The Weather Channel debuts interactive 3D app for Apple's iPad

The Weather Channel is introducing an overhauled version of its popular application for Apple's (NASDAQ:AAPL) iPad tablet, touting a revamped, more seamless user interface promising greater insight into local weather conditions.

Click here to watch a video about the 3D iPad app.

The updated Weather Channel for iPad App includes customized, weather-triggered background homescreen images that change in response to local conditions. A forecast screen displays current conditions, a 10-day forecast and expandable hourly forecasts in 15-minute TruPoint increments, while an interactive 3D spinning globe enables users to spin, pinch and zoom their perspective. The app also boasts a satellite map depicting pinpointed favorite locations, geo-tagged iWitness photos and related data.

Beyond visualization, the new Weather Channel for iPad App brings news mash-ups assembled from TWC headlines, Twitter updates from TWC meteorologists and severe weather experts, and user-submitted photos. Social integration enables weather update sharing via email, Twitter or Facebook--users may also post a Tweet or upload iWitness photos and video directly from the iPad camera. The app also carriers over features from the original app, e.g. interactive weather maps with local points of interest, customizable animated weather layers, severe weather alerts and GPS-based "Find me" availability.

The Weather Channel for iPad App remains free to download; Westin Hotels & Resorts serves as the launch sponsor. The Weather Channel adds that more than 5 million iPad owners downloaded the original app, introduced in April 2010.

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