Cell phone weather products - Free or low cost

A flood of new weather products is hitting the market. Tools are getting more interactive and graphics are getting better. Weather.com did a nice job with it's weather.com - Interactive radar map from The Weather Channel.

Accuweather.com offers several cell phone weather products that are either browser based or small applications that can be downloaded to the cell phone. They support most service providers.

Even the National Weather Service sprung into action. Their products can be retrieved on a cell phone via http enabled devices at: mobile.srh.weather.gov or if your device is WAP enabled at: www.srh.noaa.gov/wml. For surface observations there is a history of the last 12 reports, which I like.

WXWeather isn't free, but a low cost option at $59 per year. They delivers great looking pages and all the contents we pilots care about on a cell.

eMETAR.com in an innovative service that lets you know when the weather meets your conditions to fly. Their servers will watch METARs at airports you specify and notify you when conditions meet your personal minimums.

PilotMyCast is a provider that requires you download a Java program into your phone, and it talks to the network. Pilot My-Cast looks to be a very capable system.