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Rainbow Weather iOS App REVIEW Fast, Accurate Forecasts and Timely Alerts

8 min readAug 14, 2026
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Rainbow Weather combines minute-by-minute precipitation forecasts, severe weather alerts, radar, and a clean dashboard to make keeping track of changing weather easier.

Years ago, some friends of mine got into a video game called Katamari Damacy. In this game, players control a tiny prince who rolls a ball around, collecting objects from the world around him. The main antagonist of the game is the King of All Cosmos. At the end of each level, he appears and transports the tiny prince to the next level via the Royal Rainbow. The reason I mention that is because the Royal Rainbow looks a lot like the Rainbow Weather main icon, and I think that might be what initially endeared me to the app.

The truth is that I am constantly looking for the best possible weather app. I live in the Midwest, and our weather is extremely volatile and can be very dangerous. Just this week, there were tornadoes and life-threatening flooding just three hours north of where I live. Because of this, I like to keep a close eye on what is going on weather-wise. I have one of our local news provider’s apps, but it is ad-laden and takes a long time to load. When you have dangerous weather bearing down on you, the…

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