Rain Alarm - A Precise, Real-Time Rain Alert Chrome Extension
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The simple idea of the app is to warn you against approaching precipitation This weather app warns you when rain is currently nearing. Instead of forecasting it warns using almost real-time data, which is more precise than any forecast can be. It is an useful assistant for everything outdoors like cycling, biking, hiking, and more.
The data used originates from governmental weather services. Works in the USA (including Alaska, Hawaii, Puerto Rico, Guam), Canada, Mexico, El Salvador, Argentina, Australia, Taiwan, Japan, Republic of Korea, Malaysia, Singapore, Brunei, the UK, Ireland, Germany, Austria, Finland, Norway, Iceland, the Netherlands, Spain (including the Balearic and the Canary Islands), Slovenia, Croatia, Belarus, Ukraine, Russia.
For the latest news follow us on Twitter: @rainalarm
If your country is not supported, this is probably for one of the following reasons:
- your country's weather service demands a license fee for commercial use
- your country's weather service does not respond to my emails
- your country's weather service does not provide radar images
In case you want to uninstall a web application from chrome: http://www.google.com/support/chrome_webstore/bin/answer.py?answer=1053346
User reviews
- very good app
- efficient
- helps to plan for changing weather
- works well on mobile
- looks helpful
- crashes frequently
- remains active after uninstallation
- poor accuracy
- high resource usage
- not functional in certain regions
- issues with uninstallation
- crashing notifications
- poor functionality in specific areas
- varied user experience
- positive feedback on mobile version
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Extension safety
Risk impact
Rain Alarm requires very minimum permissions.
Risk likelihood
Rain Alarm is probably trust-worthy. Prefer other publishers if available. Exercise caution when installing this extension.