AfricaWeather is an Android application offering a detailed forecast for the continent with a special focus on South Africa and nearby countries. This utility represents a leading commercial weather information provider in the region.
Accuracy
The main goal of any software like this one or South African Weather is to provide comprehensive and detailed coverage of temperature, humidity, wind, pressure, and other parameters. To achieve this goal, the application utilizes information from hundreds of automated stations. Although the majority of them are located in South Africa, the company recently added more towns in neighboring countries.
Besides that, the service also gathers data from airports and industry-leading forecast ensembles. To predict upcoming storms and hurricanes, there is a dedicated high-resolution lightning detection network.
Usability
Besides temperature, humidity, pressure, and wind, the application provides a lot of additional data. There is a seven-day forecast on rain probability, dew point, and moon phases. Moreover, AfricaWeather displays the times of sunset and sunrise along with the first and last sunlight.
This amount of information the app offers can be considered excessive by most users. However, this scrupulous data is often crucial for industries such as education, mining, agriculture, construction, consumer markets, and many others.
Features
- detailed weather forecasts for the African continent;
- many monitored parameters;
- high-resolution storm detecting system;
- app is free to download and use;
- compatible with current versions of Android.
