We can’t do much to about the weather but most of us like to talk about it anyway. So, why not organize this weather information sharing? I took a look at the free Weddar for iPhone and Android earlier this year and came away unimpressed because, as I wrote earlier, While a crowd sourced social weather app seems like a good idea, its dependence on the crowd instead of conventional weather sensors means that its usefulness is greater or lesser depending on how many people participate. From what I can see, there are now fewer U.S. data points available compared to this past April when I tried the iPhone version.
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Best wishes for a safe weekend for those of you on the east coast of the U.S. in the path of Hurricane Irene. As you prepare for the hurricane, you may want to add this to your checklist: Bookmark FEMA’s (the U.S. Federal Emergency Management Agency) mobile website found at: 
The Weather Channel and Twitter have teamed up to create 220 customer local Twitter feeds for cities with populations of 100,000 or more. Weather-related tweets range from 200 per minute on an average day. An active weather day can bump this number to as high as 500 weather related tweets per minute.
What would you guess is the second most used smartphone app behind Facebook’s? Twitter, perhaps? Evernote? Angry Birds? Those would have been my guesses. The answer, however, according to The Weather Channel’s press relese is the various veresion of The Weather Channel mobile app which is available for iPhone, Android, Windows Phone and more.
Mashable’s view of a crowd sourced iPhone weather app is a lot sunnier than mine.