Viigo’s New Weather Service
This is the first in a series of posts covering what’s new in the latest version of Viigo … and we thought we’d start with the basics.
Our weather service, which is delivered in partnership with Accuweather, is one of the most popular services within Viigo. Each day, hundreds of thousands of people check the weather on Viigo, and we owe them the best weather experience we can provide.
Earlier versions of Viigo’s weather service suffered from a couple of key issues … (1) for cities with few subscribers, collection times were often long, resulting in the weather being out of date, and (2) for detailed information, we forced you to open a web page (a slow and sometimes arduous process).
We’ve not only improved both of those things, we’ve actually added some important features.
Here’s a look at the new weather screen for a city (in this example New York). You’ll see live current conditions … and a 5 day forecast, including a summary of the expected conditions.
Clicking on the Current conditions, brings you additional details, delivered without the need for you to launch an external browser.
For cities within North America, scrolling down further will get you a live radar image, so you can see what storms might be approaching.
Note: in order to fully take advantage of Weather 2.0, you’ll need to remove your current weather cities and add the new ones, and you’ll need to be running the latest version of Viigo.
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