Update: We have now received a note from Weather Flow's creator Gergely Orosz on why the app has been removed. In short, it's because of a lack of revenue due to his weather provider increasing its fees:
"My weather provider - Weather Underground - hiked their prices to a level where the app started making a significant loss that I couldn't fund after a while. Their weather data is expensive - $1,500 / month and the app was bringing in significantly less revenue then this, the last month it was $500, with the purchases also starting to go down. After a while the difference got too much to keep paying out of pocket without much hope of breaking even (not making a loss) again. Unfortunately weather data is expensive with lots of hits per day (Weather Flow was making almost 1M requests/day due to live tile updates) and I can't see a cheap or free, but decent alternative data source."
Original story: One of our favorite weather apps for Windows Phone, Weather Flow, is no longer being published in the Windows Phone Store. So far, there's no word on why the app has been pulled from circulation.
The app's creator, Gergely Orosz, launched a major 2.0 update to Weather Flow in October 2014, with a beautiful new user interface and many other new features. However, the app has not been updated since a few bug fixing patches in November and now it can no longer be downloaded.
We have contacted the developer via email but so far we have yet to hear back from him about the reasons why Weather Flow is no longer being published. He has released a number of other Windows Phone apps that are still available from the store, including Cocktail Flow and Flashlight 7, so that would suggest that Orosz has not completely abandoned Windows Phone. We will post an update when and if he responses to our inquiries.
Thanks to John for the tip!
