I’ve admitted it more than once: I love weather apps and until now my favorite app wasn’t in the Google Play Store and was Open Source. Yes, as you see, I am speaking in the past tense because I found another one which in a short time has become essential because it has everything I am looking for: lots of weather information and graphics.
I’m not exaggerating when I say that Meteogram has so much data that it can become overwhelming, although it’s worth going through the setup carefully to sift through and only have what interests me. I usually check the weather several times a day, but Meteogram has a very practical solution: a very complete widget. As incredible as it may seem, it’s also free.
What is Meteogram and how does it work?
The name is the most precise: (Weather Widget) Meteogram is an application available for free on the Google Play Store which offers graphs of different weather variables. The Pro version has even more providers and options, but I can tell you that the free version has more than enough.
The bottom axis of the chart details the hours of the day and the vertical axis the amount of a certain measure. Furthermore, it is possible Overlap different measurements to see everything at a glanceso that at a glance you can see, for example, the temperature, atmospheric pressure, the probability of rain or the millimeters per hour that fall from it.
I insist, said like that it seems complicated and although the interface is not the most modern in the world, it is practical for the quantity of data displayed and colors help a lot. Actually, what I like the most is being able to have such detailed information about the current weather and the next few hours at once. And if you also touch a point, more information is displayed.
If you touch the three dots in the upper right corner, at the bottom you will find the settings and although good at the beginning it is well configuredhas so many things to edit that I had to spend a lot of time on it. So you can choose the location (otherwise it adjusts depending on where you are) or general settings like language, units or update time.
However, the most interesting thing is to go to the ‘Chart Style’ sections, choose the ‘Weather Data Provider’ (by default, the Norwegian Meteorological Institute) or even go metric by metric to choose display or not and how to do it. do it. Your personalized weather graph, in a few words. In a foldable, this app must be a delight.
An example: are you interested in the appearance of thermal sensation? Well, enter and click “Show”, but you can also choose the font and customize its appearance in detail, such as changing the opacity, color gradient, thickness, among others.
In practice, I usually just choose whether I want to see it or not and nothing else, but of course has options and steps to understand: air quality and pollen, current temperature, wind chill, dew point, ground temperature, ultraviolet index, snow, total and accumulated precipitation, probability of storms, probability index of lightning, hail, waves, temperature of the sea, wind speed and direction, Kp Index for the probability of northern lights… and many others.
Even though I usually go there every day to watch it, it seems very convenient to have removed the widget on my Google Pixel home screen have as much information about the weather at your fingertips because what Android displays is very short for me (temperature, an icon and that’s it).
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