Weather apps are the most popular among Irish farmers. Here are two suggestions by farmers for apps that they use – do you have one that you think is better? Send your views to bizsense@farmersjournal.ie

The Met Eireann app, which can be found at www.met.ie, is really easy to use and can be installed in a matter of seconds. It is essentially a website tailored for smartphones and mobile devices, meaning that it doesn’t take forever to load when you don’t have a high-speed internet connection.

Features include weather warnings, latest hourly weather reports, sea area forecasts and text forecasts. However, in terms of accuracy of weather in your location, it is limited by the fact that when setting your region you can only specify what county you are in and your closest weather station. Mobile Met can be found on the Met Eireann website and can be downloaded from Google Play or the App store.

Yr

Designed by the Norwegian Meteorological Institute, the Yr app offers incredibly detailed hour-by-hour and week-long forecasts for your own townland. It gives a list view of the week ahead.

A particularly useful feature of this app is the charted hourly projections which illustrate the rise and fall of the sun over the course of the day along with wind direction and speed, temperature and expected levels of precipitation for each hour.

Yr can be found on the website yr.no and can be downloaded from Google Play for Android users or the App store if using an Apple device.

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