SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--CustomWeather, Inc., a specialized provider of high resolution weather forecast and alert services, announced a joint endeavor withEarthBuzz Software to offer an interactive social weather application for iPhone/iPad/iPod Touch. Powered by weather data from CustomWeather, EarthBuzz allows users to visualize geo-tagging Twitter friends on a 3D globe that includes overlays of live global weather conditions, hurricanes, earthquakes, observations and forecast imagery.
CustomWeather?s high resolution, localized forecasting system, combined with EarthBuzz?s app-development ingenuity equals an entertaining and compelling "big picture" weather experience for checking weather conditions, forecasts and other global events in connection with friends and loved-ones.
EarthBuzz has layered CustomWeather?s forecasting data over NASA?s recently released Blue Marble high resolution earth-imagery. CustomWeather?s data includes live weather conditions, forecasts, animated satellite cloud image layers and global forecast system image layers.
Michael Clark, founder of EarthBuzz software, explains that ?We chose CustomWeather as our data provider due to their extensive suite of weather products: current conditions, extended forecasts, a wide range of image layers and tile serving capability, and access to other weather-related events such as earthquakes, hurricanes, observations and alerts - all from a single provider. The XML formats innovated by CustomWeather have made it easy from a developer perspective to access this collection of data with a uniform interface.?
EarthBuzz is available both in free and premium versions on iTunes App Store. For more information visit www.EarthBuzz.com.
About CustomWeather, Inc.
CustomWeather is a San Francisco-based provider of high resolution weather forecast and alert services, offering the industry's most robust weather solutions for both decision support and consumer application. CustomWeather generates granular weather forecasts for over 200 countries worldwide, providing sophisticated weather services to leading companies in a variety of industries including Utilities, Oil and Gas, Offshore Drilling and Exploration, Insurance, Agriculture, Transportation, Mobile, and Media. For over a decade, CustomWeather has been the leading one-stop solution for historical, real-time, and forecast weather services. For more information, visit www.CustomWeather.com.
About EarthBuzz
EarthBuzz provides an interactive social weather application for iPhone/iPad/iPod Touch. EarthBuzz Weather builds upon a high-tech virtual earth engine and creates an interactive, visual experience when checking current weather conditions, weather forecasts and global geological events. This universal app for iOS is amazing on an iPhone, and absolutely stunning on an iPad. For more information, visit http://www.EarthBuzz.com.