WDBJ7 Weather & Traffic Reviews

The Good: I’ve always preferred WDBJ7’s weather and news coverage over other local stations. The forecasts are reliable, and it’s much easier to watch the 20 second morning forecast video on WDBJ7WeatherTraffic than turn on the tv and wait for the weather to come on each morning. WDBJ7WeatherTraffic itself is easy to navigate and it’s easy find the info you’re looking for.

The Bad: Do you like ads? If so, this is the perfect weather app for you! You have to sit through a 30 second ad that you can’t skip before watching each video. For some reason even with the phone set to vibrate, the sound still comes through. Want to just see the daily forecast for the week? Then you’ll get a full page ad with a tiny X at the top to close first, and then another one every few seconds while you’re scrolling through the days. Did you get a severe weather alert that you want and need to read? Well, get ready to sit through a commercial for good ol’ Rick Woodson Honda or learn about the local Goodwill Industries employees first. No disrespect to those companies, but if something is going down weather-wise, I don’t see why it’s important to first try to sell me a Honda.

Overall, the weather forecast itself is very reliable and brought to you by the people you trust. I understand the need for ads, but WDBJ7WeatherTraffic has way too many and it’s frustrating to use most times. If they ever offer a paid, ad-free version, I’d be happy to get that one.

The WDBJ7 weather app is my go-to app for my weather. It is easy to get your hourly forecast. It makes planning your day easy. I especially love the interactive radar to watch and see what's coming my way.

Recently, WDBJ7WeatherTraffic loads to a message saying that it is not available in my location (Boones Mill). First time it happened, location actually said I was in Ecuador (???), but then I restarted it and it worked with my Boones Mill location. Now, it shows my location in the background as Boones Mill with a pop up message over top saying WDBJ7WeatherTraffic isn’t available in my location. At this point, WDBJ7WeatherTraffic is useless, which is too bad because it used to be my go-to app for a quick look at the day-to-day weather.

This used to be a good app, now it’s slow to open and the advertisements get data priority, loading before the forecast does, and let’s not forget the full screen pop ups.

Lately, my app thinks I’m in Ecuador. I have to close and relaunch WDBJ7WeatherTraffic several times for it to show my current location, and it does this whether it’s cellular or WiFi data. If I zoom out on the map my location dot is in the correct spot in Virginia, but I get the forecast for Ecuador 🤷🏻‍♀️

Best weather with new iPhone , like every bit of it when I hear a tone gone off this new phone works better.
Thank you for your service

I like WDBJ7WeatherTraffic , just not the ads. With all the commercials the station has been shows, you’d think a simple ap would be ad free.

Evidently WDBJ7 is more worried about ad revenue than providing a good weather app. This version takes 12 seconds to load because of ad time. Then you have more ads when you switch screens. Terrible!!!!!!!!!!
Also when trying to watch video for a tornado or severe thunderstorm warning, you have to watch an ad first.
Y’all need to place a priority on the weather and get your ad revenue elsewhere

I can’t stand fighting my way through cheezy ads, so I don’t use it much. (The first ad covers the entire screen.)

BTW, I would even pay a few bucks to get a ‘premium’ version with no ads.

When we need accurate weather forecasting, we always turn to WDBJ7

I love WDBJ’s forecast, I find it more accurate than other local stations, but WDBJ7WeatherTraffic is the worst. Half the time it doesn’t load at all, the radar won’t update to show current conditions, and forget even trying to watch the videos. They never play, although as videos seem to have no problem. WDBJ7WeatherTraffic needs a lot of work before I’ll consider using it again.

The inability to navigate any information in WDBJ7WeatherTraffic without a full page ad popping up and blocking everything out is unacceptable. I understand the need for ad revenue. However, the design of WDBJ7WeatherTraffic allows for an ad to appear every 3 seconds while reading a weather advisory. This in turn renders reading near impossible. This is truly a failure of a trusted news and weather source.

Would have given you another star if you would just let someone know what that new blue dot on the Radar is. Can’t find an explanation for it anywhere.
Please respond

I love WDBJ7, but their weather app is awful. The videos won’t play and lately WDBJ7WeatherTraffic won’t even open unless I close WDBJ7WeatherTraffic completely and then try to reopen it. They also don’t update the forecast in the daily section. I’ve noticed their forecast will say one thing on the air, yet it’s the next day or two before you see the forecast updated on WDBJ7WeatherTraffic .

Won’t load after recent update. Just a blank screen. Probably getting hung on a non responsive ad? Tried multiple locations. Tried WiFi and LTE. No joy.

It was already getting frustrating enough with the ad pop ups every few seconds, no iPhone X support, etc. It was frustrating, but at least still usable. Not so much now....

Very good weather app. Daily planner and radar and can change location.

WDBJ7 has been my favorites for a long time. Good reporting of local news and weather.

Excellent job

I can’t even see the page for the ads popping up. I get one word read and another ad pops up. I then x out of that ad and a second later ..guess what? Yep. Another ad.

This is the worst app for channel 7 that has existed. It rarely will even boot up. Stay away from it.

Second to none:)

I just can’t stand the ridiculously long commercials for local veterinary, carpet, goodwill, appliances and more. The music for some weather videos is heavy metal for some bizarre reason. If the commercials were less than 10 seconds it wouldn’t be so obnoxious.

Don’t know why the reviews are so bad. This forecast is often more accurate than my local news. Yes there are ads sometimes but they are nothing compared to the 10 minute commercial reel Id have to watch on cable. WDBJ7WeatherTraffic never gives me a problem. I also love that you can see where and when earthquakes happen around the world as well as their intensity. The hourly forecast is very useful and most often I’m the only one I know who is prepared for the weather.

WDBJ7WeatherTraffic used to be amazing. Now just try to pull up the text of the weather alert you got. Get through a sentence and you’ll get an add, close it out and you go back to the top, find your place and try to read...you get the same ad. Horrible execution ruins a perfectly good weather app.

I don’t see any problem with this there are about 2 or 3 ads that pop up nothing else.

Pop up ads literally every 2 seconds make WDBJ7WeatherTraffic unusable. It may snow or it may be sunny, I wouldn’t know. But I can sure get a loan from FFCU. No wonder Air 7 crashed, I’m fairly certain a pop up ad blocked the controls before it hit a tree. Thanks WDBJ7 for making me waste data downloading this junk.

Usually one prefers a local weather app rather than Google, Apple, etc. However the advert pop-up has rendered WDBJ7WeatherTraffic useless. You can read a single sentence without it popping up over and over again. So much for checking on storm watches, etc. I live in Roanoke and have deleted a WDBJ app. Sad!

Unfortunately WDBJ7WeatherTraffic does not reflect the excellent quality of the actual WDBJ7 News Station weather. WDBJ7WeatherTraffic’s radar map is slow to load and the daily outlook is rarely correct more than 1 day out. Not a trusted app for planning events around weather.

I used to respect WDBJ7’s weather app but they are just throwing random ads up that I care nothing about and usually right as I’m about to tap the screen to see the radar map which opens their ad. Seriously WDBJ?!? Can’t you scale back all these forced ads?

9 times out of 10 when I go to check the weather WDBJ7WeatherTraffic will not load. I have to force close it multiple times then it MIGHT decide to load. Ads will pop up and no go away.