The Best Weather App for RV Travel in 2021 - a podcast by Mike Wendland

We have found the best weather app for RV travel. It takes the National Weather Service's weather forecast showing RVers the weather along their route at the time they reach each point.

It allows comparison of different routes, creating stops, interactively changing departure time, and other features that help RVers plan trips around the weather.



You can easily switch between routes, adjust your leave time, add stops - all so you can find the safest way with the best weather to get to your destination.



Drive Weather is all about decision-making in regards to the weather. Like a pilot before taking off in an airplane and checking the expected weather en route, the app takes just a few seconds to get “briefed” on the safest route and safest time to leave.



We interviewed the developer of this awesome app on Episode 350 of the RV Podcast.



You can listen to the entire RV Podcast episode in the player below. Or keep scrolling down for an edited transcript of our interview.





Best weather app for Rv travel? Here is the interview with Paxton Calvanese, the developer of the Drive Weather app:

Mike Wendland:          

Well, the developer of road trip weather, Paxton Calvanese joins us right now on the RV podcast phone line. And Paxton, you have a really neat app. I'm very impressed.



Paxton Calvanese:        Thank you. Thank you.



Mike Wendland:          

Let's tell everybody a little bit about what it does and how it is different than the standard weather apps out there. Give us the 10th, you are a pilot, so this is an easy one for you. Give us the 10,000-foot overview of how it came to be and what this app does and why it's of particular interest to RVers.



Paxton Calvanese:       

Okay. I'll be happy to. So I'll tell you what it does right off the bat. It essentially shows you all the weather at each point of your routes when you would get there. And so, and that's kind of the heart of what it does. It presents the weather very clearly in a way that you can make a quick decision.



And so going back to, I developed a pilot app a few years prior to this one where, and I'm a private pilot. And I'm in Chicago and I would fly up to the Rocky Mountains and in a small airplane, you're very susceptible to the weather. And actually, a lot of pilots end up in a lot of trouble and end up in fatal accidents because of the weather.



And I didn't want to be one of those guys. So I would spend a lot of time evaluating the weather as it relates to flights. And with aviation weather, there's a lot to look at. And it would take me about 15 to 20 minutes to do a full weather planning before I would fly.



And that's a lot of time. And it wasn't particularly difficult, but it was very tedious and time-consuming, and a lot of mathematics and a lot of opportunities for errors.



And so I was a software developer for way too many years consulting in Chicago. And then I finally kind of got out of that and I was learning how to fly. And I kind of saw this opportunity where nobody had made this, put these, really put all the weather together in one app or one presentation. And so I did that and it worked pretty good. It basically took that 15-minute process down to like literally seconds, because I could just look at everything at once. And the app would calculate when I would be at each point in my trip. So, go ahead.



Mike Wendland:          

Yeah, so I'm leaving for a trip. And let's say, actually, I'm going to use this on a trip I'm doing myself.

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