Yet another Norwegian iPhone application has been released, and also this one is a must-have tool for us Norwegians. I have often found iPhone’s included weather application to not be to accurate for places in Europe, especially in Norway.

I first reported about yr.no for iPhone a week ago. The application is developed in a cooperation between the software house apps AS, NRK and Meteorologisk institutt, and it will replace nWeather, developed by the same software house.

Installation

For the first time I noticed that searching for an application on iTunes Music Store did not work, so I had to navigate to the Weather section to find the application. I guess that is something Apple will soon fix, but for now, here is the direct link to the application: http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewSoftware?id=300709016&mt=8 .

The installation itself was straight forward, but others have reported that they had to reboot their iPhone before the program was available in the menu.

Features

The Yr.no for the iPhone is very well developed is in my opinion.  The application has in good Yr-tradition the Search field centrally located on the top of the application window. In addition, you will have the opportunity to use the built-in GPS to find the forecast for the place you are on, view the four last visited places on the front (with a 3-days forecast for weather and temperature) and get a notification for 11 thousand places in Norway and the world. nWeather only had 2 147 Norwegian places (cities, towns and villages).

Sadly, the town that my grandmother lives in, Mindszent, is not one of them. Budapest and Szeged on the other hand are included. On the second screenshot you see a more detailed view of your place of interest. The three days included in the forecast forecast are devided in four: Night, morning, afternoon and evening)

If you rotate the phone you will get an even more detailed 48 hours forecast: