iTyphoon Download for iOS and Android on your cellphone for free

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The Ateneo de Naga University and the typhoon forecasting center of the Naga College Foundation released a locally made typhoon-tracking application for iPhones and other iOS devices and Android-ran phones developed by programmer Magno Conag III and Michael Padua, owner of Typhoon 2000. The app was already released to Android market in Google on Sept. 6 and iOS in Apple on Oct. 6 but was only launched Dec. 15 in Quezon City.

The iTyphoon is an application focused on typhoons entering the Philippine Area of Responsibility (PAR) and made easy through animation, graphic display, concise forecast using visual language and complemented with access to Google map.

The app has been been found out to be very useful to get alerted of possible calamities to occur. For instance, it has correctly foretold the fury of Typhoon Sendong, with an advisory issued as early as 6 a.m. of Friday, Dec. 16, that the intensifying Sendong would be passing through Cagayan de Oro City in the evening of that day. An advisory issued by the iTyphoon app earlier that “Sendong” incident said that “the core of Washi will make landfall over Surigao del Sur later this afternoon. It will then move across Northern portion of Bukidnon and will pass very closely to Cagayan de Oro this evening.”

It alerted the residents living in low-lying and mountainous areas under any storm signals for flash floods, mudslides and landslides. It forecast the rainfall accumulation to be “High” at 200 millimeter (mm) and rain rate to be “Heavy” at 20-30 mm/hour.

Download the iTyphoon Android and iPhone app and be alerted.  The application is available for free at the Google Android Market.