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When you hover over one of the waypoints along your trip, it will show you the time you should arrive at that point (note: this assumes you don't make any stops and don't hit traffic), and gives you the weather for that time. If you're driving under clear skies and calm winds, the road will be green, while roads will gradually fade to red as you drive headfirst into a blizzard. The roads are shaded in colors much like a traffic map on a news website-the colors range from green to red depending on how severe the hazards. These points are plotted out every dozen miles or so, and they show you the weather conditions expected at that point (wind, snow, rain, storms, fog), a data point of your choosing (forecast temperature, forecast snowfall amount, wind speed, etc.), and the impacts you'll encounter between cities. The application uses the distance and time of your trip-1,695 miles and 25 hours, in this example-to calculate the weather at certain points along your route. The resulting map shows you three different features-an icon, a data point, and travel conditions between cities on your route. In the above example, I chose a to take a trip from Sault Saint Marie, Michigan to Caribou, Maine (two super popular destinations), with stops in Detroit and Cleveland along the way so I don't have to cross into Canada and void my American street cred. Louis, for example, and you'd like to visit Aunt Edna in Cleveland, you'll have to add Cleveland as a waypoint. Much like Google or Bing, the feature automatically takes the shortest route possible-if you plan driving from Washington to St. When you click the traffic sign, a window pops up that allows you to enter the beginning and endpoint along your planned drive. Of all of the EDD's excellent features is a nifty tool hidden behind a traffic sign up on the top-right portion of the application, called the travel hazard forecast. The EDD allows you to map out everything from radar and satellite imagery to forecasts, current weather observations, and even upper-air soundings taken from rawinsondes attached to weather balloons. When it's online and in good working order, though, the application is perhaps the most powerful tool available on the agency's website.
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The tool, called the Enhanced Data Display (or EDD), is still in its experimental stages, so the application will occasionally go offline while meteorologists and technicians tinker with it. The tool's most excellent feature, by far, is the ability to track future weather along the path of one's road trip.
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New users can use Pro for free on five trips, each lasting 24 hours.The National Weather Service has developed a powerful tool that allows users to create custom weather maps that show everything from temperatures to snow totals.
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If you want to upgrade to a Pro subscription, you’ll unlock additional features priced at $0.99 monthly and $9.99 yearly.
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Weather on the Way is a free download on the App Store. Check out the video below to see the app in action. If you travel long distances on a motorcycle, it would be extremely useful in helping to plan for bad weather. I’ve been testing the app throughout the summer, and it’s a really interesting idea that will be useful for frequent travelers where weather conditions can cause you to pack differently. It helps you plan for temperature and precipitation along your route but also tracks visibility range, wind, and UV index to help plan for the best possible timing when traveling. The app uses Apple’s Dark Sky API to calculate the weather, but more weather sources are coming in future updates. It will calculate a route to your destination and show a forecast for points along this route, exactly at the time you will be driving through each stop. Weather on the Way is a new weather app for iPhone that adds an interesting take on this existing category - it combines navigation and weather.