This is a wonderful app! They are always spot on with the forecast. I look at the weather several times ac day they are always spot on. If you need a weather app this is the one to get. And who doesn’t need a weather app this is the one to get. I love this app I also watch it on the tv 5 stars I give this app! Thank you wis for being so wonderful! Cynthia Phillips
While the forecasts are useful and the actual navigation of the app is simple, the notifications I get throughout the day are merely click bait. Like one of the other reviewers, this app has become a joke in our household. For instance today, in the a.m. I received “cool start but warming up” but this afternoon I received “mild now but a cool down is coming.” Really?! You mean that during the day it’s going to warm up and then get cooler in the evening? Wow! That’s most every normal day! Also, alerts consist of “Alert: showers today!” Alerts should be urgent, warning of severe weather like storms, tornadoes, snow, ice, etc. the app didn’t even send out a recent tornado warning until a full 5 minutes after the National Weather Service had sent one via my phone’s emergency response system. Please improve your daily notifications and make prompt Alerts for truly urgent announcements.
I’ve enjoyed this app for many years, but the notifications have gotten out of control. It would appear that they’ve included a lot of control over what types of notifications you receive, but they started sending notifications that don’t fit into any of the categories that users are able to toggle off. For example, would “Prepare for warmer weather” fall under the “typhoon” category? There is no category for alerts of uneventful weather, so those alerts that are the most useless and annoying cannot be turned off unless you disable notifications altogether. If that one issue is fixed, I could change my rating from 2 stars to 5 stars.
We download the app to our phones and iPads. The purpose was to check the weather. We also got it for weather alerts, for example tornado warnings, hurricane tracking, flooding, severe thunder storms, and (every so often) snow. Over the last year, the push alerts have become ridiculous! Merriam-Webster defines "alert" as being "watchful and prompt to meet danger or emergency." Today's weather alert was "Traveling to NC or GA? Von has your forecast." What!?! This is what I open the app to learn. I do not want my phones an iPad having push notices stating "A News Station Alert has arrived" to tell me that it will be sunny or drizzling or that - shocker - it will be cold in the winter and hot in the summer. Stop sending these type of alerts! It has become a joke in our house! An alert arrives and, instead of thinking it's a severe storm or tornado, we joke that it's an alert to the wonderful weather! This completely defeats the purpose and effectiveness of an ALERT!! The upsides of the app: layered radar, decent forecasting, and local weather when you travel out of state.
App does ok, semi accurate forecast, but can be buggy sometimes. Radar timing has been off the last few months. Minutes count during tornadoes. First alert weather notifications notoriously cry wolf. These should only be used for potentially dangerous weather. I should not be woken up to be told by a weather alert that it’s going to be sunny and humid. The rating for ages 4+ is highly inaccurate. Some the the ads in the app showing clothing ads of scantily clothed women and tshirts making reference to “licking, sucking, and swallowing”, the tshirt is intended as a gag, but certainly not appropriate for younger individuals.
Just like news 10 news keep me up to date with the wis is the best news and weather app both are great always let’s you know what’s going on when it’s going on the weather app is the same way and gives great alerts when rain and thunderstorms or any bad weather is near you
As a senior relying on walking or the Comet bus your weather app is most reliable. I always look out of the window (15th south facing floor) and check the WIS app before going to work. Ps: Still have been unable to figure out where to take shelter in Five Points at a bus stop in case of a tornado alert. Any advice for pedestrians would be helpful. Thank you
I use the app frequently to check on weather updates in my area and never had a problem until the most recent 6/20 update. Now when I click the app, it just glitches and exits back to my phone’s main screen. Great app, needs to be fixed.
The app itself is a decent app. The issue is all the alerts that don’t warrant an alert. Especially at 4:30 to 7:30 am just to tell me it’s going to rain the weekend, or it’s going to be hot in the summer, or it’s going to be cold in the winter. This is absolutely ridiculous and unnecessary. Has anyone there ever heard the saying if you cry wolf enough times, no one will believe you? And I personally don’t think there should be anything political, including advertisements about impeachment of our President or any other politician. This has nothing to do with the weather. I am deleting the app, and will no longer watch anything on WIS or NBC. I invested about 45 years to your station/network, but have had enough of the one sided reporting that goes on, and all the unnecessary weather alerts. Hope Management is listening and happy they are running their watchers/listeners away.
The information that is provided in the app as well as the functionality of it is awesome! However, it does get very frustrating when I’m trying to get the latest updates about hurricanes and serious weather that I have to watch one and sometimes two ads to even get to the meteorologists video. I respect the need for advertising however, I don’t think it should be on those kind of videos.
Thank you WIS Weather Team for making the weather app so user-friendly. I look forward to reviewing the app before I go to bed and when I wake up in the morning. Keep up the great work and for letting us know when to grab a sweater, umbrella or T-shirt!
The radar works decently when it loads up. But the daily forecasts are horrible. It will show 0 percent chance of rain and sunny but when you click on it it shows 40 percent chance of rain and cloudy..... it’s almost like one of them has to be right so just put both up there. The hourly forecast changes hour to hour to reflect what’s happening at that moment. I can do the same thing by looking outside.... it’s useless as a forecasting app. It’s great if you don’t feel like looking out a window to see what it’s doing outside at that moment though. Lol.
Today I open the app six times trying to see the current conditions it was completely blocked by advertisement. What’s the point of this weather app when you can’t even see the current conditions.
I wish the word “alert” were not used so much. It seems silly and leaves room for misunderstanding. Alert, alert look out for rain. Then we have a few drops. I suggest using other words and leaving “ alert” for important events. Phil Dilly
I’m a tween and this is very good for when I need to check the weather for clothes I’m not gonna leave a very long review but this app has weather forecasts and hourly and daily 👍.
I hated getting a breaking weather alert and then being forced to watch a 15 sec video ad before I could see the weather information. I can understand seeing video ads during normal viewing but not with a breaking weather alert. Hey a tornado is bearing down on your location but first let’s look at some carpet. I deleted the app from my device.
I downloaded this to get alerts and weather updates especially through the night but it’s so unreliable. I rarely get notifications although they are turned on and the forecast are very very wrong. Even throughout the day the weather is off pretty bad. It only changes when the weather changes. It’s never anything we can rely on to plan for outings. Don’t waste your time. Find another weather app.
Alerts are mostly for advertising cash in their pocket
Way to many alerts diminish the value of critical ones. These guys are putting out alerts now about things of virtually no value so advertisers can get more hits. I will be looking for others who care more about public safety than cash in their pockets. There appears to be no method of filtering useless alerts out on the settings page. I will further now make it a point to not shop at or use any of their advertisers
Used to love the app but here recently the radar is completely wrong. Tonight there was a severe thunderstorm warning and it was storming and the radar showed it as completely clear in my area.. it’s happened a few other times in the past few months as well.
I am a South Carolina native that works in construction all over the South East and beyond. I am proud to say that regardless of my location the weather app hasn’t let me down yet!
I use this app every day and like it a lot. I wish that you would list the wind speed with the temperatures or maybe the “feels like” temperature. Thank you.
We live in a place where people are 65 or much much older; not traveling much. Your specific detail about location of light, sunrise & sunset are the precise information that we, living here, appreciate very much.
Way too many “fake” Alerts. This app should be on CNN. This is one of the most cluttered apps I’ve ever used. As a local weather app it should be more reliable and useful which it’s not. The ads are useless because there’s so cluttered and so many of them.
It used to be good, only sending severe alerts. Now it sends things like “possible rain this weekend” on Monday and “warmer weather coming. “ We don’t need to be constantly interrupted by things like this. And there is no way to turn these notifications off.
By the weather emojis posted for daily's, you never know what the weather will be. Whether 30% or 100% chance of rain the daily graphics are the same......
The week of 15 Dec 19, I had to delete and reload the app because it got stuck at the Rush’s advertisement. This week, 22 Dec 19, the app would ask to change location before opening and now today, 25 Dec 19, it won’t open again. 🤷🏼♂️ I’m deleting it and moving on to another app.
This is a nice app & I use to like it. If there are “Weather Alerts” I’d like to see them without ads. It’s obviously not too much of an lAlert” if there’s a commercial going on before there alert is aired..? I’ve found another local weather app that’s more appealing to my my liking so I’ll stick to that.
Great app if you are looking for carpets, not do good if you want to know the weather.
99% advertisements, 1% information. The worst source for weather updates you could rely on. Plus, get ready to be awakened at 6 am to be told it’s is going to be a nice day.
I have used this app for several years and no problems. This new update is useless for me. It crashes all the time. I'm running iOS 9.35. I wish I had never updated. Please fix. Thanks for your attention to this problem.
I’ve had this app on my iPad for years and it suddenly says it’s not available for my Area. Yet I can get it on my iPhone. I’ve uninstalled and reinstalled it. I’ve shut my iPad down and restarted it. Nothing works. I’m very disappointed.
They never get the weather right. I had a roof replacement and was told no rain for the weekend and after shingles were removed and it started raining the whole weekend my ceiling was damaged because of it. Thanks so much for your future cast
The WIS Mobile Weather App includes: * Access to station content specifically for our mobile users * 250 meter radar, the highest resolution available * Future radar to see where severe weather is headed * High resolution satellite cloud imagery * Current weather updated multiple times per hour * Daily and Hourly forecasts updated hourly from our computer models * Ability to add and save your favorite locations * A fully integrated GPS for current location awareness * Severe weather alerts from the National Weather Service * Opt-in push alerts to keep you safe in severe weather
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