Weather pro was my preferred weather app on the iPhone and the new version for the iPad looked sumptuous from the screen shots so I decided to try it. Quick summary - it's OK but...
The source for the forecasts is vital for a weather app to be useful and MeteoGroup seems fine for this app and has certainly been pretty accurate in my experience. However, the things which made this app for me on the iPhone was simple access to both radar data and satellite images so I can make my own judgement on the forecasts, and this is where this app currently lags slightly behind the iPhone version.
On the iPhone, if you pay a little extra you get additional image frames for both the radar and satellite views and also some 'predicted' frames for the future for the radar. Although the premium account is transferable to the iPad, the app currently doesn't provide these additional features, although it does increase the resolution of the other forecast data (windspeed/temp/rainfall/humidity/sunshine) to be hourly instead of 3 hourly.The interface uses multiple pop over frames in line with most iPad apps compared to separate screens on the iPhone which works nicely (see screen shot).
Summary: nice, accurate, but just slightly disappoints.
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