And in late 2012 WeatherBomb was released. Check out my first YouTube release video (cringe!). We have come a long way since.

For many years WeatherBomb was a side project, literally out of an Auckland workshop. The change came in 2016 when we (myself, Sally and our boys Niva and Varo) moved to the tropical island of Rarotonga. We decided to turn WeatherBomb into Flowx and make it our livelihood. After a year+ of sprucing up the app we’ve released an app we’re proud of. Much of the pride and anticipation is in the code which is designed for some cool stuff in the near future.

The Team

Duane Malcolm

Duane writes the code and answers emails. Many users think Duane is a Meteorologist and makes them weather predictions but the truth is that he’s just the messenger - the credit goes to all the Met Orgs. who solve the weather models. Really, he’s an engineer who likes to think/dream a lot and make cool things.

Sally Malcolm

Sally is a super organiser - she dots the i’s and crosses the t’s for Duane. It took some convincing but Sally has taken on the marketing effort and has the final say on design and color decisions. This is good since these were well neglected and is the missing piece to an Apple version of Flowx.

The Supporters

And finally, a big THANKS to all the people and organizations that have helped Flowx get this far.

Meteorological Organisations

A special thanks to the organisations that provide the great weather data.

NOAA (USA)

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) provides the Global Forecast System (GFS) and the Wave Watch III (NWW3) forecast data.

Environment Canada

The Canadian Meteorological Center (CMC) provides the Global Deterministic Forecast System (GDPS) forecast data.

DWD

Germany’s National Meteorological Service, the Deutscher Wetterdienst provides the Cosmo-D2 and ICON global and EU data.

Meteo-France

Meteo-France is the French meteorological organization that provides the great Arpege and Arome data.

KNMI

The Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute (KNMI) is the Dutch national weather service that provides the HARMONIE data.

ECMWF

The European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF) provider the HRES 44km model data.