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In very unwelcome news, Dark Sky has sold out to Apple, with the Android and Wear OS apps closing down on 1st July. As far as I'm concerned Dark Sky is the best hyper-local weather app: if I get a notification it's going to rain in 5 minutes, it's going to rain in 5 minutes. It is (was) perfect for
I live on California's Central Coast. We're in the midst of the rainy season here and weather patterns are often unpredictable, with overcast days that could produce a downpour at any moment. It's tough to know when it'd be a good idea to bring an umbrella or leave it behind. Fortunately, the makers of Oombrella are working to change that.
These days it's either i-this or smart-that with new gadgets measuring and changing our personal environment. From Fitbit to Philips Hue, the internet of things is steadily growing and into this increasingly connected world, French firm Archos have stepped in. Their Smart Home tablet wirelessly connects sensors to a central hub that monitors and initiates actions based on conditions. Archos
Yahoo is releasing a new weather app for Android and it looks like they have finally found a use for Flickr - not a profit from it, but a use for it, at least. Yes, there are literally hundreds of weather apps for Android, and there's a Flickr app as well, but Yahoo found a way to combine the two
Okay, the headline may be an exaggeration. After all, I don't know if records exist for such things and if they do, I didn't look for them. However, be it a record or not, this is still an absolutely amazing natural phenomena. In Wyoming, recently, a large amount of rain and snow-melt has resulted in unstable conditions. This, in turn,
Over at How It Works there's a short story about a father and his two children sending up a weather balloon to 19 miles with a video camera on-board. The camera records all of the ascent and all but 2 minutes of the descent - the battery runs out! It takes the Geissbuhler family eight months of planning and it's