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The well designed app delivers data from over 40, 000 professional and hobbyist weather stations to provide highly localized data for out of the way places. Top pick for the best overall weather app is AccuWeather. Its minutecast feature predicts when precipitation will start in your exact GPS location, all the way down to. A minute. The app can also use GPS to send you severe weather alerts if a storms heading towards your location. To get more info about each of these apps as well as links to where you can download them, head over techlicous. com and search for best weather apps. 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