Google’s Weather OneBox for Tablets

Google has a new tablet interface for the weather OneBox. It now looks more like an application and it includes more information: precipitation, humidity, wind speed, hourly weather forecast, 10-day forecast. The OneBox is interactive and you can select an hour or a day to see the forecast.

“When you type [weather] into Google on your tablet, you’ll see the current weather and you can scroll through the hourly and ten-day forecast. You can also toggle the Precipitation and Wind buttons to check out the percent chance of precipitation and wind direction/speed, respectively,” informs Google. It should work for iPad and Android tablets.

Ironically, the desktop weather OneBox has less information than the mobile OneBox (both the smartphone interface and the tablet interface). The smartphone UI was more colorful, but now it looks just like the tablet OneBox. Sure, it’s more likely that you’ll need weather information when you use a mobile device, but the desktop interface used to be richer and more comprehensive.

{ via Search Engine Roundtable }



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