, or Warning).

Weather Alert & Weather Alarm.

Features:

- NO Signups, NO Websites, NO text messages, and NO ads! This application runs entirely on your Android device as a background service and pulls alerts directly from the source (NOAA).

- NOAA provides advisories, watches, and warnings for: Severe Storms, Tornadoes, Wildfires, Earthquakes, Winter Weather, Extreme Temperatures, Tropical Storms, Hurricanes, Typhoons, Volcanoes, Tsunami, Wind, 911 Outages, Fog, Flooding, Civil Emergencies, Nuclear Power Plant Warnings, Law Enforcement Warnings, Local Emergencies, Child Abduction Emergencies, Avalanches, and more.

- Dynamic Location Support (uses GPS or Cell Network location determination).
- Dynamic Location feature is on/off configurable.
- Static Location Support (unlimited # of entries).

- Audible, Sensory (vibrate), and Visual alerts (Configurable).
- User customizable alert sounds.
- Insistent Alert Support (off/on configurable) for Warning level events (ie. Audible, Sensory, and Visual alerts will repeat until acknowledged).

- Filtering of Alerts by category. *NEW* (in the 06/03/2011 release).
- Configurable Notification Levels (Warnings Only, Watches & Warnings, Advisories & Watches & Warnings).

- Configurable interval for checking for alerts.
- "Check Now" Button for manual or instant checks.

- Easily stop the service by simple unchecking a box in the preferences.

- Link to context sensitive tips from FEMA detailing information about what to do before, during, and after certain events. (In the main menu - full list of events, In the alert detail menu - contect specific information).
- Link to the "Red Cross Safe & Well Check In" site (This is the site to report that you are OK after a disaster or to locate a loved one that was in a disaster).

In Development:

- Radar & Weather Radio Mode currently work, we are waiting for tablet integration before release.
- Various other improvements to existing functionality.

FAQ:

Q: Is OnGuard hard on my battery?

A: No. The application minimizes the amount of power required by allowing the user to control whether Dynamic Location is enabled. Even with this feature enabled, the app only requests Dynamic Location updates at the same interval as your alert polling interval.

Q: How much data is used?

A: Not much at all. It varies based upon the number of active weather publications and how frequently you configure the application to check for updates. Each time the app checks for new NOAA publications a 2k (kilobyte) data packet is retrieved via the Internet for each location configured in your preferences. Using the default app settings, approximately 200k (kilobytes) per day or 6M (megabytes) per month of data is used. This is a very small amount given the allowances of most provider's data plans.

Tip: If data usage is a concern, consider disabling the background service and using the Check Now feature instead.

Q. I am getting alerts for an incorrect location.

A. If you are using "Dynamic Location", sometimes the cell network location (used when GPS is unavailable) will return an incorrect location. This is cell tower issue and is outside our control. Please obtain a GPS fix or use a static location entry.

Q. I am having an issue after updating, what should I do?

A. If you are experiencing any issues after an update, please uninstall and re-install the application.

Recent changes:
Version: 13.4.11 (Kelvin)
- [Enhancement] - Upgraded Android Version Compatibility

Version: 12.9.3 (Jet Stream)
- [Bug Fix] - Corrections to County Names

Version: 12.8.16 (Ice)
- [New Feature] - Added Ability to Check for Alerts Every 1 Minute

Hurricane Software Pro

Wed, 21 Sep 2011 03:38:46 +0000

This is an Ad Free version of the most popular Hurricane Tracking App in the Android Marketplace.

You get the most up to-date and reliable hurricane coordinates data and high resolution maps.

Satellite Images, Warning Information, Storm Tracks and More.

Recent changes:
now auto rotates and fixes some errors

Marine Weather Plus by Bluefin

Fri, 09 Jul 2010 00:30:33 +0000

#1 Marine Weather app available on all Android, iOS, and mobile devices.

Marine Weather Plus is an ad-free app providing users access to the following marine weather information:

- Marine Forecasts
- Live Buoy Data
- Tide Tables
- Current Tables
- Sun rise/set
- Radar
- Sea Surface Temperatures

Great for boating, fishing, sailing, and surfing!

Includes all US coastal regions inshore and offshore, Great Lakes, Alaska, Hawaii, and Puerto Rico.

Information provided by:
- NOAA's National Weather Service
- Rutgers Coastal Ocean Observation Lab (RU COOL)
- Naval Oceanography Portal.

Customer satisfaction:

"If your a commercial fisherman, then this is an app you must have if you don't have it already. The most accurate weather and tides for your location." - Anthony Toby

"I use it everyday for the inshore and offshore forecast. Captain of the Starstream 8 ..100ft head boat, Freeport NY" - Mike Wasserman

"Im in the Coast Guard and literally use your app every day. It is very helpful." - Greg

"As a professional captain I use it all the time.
Tides and buoy data really help me make important calls on the fly." - Mac McLean

"Absolutely love this app... I use it every day and recommend it often." - Sail Kennisis

Please visit our website for more information:
http://www.marineweatherbybluefin.com/united-states

Recent changes:
-Updated NOAA forecast zones

NWService Radar and Weather

Fri, 17 Sep 2010 15:00:08 +0000

Description:
NEW Widget--Full radar on your home screen, with zoom in and out. Check it out!

Displays real-time local and national weather radar directly from the National Weather Service on Google Maps in an easy to use program. Zoom in/out, loop weather radar images, current storm warnings, satellite images, total precipitation, current location forecast from the National Weather Service including current watches and warnings, and much more! Full options menu allows you to change tons of settings and customize your experience.

Android Tablet Ready!!! Works great on both older Tablets (Android 2.2+) and Honeycomb/Ice Cream Sandwich Tablets!!!

All new Forecast page with tons of features! Check it out.
****All issues left in the comments have been fixed--if you find any new bugs, email them to support@gudensoft.com*****

-National Weather Map coverage!!!
-More Google Map Types
-More weather radar products:
3 Weather Radar Products with/without loop
Visible Satellite
Infrared
Water Vapor
1 hour precipitation
24/48/72 hour precipitation
Warning polygons
-TIMESTAMPS!!!!
-Better user interface
-pinch to zoom (Android 3.0 and up)
-sliding options menu
-Better performance
-GPS is now optional
-Works great on Tablets!
-Runs great installed on SDCard--set to prefer SDCard

Extended return policy: We are not a fan of the new 15 minute refund policy set by Google. 15 minutes is not enough time to get a feel for all the features in this program so our policy is as follows: We want you to like and use this application. If for any reason you are not satisfied with this application within 5 days of purchase, please email us at support@gudensoft.com with your name, and date of purchase and we will issue a full refund to you. All we ask in return is to let us know what features you would like to see in this program in order for you to repurchase the application.

For more information about NWS Weather Radar, or any of our releases, please see http://www.gudensoft.com

---If you are having issues, please contact me at support@gudensoft.com and provide the issue, type of phone, and version of Android. We don't like seeing errors, and we know you don't either!

NOTE FROM DEVELOPER: Due to the NWS servers downtime, we have switched data providers on the BASE Radar images. If you are having issues seeing any radar data, go into settings, and switch from High Res to Base, scroll down and click SAVE. If anyone would like a refund due to the outages, please email support@gudensoft.com with your name, and date of purchase and we will honor your request regardless of when it was purchased. THANK YOU!

Recent changes:
Be sure to scroll down to read our expanded 5 day return policy! 15 minutes is not enough time to try out this app!
HISTORY:
Version 3.0a (3/13/2013)
--Added Radar Widget
--Added option to start app with forecast page
--Added progress bar to page loads
--Fixed and optimized many areas
--Added new Help System

Version 2.9b (12/17/2012)
--Fixed High Res Radar not showing
--Fixed Forecast not showing for some users

Radar Alive! Pro Weather Radar

Mon, 25 Apr 2011 00:34:57 +0000

Radar Alive! brings live US weather radar to your Android from all states and Puerto Rico. It features a powerful, flexible user interface. Watch tornadoes, hurricanes and other weather events live and in fine detail. Track storm chasers and report your position through Spotter Network. Easily switch to the nearest radar with a long press on the map,

Radar Alive! is suitable for storm chasers, professional meteorologists, emergency personnel, SKYWARN and weather enthusiasts. It has a wide selection of US level-III radar products (image types). NWS severe weather warnings are displayed along with a customizable low clutter map with cities, roads, counties and states.

Unlike many radar apps, Radar Alive! generates precision images from NEXRAD Level III binary data. With its velocity images, you can even spot storms with tornadoes.

You can choose from a wide variety of radar products at multiple tilt angles, including composite and base reflectivity,
base and storm relative velocity, VIL, hydrometeor classification (what kind of precipitation) and others. Carefully simplified maps minimize screen clutter on the radar display.

The serious user will appreciate advanced features, such as controllable smart GPS usage to conserve battery power,
one tap or long press to select the nearest radar, maps optimized for weather radar, and more.

A full Spotter Network client is included. It can display the positions of active Spotter Network users. You can use it to automatically report your position to Spotter Network, and to make reports of weather events. It will run in the background even when the main app is not in use, and can be controlled from an icon in the notification bar of the device.

Radar Alive! was written by a dedicated storm chaser for the serious meteorological user.

Extensive help is available within the app. If you experience problems, or to learn how to best use Radar Alive Pro, use the menu button to select the help pages.

Support is available by email (or through the app), and suggestions are welcome.

More information is available at the developer's web site at http://www.radaralive.com/">developer's web site.

Recent changes:
Version 3.1.10 - Major Upgrade

Radar Alive! Pro now includes a full Spotter Network (SN) client which can display and report positions, make event report. Client can run even after main app is not in use. Includes a new button on right of screen to for SN. Client is controlled from notification bar icon.

Added detailed text over map display of information related to point tapped.

Added "favorites" to radar product selection menu.

Added usage hints.

Minor bug fixes.

Storm Shield

Wed, 05 Sep 2012 22:17:09 +0000

** WEATHER ALERTS FOR YOUR EXACT LOCATION **
Storm Shield is "a detail-rich app for weather bugs, with an emphasis on smart, active, automatic alerts for severe weather... Its ability to pinpoint data to your location could literally be a life-saver."
- reviews.cnet.com

Turn your smartphone into an emergency weather radio. Get storm-based alerts for winter storm season, tornado, hurricane, flood, thunderstorm and other life-threatening weather events via voice and push notification. Storm Shield delivers alerts using NOAA polygon warnings.

>> NOW IN VERSION 2.5: Get School Closings for Baltimore, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Denver, Detroit, Indianapolis, Kansas City, and Tulsa.

** HOW WEATHER ALERTS WORK **
>> Storm Shield uses new precise storm-based alerts, and alerts you to severe weather based on your exact location within a county. Other services use county-based alerts which result in people at one end of a county receiving alerts for weather that will not impact them.

>> If your current or saved locations fall inside a NWS watch or warning box, you'll receive alerts from Storm Shield.

>> If your locations are outside a watch or warning box (even though you may be in the storm and the county), you would not receive a warning from Storm Shield.

** WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING **
>> "During the roughest part of the storm I was constantly getting push messages... Thanks for developing this amazing app!"
- Joe C.

>> "I love this app because it finds your location... GREAT APP! Someone did what was needed, well worth the small price of it!"
- Tina A.

** BATTERY TIPS **
>> Storm Shield is designed to make a negligible impact on your battery.

>> Turn off Location Tracking and instead set one of your five locations to where you are most often.

>> You can throttle up or down Storm Shield's Location Tracking to balance location accuracy and battery life.

** KEY FEATURES **
>> INTERACTIVE RADAR MAP: See Hurricane and Tropical Storm forecast tracks.

>> MAP OVERLAYS: See where on the map watches and warnings are issued by switching between map overlays.

>> FOLLOW ME: Get alerts no matter where you are in the United States.

>> FRIENDS AND FAMILY: Save FIVE additional locations to make sure friends and family at home, work, or out of state stay safe.

>> AUDIO ALERTS: Voice alerts can wake you in the middle of the night or give you information when you can't stop to look at your phone.

Storm Shield is made possible by Scripps, including WCPO Cincinnati, KNXV ABC15 Phoenix, WEWS Newsnet5 Cleveland, WXYZ Detroit, KJRH Tulsa, KMGH ABC7 Denver, KGTV ABC10 San Diego, KERO 23 Bakersfield, WMAR ABC2 Baltimore, WFTS ABCActionNews Tampa, WPTV News Channel 5 West Palm Beach, WRTV RTV6 The IndyChannel Indianapolis, KSHB 41 Action News Kansas City.

SUPPORT:
Get tips, updates and more on our Storm Shield Facebook page.
http://www.facebook.com/stormshieldapp

Visit our support page for FAQs.
http://support.wdtinc.com/mobile/imapweather-radio-v2-0-faq.html

Recent changes:
Ver 2.5.9
- Branding issues fixed
- RSS html does not come up in the description anymore.
- Push alert details view bug fix
- Various bug fixes and optimizations

Earthquake Alerter Pro

Wed, 26 Oct 2011 05:57:08 +0000

Get push notifications and alerts of earthquakes worldwide!

Note: there is a free version of this app. You should try that one first to see how you like it.

* This is a companion application to Earthquake Alert! *

** NOTE: this is *not* a real time system. Data comes from USGS and they post earthquakes online many minutes after the event so there will be delays of 5-20 minutes usually.

* Please email me for issues. I cannot respond to comments or feedback on the app itself.

Try creating a custom location filter vs. the "near me" filter - that one relies on your phone's location and isn't always up to date when the quake comes in.

Recent changes:
Version 1.2.1 - Bug fixes with "unable to connect"

Version 1.1.0 - Initial version of paid alerter app. With less users, this app pushes earthquake events sooner. Added ability to customize ringtones and vibrations for each filter. Added a silent period to suppress alert sounds.

Track-It Deluxe

Sat, 25 Sep 2010 13:25:31 +0000

Are you ready for Hurricane Season? Not if you don't have this app! Track-It Deluxe is a full featured hurricane tracker specifically designed for all your tropical weather tracking needs. Everything is included to make tracking storms safe and easy. From the novice to the professional, this app is guaranteed to suit your needs.

Features include:
- Advisory info
- Forecast cones
- Wind speed probabilities
- Spaghetti models
- 12 high quality NOAA satellite loops
- 12 high quality GOES satellite loops
- Marine forecast information
- Tropical Outlook Widgets
- Surface Maps
- Wind & Wave Maps
- Peak Wave & Primary Swell Maps
- Sea Surface Temperature Maps
- and more!

Thanks to the National Hurricane Center, information is updated hourly for both the Atlantic and Pacific regions. If a storm forms or changes, you will know.

*** To see the tracks and models, you must tap the storm name in the Active Storm Info section. ***

Please note, we are not affiliated with the National Hurricane Center.

Please let us know if you have any problems.
Be sure to include device information.

Recent changes:
Version 4.0.0

- Cleaned up some code
- Redesigned logos and various art work
- Made the whole thing more appealing

Version 3.0.2

- Fixed some more layout issues
- Fixed even more bugs causing some FC issues
(Thanks Bill)

Version 3.0.1

- Fixed some layout issues
- Fixed some bugs causing some FC issues
(Thanks Steven)

** Please inform us if you have any issues. **

Weather Forecast: UK

Tue, 01 Nov 2011 17:18:35 +0000

**Now the highest rated weather app showing Met Office data! Many thanks to those who have taken the time to give a positive rating.

Weather Forecast UK displays in a highly readable format the best quality UK weather forecast and radar data (such as rainfall radar or surface pressure charts) available sourced directly from the Met Office, one of the world leaders in weather forecasting. Get right to the detail you want to see quickly and easily.

Weather Forecast: UK is fast, easy to use and accurate.

Features:
* Five day detailed forecast in 3 hour time intervals
* Forecast radar maps for rainfall, temperature, cloud cover and combined cloud and rain
* 15 minute observation radar maps for rainfall, satellite (IR, visible and IR/rainfall) and lightning
* Severe weather warnings integrated into application and widgets
* 24 different charts/graphs to visualize your weather data
* 7 UK Mountain region specific forecasts
* Surface pressure chart stretching from mid-Atlantic to Eastern Europe
* Home screen widgets available in 4 different sizes
* Fast easy switching between multiple locations with recent location history
* Sunrise and sunset times
* Configurable display of data - show only what you want
* Latest observation data from official Met Office observation locations
* Textual forecast for up to 30 days
* Move to SD Card option
* Can be used horizontally or vertically (useful for tablets)

Google maps is used for rainfall radar and other map views. Data is available at 10 different zoom levels across multiple time steps into the future. Radar data covers all of the UK and Ireland, while the surface pressure starts in the mid-Atlantic region stretching to Eastern Europe, going as far North as Iceland and as far South as Spain. Your current location is (optionally) overlaid on the map as well.

This application uses the latest up to date forecast data available from the Met Office for the entire United Kingdom (including England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland) via access to almost 5,000 unique forecast locations. Configure the display for just the information you want to see including time, temperature, weather description, weather image, feels like temperature, wind direction, wind speed, wind gust, visibility, relative humidity and ultra violet index (UV).

Mountain area forecasts are available for the Brecon Beacons, East Highland, West Highland, Lake District, Peak District, Snowdonia and Yorkshire Dales and include detailed hazard and forecast information specific to the mountain areas.

Problems? Ideas for improvement? Feature request? Please contact me via the 'About' tab in the application's menu. If you do have a problem, please don't just leave negative feedback or rating. I'm interested in helping but its not possible to respond in person to Market feedback yet.

* This edition is the full premium edition with no ads, a premium version only widget, and premium maps access with the ability to view future radar and chart forecasts.

Connect with Weather Forecast: UK
On Facebook: http://on.fb.me/xlayxR
On Twitter: @WeatherFrcst_UK
Note: Though this application uses MetOffice data, it is not an official Met Office application and the author has no affiliation or involvement with the Met Office.

Recent changes:
New features:
- 15 minute observation map layers now available. Includes Rainfall, Satellite IR, Satellite Visible, Satellite IR + Radar and Lightning
- Improved map performance

Also includes various bug fixes