Prepare for spring showers ahead with our local storm radar. Surely these bugs will be ironed out over time, and once they are, The Weather Channel Max for iPad will be an indispensable tool to check the weather on your iPad.The Weather Channel is the World's Most Accurate Forecaster**.

Aside from the glitches I’ve already mentioned, the icons are very unresponsive to touch, and sometimes the app seems to have a mind of its own. However, the execution of the application lets it down badly.

The Weather Channel Max for iPad has the potential to be a must-have app. The Social section of The Weather Channel Max for iPad is also worth checking out, providing the latest tweets from the people behind The Weather Channel. It looks nice, and videos can be viewed full screen, but again this is very buggy and sometimes the clips take forever to load. These aren’t just forecasts either, and you get clips about weather news, storm videos and full-length TV features. The Weather Channel Max for iPad is rammed full of free videos from the channel. Underneath this information, The Weather Channel Max includes more relevant sections, which you can flick through with your finger. Again, this information is crystal clear at full screen resolution, displaying the conditions right now, for the next 36 hours and for the next 10 days. Hit the Local icon in The Weather Channel Max for iPad and you’ll access the current forecast for your area. It’s a shame because otherwise this would be a very useful tool. The radar images take an age to load, if at all, and the pinch to zoom feature of the maps feels clunky and imprecise. It’s a lovely idea but unfortunately this feature is very poorly executed in The Weather Channel Max. Radar images are layered over the map and you can select to view the type of weather image you want to see, such as clouds, rain, temperature, UV, etc. The Maps section of The Weather Channel Max for iPad allows you to get a near real time view of the weather over your area (or any area in the World, for that matter).

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