WHDH 7 Weather - Boston Reviews

Being able to read the blog to get some nuance on the forecast is useful. While the video forecast is nice, sometimes video isn’t a good medium cause you don’t want to make noise or put on headphones. As a plow driver, I stick with 7 weather since the forecasts are solid and the blog is great. I wish the maps feature was still there so you could quickly pull up the “special” map for snowfall predictions or info about other weather events.

You say you guys value our feedback... Well here it goes!! I think WHDH7Weather is really great. But the set up is really off!! I think that the view of Boston should extend all the way down the screen instead of it being divided into sections. You have a VERY beautiful picture of the city and then you mess it up by cutting it off with another picture of clouds and then another picture of the complete weather forecast!! It’s a new year why don’t you guys go back to the drawing board and reinvent WHDH7Weather!! From the looks of your reviews... I think you should!!! ASAP!!

We LOVED WHDH7Weather in its previous version. We used it all the time when riding bikes to see when we had to stop, where we had to go to avoid localized showers, and of course for the forecast.

Now it is UNREADABLE on the iPad!!! The giant 7 logo background and the forecast white scrolling lettering makes it IMPOSSIBLE to read! You can't see the words anymore! Ahhh, but you can see the ads just fine.

Look, we know ads are the point for you and we don't mind, but when you make WHDH7Weather unreadable for its main purpose, you have lost your audience and then the ads aren't seen by anybody, something your paying clients should be concerned about.

I'm deleting WHDH7Weather when I am done writing this review. It's too bad. Your very visible ads won't be seen when you lose your audience due to purposeful unreadability in the rest of WHDH7Weather . Sorry to lose this once very useful app.

The important local angle (maps) was removed so there is no reason to choose WHDH7Weather over any other generic weather app. I'm really disappointed. Now I have to go back to the website for the actual forecast. I want more than a listing of temps with sun and cloud icons! Please bring back the special maps and 7 day forecast that used to be right up front. And don’t remove the blog, please!

I used to love WHDH7Weather! The main things we look at are the 7 day forecast, the blog, and the specials map to see how much snow we are expecting. Now- there are not only way too many clicks and barriers to get to those things, but the ads pop up so incessantly that you *cannot read* the blog! I have tried even taking screenshots of it because it disappears so fast into a full page ad over and over. I’ll be deleting WHDH7Weather. Very sad to lose this. Please fix!!

This used to be the most epic weather app - my go to even after moving out of Boston. Then I made the mistake of updating it last week!!! I used to be able to see my current location weather along with the seven day forecast for the city I was in. Now, it will show me only current city conditions with Boston’s seven day...and I’m no longer there. I could add locations and view the conditions for the week so I could plan accordingly. What happened???! Bummed.

This has become the only news app I watch. They have live broadcasts far longer than the other stations. The closed captioning is excellent. I also appreciate that they scroll closings while broadcasting.
Thank you

Thank you for listening to the reviews and feedback. The weather blog is back! This is my favorite part of WHDH7Weather and really the only reason I use it. Glad they returned it to this version of WHDH7Weather .

Especially in the winter, bring back the maps section. When there is a storm, you historically do a lousy job of updating the blog posts. I use your app because I refuse to watch the news casts because the storm hype is ridiculously over the top. Please bring back the map section.

I tried very hard this morning to read the weather blog but couldn’t because of the huge Discover ad that kept popping up. I don’t have a problem with ads - you have to pay for stuff - but you could set a cookie so ads aren’t seen the rest of the session.

I really miss the maps tab which used to be on WHDH7Weather . I loved seeing the snowfall totals predicted (Special Map) and other info. This was the reason I choose WHDH7Weather over others. Please bring the map section back.

WHDH7Weather is a little unwieldy to navigate. I would love to see things a little more like they are on the website.
One unintuitive element is looking to screens to the left of the opening screens, when it is clear there is nothing to the right. Be sure to check both directions to make sure you're getting all the screens.
I really miss the written descriptions of the forecast, including today's more descriptive one. Icons of a snowflake are not worth a thousand words; snow could be a dusting or 10 inches and the difference is huge.
There is a link to the national weather service warnings, but those are also not very user-friendly.
Closings don't seem to be posted.
They are the best at explaining Boston weather to me, but some of that is missing in WHDH7Weather .

I used to depend on WHDH7Weather to give me up to date weather - especially the radar - now it never loads - or it freezes midstream. I have just deleted it from my phone - looking for something better now.

Thanks for fixing the bug! Update is great

The video on WHDH7Weather is just a black screen. So, if you like watching the weather forecast on the radio, by all means download this. Otherwise, the other Boston channels have better apps.

The old version had a drop down menu for a link to school closings. It was very convenient. Nothing on this one?!?! Why

After the latest update, will not launch on my IPhone 7 Plus.

Take a lesson from channel 5 app no problems with theirs. I deleted 7 weather app no one seems to fix it

Channel 7 logo is in the way, font unreadable and an ad in the middle of it.

Pros: Nice, clean interface. Data is well layed out. Ablilty to navigate a live radar loop is very useful. (Big plus because not every weather app can do this.) Has listing of school / business closings. Ability to access WHDH's canned graphics for live TV forecasts is a nice plus.

I found it more useful than the "mobile" edition of WHDH's weather website. In fact, I think the "standalone" WHDH weather app is better than what is included in the "weather" portion of the WHDH news app. So get both.

Cons: No device rotation support. (Minor.) This would be helpful for tracking storms moving west to east in landscape mode vs portrait mode.

UPDATE: Still unable to open app since update:::::: Just see the 7 weather splash screen and it disappears. WHDH7Weather stays open, but closes out each time you tap on it:

I like it more and more each time I use it, really really great App! Very loveable. Does much much more than the built-in weather application given by apple. It covers all weather systems with radar, gives a superb hourly forecast just as well as daily.
App is very easy to use, and the weather is very up-to-minute. It gives all the watches and warnings in every location you put into it. You can add your location and numerous others that you wish by choosing the small "i" info button on the homepage weather screen. Does very well for all weather needs. 