FOX19 First Alert Weather

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Contains ads

About this app

The WXIX FOX19 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

For the most part, the app is easy to navigate. The ads do cause some freezing issues that can be annoying, and the amount of notifications it sends daily is ridiculous. It's somewhere up to 15-18, so I did turn the notifications off. One thing that really bothers me though is the fact that the videos do not have closed captions. For being an app that is operated by a news station it should be accessible for all.

I have had this app for number of years and usually it works great. Lately I have been having issues with it getting my current location and sending me notifications, even though I have notifications turned off. Also the follow me option used to be my default. Now, if I look at the weather for someplace I am going, the app stays on that location.

I reinstalled on a new phone and it seems better old review: Used to be a great app the live radar, local alerts, etc.. are all still there, but are hard to find between all the ads. It has also become buggy giving 'unable to load local data' error, but the page displays fine. I suspect the local data is even more ads that failed to load. The last straw making me uninstall was a weather alert that was video only saying it was going to be a nice day. Way to drive ad views.