Patent ID: 7835855

Claim:
A weather information notification apparatus arranged to be installed in a vehicle, comprising: a route information acquisition unit that acquires route information capable of determining a route through which the vehicle travels; a weather information acquisition unit that acquires weather information of an area through which the route determined by the route information from the route information acquisition unit passes, wherein, when the route passes through plural areas, the weather information acquisition unit acquires weather information of each of the plural areas through which the route passes; a notification unit that notifies a user of various information; and a control unit that controls the notification unit for notifying the user of the weather information acquired by the weather information acquisition unit, wherein the control unit determines one of weighted importance of the weather information by itself weighted with respect to other weather conditions, and weighted importance of the weather information weighted with respect to other weather conditions relative to the route based on an evaluation of one of a predetermined relationship and a predetermined equation, the control unit extracts, from the weather information which was acquired and weighted, the weather information that agrees with a predetermined condition from among the weather information of the area through which the route passes as the important weather information, and the control unit notifies the user of the important weather information acquired by the weather information acquisition unit, but does not notify the user of weather information which is not extracted by the control unit, by the notification unit in a manner that enables the user to associate the weather information with a relevant area.