This is one of the best weather apps in the store

Oct 8, 2015 11:57 GMT  ·  By

If the built-in Windows 10 Weather app isn't quite your cup of tea, you can always look in the store for alternatives and you'll definitely come across The Weather Channel.

Starting today, The Weather Channel is available as a universal app for Windows 10, which means that it works on both PCs and mobile phones running Microsoft's operating system.

Obviously, it also comes with some new features, including severe weather alerts, which issue notifications from your national weather service – this option is only available in the United States and Western Europe for now, rain alerts to find out in advance whenever you need an umbrella, and pollen alerts to find out when pollen counts near you – also available only in the United States and the UK.

The mapping service has also been improved, so you can now touch anywhere on the map so see weather conditions from the location you choose, show saved locations on the map, tilt the road map for a different perspective and zoom out to the maximum level to see weather across the world.

Another neat future of The Weather Channel app is support for Cortana, which lets you interact with the built-in Windows 10 personal assistant and find out the forecast without touching the app.

Clearly, this is one of the best alternatives for the default app, so go ahead and download The Weather Channel for Windows 10 right now to see what this is all about.

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