BBC Weather

Media Applications Technologies for the BBC

- May 15, 2017

Everyone

Weather

( 198,652)

Description

Wherever you are, and whatever your plans, you’re always prepared with the latest weather forecast from BBC Weather.

FEATURES:
• Simple and clear design for easy access to our most detailed and up-to-date information
• Search for locations (automatically added to your favourites), or use your current location
• See any Met Office severe weather warnings issued at your location
• Hourly forecasts with detailed information for the next 48 hrs (UK)
• Look further ahead with 3 hourly forecasts (UK and International)
• See most likely high and low temperatures, and temperature ranges, for days 6-10
• Tap each hour for extra detail including Pressure, Visibility and Humidity
• A day overview including Sunrise/Sunset times, UV, with Pollen and Pollution information for the UK
• Swipe vertically to view all your favourite locations
• Portrait and landscape modes
• Support for 7" and 10" tablets, including hourly temperature curve in landscape mode
• A variety of differently sized interactive home screen widgets, and in Android 4.2 a lock screen widget (widgets unavailable if app is moved to SD card)
• Share the weather forecast on Facebook, Twitter, email and more
• Share favourite locations with a friend via NFC
• Override the detected location, and select a nearby location instead
• Accessibility for users of TalkBack text to speech
• Designed and optimised for Android, and conforms to current Android design guidelines

Note:
• Ability to store the app on the SD card. Widgets will not be available if you choose to use this function. This is a feature of the Android system. If you cannot see any widgets in your list of available widgets, in settings - manage applications, move BBC Weather from SD card to phone/tablet, and then restart your device.
• This app is currently not available for users in the Channel Islands and Isle of Man. The BBC and Google are working to resolve this issue.

If you choose to enable the display of weather at your current location [menu/show current location], the app will provide you with weather information based upon your current location. Your precise location is kept on your device, and once the app has determined the location of the closest populated location for which weather information is available, your precise location is not accessed by the BBC. No other personal data relating to you (such as a username, email address or unique device identifier) is sent to the BBC - you can be assured of this, since the app does not request the "read phone status and identity" or "use accounts on the device" permissions. Your information is anonymous, nevertheless the BBC will keep your information secure and not share it with anyone in accordance with the BBC’s Privacy and Cookies Policy, available at http://www.bbc.co.uk/privacy. You can choose to disable the display of weather at your current location [menu/show current location], and then the app will no longer automatically detect your current location.

Reviews

4.4

198,652 total

5 125,358

4 53,608

3 9,485

2 4,073

1 6,128

Mandy B

We use this a lot and find it's pretty much always accurate for the first 3 days and close after that. I'm aware that that is about as good that can be predicted for the UK given our peculiar location in the N Atlantic! There are 2 "wish list" items which would give it 6* :) Access to the shipping forecast for nearest area, and tide tables. It would help those of us on the coast to make educated guesses about river depths, currents etc. Could save lives!

Andy Sedgley

User friendly and reliable app, I wouldn't be without it. Amazingly accurate forecasts for the coming day. Recent bugs (forecast not updating etc) seem to have been fixed now. Edit: is much less reliable these days. Forecast seems to be changed hourly eg at 9am says it will be dry all day , at midday it says heavy rain at 2pm til 6pm. Pinch of salt needed! Pity, because I've used this app for years. Marked down from 5* to 3*.

Paul Underscore

The information given seems accurate most of the time. You can't demand ALL of the time, this is Britain's weather we're talking about, but it gives a good hint. Oddly they don't feature the area I grew up in - it's vibrant, exciting and dubiously famous for riot, which seems to outweigh the Lunar Society's historical influence, but you can guess the weather based on the area next door, so yeah - 's not s' bad.

Paul Winstone

Clear, crisp interface that's easy to use & understand. Recent use has revealed it's inadequacy in forecasting tho. Today: heavy rain @ 1pm. But outside the sun had just come out! Thunder forecast for 2pm had now accurately been changed later to light cloud with thunder now set for 3pm. If I were planning to avoid the storm at 2pm, I needn't have bothered. So, Dubious at best. If I want the weather for now I'll just look out the window. It's consistently more accurate! 😕

Colin Carpenter

This is no better or worse than the other apps that attempt to give you the weather forecast. But, the format is very good and easy to use. I have various favorite places around the UK saved and I like comparing the weather in those places, thinking, I wish I was there or glad that I'm not. I would recommend this to anyone seeking this type of app.🌈

Brilliant app and I would have given it five were it not for the fact that it spells the name of my village wrong . Have emailed twice but to no avail. It's Hernhill, a small Kentish village on the slopes of The Blean, three miles from Faversham. Hernehill is an area of South London famed for it's velodrome. Very different places. Please delete the extraneous E!

User reviews

Mandy B May 15, 2017

Andy Sedgley July 7, 2017

Paul Underscore July 18, 2017

Paul Winstone July 23, 2017

Colin Carpenter July 1, 2017

June 16, 2017

May 28, 2017

Generally useful and pretty accurate for coming 24hours but app stops updating after a few days and has to be uninstalled, then reinstalled. This keeps it running until it seizes up again, v frustrating. This problem has occurred for last couple of months and becoming more frequent - the app only ran for 3 days without a reinstall in recent days...

Rich Davis June 11, 2017

Good WHEN it works. Frequently stalls and fails to update. Also not sure why apps like this always want to know my location. IRRELEVANT. If i want to know the weather in Westshire, it does not matter where I am right now!! Update: still freezes and fails to update. Reduced to 1 star because I can't give it zero stars. Uninstall and use the Met Office instead.

Thomas M. June 28, 2017

Good app, but I don't like the way hourly forecast scrolls left and right. Why can't it be as smooth as the daily forecast below? People have been asking this for a long time now. Is it really so hard to fix?

Julian Musik June 8, 2017

I gave it 4 stars because it can only predict maybe a couple of days and sometimes that can change or is not entirely accurate. Two weeks is way to long and often changes so I don't bother looking at more than three days ahead. If you use it as a guide, that's OK, take a raincoat, because I've been caught out a few times, despite rain not been forecast.

Martin Elsworth May 22, 2017

Still one of the best weather apps I've seen. One or two bugs such as the day occasionally freezes and flood warning sometimes don't clear but on the whole still a very informative and accurate app. Loving the new next hour feature.

Emma Culleton June 21, 2017

Would get 5* but it's annoying that you can only see 2/3 days at a time for a screenshot. You need a while week to send to your mates pre-holiday

Janine Elvine June 29, 2017

Some days you are spot on! Rain may be forecast for 2pm and it starts raining. Other days not so. I would put it down to the weather being fickle not the forecasters. Checking weather around the world is a big plus. Thanks

June 6, 2017

Not that accurate! Cannot entirely rely on the forecasting. When it says it will be sunny, it usually rains. And when it says it will rain, it usually doesn't. In summary, to me, in Calderdale, it always rains, and when there is an exceptional sunshine, it's so humid that one is wet anyway. The worst weather here from all 8 places I ever lived around the world - England = no real snow in winter & no real sunshine in summer. I cannot wait till the time I'm finally dead.

July 22, 2017

Always consult it before going walking with walking group, usually pretty reliable. Only inaccuracy I've found is the timing of expected rain, for instance, but only by 1/2 to 1 hour when it does happen.

July 23, 2017

Useless weather changes every hour, not accurate at all, checked weather yesterday to play golf this afternoon, says raining all afternoon, then part of afternoon then raining again, checked again this morning says from 1pm till 10pm raining, just checked now has changed to 1 hour of rain at 4pm, already cancelled playing due to previous forecast. Has happened so many times, can't rely on app. Should go back to the old forecast with weather man on roof with thermometer, so much more accurate.

Henry Stephenson June 14, 2017

When one considers that the earth revolves around it's Axis at Approx. 24,000 miles per hour, and then around the Sun through all sorts of conditions, not forgetting it's axis of inclination to the Sun, what more can one expect from our weather forcasters. .....

Dan Watts July 13, 2017

Don't know weather (pun) it's the information in the app not being updated properly or just the forecasting itself but it's quite often wrong. As I type this it is raining fairly heavily yet app shows full sun no mention of showers. Shame as I do like the layout of the app itself. Also a days preview will show a white cloud icon but tap on for the full forecast for that day and the majority of the day has the black cloud with rain symbol.

Mark Beverley June 12, 2017

App looks nice and it's is easy to navigate through, but very inaccurate forecasts. They keep changing every hour and seem to simply be predicting the current weather - I'd be better looking out my window!

Michael Pope May 18, 2017

It has been raining now for 5 hours. The app didn't forecast rain and still maintains that currently we have light cloud! Over the last few months the forecast accuracy has got pretty poor. What's happened BBC?

Brian Scott May 20, 2017

I list all my favourite locations. Instant access to the weather there. Still using it daily gives upto date information for local weather. Excellent. Unsure why but keeps failing to connect correctly when using the widget. The normal app works though. Odd

Unlucky Man666 July 19, 2017

Probably the worst app I've ever used, hardly ever correct.. Last week it said it would rain every day... Never rained once... 4 times it said thunder storm past few days... Not 1 happened... Today it said it would be hail stone??? Stupid app.

Vernon Yule June 22, 2017

Easy to use, but not always accurate and today's weather forecast can change on every hourly refresh. But as a rough forecast it's a clean and tidy app. I use with a rain radar app to plan running / cycling / clothes drying.

Paul Corbett June 26, 2017

Works just fine on my Samsung phone. Like most forecasting it's less accurate further into the week you look. Can easily check conditions in any city/area you input. Weather warnings also good.

tin man July 19, 2017

Fonts and font colours not so easy to read in latest update, especially wind speed etc. Figures still not so bold or contrasting with backgrounds. More dificult to read. Have reverted to previous version which is better to use. Also would be better if the Uk and Scottish video forecast was included along with the text and graphic options. Vertical scrolling instead of horizontal for hourly forecast would be an improvement also.

paul gutmann June 22, 2017

HTC u ultra, nice app. Still very inaccurate. Says sunshine we have rain says light breeze is very windy! Rothwell ls26. Please fix this and add live animations symbols like other apps.

Will Grant June 26, 2017

Can't get any forecast correct. Being an avid fisherman and gardener I rely on good forecasting, it seems I pay a television license for a poor service and seemingly focused on getting your London based forecasting correct before anywhere else.

Ash Wilkinson July 26, 2017

Stupid that this app won't work when GPS is turned off. If I'm looking for the forecast in a different city or country, why does it need to know my current location?

May 19, 2017

Weather forcast is fairly accurate but VERY changable. Seems I get a new/different forcast every time I view it. Its rain forcast would be better as a % chance of rain, many times its forcast heavy rain and we just have a lot of cloud.

Chris Burgess June 27, 2017

I've been using this app daily for years. However reckon it's been less accurate over the past year for some reason. Also there are often discrepancies between what the app forecasts and local BBC TV forecasts! I have heard that the BBC has now changed its contract for forecasting from the Met Office to somewhere abroad? Is that true. Also, I think the attempt to give very local forecasts to your own tiny village gives a misleading impression of precision that cannot be achieved yet.

Matt G July 25, 2017

Does what I downloaded it for, so can't ask much more than that. Particularly like that you can identify small villages and get an idea of what the weather might be like there, which isn't always available in some of the other weather apps I've used. Very handy for when you go travelling.

Iain Jamieson July 17, 2017

App works well, but not that accurate with the weather so far. It's only been a week, so I'll give it a bit longer before deciding. ++ OK, a few months later and it's got a lot better with its forecasts. Still has an annoying habit of telling you it's going to be nice and sunny, and then, when it starts raining, suddenly changing its mind

Paul Lucas July 23, 2017

You'd have thought that this app would be able to get the forecast right the same day but alas no.... App said no rain so hung washing out. Later on it was near torrential rain! Fail.

Jamie Ellis June 11, 2017

What the other BBC Android Apps should inspire to! (UI, extra functionality such as NFC). This App as it is Weather should be Worldwide along with News and Sport! (Note having only one Worldwide app though on the store as currently "MAT for the BBC" and BBC Worldwide). ● Extra App Ideas: BBC CRB, BBC Store, and BBC Travel Apps. ● BBC CRB (Connected Red Button) for Mobile:. a playalong section would be perhaps have say The Voice and Antiques Roadshow Apps (amongst others - mainly game shows/quiz) as BBC CRB downloadable 'add ons'. Shortcuts to other BBC Applications (i.e. 'Our Other Apps') and a common place for red button streams such as BBC RB1/BBC RB HD and enhanced coverage such as Wimbledon/Olympics and Glastonbury!

Gary Hunt May 28, 2017

Generally very useful app, and fairly accurate forecasts. It won't display when phone is offline, which is annoying - why can't it display the most recently accessed forecast? Previous version stopped working after an update (for me and many others), it may have been that it was only compatible with a newer version of android but phone wouldn't update. It was frustrating, why didn't they make new release work on existing phones? It's very good if it keeps working...

R Nesan July 13, 2017

If you like walking, gardening, doing work outdoors, visiting places etc, this app would be a great help. My wife and I don't go to bed without consulting it. On some days the forecast can be quite wrong. I presume at times prevailing conditions are such that the computer model is unable to cope. During my visit to Copenhagen last autumn, this app was predicting cloudy weather, but we had nice sunny weather for each of the 4 days we were there.

Paul Lund May 20, 2017

The weather widgets are broken on the Lenovo P2. Tried clearing cache & restart, no fix. Otherwise its a good App which I use on several Samsung devices with no problems. On them the Widget works fine.

Ybloem VO June 21, 2017

BBC weather is my go to weather app for any place in the world, I love it. Wouldn't mind a barometric gauge over a few days to be visible somewhere as I am a weather induced migraine sufferer....

Karla Barnes June 8, 2017

Seeing as their adverts for the app claim you can plan occasions based on its accuracy, I can tell you that's rubbish. Several times the forecast has been very inaccurate for me, and if it's been raining here for 4 hours solid and the app still tells me I've had a dry day, then it doesn't even seem your technology can stretch as far as looking out of the window.

Andrew Rowland July 7, 2017

Very lacking in detail compared with Weather Underground or even the Met Office's app. Doesn't show the predicted probability of precipitation, for example, so you have no idea how much credence to give the prediction. Can't say how accurate it is because I don't use it much as a result (the other apps I mentioned frequently disagree with each other with no clear winner) but it does give pollen and UV forecasts in a clear way.