Weather Radar Tile, radar imagery and more for Windows Phone 8

Weather Radar Tile is an interesting Windows Telephone viii weather app that not only allows you to access weather condition forecasts and radar, only also pivot a radar tile to your Windows Telephone Showtime Screen. The radar Alive Tiles are not animated but do update periodically to give you a snap shot of what'south headed your way. Weather forecasts and radar are provided through the National Weather Service and locations are U.S. only.

Weather Radar Tile isn't a bad Windows Phone eight app simply navigation isn't the smoothest. The app is worth a attempt simply may not entreatment to everyone.

When you beginning launch Weather Radar Tile you lot'll need to create radar tiles by tapping the "+" sign at the bottom of the screen. You tin create a tile based on a set location or automatically based on your current location. Locations are based on radar sites within a particular Land. One time set, a Live Tile volition be created and listed on the master page of the app. Weather Radar Tile supports multiple Live Tiles and then yous can monitor the weather from beyond the Country from your Start Screen.

Navigational tiles line the superlative of the screen and include tiles to view the radar, access the app's settings, edit tiles and view a v 24-hour interval forecast (tile appears on the radar view).

Weather Radar Tile has options to view seven radar types. Each of which can be pinned to the First Screen for the same location. You have:

Short Range
Long Range
Hourly Accumulation
Total Accumulation
Base of operations Reflectivity
Base Velocity
Storm Relative Velocity.

Every bit you set the tile, you tin choose which radar type you want displayed on the Live Tile or you tin fix a default view for all Live Tiles within the app'due south settings. Speaking of which, Weather Radar Tile settings cover your default radar type and turning on/off radar rotation, instant radar, and radar filtering.

Instant radar volition instantly load the virtually recent bones radar image from the Alive Tile and so download the full radar. Radar filtering removes clutter from the radar prototype such as calorie-free rain or humidity that isn't reaching the ground.

The radar screen has command buttons to view more than (basically a label for your radar location), pause animation, view a national radar map, and navigate to the edit tiles folio. Upwards under the three-dot menu of the radar view you lot'll find options to view actress features (links to National Weather Service sites), charge per unit/review the app, access the app's Facebook page, view the About screen, view more app'south programmer and e-mail support.

The forecast view has your current weather condition weather condition displayed up height, a current conditions forecast mid-screen, and a five day forecast running along the bottom of the screen. Y'all have two button controls at the bottom of the screen. I to access the forecast options (basically entering a location) and the other to view the lunar chart.

All totaled, Conditions Radar Tile isn't a bad Windows Telephone 8 app but is held back by cumbersome, at times frustrating, navigation. The app would have been much better laid out in Metro/Modern UI design with a panoramic ready of pages detailing your Live Tiles, radar view, settings and forecast folio.

Iii additional nits well-nigh the app is that Live Tiles exercise not support the wide sized tile and when yous un-pin a tile, it is deleted from your My Tile list. While yous can salvage locations to a favorites list, you have to rebuild the tile from scratch if you always want to re-pin them. Which kinda sucks.

Lastly, while the Alive Tiles practice update periodically (not sure how oft) it would be nice to have an update setting to shorten the frequency of these updates. This feature could come in handy during more active weather condition patterns to requite you a feel for any bad weather in the area.

Weather Radar Tile has potential and has a sure amount of appeal. With a petty fine tuning, the app could really polish.

In that location is a complimentary trial version available for Weather condition Radar Tile with the total version running $.99. Information technology is available for both Windows Phone viii and seven.x devices and y'all can pick Weather Radar Tile upwardly here in the Windows Phone Store.

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