Frankly, outside of a keynote with an audience expecting to be impressed, I doubt a weather app would get a thunderous reception.

At the end of the day, that is just a weather app with cool graphic and the guy reviewing apps probably sees a shit ton of those per week. It would take something significant or sufficiently unconventional for him to start a buzz inside Apple.

(BTW: not criticising the guy, he is a dedicated developer and Apple let him down. But let's keep stuff in perspective)