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Any weather with animated radar( non-Flash)?

bigbadwulff

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Jun 15, 2010
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Any good weather apps(or direct sites) with ANIMATED radar that will load on non-Flash Android....Droid-X(until Froyo comes out...for real).
I noticed Weather Channel DOES have an animated app that will load but it takes forever for it to load......slower than animated radar would load on my Storm(which was relatively quick) but I thought this Droid-X was supposed to be fast ;). Yeah I know the problem is probably on TWC's side of things as they always seem to be slow.

Had Accuweather on the Storm and I had the animated radar saved as a favorite and could one-click to get it.
 
Weather Bug does well but the screen in landscape is low on the screen...Droid-X. Animated radar loads fast. Seems good for now. Hope they fix the screen position. Will make a mention of it in comments.

I checked out Rainy Days but right now it shows a lot of ground clutter and is broken into straight lines(some image missing). too much ground clutter on radar!!

EDIT: OK I see you can drag the bar at the bottom of the radar to lessen the effect of ground clutter, but it stays there as a shadow. And every time you load the radar you have to reset that bar!! If they get rid of that, then they've got something!! A for effort, F for options. And it is nothing more than the NOAA weather radar feed.
 
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Today The Weather Channel app and Weatherbug might as well have been shooting darts at a map to find out where I was. They were NO WHERE CLOSE! Between a 1/4 and a 1/2 mile away. What's up with those apps? I just downloaded "Rainy Days" and that one is probably about 200 yards off so it's usable. When I started up Google Maps it nailed it exactly where I was.
 
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Radar Now looks like just another NOAA weather radar feed. Lots of ground cover and it works in portrait only. And the screen isn't 'pinchable'.

Pretty good though. But the search continues.

Accuweather's map is the best but gotta have Flash to get the animated version( I guess). Can't wait for 2.2 to get here for the Droid-X!!
 
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