WDAM 7 First Alert Weather

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Contains ads

About this app

The WDAM 7 First Alert 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

Ratings and reviews

Mostly fine, if you like ads. There's this five second ad for Toyota of Hattiesburg every single time you open the app. Even if you have it open in the background and switch back to it, even if it's the only app you have open, it shows the ad. It also doesn't keep any of the cached radar information when switching apps, so it redownloads it every single time. If you're switching back and forth a lot, it's awful. Other than that, the interface is fine, but the ad really sucks.

Not overly impressed. The app works fine in general as a basic weather app if I were using it as a guideline. For actual weather information, it's not exactly the most reliable source. On a clear day, it's probably right. Although it doesn't match up with the same information, the television station. The radar has not been in sync with anything in years and is in need of a major overhaul. I can have thunderstorms and pouring rain, and it will not show anything for miles. Don't trust it.

This app is my only local weather source. But, it is exceptional in it's accuracy for watches/warnings for my geographic location. The only requests I would make are listing the barometric pressure for my location, if possible, and more up-to-date weather broadcasts, not just short updates, during weekends.