FirstLook: WeatherCal 1.0

If it would put cool graphical backgrounds on each day for the forecast... then maybe it would be worthwhile... but $10 for something that is more elegantly solved by subscribing to a weather calendar?

I'm in Castle Rock...www.macmingle.com looking for Douglas County, Colorado user group info.

I'll never get rid of i.wund.com from my iPhone. I mean, don't you want to see radar too?

Or you can simply subscribe to http://www.smashin.com/weather/

Pardon the completely off topic-ness, but... Highlands Ranch?!

Steven, do you live out here in Colorado? Notably in Highlands Ranch? Have you attended Refresh Denver or any other Tech/Design/Whatever Meetup?

Nice, two separate posts in one week on a useless app. Did someone at BareBones sleep with you to get this kind of coverage?

Seriously. What does a developer have to do to get this kind of love from TUAW? That's a serious question.

Google Calendar also lets you do this & will sync to iCal and iPhone.

Using this approach to put weather info on the iPhone has a few minor difficulties.

First, for up to date weather, it requires that a Mac be running and syncing with MobileMe hourly or daily.

Second, as you can see in the screenshots posted in the review, the temperature may be clipped. For instance, if the forecast is "Slight Chance of Thunderstorms", no temperature is seen at all. In this case you would have to tap on the events shown in the list view to see the complete forecast. This may not be practical for calendar events being displayed on a jailbroken lockscreen.

Third, some of the glyth characters used as "icons" are difficult to see. A good example would be the lightning glyth. Unfortunately when I tried to change fonts (not size) to find something more visible, nearly all of these had the same appearance which I suppose is to be expected from unicode.

I'm not dismissing the app, just pointing out what I've encountered thus far. I dashed off an email about those issues to the developers and they basically said that these were out of their control at this time. I hope they can refine the program in subsequent releases.

On an high note, one thing that I really like about WeatherCal is that it removes expired forecasts from your calendar automatically.

Totally unrelated to WeatherCal, though it's cool...I'm happy to see the FIRST Robotics Competition Regional on your calendar in the screenshots. I help run FIRST LEGO League for Iowa, FIRST is a great set of programs. Anyone else going to Atlanta in April?

Yes, never mind this was already previously posted on TUAW last week.

But also, why do you need the forecast in your calendar? Can't you simply view an app or widget for that? Your calendar must not be like mine. The last thing I want is an all-day static event taking up more room from actual appointments.

This seems like a solution to a problem that doesn't exist. What's next? Incorporating your appointments into the Weather application?