Weather Channel App for Windows Phone 7 Available: Solves One of my Missing App Problems

When I played with the Windows Phone 7 Samsung developer-phone last month, I noticed that Windows Phone 7 didn’t include a weather app. Apple includes a weak one for the iPhone. Google provides the “News & Weather” applet/widget starting with Android OS 2.2. It doesn’t look like Microsoft is going to provide an integrated weather app, but it looks like The Weather Channel has solved my missing app problem.

The Weather Channel Mobile App Now Available for Windows Phone 7

The Weather Channel app for Windows Phone 7 is available for free from the Windows Phone Marketplace (it is ad supported) and provides the following features:

– Animated, interactive maps can be customized by weather layers such as radar and clouds, temperature, wind speed and recent precipitation
– Detailed weather data in hourly, 36-hour and 10-day forecasts, as well as current conditions including temperature, wind, humidity, UV level, dew point, visibility, sunrise and...

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