Hurricane HD

As an iPad-only application, Hurricane HD ($4) is the sort of software we can’t quite understand paying for: a big hurricane map with a blog-like collection of “News” postings, information on past storms, and animated satellite photographs of storm activity for the Atlantic, Pacific, and Indian Oceans. While we suppose that meteorologists or students might enjoy looking up old tracking data for past storms, with nice enough map overlays that zoom in to show you wind speeds and pressure, the average user can get most of the data he or she needs for free from Weather.com, news networks, or the NOAA web site. This is a fine aggregator, but niche at best in appeal

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