San Francisco, California – Alex Roberts today announces the availability of Mercury 2.0, compatible with iPhone and iPod Touch running OS 3.0 or higher. Mercury is a visually distinct and easy to use weather app that gives you the latest weather information wherever you are in the world, powered by WeatherBug‘s extensive worldwide weather services.

Mercury’s innovative circular interface displays the information you need in a large and easy to read format. Layering the current temperature in Celsius or Fahrenheit over atmospheric conditions. Linked with WeatherBug’s extensive online service, a quick tap of the details button will load up even more information about the weather conditions in your current area. There’s no need to enter any location details, Mercury is fully automatic, and always shows you the most up to date weather information.

New in version 2.0, Mercury now lets you to save an unlimited number of city locations around the world, allowing you to stay on top of global weather conditions. The saved locations view displays the temperature and weather conditions for each city; and a fully detailed breakdown with a tap. Mercury’s user interface has also been refined and improved with this release. The main display is now clearer with newly color coordinated local temperature; and it’s now possible to toggle the sunrise display for an even cleaner interface.

Features:
* Location aware weather
* Atmospheric conditions feedback
* High, low, and conditions forecast
* Precise sunrise and sunset information
* Detailed weather breakdown
* User saved locations – See the weather around the world
* Elegant and easy to use interface

New in Mercury 2.0:
* User saved locations
* Updated and refined user interface
* Improved performance
* Sunrise and sunset display now optional
* Bug fixes

Device Requirements:
* iPhone or iPod Touch, with iPhone OS 3.0 or later

Pricing and Availability:
Mercury 2.0 is $1.99 (USD) and available worldwide exclusively through the App Store in the Weather category.

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Alex Roberts is an independent software developer and graphic designer based in northern California. Copyright 2010 Alex Roberts. All rights reserved. Apple, the Apple logo, iPhone, iPod, and iTunes are trademarks of Apple Inc., registered in the U.S. and other countries.