Action News Jax Weather

Cox Media Group Inc.

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About this app

Get the most accurate Jacksonville-area forecast in town with the First Alert Weather App from Action News Jax - WJAX/WFOX. The app features the forecast from your neighborhood, live radar, breaking weather alerts, live streaming video from Chief Meteorologist Mike Buresh and the First Alert weather team.

Summary of Features:
- There is a new radar in the weather app that matches the radar found on other digital platforms and also includes future radar to provide you with a likely path and outlook of storms. The radar has 250 meter resolution, the highest available.
- New tracks - We added earthquakes and storm tracks as layers in the radar. Now you can track the location and magnitude of earthquakes as well for storms the speed, direction and type. Tap the “storm symbols” icon in the radar to see the list.
- Push alerts are FREE for more than 25 alert types including everything from tornado warnings to winter storm warnings and tropical storm alert types.
- Now you can scroll through the home screen to access most of what you need or want on one tab.
- Place a location pin precisely where you want it for a specific address or any position on a map. When saving a location you can name it exactly how you want it.
- The app works with identical features on tablet and handset.
- Additional items added seasonally

The weather app also has these critical benefits and features:
- The radar zooms down to your neighborhood or zooms out to check radar anywhere in the country.
- The app provides Location-Based alerts. While many other apps offer alerts based on your county, This app supports a more precise type of alert issued for the most dangerous types of weather threats. More precision means you get alerts that matter to you, not false alarms.
- Current conditions, hourly and daily forecasts for any location you enter.
- High resolution satellite cloud imagery
- Ability to add and save locations
- A fully integrated GPS for current location awareness
- Additional items added seasonally

*Data and alerting available for the United States only.

Ratings and reviews

I was born and raised in Jacksonville It even though I don't live there anymore I still keep the app because the rest of my family does action News jacks gives the best most accurate weather reports than any news reporting office that I know of I recommend them if you live in Duval County or surrounding areas

Rain Chance Not Accurate. The day forecast display shows 100% for the next week. The detailed forecast states "a few afternoon showers"eaxh day. Bring back the old FCN app. Much more user friendly and more accurate. Also weather alerts are not timely. They appear 10 minutes after the NWS issues theirs, and the alert siren doesn't work, so when the alert is posted by the app, you do know. Due to this solar panels were destroyed by a heavy t-storm. Had the alert sounded I could have acted.

This is a great weather app they were the only news station who gave me what to expect in my area from the hurricane days ahead of time so we could be prepared other weather apps wouldn't even mention my area which is rural area and not many people here but we were in the direct path of it luckily it missed us and weren't effected to bad but I would definitely recommend this app and news over the other's