Back in January this year Donegal Weather Channel was delighted to announce that work had began on a new project this year a new high tech weather app that will help get weather forecasts, weather warning and much more straight to your phone.

This was something which Donegal Weather Channel promised its followers when we released a brand new website over 2 years ago which has seen over 10 million people through the site to date.

The reason for the app was due to how slow it can be to get information to people on facebook and twitter as a example of social media platforms with many missing updates.

At the start of January work on a new high tech weather app began and is making great progress but still some work to be carried out before its released to the public.

POSSIBLE RELEASE DATE

Donegal Weather Channel hopes to be able to release the Beta stage of the app in the next 3 to 4 weeks and then fully release the app at the end of July just for the end of Summer

The app when completed will be released on android and iphones with a planned release date for the second half of 2020.

The app will be a nationwide weather app for all 32 counties on the island of Ireland.

As mentioned above there has been big progress on the app over the past 2 months.

• So far a weather warnings system has been created which will send a notification straight to your phone and you can choose which county warning you would like to receive, There will also be the option to receive warnings for all counties nationwide.

• There also will be a road alerts system which will send you a notification on poor road conditions or road closures but for the first few months this will be available for northwestern counties and then rolled out nationwide.

• A real time and 3 hour period forecast will also be available with a hourly forecast also to be added.

• A rainfall radar and a number of weather charts will also be available.

• A real time lightning radar will also be available

• A aurora (Northern lights warning system will also be added

• Moon phases will also be available

• Moonrise, Moonset, Sunrise and sunset times will also be available

• There is also a few other features people will find useful added something I will announce in the coming months

There will be small subscription fees for some of the extras that will be available on the app that many will find very useful.

Donegal Weather Channel is the only independent full time weather service set up in Ireland with Met Eireann been the other who are a government run weather service.

Donegal Weather Channel will keep you up to date with progress of the app over the coming months and launch dates.

Kenneth from the Donegal Weather Channel