Phone App For Trip Weather

Phone App For Trip Weather Route Cast is a new phone app for Apple phones. Available on the Apple App Store, it’s free and provides weather forecasts for routes. Instead of checking the weather across several states along a route, you can enter a start and end point, along with the date and time of travel. The app will display a map of the route and weather forecasts along the way. You can adjust the distance between forecasts to get more or less detail. It’s useful for predicting whether there will be storms, hail and wind along a route. The information is helpful for both work and pleasure trips. “It’s useful for motorcycle or convertible trips to forecast rain, as well as wind or hail that could impact high-profile vehicles or trailers. It’ll even warn of high crosswinds,” says Grant Geyer, creator of Route Cast. An engineering student at South Dakota State University, he created the app after growing tired of checking multi-state weather while driving to neighboring states. “It just made sense to have all the map and weather info for a trip in one place,” says Geyer. The app is available on the Apple App Store and can be found by searching for “Route Cast.” Editor’s Note: Geyer is the son of FARM SHOW Editor Scott Geyer and has worked part-time for FARM SHOW on various projects over the years. Contact: FARM SHOW followup: Grant Geyer, Brookings, S.D. (www.grantgeyer.com).

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