They recently released the first stage of a free web app, Forecast.io, which offers forecasts for other parts of the world.None of the three has meteorological training, which, as Mr Grossman (a physicist, as well as trained blacksmith) points out, need not be a bad thing.
Head expects business to grow as DesignLive adds support for additional web apps, forecasting 5,000 total paid hours by July (compared to 900 hours reached by the end of 2016).
Brought to you by the same guys who built Dark Sky (which is already one of the prettiest native weather apps), Forecast is a rather remarkable demonstration of what web apps — in both mobile and standard form — can do with good scripting and solid design (You can read all about the development of Forecast here).
The official BBC Weather app provided forecasts for the UK, automatically for your current location or via search for other places.
The independent study, carried out by Chetan Sharma Consulting for Getjar, the world's second biggest app store, forecasts that the global mobile application economy will be worth $17.5bn in 2012, more than CD sales, which it predicts will be $13.83bn.
App Annie forecasts that by 2022, India will have 37.2 billion downloads a year, a growth rate of 207% -- which makes it by far the fastest growing app market in the world.
There's only one other surf-forecasting app, GreenRoom Surf Forecasts, available today and it costs $2.99.
Facebook also continues to expand advertising on its app Instagram (forecasting firm eMarketer estimates the app will generate 18% of Facebook's mobile ad revenue this year), and has been increasing ads and business tools in Messenger.
This tallies with an app-related forecast put out earlier this year by analyst Gartner, also tracking the rise of freemium.
As we reported yesterday, the market for mobile health apps is forecasted to quadruple to $400 million by 2016.
This app shows the forecasts for 17 of the city's neighborhoods, which can vary in temperatures by as much as 30 degrees at any given time.
