We used to just look up at the sky to predict rain, but apparently that’s not how you do it in this tech age.
Who needs PAGASA when there’s an app claiming to call the weather with a 95-percent accuracy?
“With the RaincheckPH app, which is initially only for Android operating system (OS), people now have the means to know whether rain is coming or not,” reports Edd Usman in Manila Bulletin.
The Department of Science and Technology and telecom giant Smart Communications Inc. launched RaincheckPH on Tuesday, boasting that the weather information could be drilled down from regional updates to weather status in cities.
Voyager Innovations Inc., a subsidiary of Smart that produced the app, said the program was perhaps the first “locally produced mobile app” that advocates hazard preparedness among users.
The company said the app would be very useful here since the Philippines gets battered by at least 20 typhoons in a year, plus the increasing intensity of monsoon rains.
With the app’s release, could an app predicting an earthquake be far behind?
