Use Technology to Battle that Warrensburg Snow!

While I would not consider myself a voluntary "Snow Junkie" by any means, the recent weather in Warrensburg seems to be forcing us all into a wintery-wonderland lifestyle. Naturally, the article

The Best Apps for Snow Junkies on Gizmodo.com caught my eye immediately.

The various apps, including iOS Snow Report, Weatherbug, MotionX GPS and Satski, were originally created for smart phone users at ski resorts, so they could better track looming snow storms. While they do include many features benefitting skiers alone, I find other aspects of these applications to be pretty helpful as well. For example, putting your location information into Weatherbug will not only give you an hourly forecast for the next day, but will also provide you with a "tentative" prediction for the weather as far as ten days into the future. Not too bad for a free application, right?

What makes these applications better than your average weather program? They are tailored specifically towards accurate snow prediction, something we can all appreciate these days. Also, if you are indeed a skier, they have numerous other abilities such as progress tracking, resort ratings and mountain maps. With all of these new capabilities, I might just take up the hobby. (But probably not, I am not a big fan of the cold).

For another review on one of these snow Aps, check out this video. It is clearly an advertisement, but I still found it fairly informative when picking out a Snow Ap to arm myself with before our next blizzard.