An article in the NY TIMES yesterday brought to my attention, and for $1.99 to my iPad, WeatherMap+, by far the most visually stunning and useful weather app I’ve seen.
If the above image seems confusing, it is less so on the iPad itself, and is the “All Layers” image of the entire world’s weather. You can pan, zoom, and view just a single layer showing temperature, wind, barometric pressure or precipitation, starting with current conditions and by sliding the bar at the top of the screen projections for the next five days. Tapping any point on the screen brings up a box with information for that specific location. This is for Evanston.
Here is the barometric pressure chart. Note the five lows in the Southern Ocean, although at present the most severe storm in the world is that in the Gulf of Alaska.
All layers for southern South America and Cape Horn.
I am amazed and delighted.
This alone makes an iPad worth having.