EarthBuzz Weather
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EarthBuzz Weather by EarthBuzz Software
DescriptionLive global weather conditions and forecasts on a 3D virtual earth Animated Clouds World Clock View Twitter friends on a 3D globe Hurricanes Earthquakes Volcanoes Observations and over a dozen global forecast image layers.EarthBuzz is an interactive social weather and geography application for iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch. EarthBuzz builds upon a high-tech virtual earth engine and adds a compelling interactive visual experience to the task of checking current weather conditions, weather forecasts and global geological events. This universal app for iOS is amazing on an iPhone, and absolutely stunning on an iPad. We believe EarthBuzz is the most beautiful and fun weather app on the planet as it contains a huge collection of up-to-date weather and geographical information combined with very impressive visualization capabilities. It is both a comprehensive weather app and a geographical education platform. There is simply no other app like it! See near real-time animated satellite clouds, current weather conditions, forecasts, earthquakes, volcanoes, hurricanes and your friends locations on a beautifully animated 3D earth. Tweet about weather and other global events from this Social Earth Killer App. Feature Overview: Display current weather conditions on a 3D virtual earth Overlay of animated near real-time satellite cloud data (updated hourly) Favourites and world clock to quickly view current conditions and local time Visualize your twitter friends and followers on a 3D globe Current conditions including temperature, humidity, wind direction, dew point Up-to-date 7-day forecasts for over 50,000 locations Global earthquake activity over the last 7 days Global volcano activity over the last 7 days Global hurricane activity over the last 14 days Many forecast image layers (Clouds, Rain, Snow, Ice, Temperature, Humidity, Wind) Animated demo mode that lets you fly between your favourite cities Employs a 3D tiling engine providing high fidelity deep zoom Uses NASA Blue Marble Next Generation earth imagery Beautiful hi-resolution graphics on the iPhone 4 Retina display Population sensitive LOD (level of detail) display of cities Animated flight to current GPS location and search locations Fahrenheit and Celsius options Point and Shape layers Cities Favorites Friends Earthquakes Volcanoes Hurricanes Observations Country Flags Country Borders Grid Image Layers Satellite Imagery (8 hour animation) Estimated Precipitation Cloud Cover (Total) Rainfall (7-Day Accumulated Total) Rainfall (Daily Totals) Snowfall (7-Day Accumulated Total) Snowfall (Daily Totals) Ice Accumulation (Daily) Relative Humidity Temperature (Maximum) Temperature (Mean) Temperature (Minimum) Temperature (Dewpoint) Temperature (Mean Departure) Windspeed (Average Daily at 10m) Windspeed (Maximum Daily at 10m) Storm Potential (Connective Available Potential Energy) Recommended hardware: iPhone 4S, iPhone 4, iPhone 3GS iPad, iPad 2, iPad 3 iPod Touch 3rd and 4th gen Supported hardware (lower performance): iPhone 3G iPod Touch 2nd gen What's New in Version 1.4.0Major New Features in 1.4.0• Added Volcanoes layer • Rendering performance improvements • Many stability improvements and bugfixes Detailed Changes since 1.3.0 • Added volcanoes layer • Rendering performance improvements • Made URLS in twitter statuses clickable • Delay twitter login notification at start up so that animation can complete • Show twitter sign in or alert when enabling Friends layer while twitter is disabled • Fixed temperature not updating in quick panel after changing temperature units • Fixed size of temperature background box size after temperature is refreshed • Fixed size of city labels when font size has been changed during runtime • Fixed freeze on font size change when a point dialog is being displayed • Fixed intermittant crash when re-ordering and deleting items in favorites table • Fixed display of twitter profile images with no file extension • Fixed issue where weather conditions were not downloaded if cities layer was disabled • Fixed issue where quick panel does not display when there are no favorites defined • Fixed pre-fetching of weather conditions for favorites • Fixed missing date/time on twitter status when location name is not present Customer ReviewsSaving Lives, what more could be asked of an app? (5 stars)Excellent application particularly if you are interested in global weather patterns I am the lead inventor for a possible new treatment for "Dengue Hemorragic Fever" a mosquito borne viral disease that is the number one killer of children under fifteen in South East Asia. Keeping track of global weather patterns across the equatorial belt can help save lives. What more could one ask for in an app? DrBodie@gmail Better weather than other (5 stars) I can see very Paul M (5 stars) Wonderful weather app. Beautiful to look at and very informative.
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