I have said it before, and I’ll say it again (and again and
again): Everything is better with cats. Even weather is better with cats, as
the geniuses behind the Weather Whiskers app obviously know.
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| Need a happiness boost during a snowstorm? This cat could help you out. |
Weather Whiskers, available for both iOS and Android
devices, gives current weather conditions, a four-day forecast…and cats. And
when I say “cats,” I do not mean some random picture of a cute cat. No, this
app gives you cats dressed appropriately for whatever weather is happening at
the moment. It also gives a succinct summation of current conditions, “translated
into LOLspeak” (e.g., “Rainz! Oh nos!”), as the Weather Whiskers website phrases
it.
The weather part comes from Weather Underground, and it is
pretty accurate, though if it was sunny an hour ago and is now pouring with
rain, the app could still tell you the weather is “purrfect,” so it’s not
up-to-the-minute accurate. But then, what weather app is?
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| Conditions in Seoul, South Korea when we wrote this post: cold and starry! |
You can plug in several different cities if you like to keep
track of conditions far and wide. We keep an eye on locations from Seattle to
London to Seoul (conditions in Seoul as of this writing: 37 degrees [F] and
clear), because when the weather at home is unpleasant, it’s nice to know that
somewhere, thousands of miles away, conditions are purrfect.
The app is free to download, but the frequent pop-ups that
ask you to pay 99 cents to go ad-free will probably annoy you into either
deleting the app or paying the 99 cents. We check this app multiple times a
day, just to see which cat appears, so we think it’s worth the price.
The verdict
Weather Whiskers is the best cat-related weather app we have
found. The cats can make you smile even in bad weather, and the forecast is usually
accurate. They say the app is free, but in reality it will cost you 99 cents if
you use it frequently enough to have the pop-ups get on your nerves. We think
that’s a fair price.
Highly recommended!
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