Space City Weather

Space City Weather

About this app

This is the official app from Space City Weather, the hyperlocal Houston weather site from Eric Berger and Matt Lanza. The SCW app brings to your mobile device everything from the site, and more, including:

- Daily weather forecasts, weather topic discussions and detailed coverage of major weather events
- Current conditions put the stats Houstonians care about most front and center.
- Hourly and 7-day forecasts with rain chances
- Live National Weather Service (NWS) radar, weather discussions and alerts
- Conditions and forecasts for 12 locations in the Greater Houston area: Houston, Hobby Airport, Conroe, Galveston, Katy, Tomball, Beaumont, League City, Sugar Land, Lake Jackson, Baytown, and Pearland
- Notifications of new blog posts and urgent weather news
- Support for Metric and Imperial systems (Fahrenheit/MPH and Celsius/KPH)
- Clean, simple design for easy browsing and quick loading
- Our usual nerdy humor

What the SCW app does NOT have: Ads and tracking. We respect your privacy.

Ratings and reviews

While I like the easy access to their analysis posts, and the app is WAY better than when it first launched, there are still problems: Data doesn't always refresh on opening. Crashes frequently. No matter the date, the daily forecast shows it as the first of the month (e.g. July 1 when it's actually July 24). No periodic (e.g. hourly) breakdown of future day forecasts. Also, a nice to have would be to decouple the temperature and speed display units, so I can have °C and mph.

Minimalist but buggy, and needs a widget! Please, give us a widget! I can delete my other weather app then (well maybe not, I go out of town for work). I do love how easy it is to navigate, the minimalist look and feel makes it easy even for my 70+ mom to use! The evacuate Katy notification does not stay though. I actually rarely go into apps, I get my info from the widget usually and that's all I need, typically.

The app is intentionally minimalist, which makes it very easy to use and navigate. Unfortunately, at the moment, there appears to be bugs for Houston and Conroe locations where the information is N/A. There are some issues with scrolling the app in the main page if you start with your thumb on the blog post snippet. Overall, I really like the app and would expect these issue to be resolved fairly quickly.

What's new

- Now powered by AccuWeather for more accurate and reliable weather data.
- Improved weather data accuracy even when observation stations are down or reporting inaccurate data.
- Streamlined the alerts view for a better user experience.
- Various bug fixes and performance improvements for a smoother app experience.