RainRadar AU

RainRadar AU (formally BOMRadar)

NOTE: There is a bug in 1.1.15 (current) that is stopping radars from refreshing and the reload button from working. This a known issue and a fix has been sent to apple and is awaiting approval. This should be up in the next few days depending on apple. In the short term, you can force a reload of the radar by forcing the application to quit by double tapping the home button, and pressing and holding on the RainRadarAU Icon then press the red (-) to close it. When you reload the app you should have the latest radar images.

 

This iPhone Application is designed to let you look at the radar map for a particular area to see if there is incoming rain. The application animates the last 4 images from the Australian Bureau of Meteorology and displays them in a loop.

Features:

  • Animated radar images (last 4 radar images from BOM site).
  • Radar ranges 64km, 128km, 256km, 512km area selectable where available.
  • Zoom into the radar to get a closer look at towns
  • Current weather observations who temperature, wind direction/speed and rainfall since 9am.
  • Favorites list to keep track of your regular radars.
  • Locate Me option to find the radars closest to you.
  • Wind Doppler for radars that support it.
  • Radar Images have local time not UTC time.

Screen Shots:

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Having known C for a while, I decided to try my hand at objective C. The iPhone was a good excuse to learn, and what better teacher than a guy in a cowboy hat. I purchased the Aaron Hillegass Cocoa Programming For Mac OS X (3rd edition) after it was recommended by some friends. Having no objective C experience before that, I worked my way thru the book in about 2 weeks. Once completed I felt confident enough to start writing my own programs. Taking what I learnt from the book I applied it to iPhone programming, and the result is what you see on this page.

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