Weather Application in Windows 8

These days, when the weather is messy and leaving home can be an adventure, the El Tiempo application that comes installed by default on Windows 8 works great. It is an app that informs users about the weather in a certain location, data that comes from the MeteoBing service.

The Weather application also makes historical statistical information available to Windows 8 users about any location, which is very useful, for example, to know what the weather is like when traveling and to carry the right clothes in the suitcase.The Weather shows the annual rainfall history, the hours of sunshine and the average maximum and minimum temperature throughout the year.

Weather in Windows 8

The Weather application shows weather information in several different blocks, very useful to be informed at all times. When it starts for the first time, it asks the user for permission to use their current location and thus customize the information, showing the nearest available location in the service .

This is the weather information displayed to users through the Windows 8 Weather application:

• Information on the weather at any given moment in a certain location.
• Weather forecast for the next hours and days.
• Meteorological maps of precipitation, evolution of clouds and evolution throughout the day.
• Historical information on the meteorology of a locality.

All this information can be consulted very quickly for the location in which we are at any given time, thanks to the geolocation it uses to locate us in a specific place. You can also add locations to a list of favorite locations, thus being just one click away to find out if it's going to rain in the town when you go the weekend or the temperature it will be when we visit the beach house.

The Weather app comes standard with Windows 8, so there's no need to download or install it. It can be found on the home screen, just one click is enough to put it into operation and start being informed of everything related to weather.

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An interesting option offered by the El Tiempo application is the historical and miscellaneous information of meteorological events in each location. For example, you can check which are the most extreme temperatures reached in Madrid throughout the month of January or during any other month. Have you been curious? Ok, so you should know that the historical minimum temperature in Madrid in a month of January was reached in 1985, with -9ºC. What a cold!

In addition to the temperature, the rainfall history and the average hours of sunshine throughout each month are also shown, information that is very useful, for example, if you want to schedule a trip to a unknown place. This way you can decide which is the best time to carry out the desired activity and put the most appropriate clothes in your suitcase. Once the date set for the trip approaches, to decide whether to bring a swimsuit or an umbrella, all you have to do is check the forecast for the desired location, which can be located through the application's search engine.

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