Finally a Weather App for Photographers & Filmmakers

Posted on by Jeff Riegel, Producer/Editor
October 25, 2012

 

There are few things that cause more colon clenching anxiety than shooting on location in uncertain weather. When the iPhone was introduced, I thought for sure that my weather worry days were behind me. A weather app, accurate and simple, would be my crystal ball into the capricious nature of, well, nature. But it never came to pass.

Like a compulsive Goldilocks I tried a myriad of weather apps. Some were too feature fat, some were too feature thin. There were none that was just right. And all of them had a bizarre aversion to displaying the sunrise and sunset times on their primary screen.

Then along came an app called Check the Weather. It is fabulous. The key data, including sunrise and sunset times, are right up front. More details are just a left/right or up/down swipe away. It is simple to use, and beautiful to look at. It updates often and quickly, and above all it is accurate.

Check the weather also gives you minute by minute precipitation forecasts by integrating with Dark Sky, a super sexy precipitation app and service. I’ve been using Check the Weather for the past four days. On Monday night I saw the rain storm approaching the Giants game practically in real time. You will never want for another weather source once you buy this thing).

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For two decades, Jeff Riegel was a senior level Producer/Editor for the Department of Defense and various government contractors in Northern Virginia. Outside of the workplace, Jeff keeps himself busy with the creation of festival worthy documentaries "Tori Nelson: Fighting for Her Future" and the once nominated and two-time Emmy award winning "A Journey of Education and Remembrance." His short film "The Great Realisation" captured the eyes at 18 international film festivals with various winning honors; a poem that takes on heavy themes such as fevered capitalism, man-made ecological issues, digital addiction during the global Covid blight. Jeff is looking for funding investors and co-producing "The Lost Clipper," a two+ decades project about the first hijacking in U.S. history and the search for those 15 lost souls abducted in 1938, the true first act of war with Japan. Filming takes him to Micronesia, Guam, Hawaii, Canada, and locations across the U.S. (see www.LostClipper.com) He enjoys creating media-marketing social networking campaign for personalities such as 13-time world boxing champion Tori Nelson, Netflix's "Narcos" personalities Steve Murphy and Javier Pena, and renowned landscape photographer Frank Lee Ruggles. Jeff is eager to attack any project head-on. Jeff's Motto: think beyond convention...and consider it done!