WSB-TV Weather Software
Company Name: Cox Media Group
About: Cox Media Group is an integrated broadcasting, publishing, direct marketing and digital media
company.
Headquarters: Atlanta, Georgia, United States.
WSB TV Weather Overview
What is WSB TV Weather? The WSBTV Weather App is a powerful weather app that provides accurate local weather information for Atlanta. It includes a new radar with future radar to provide a likely path and outlook of storms, new alert types, and free push alerts for more than 25 alert types. The app also has locally crafted forecasts, the ability to place a location pin precisely, and works with identical features on tablet and handset.
Features
- New radar with 250 meter resolution and future radar
- New alert types for earthquakes and storm tracks
- Free push alerts for more than 25 alert types
- Scrollable home screen for easy access to information
- Locally crafted forecasts by WSB's local weather experts
- Ability to place a location pin precisely and name it
- Constantly updated with the latest area storm and forecast information
- Live Stormtracker 2HD Radar with zooming capabilities
- Location-Based Storm Alerts for more precise alerts
- Current conditions, hourly and daily forecasts for any location
- Level 3 interactive radar, animation/loops, and visible satellite map
- High resolution satellite cloud imagery
- Daily and hourly forecasts updated hourly
- Ability to add and save locations
- Fully integrated GPS for current location awareness
- Data and alerting available for the United States only.
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Product Details and Description of
Chief Meteorologist Glenn Burns and Severe Weather Team 2 have made the most accurate local weather app, “The WSBTV Weather App,” even better. Atlanta’s most powerful weather app includes the following: - There is a new radar in the weather app that matches the radar found on other digital platforms and also includes future radar to provide you with a likely path and outlook of storms. The radar has 250 meter resolution, the highest available. - New alert types - We added earthquakes and storm tracks as layers in the radar. Now you can track the location and magnitude of earthquakes as well for storms the speed, direction and type. Tap the “storm symbols” icon in the radar to see the list. - Push alerts are FREE for more than 25 alerts types including everything from tornado warnings to winter storm warnings and tropical storm alert types. - Now you can scroll through the home screen to access most of what you need or want on one tab. - Locally crafted forecasts - Select a location inside the Atlanta market to see a local forecast created by WSB’s local weather experts. The app also tells you which member of Severe Weather Team 2 crafted the local forecast. National applications that come pre-loaded on your phone don’t have local experts focused solely on getting the local forecast right every day. - Place a location pin precisely where you want it for a specific address or any position on a map. When saving a location you can name it exactly how you want it. - The app works with identical features on tablet and handset. The WSBTV Weather App also has these critical benefits and features: - The app is constantly updated with the latest area storm and forecast information and includes Severe Weather Team 2’s 5-day Forecast with the “Weekend Always in View.” - Live Stormtracker 2HD Radar zooms down to your neighborhood or zooms out to check radar anywhere in the country. - It provides Location-Based Storm Alerts. While many other apps offer alerts based on your county, The WSBTV Weather App supports a more precise type of alert issued for the most dangerous types of weather threats. More precision means you get alerts that matter to you, not false alarms. - Current conditions, hourly and daily forecasts for any location you enter. - Level 3 interactive radar, animation/loops and visible satellite map - Additional items added seasonally - High resolution satellite cloud imagery - Daily and Hourly forecasts updated hourly - Ability to add and save locations - A fully integrated GPS for current location awareness *Data and alerting available for the United States only.
Top Reviews
By Menuga
Brian Monaghan=Best forecast
It’s SO nice to have the actual weather report from TV & the app, if/when Brian does it. He, Katie& Ebony have THE MOST ACCURATE forecast I’ve seen yet from Channel 2. Brad is a close follower, otherwise, it’s like the more”fancy”, advanced equipment you get in, the worse the report gets from the others. Seriously, Guy Sharp had better forecast 45 years ago when I was a kid than SOME give now with the “all new” equipment. It’s so nice to get a morning forecast fir a change and it actually happen instead of preparing for downpours and it’s hot and clear all day, or prepare for clear, dry days and get Drenched 1-2” of rain. Thanks Brian!!! Also, Katie, Ebony & Brad.
By Ladyferns
Thanks for listening; you brought back some of the best features.
Editing my below review of the 2019 redesign: You rearranged the home page so the video is no longer on top, and that’s good. Frequently I’m checking my weather app on the go and having all the info at first glance is important. I’d like a bit more information to be available on that top home block, especially relative humidity and maybe the days pollen count? You could add a touch link to see more on that top block so it shows what it does now with the additional info expandable so it wouldn’t take any more room. When I touch a day on the second section on the home screen I expect it go to that days hourly forecast if available, but instead I discover the whole row is only one link to all the days again, making the link kind of redundant. This has always been my favorite weather app, I check it a couple of times a day. Your redesign had completely changed it and had ruined a great app. It looked like a commercial instead of a useful app. Now you cleaned that up some, thanks! I don’t like the settings on the map, the video on the home page, or the trendy icons on the daily or hourly charts. The daily and hourly were easier to read at a quick glance before. I truly hope you revert the home page at least to the information that was there before and move the video off the home page. You seemed to take this advice and corrected part of it. I’ll get used to the trendy icons... thanks again for listening.
By Lucibee
App still needs work.
This update is somewhat of an improvement. Still cannot comprehend why you all messed with a perfect app, unless it was for the additional ads. I still cannot find the pollen count. I had deleted the app. With the update, I downloaded it once again. I was hopeful that after all the bad reviews, someone decided to reset back to the prior version. No such luck. I will wait awhile and hope for the best. But as of now, this can still no longer be my “go-to” weather app...sad. I keep checking your app every week or so. Still disappointed in the changes. Video takes up too much space on the home page and the info on the right side of screen is hard to read at a glance. Never have found the pollen count. I used this app everywhere, not just for Atlanta. Sure miss the “old” version. It was hands-down the best weather app EVER!
