Need a jacket with your workout? Weather Channel app tells all

Sure it rains in Oregon, but it’s always nice to know when a downpour will come your way. Runners who started off last Saturday morning on a punishing 100-mile trail run through the Siskiyou Mountain Range were taken by surprise by an early-season deluge at one of the summits along the course.

Well, to use a well-trod term, there’s an app for that. The Weather Channel’s new smartphone fitness application provides not only the weather for a particular city or area but the pollen count, mosquito levels and air quality in a “fitness activity index,” writes Julie Deardorff in the Chicago Tribune.

“The app might be most helpful, however, for those who have health conditions that can be triggered by weather changes, such as migraines or arthritis,” Deardorff writes. “The ‘aches and pains’ index forecasts for potential weather-related pains using barometric pressure, absolute humidity, chance of precipitation, temperature and wind.”

Read the entire story at “Julie’s Health Club: the Weather Channel’s new fitness app.”

--Mary Forgione