iPhone app – weather charts

Many of the raw charts on which weather forecasters base their predictions are freely available on the internet, notably on German site www.wetterzentrale.de The site is badly formatted for iPhones, however, so I’ve written a free web app that provides easy access to some of the most prominent meteorological models for the UK. Five sections have the GFS ensembles, ECM charts, UKMO charts, the edited UKMO (so-called “fax”) charts and the GFS charts. The images follow on one from the other and automatically resize when you turn the screen to landscape.

Visit the link below in your iPhone – the app will run in your mobile Safari browser but, for the best experience, go to “add to homescreen” – this will add a nice little icon and run fullscreen.

As the app has to download lots of images it takes 10 seconds or so to load on a good wifi connection; more on 3G.

The app uses the excellent jQTouch, a jQuery plugin for mobile web development on the iPhone.

Let me know what you think (and if you have any good ideas for a name or further development) in the comments below.