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WGN-TV - Chicago Weather Center app review: extensively detailed weather reporting in the palm of your hand-2020

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Introduction

If you’re looking for a top notch weather forecast app that can produce detailed reports across a 10-day timeframe, then look no further than the WGN TV app, which will provide everything you need to make a fair assessment of the weather every single day.

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This is a great weather app and the developer has clearly played it safe by adopting the same interface layout and design as many other apps within the Weather genre of the App Store.

While this Chicago weather app receives no marks for originality, it is a resource that you can depend on, so I would definitely recommend using it for your weather reports.

WGN-TV weather app runs on devices with iOS 12.0 or later with support of up to iOS 14.0 and it is compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. It will need 122.7 MB of free memory space on your mobile device to download and install. Check out our best weather apps list for more great options.

WGN-TV - Chicago Weather Center

Free

10-Day Weather Forecasting

The first thing you’ll want to do upon initially using WGN-TV - Chicago Weather Center is tap on the house icon at the top right-hand corner of the screen. This will use your device’s integrated GPS and determine your current location.

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You can also store multiple locations, which is ideal for monitoring the weather at your place of work. Perhaps you want to keep an eye on severe weather conditions for loved ones who live out of town.

The basic home Map view serves as the home screen for this app, displaying an animated radar map image that you can activate to watch the advancement of weather fronts more or less in real time. 

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Animated Radar Map Imagery

At the bottom of the screen you’ll also notice overviews of the weather conditions for yesterday, today, and tomorrow. This screen also contains some basic information on the current temperature, humidity, and a few other details.

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The 10 Day section displays detailed forecasts for the coming 10 days. This can be viewed as either a graphical overview or you can tap on a specific day to bring up extra information, such as the high and low temperatures, precipitation, UV Index, and more.

You can also view an hour-by-hour breakdown of the current conditions by accessing the Hourly section, as well as details such as variations in temperature, and wind speed and direction. This is ideal for planning any trips you might need to make later on in the day rather than immediately.

People around the world seem to enjoy this weather forecast app. The Chicago weather app currently has more than two hundreds fourty customer ratings with an average rating of two point seven out of five stars on apple applications store web site. Supported languages are English and Spanish.

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WGN-TV - Chicago Weather Center

Free

Pros and Cons

Pros

  • Detailed weather forecasting for your local area on a 10-day or Hourly basis
  • Extensive radar map imagery with animation
  • Severe weather alerts
  • Store multiple locations
  • Submit photo and video content
  • Direct feed to the Chicago Weather Center blog

Cons

  • There is nothing negative to say about this app

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Final Words

As I mentioned, WGN-TV - Chicago Weather Center doesn’t get any marks for originality because the interface and general formula for this app is very common amongst other developments of this kind.

Having said that, this is a decent app and will definitely provide with more than enough detail for you to make accurate judgment calls on the weather in your locale.

WGN-TV - Chicago Weather Center

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MarkBangs

Mark is an opinionated writer who loves to review apps. In 2012, he started reviewing Apple apps on a regular basis and wonders how he survived up to that point without these apps.