Weather forecast with MeeCast

MeeCast by Vlad Vasilyeu is a free weather forecast application available on the Nokia Store. You might wonder why you should even try another weather application, since the N9 comes with a nicely integrated app of AccuWeather. But MeeCast is worth a try - more than that:



It is very customizable, has a beautiful user interface and offers special addons like a lock screen widget. Next to the actual weather it shows you a forecast of 8 days, by clicking on them you get further information about humidity, wind speed/direction, sunrise/sunset and day/night weather.

MeeCast application and it's widget in events view

When using MeeCast the first time, you need to add a location (or several ones). This can be done by GPS location or by adding a place manually. You can choose between 3 different weather-data sources: yr.no, gismeteo.ru and weather.com.

Other options in settings are: Measurements units (temperature unit, wind speed units, pressure units), Appearance (read more below) and Update. To save battery and data, set update to never (manually) or 4h.

The appearance options are the centerpiece of MeeCast. It offers you a big set of different icons you can choose from, all looking great. Next to that you can activate Widget in events view (AccuWeather must be deleted to make it work*!) and Widget in LockScreen (see picture).

Appearance Options / Widget on LockScreen / Iconset

MeeCast is one of the best made N9 applications and a great alternative to AccuWeather. It's available on NokiaStore in several languages (English, French, Russian, Finnish, German, Italian, Spanish, Polish, Slovak and Swedish).

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Finally there's the question: MeeCast or AccuWeather? I think there is no answer. MeeCast scores with a nice, fast and clean user interface (very customizable and without advertisement compared to AccuWeather) where AccuWeather provides some more general infos and statistics which aren't though necessary for every user.
Best way to get an answer is by trying out both of them...
What do you think? Feel free to leave your comment about your preference.

*To use all features of MeeCast, the native AccuWeather app must be deleted. In case you want to reinstall it, you find it here: Backup AccuWeather