14FirstAlert Weather TriState

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About this app

The WFIE 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

Ratings and reviews

Great app, easy to use, loads quickly, and sends out warnings faster than any other weather app I've used. One issue tho: durring severe weather, maybe there should be fewer ads. I open the app, and there's an ad. I try to watch a video or live stream, and I get a uskippable 15 - 30 second ad. Those 15 - 30 could be pretty important during severe weather. I get it, you need to make that bread, but maybe just during bad weather you could turn them off.

The notifications are annoying! Throughout the day it'll give a notification at random and scare people even me! Just to tell you to watch the weather. It's so bad I'm thinking about uninstalling it. Almost always I'll get asked what that sound was. The downside is if I were to uninstall it, I wouldn't know of severe weather so I keep it. Unfortunately, the notifications and severe weather alerts sound EXACTLY THE SAME! So you don't know the difference between them. Which is dangerous.

For the past week, app takes over 120 seconds to show current temperature or any other tabs (hourly, radar, etc.). I tried removing the app and reinstalling, but still get the same slow results. Have loved using the app, even when traveling, but will have to consider another app if this is not fixed for Android. Works fine on my wife's iPhone.