Weather app on the Surface RT

Microsoft recently updated the Bing powered Windows 8 and Windows RT News, Travel and Sports app (see our post for details) but the Weather app hasn’t seen much action until now. The updated Weather app adds new weather animated weather maps as well as more detailed weather forecasts. The new weather maps show an animated hourly forecast for temperature, precipitation and cloud cover.

There a new section for information on Sky Resorts giving you the current temperature and the info on the state of the resort.There also seems to be additional information about the current weather in the app and Microsoft say there are performance updates. Overall it’s a nice improvement of a useful app.

 

The app is free from the Windows Store

Key updates to this release of the Weather app include:
• 10 days of detailed weather forecasts hour by hour
• Updates to historical weather information
• Additional information including sunrise/sunset
• New weather background images
• Performance enhancements
• Note: Some features and enhancements may not be available in all markets

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