Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute releases Windows Phone app

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The Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute (www.smhi.se) has launched an official app for Windows Phone. Due to levels of demand displayed in Sweden, the SMHI app is now available in the region (the only supported linguistic communication is Swedish). While the app itself appears to be rather limited in advanced functionality, it's an official offer and a beta at that.

The SMHI app provides weather data and information for locations you're currently at, but non only at local areas supported, y'all can also search for locations worldwide. Weather condition warnings published for Sweden can exist accessed from within the app, with alerts shown for whatever searched area (support for Sweden only).

While weather reports are available for the electric current day, information for how the weather has been in the past tin be loaded in the grade of calculated values. Differences observed between dates can also be displayed for a closer await at how the general weather has advanced.

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If you're after information regarding the rainfall, radar images are available for the Nordic region covering the last six hours. These images tin be viewed equally animations to monitor exactly how the rain and any lightning is advancing across the region. Utilising the SMHI forecast database, y'all can exist certain the data is accurate and trustworthy.

Unfortunately, equally noted higher up, this is a beta and as such there's some functionality missing, including alive tile support. For an initial version, it's a solid app worth checking out should you wish to check out the latest conditions reports in the Nordic region. That said, there are numerous weather apps bachelor for Windows Phone (seriously, nosotros've covered many apps on-site).

You lot tin download SMHI from the Windows Phone Store for gratis. Let usa know what you retrieve of the app in the comments below. Thanks, Zaki, for the tip!

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