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The social weather app that is going down a storm! Weathermob for iPhone

We’re not the first to highlight the newest social meets weather iPhone app, Weathermob - it’s already triggered an interesting debate on Wired and been featured by Guardian, Cult of Mac and Appadvice.

With the weather being THE most universal of conversation topics, the winter quickly drawing in and the collective mood changing with the season, the release of this app couldn’t have been timed better.

The app takes a whole new approach to weather - it has your hour-by-hour weather forecast data as you’d expect, but it’s the first time the human/social element has been layered on in a clever and interesting way, allowing you to make your own reports adding text, photo, video or simply using the nicely designed reporting icons for weather, mood and mood badge (take your pick from snowmen, penguins, ice creams and more).

You can choose to see reports from all over the world or those just local to you and it has Facebook and Twitter integration built in, so finding and following your friends is a breeze!

Very cool, looks slick and it’s free - so a must try for anyone who has ever had anything to say about the weather… which is everyone, right?

Weathermob for iPhone in free on App Store

Pollen Forecast

Free App which does what it says on the tin, all in the name of one big ad for Clarityn hayfever products. 

You can view a map of the national pollen forecast which is split into regions with separate forecasts, showing as either low, medium or high pollen count. The neat trick is to look at the local forecast, which uses Location Services for an accurate reading. The app then uses the camera to show you ‘pollen’ in front of your eyes on the app, which is fun for at least 5 seconds. 

There are probably a lot of apps out there which include the pollen forecast as part of the greater weather picture, but the gimmick of pretending to see pollen is kinda fun.

Pollen Forecast UK is free on App Store.

Weather Pro

The standard weather app on iPhone is pants. Don’t use it. Check out Weather Pro. It’s £2.39, so a little steep as far as apps go, but you’ll be using it everyday so well worth the cash.

It has all the usual weather geek stuff (radar and satellite views, etc), but more importantly it does the basics very, very well… nice clean, easy to understand interface giving a weather break down for 3 hour slots so you can see what the weather’s going to be doing throughout the day (way more useful than a single day overview). You can also easily monitor weather across multiple locations too by setting fave locations (handy for impending holiday packing or weekend bbq planning).

Weather Pro is £2.39 from App Store.