Florida Storms Reviews

When I load FloridaStorms it's very slow and half the time such as today, it's raining all around with storm warnings. FloridaStorms shows clear skies all over. The tornado boxes pop up but the map shows all clear.

First, you must sign away your life to a TOS contract then FloridaStorms can't figure out where you are (I'm in Florida not Africa) and it doesn't give you the weather where you are. Non stop advertising ruins everything. Don't bother downloading. Deleted

Unusable because it crashes before it can even load.

FloridaStorms cost nothing and that’s what it’s worth. Does nothing. Shows nothing.

Alert feature is broke.

Aborts on iPhone 6S. Piece of crap. Now aborts on iPad. Should be debugged before release.

FloridaStorms is handy in some ways. It gives a very accurate account if lightening is in your area. Don't use it for radar tho. It usually never loads and when you try to play the animation it just sits there. Could be a good app, but needs lots of work

Wrote a review in August. Four months later, same problems! I get notifications when lightening, thunder, storms are nearby. When I open FloridaStorms , the map rarely loads over the city I'm in. The radar shows the map the same way. Many times, it either doesn't play, or it's playing up to half an hour ago. Not recent. Worked for a while after last update. Problems are all back again.

Like another user stated live radar stopped working. When live/future radar worked it was a great app for keeping up to date during storms and hurricane season. Would love to have all features functioning for the coming season.

Was great, 5 stars, until the radar stopped playing. I used to use this to see about how fast a storm was moving and in which direction. Now it’s almost useless to me. Please fix!

App is rarely updated.

If you don’t have Location Access turned on it’s pretty useless except for the map. You ought to be able to pick your location (or home station) without using location services. Also, only location options are Never and Always and I really want the “While Using FloridaStorms ” option to be enabled. Maybe this is an error because the prompt implies that’s what you may be setting.

Why for the iPhone and not the iPad? Phone size in tiny box on bigger screen.

And worse only 50% of screen shows a map.....rest is too big header and way too big footer w/local temp info.

The concept of a FL weather app is good given its “in the bullseye geography”, but this needs much more thought.

Nice to see radar, and listen to my local radio station. I hate that the location tracking feature choices are only ALWAYS or NEVER. Most of my apps that need a location offer an option of ONLY WHEN USING APP and this is what I always choose. I don't need or want any apps killing my battery life by constantly polling my location when I'm not using them, only when I'm using FloridaStorms . Since FloridaStorms doesn't offer that my only choice is to select NEVER which sort of defeats usability features of FloridaStorms.

Been using FloridaStorms for a few years. The latest update has made this my go-to for weather radar, current conditions, and forecast. Nicely done and free! Some have reported battery life issue. As with any app, adjust settings. Set your location settings to “while using” instead of “always”. Also turn off background app refresh. This will help battery life as with any app.
Excellent app, I recommend it.

Everything seems to work pretty good with FloridaStorms and no annoying ads. Only one thing I found as a negative is that it didn’t keep up with my location that well to warn me of incoming storms. While another app I have warned me, this one did not (and both seem to use the same “Safety Net Alerts” settings setup). Also, I don’t know if this is an app issue or my phone, but for some reason my phone gets really hot temp wise when I use this for more than a few minutes.

My go to weather app living in Florida!

Once again an excellent app.
Sadly it was unusable on iPad for awhile. Now it works.

This gives excellent information with very good graphics. From afternoon storms, to hurricane tracks, to evacuation information, FloridaStorms takes care of minor or major weather events. As it is an NPR app, advertising is not a problem.

Best free radar type program I’ve seen. Besides free and no ads, it has worked wherever I’ve traveled: GA, SC, NC, VA, and always shows wx that’s going on around me. I recommend it.
Paul

Thank you so much for the update on FloridaStorms.

It takes a while to get used to the new design but once you do it is back to being really useful.

Please keep the bug fixes coming.

Excellent app, and as it is Florida Public Radio, no adds.

This is good for everyday thunderstorms, but ..excellent.. for hurricane season. Overlays show forecast track, warning areas, etc. Easy to access evacuation info, zones and checklist.

All the information you need is here and easy to find. Living through Hurricane Dorian’s approach as a CAT 5, this has been invaluable.