Forecast HD, a simple but informative Windows 10 weather app

Forecast HD

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The other day we offered up a collection of Windows apps that featured some of the top rated weather apps. In the comments, a reader asked why the Windows app Forecast HD was never included in these roundups. It sparked our curiosity and after using Forecast HD for a few days we can see the appeal this Windows weather condition app has.

Forecast Hd is a simple weather app that does a good task of delivering your current conditions and extended forecast to your Windows computer. While it lacks weather radar or alerts, it does take Live Tile support and enough of customizations to help the app match your mode and needs.

Forecast HD

The main screen for Forecast Hard disk drive displays your current conditions, forecasted conditions a few hours away, a 7-day forecast and an hourly breakdown of the seven-twenty-four hour period forecast.

Current conditions include the temperature, wind speed and direction, visibility, humidity, dew point, barometric pressure level and sunrise/sunset times. You volition besides see whatsoever measurable precipitation, a brief description of the conditions outside and a "feels like" temperature.

Forecast HD Menus

The Windows ten hamburger carte will reveal options to admission the app commands, share a screenshot of the app and tap into Forecast HD's settings. App commands cover your forecast location settings that include using your electric current location, marker a location as a favorite for easy access, set up a location as the default and pin a location to your Start Menu. You tin can search for locations from the magnifying glass (search field) off the master screen.

Forecast HD Settings

Setting for Forecast Hd includes:

General Settings; These options cover your language, what location to use on startup and location services settings.
Weather: Choose which weather services to employ. Forecast Hard disk tin use Forecast.io and/or Yr.no.
Live Tile: Choose which location is displayed on your Forecast HD Live Tile.
Theme: Forecast Hard disk drive has 21 images that can be used as background images. There is also the option to utilize Bing'due south Prototype of the Day or a solid color every bit the background. At that place is likewise an option for a nighttime theme that reduces the opacity of the background image and darkens the icons and fonts.
Units: Hither is where you lot tin choose the measurement units for temperature, current of air speed, barometric pressure and precipitation.

Forecast HD Meteogram

Along with offering up the electric current conditions and extended forecast, Forecast Hd besides has a Meteogram feature that charts the weather forecast in graph style. Using the forecasted temperature every bit the base measure, the Meteogram includes a general forecast icon for various times during the side by side seven days along with the forecasted winds.

Overall Impressions

Forecast Hard disk drive is an bonny looking Windows x atmospheric condition app that does a commendable task of delivering the basic forecast data to your estimator. While we were impressed with Forecast Hd, there is some room for improvement.

I like the drove of background images the app provides and being able to tap into Bing'southward Image of the Day is a nice impact as well. Still, the app needs the ability to use your images as the backdrop. Another two suggestions I would offer to assist Forecast HD'southward curb appeal is the addition of weather radar and severe weather alerts. I don't remember the absence of these two features are deal breakers merely calculation them to the mix would assist the effectiveness of the app.

Overall, I liked Forecast Hd and can meet where our readers will detect this Windows x conditions app highly-seasoned. At that place is as well a Windows Phone version of Forecast available for those looking for a unproblematic weather app for the smaller screen. The app is universal so if y'all buy one version, you will take access to the other.

Cheers, Tafsern, for the tip!