Not that I want to rain on Jason's parade, but after his article "Web app: Best iPhone weather" at the Apple Core, I just had to add my two cents and shed a little sunlight on the subject of weather applications for the un-jailbroken iPhone.

My number one favorite weather web app is WeatherBug for the iPhone. For two main reasons: one - it lets me have multiple sites bookmarked (a maximum of six) and, like the Apple weather app, I can scroll back and forth between my preselected locations to see not only today's forecast but the next several days as well. Secondly - I am able to display current local radar for that location so I can become my own meteorologist and predict the weather in the near future for a destination I will be going to soon.

Granted, WeatherBug only displays today plus the two succeeding days, but with the video button you can get an online live weather report from the WeatherBug Studios or use Apple's springboard app to get a six day overview.

My disappointment with the AccuWeather site is that it limits me to only three preset locations and the radar, although it displays a 75-minute loop, the 600 mile diameter circle it encompasses does not provide enough detailed information for your destination of choice. With WeatherBug, you can see major highways and county borders in its 150 mile diameter circle, so you can precisely predict weather patterns for your destination point. I agree that the AccuWeather site gives hour-by-hour predictions for your selected location but it only covers the next five hours.

Update: Thanks to Steve from AccuWeather - "I wanted to let you know that we just updated the US radar imagery for the AccuWeather.com iPhone widget. It is now location centered at a 300 mile radius."

AccuWeather only lets you select a general vicinity when selecting an area of reporting, whereas WeatherBug lets you select a specific reporting site for your desired area, be it a local airport, municipal building or school. I guess I'll be adding the AccuWeather site to my active iPhone web pages and see if I derive any additional benefits from its use over the other two I currently use.

Another item of interest to iPhone users is the fact that both web sites are Web Link-enabled, so if you wish to bookmark the sites to your v1.1.3 enabled iPhone or iPod Touch, they both provide a very distinctive icon for your springboard. So may all your weather be sunny and fair, wherever you travel. If not, there is no reason you will go unprepared.

Let us know what your thoughts and observations over in the comments and forums.