Access Weather Settings>Weather Units>Temperature. Here you can choose the temperature unit of your own preference.

Move on to Weather Settings>Weather Units>Visibility. Weather Mate allows you to choose either Km or miles as your units for visibility.

Pressure: mm, inches, mbar, hPa

Wind Speed: km/h,mph, m/s, knots, beaufort
These can be changed from Weather Settings>Weather Units.

Sounds can be enabled in Weather Mate from Weather Settings>Sounds>Sound Effects.

The clock format can be changed from Weather Settings>Clock>24-Hour Format.

If you want Weather Mate to display the timing of your selected location, move onto Weather Settings>Clock>Display Local Time. Here, by turning it off, you will be able to get the timing of your selected location.

Go to Weather Settings>Miscellaneous and enable Show Extended Daily Forecast by Default When the App Starts.

Weather Mate allows you to change your screen brightness from Weather Settings>Miscellaneous>Brightness. It can be increased or decreased using the slider control.

In order to get to know the version of Weather Mate that you are using, head over to the Support tab and select About Weather Mate.

Weather data is automatically updated every 10 minutes. However, if you want to update it manually move onto Locations>Manual Weather Update. Here, tap on the Update Weather Data Now.

WeatherMate utilizes the data contributed by more than 33,000 stations to add to the specificity of weather reports. Hence, accurate, reliable and hyper-local information about the current atmospheric conditions and predictions about future weather can be obtained by virtue of this feature.

Weather maps display disparate meteorological features to give the reader sufficient information about the past, prevalent or forth-coming weather conditions. The fluid responsive weather maps in WeatherMate include numerous layer options to portray multiple information streams simultaneously. These encompass real-time high-definition animated radar images, Satellite, Severe Alerts, Weather Stations, Fronts, Fire Risk, Active Fires, Hurricane, Webcams, Lightning, Tornadoes, Storms and Earthquakes.

Three types of weather maps are available in Weather Mate. These include Standard Maps, Satellite Maps and Hybrid Maps. In order to choose the map type of your own preference, tap the Map Settings tab on the weather maps’ default screen. By default, standard maps are shown in Weather Mate.

In the map settings menu, check the Show Marker at My Current Location option.

This feature makes use of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) Weather Radars encompassing the US, Canada, Europe, and Australia.

A user can alter the Radar Map Settings by tapping on the arrow head appearing adjacent to the Radar overlay option in Map Layer Settings.

Base reflectivity images display the intensity of the received radar beam after striking an object. It is used to measure precipitation.

NEXRAD (NEXt Generation RADar) is a type of weather radar imagery used to determine both precipitation and wind.

• N0R, N1R, N2R, N3R and N0Z are the names of the various radar imageries.
• 124 NMI is the short RANGE of the radar which is measured in Nautical Miles (NMI). If a user wants to see precipitation at larger distances, 248 NMI (long range) should be selected.

• The four angles 0.5, 1.45, 2.40 and 3.35 are actually the radar tilt angles. In simple terms, a tilt angle of 0.5 would mean that the radar’s antenna is tilted 0.5 above the horizon.

Terminal Drop Weather Radar (TDWR) is an advance technology which has higher resolution and can see details in much fine detail closer to the radar.

• TR0, TR1, TR2 and TZL are different radar imageries that can be viewed using this technology.
• Its area of high resolution coverage for short range is 48 NMI and that for long range is 225 NMI.
• Low tilt, medium tilt, high tilt and 0.66 represent the radar antenna’s tilt.

In the radar map settings menu, transparency levels can be increased or decreased using the slider for Overlay Opacity.

You can adjust the Total Frames in the Radar Map Settings menu as per your choice. By default, the Total Frames are set to 6.

In order to vary the animation speed, head over to the Radar Map Settings>Animation Speed. By animation speed, we mean the number of seconds it would take for a frame to load.

Check the Smoothing option in Radar Maps Settings to ensure smooth zooming and panning.

This overlay shows the storm tracks and also displays the attributes of a storm in tabular form. This table is actually a product derived from NEXRAD imaging and attempts to identify storm cell.

The hurricane map layer portrays storms of different categories including invest, tropical depression, tropical storm and categories from 1 to 5; current hurricane location; wind radius; and possible storm centre locations.

You can either choose imagery from Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) World Satellites or North American World Satellites.

The active fire maps layer provides an overview of the wildland fire situation along with information regarding the density of smoke in the event that a fire is detected. This layer basically furnishes information about fire activity identified by passing satellite over a certain region.

The Fire Risk overlays can help you in this regard as they provide you with information on fire danger rating, lower atmosphere stability, keetch-byram drought index and dead fuel moistures.

Fronts, on a weather map, represent the boundary between two masses of air with contrasting temperature and/or humidity levels. They are important as they depict variations in weather conditions leading to clouds, rains and other significant weather events. In Weather Mate, warm fronts, cold fronts, occluded fronts, stationary fronts and troughs are displayed.

You can extract a diverse range of information from these weather stations such as temperature, wind speed, wind gusts, wind direction, precipitation, dew point, humidity, heat index and pressure.

It describes the direction and the rate at which the temperature varies with respect to displacement across a certain boundary. It is a vector quantity having direction from cold to hot region.

You can choose severe weather alert types from among a variety of options including air quality and pollution, fire, flood, fog, heat, hurricane, lake and marine, severe storms, special statements and wind. Warnings, statements and watches are also available for tropical cyclones and tornadoes.

The app allows the user to customize the overlay opacity (in terms of percentage), animation speed (in seconds/frame), total number of frames to be shown in animation and its sensitivity.

In infrared satellite images, the clouds are depicted by their temperature. Infrared satellite images are available for the entire day. Visible satellite images are exactly as seen from space and can only be obtained during the daylight.

Using this feature, weather conditions can be viewed from webcams in different parts of the world.

Some features like Lightning, Tornadoes, Storm Reports and Weather Fronts are for our users in USA and Canada. So, if you happen to be at some other location other than the two aforementioned countries, these map overlays will not be shown for your locations.

You can share your current map screen via Facebook, Twitter and Email by tapping on the Share Screen icon in the header.

In the weather maps, tap on the Compass Needle icon in the header, to traverse directly to your current location.

You can get access to extensive archives of weather data pertinent to locations all over the globe and use it to make your own educated guess regarding the future weather conditions of any location.

This feature makes use of the historical weather trends for a certain location between specified dates of the year to present a reliable, accurate and hyper-local weather forecast. Hence, you can plan your trips while keeping in mind the weather perspective as well.

Travel Planner can be accessed by tapping onto its icon in the top right corner of the Weather Mate’s main screen.

Travel Planner requires the start and end dates to not exceed 30 days period.

Severe weather alerts, warnings, watches, statements and advisories reach you from National Weather Service (USA/Canada) and MeteoAlarm (Europe).

You can receive severe weather alerts by triggering the “Severe Weather Push Notification Alerts” on from the Location Settings menu. This can be done for all the added locations.

You can choose severe weather alert types from among a variety of options including air quality and pollution, fire, flood, fog, heat, hurricane, lake and marine, severe storms, special statements and wind. Warnings, statements and watches are also available for tropical cyclones and tornadoes.

These sounds can be turned on via Weather Settings>Sounds>Severe Weather Alerts Notification Sounds.

In order to make Weather Mate detect your current location automatically, access the Locations tab in Weather Mate settings menu and enable Auto Detect Current Location button.

If you want to stay updated with the meteorological details of locations other than your current location, Weather Mate lets you add more locations. In the Locations menu, tap on the Plus button (+) to add your desired location.

Tap on the settings button adjacent to the desired location and give another tap tap on the “Delete This Location” button.

In the Locations menu, tap on the Edit button in the header and subsequently select the desired locations to delete them.

You can receive severe weather alerts by triggering the “Severe Weather Push Notification Alerts” on from the Location Settings menu. This can be done for all the added locations.

You can manually set your desired location as default by accessing the Locations menu in the apps’ settings. Switch off the Auto Detect Current Location button and tap on your desired location to set it as your default location. Weather Mate will then display the weather forecasts for your default location on the main screen.

Weather details for different locations can be viewed by swiping horizontally across the Weather Mate screen. This will navigate you to your weather forecasts for the added locations.

Weather Station can be added for a certain location in a couple of ways.

• In the locations menu, tap on the settings button opposite your selected location. Here, in the Location Settings menu, tap on the Weather Station option to access to choose the Weather Station. You can choose from among the lists of Weather Stations at Airports or Personal Weather Stations.
• Tap on the Weather Stations button in the header on the Weather Mate’s main screen. You will be directed to Choose a Weather Station menu from where you can select either a weather station at airport or personal weather station.

It is a radio service which broadcasts the warnings, watches, forecasts and other hazard information issued by National Weather Service over a network of more than 425 stations with almost 1025 transmitters.

The radio broadcasts are transmitted at seven specific frequencies in the VHF range for which dedicated radio  receivers are required. However, with Weather Mate, you can listen to the radio broadcast direct from your iOS device.

You can only listen to the weather radio stations near your current location.

A volume control slider bar is given below the list of radio stations which can be used to increase or decrease the sound of the radio station.

Tap on the pause button opposite the channel being played and then select the desired radio station to be played.

In order to view the temperature on home screen icon’s badge, enable the Show Temperature on Home Screen Icon’s Badge from Weather Settings menu.

Access Weather Settings>Weather Units>Temperature. Here you can choose the temperature unit of your own preference.

Due to restrictions posed by iOS, negative numbers cannot be displayed on the home screen icon’s badge. You have the following options to display negative temperature on the badge:

• Show negative temperature as positive on badge (-5 will be shown as 5)
• Append 7000 to negative temperature on badge (-5 will be shown as 7005. 0 will be shown as 7000)
• Do not show negative temperature on home screen badge

These options can be reached through Weather Settings>Temperature on Home Screen Icon’s Badge.

You can subscribe to Freeze Alert which has been designed to notify you when the temperature goes below or above 0 degrees. This option can be reached through Weather Settings>Temperature on Home Screen Icon’s Badge>Freeze Alert.

You can choose from among Basic, Advanced and Text-Only weather widget styles from the Weather Settings.

This widget style stacks up for you only the most general weather information including maximum and minimum temperature, wind direction, wind speed and forecast for the coming week.

This widget style tries to jam just about every aspect of weather on a single widget. This includes maximum and minimum temperature, wind direction, wind speed, precipitation, humidity, cloud cover, wind chill, sunrise, sunset, visibility, pressure, UV index, dewpoint and forecast for the coming week. Moreover, descriptive forecasts can also be retrieved for day and night for each day in the coming week right from the widget.

In this mode, merely maximum and minimum temperature forecasts can be viewed with limited text.

Screen sharing options can be accessed in a couple of ways:

• Tap on the Screen Sharing options in the header on the main screen
• In the weather maps feature, tap on the Screen Sharing option in the header.

Screens can be shared via Facebook, Twitter and Email.

You can listen to the weather announcement in two ways:

• Tapping on the main screen thrice
• Tapping on the weather announcement button in the header on the main screen

Weather Mate provides multiple options for voicings and speech accent which include US Male, US Female, UK Male and UK Female. These can be selected from Weather Settings>Sounds>Speech Accent

In order to trigger on background animations, head over to Weather Settings>Weather Screen Background>Background Animations

You can either select a default weather background or go for your custom background via Weather Settings>Weather Screen Background>Background Types.

Move on to Weather Settings>Weather Screen Background>Weather Types>Custom Background. Here, the app gives you the option to either choose your picture from Photo Library or capture an image your device’s camera.