. Best New App by Apple. Top Rated Mac App by Macworld. Featured by Lifehacker. Full Touch Bar Support. Forecast Bar offers hyper accurate, hyper local live weather and forecasts right in your menu bar or as a dock app. With your choice of The Weather Company or Dark Sky, always have the most accurate weather data.
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ICloud Sync keeps your locations and settings in sync across your devices. Custom icon and background packs allow you to customize the look and feel to suit your style. Opening Forecast Bar displays a gorgeous resizable panel full of relevant weather information, including: - Current conditions, with current, feels like, high, and low temperatures, cloud conditions, as well as relative humidity - A succinct description, available in over 40 languages, of the weather for the next hour, and next 24 hours - Create a customized weather summary to use in the app and widget which can contain any combination of 20 data points with everything from wind speeds to location of the nearest storm! - Charts showing temperature and rain forecasts for the next 8 hours - When rain is detected in the next 7 hours, a chart showing rain intensity - 14 day forecast, with high and low temperatures and weather conditions - A gorgeous image matching the weather conditions (which can be dimmed or hidden entirely, from either built-in or online sources) - Full description of all local NWS severe weather alerts (U.S. Only), including Notification Center support - Radar and satellite imagery (U.S. Only) Clicking again on the current conditions displays an animated panel with additional information, including: - Current wind conditions with an animated compass - Dew point and humidity readings, with a 'mugginess' animated gauge - Pressure indicator with trend information - Sunrise and sunset times for the day - Moon phase - Visibility reading - UV Index Forecast Bar automatically determines your location to provide hyper-local weather data. In addition, you can store unlimited favorited locations, and switch between them easily using keyboard shortcuts.
Forecast Bar supports Dark Sky’s Time Machine feature. Time Machine gives you the ability to check the current weather conditions at a given time, in the past 70 years or the next 70 years.
Forecast Bar offers full support for light and dark menu bar modes, and carefully conserves your computer's power. You can even fully customize what shows in your menu bar or dock on your dock badge. Assign a global keyboard shortcut to show Forecast Bar any time! Even more, there is a Today widget you can use in your Notification Center. With Notification Forwarding, you can forward precipitation alerts to Forecast Bar for iPhone and iPad!
Your Mac will automatically check the weather depending on where your phone is and send notifications when precipitation is coming (requires Forecast Bar for iOS). In addition, you can send the current temperature to iOS devices as an icon badge!
By. 3:09 pm, September 22, 2015. Forecast Bar brings loads of weather data your Mac's menu bar.
Photo: Forecast Bar Forecast Bar brings all the features you love about awesome weather app Dark Sky to a Mac app. Not only does it look similar to Dark Sky, but it’s powered by the same Forecast API, which means you’re getting the same accurate weather predictions.
Advertisement Forecast Bar also works the way you want it to. Keep it in the menu bar or let it sit in your Dock. Enable certain notifications and display a three-day, five-day or seven-day forecast — up to you. With its detailed weather and range of customization options, it should very quickly take your Mac by storm. Whether you keep Forecast Bar in your menu bar or in the Dock, it’s clear the app was meant to be in your menu bar. It works just fine as a Dock app, but the window is still tall and slender as if it’s supposed to be dangling from the top of your screen. Don’t let the small footprint fool you, though, Forecast Bar is packed with important weather data.
At the top, your standard information about current conditions is prominent, as it is in most weather apps. At a glance you can see the current temperature, high and low for the day, and a description of the current weather. This is also where you add or switch locations, view a radar map or get details for severe weather alerts. The accuracy of the seems to vary based on your location, but when you’re in one of its better locations, it’s hard to find something more reliable. Customize Forecast Bar to your liking. Photo: Forecast Bar Underneath that is where the similarities to really become apparent. By default, a chart will show your eight-hour forecast.
However, if rain is on the way within the next hour, this chart will switch to a detailed view of looming precipitation. Below that is the extended forecast, which you can customize the length of in the app’s preferences. Additionally, you can click any part of the app — whether it’s current conditions, the hourly chart or the extended forecast — to get more advanced details. These include wind, humidity and UV index, all cleverly organized in pop-up charts alongside the anticipated precipitation amounts. At the very bottom is Time Machine, which lets you pick any date over the past 70 years and see the weather on that day.
The Mac App Store has been pretty void of any decent weather apps for several years and it’s nice to see a solid entry make it through Apple’s gates., which is also powered by the Forecast API, debuted on the Mac recently as well and remains one of my absolute favorite picks. Forecast Bar uses Forecast.io’s radar. Photo: Forecast Bar Meanwhile, Dark Sky has garnered a pretty loyal fanbase on iOS. It features comprehensive forecasts, a pretty decent design and its famous down-to-the-minute weather predictions. Its developers haven’t gotten around to releasing a dedicated Mac app, but they do serve up the website and Forecast API for other developers to take advantage of instead. Forecast Bar costs $5.99, which is less expensive than Carrot Weather, but it comes with some very odd in-app purchases.
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The app will refresh data every hour, but if you want more up-to-date reports, you’ll have to get them with a purchase. 10-minute updates cost you a one-time fee of — wait for it — $29.99. I can’t see why anyone would pay for that, but the good news is you don’t have to. Overall, is a reputable new weather app for the Mac. For six bucks, it’s one you should consider adding to your menu bar.