WeatherBug app now on Amazon’s Fire phone

GERMANTOWN, USA: WeatherBug, has launched its app on Amazon's new Fire phone.

Featuring exclusive Spark lightning alerts, the alerts to severe weather, and pinpoint forecasts for 2.6 million locations worldwide. The app includes all the weather, alerting tools and special features.

The app utilizes Fire's features with an expanded home screen widget that provides vital weather information at-a-glance, supports gesture-based navigation, and includes new 3D effects.

Amena Ali, CMO for Earth Networks, the parent company of WeatherBug, said: "WeatherBug is consistently among the most downloaded mobile apps because we uniquely deliver more data from our own network, in a beautiful, rich app. We rely on Amazon to deliver exclusive weather, critical lightning information and advanced severe weather alerts. And Amazon customers have helped make WeatherBug a top-rated app. We are delighted to further team with Amazon to launch WeatherBug for Fire."

Earth Networks, WeatherBug's parent company, works closely with Amazon to deliver Spark with real-time total lightning alerts - plus critical weather information - to millions of consumers.

Every second, vast amounts of data from weather and lightning sensors around the world - amounting to billions of transactions per day - is processed in the Amazon Cloud using a broad variety of technology offerings. Data is then delivered to millions of connected users via WeatherBug's apps.

WeatherBug for Fire is available for free.