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Published by: AccuWeather International, Inc.

+ Universal & Apple Watch App - Designed for iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch

Price: $3.99
Current Version: 9.3.6
Released: January 09, 2010

What's New

Bug Fixes and Performance Improvements

** From Previous Update **
The AccuWeather Today widget now loads much faster.

App Description

Stay connected to the latest in weather forecasting with AccuWeather Platinum – Weather for Life. This award winning weather app now includes crowdsourcing with AccUcast™ and features AccuWeather MinuteCast®, available for more countries and for more minutes than any other minute-by-minute precipitation forecast. Supporting Apple Watch™, this app offers the same world-class, synchronized app experience on iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch devices.

• AccUcast™ – Become part of the forecast by sharing your weather observations to help people in your community stay safe from hazardous weather and road conditions. View the real-time crowdsourced map with weather conditions submitted by users all over the world in a global animation display.

• AccuWeather MinuteCast® – minute-by-minute precipitation forecasts for the next two hours hyper-localized to your exact street address or GPS location. Includes precipitation type and intensity, and start and end times for precipitation. Available for the contiguous United States, Canada, Sweden, Denmark, United Kingdom, Ireland, Japan, France, Spain, Germany, Belgium, Switzerland, Netherlands, Luxembourg, and a growing list of global locations.

• Apple Watch Support – featuring AccuWeather MinuteCast, current conditions details, and severe weather alerts. When there is a severe weather alert for your favorite location, you will be notified by a tap sensation from the Watch and a low audible sound. Current conditions details include location, temperature and high and low for the day, wind speed, times for sunrise or sunset, and RealFeel Temperature® – AccuWeather’s proprietary forecast that shows the user how the temperature actually feels outside to a person in that exact location.

• A widget available so you can see a summary of what you can expect from the day’s weather on your Today screen in the Notification Center, includes AccuWeather MinuteCast.

• Pushed severe weather alerts to keep you out of the storm.

• Immediately descriptive weather animations illustrating the weather forecast for right now, each of the next 72 hours, and each of the next 25 days.

• Animated weather radar and maps for tracking the storm’s path. Weather radar available in the United States, Canada, Northern Europe, and Japan.

• Top-Trending weather videos from AccuWeather's Video Wall.

• Forecasting for all your favorite locations – every location on Earth.

Other popular features include:

• Your Daily Snapshot shown front-and-center when you open the app – a summary of what you can expect from the day’s weather.

• The Local Forecast Summary, a brief summary of what you can expect from the weather over the next 3-5 days for your location.

• Customizable current weather conditions detail – hide the detail that you don’t care about.

• Option to select persistent GPS tracking to get your current weather data as quickly as possible. (Please Note: Continued use of GPS running in the background can dramatically decrease battery life.)

• Interactive elements highlighted throughout the app for easy navigation.

Download AccuWeather Platinum – Weather for Life today and experience the Superior Accuracy™ that comes from high-quality weather forecasting.