Weather Radar - NOAA & Tracker Reviews

WeatherRadar used to be amazingly accurate. Now, not so much -- when it's warm and sunny outside, it says it's overcast and 50 degrees in my location, etc. To make matters worse, it continuously stops recognizing my paid subscription status with every update. This time, it won't even restore my purchase AND they're showing ads when I paid for a full year without ads back in January. When I looked at the ad-free options, my subscription no longer covered an ad-free experience. So I opted to "go premium" but it still wouldn't take away the ads until my subscription renews in January. B.S.! I have done all the reporting bugs and dealing with payment issues I can handle with WeatherRadar. I don't have these issues with other apps that I pay for, and when I pay for an app, I expect to get what I pay for. The price on this keeps going up while the quality of WeatherRadar 's function continues to decline. Not worth it, in my opinion.

... but I still do not understand why, say, a rain icon can sometimes be displayed for the day when none of the hour-by-hour slots has rain in the forecast.

By the same token, if 23 of the 24 hour-by-hour icons for a given day display bright sun and only one is sun/rain, then the icon for the entire day, in my opinion, should not be sun/rain but rather sun.

In any event, it is a great app and use it all the time. You just have to overlay your own judgment when you read the forecast.

This used to be an excellent weather app. I am a subscriber and that says something because I do not believe in app subscriptions. I will happily pay for an app, but an ongoing subscription is just a way to bleed customers out of more cash.
Since the last update the weather radar is at minimum an hour behind all other weather apps on both my new iPad and iPhone 12 Pro. I have reached out to the developers and have received the cursory “thank you for letting us know we are looking into it“ response, but a week later still no fix.
For now this is going to the back page of my shortcuts. I will check it periodically but I’m not holding out much hope and I will not be letting my subscription renew.

I feel like WeatherRadar saved my life. I saw the hook on the storm on the radar just before the Oct 2019 tornado in Dallas touched down. It was 10:30 pm. I got out of my bed and went to the front porch. The tornado was pushing on the wall of my house. I ran to safety with my daughter and dog inside the house.
After the storm was gone, I looked at my bed. It was covered with huge shards of glass and a large jagged piece of metal was stabbed into my bed exactly where I was lying!

Of all the weather apps available that I have tried I like this the best. The representation of weather prediction over time as a bar chart is my favorite. Also the representation of the amount of precipitation or sunshine is useful. Many people focus on the percentage probability of precipitation but few look at a prediction of how much precipitation. My only minor complaint is that the weather map could be a little higher resolution.

When you download this be warned!! It is NOT FREE! It will start billing you EVEN if you think you have deleted it! It will start billing you as a subscription unbeknownst to you!!

In response to you’re email and lengthy explanation, I was given a refund which I appreciate. In order to download any app one must use their Apple ID and it stays in the memory for a few minutes so there’s that. I did not authorize anything. Your app is not worth paying for when I can go to windy and track what I want or go to the actual National Government page and be better informed. Your condescension is inappropriate. As I said, it was DURING a HURRICANE, AN EMERGENT situation that I even searched for an app. I have deleted your app and am finished with this situation.

Working on electric transmission power lines is a job that can have you working all over the USA. Although we have many options to use for weather forecasting this is by far the fastest and most accurate. Which is extremely important to the power industry. I have not found one place that you cannot view weather patterns and possible inclement weather.

I understand this is a free app, and ad revenue is how they make money. Recently WeatherRadar started bombarding with one sided political ads, which I tried to accept due to it being free. Then deafening casino app ads, which I found no way to silence or mute, even when my phone was in silent mode. And now forced to decline premium subscription every time I open WeatherRadar .
I thought this was one of the best most accurate weather apps, and I used almost daily, but it has become relentless in it’s advertising.
Thank you for the years of low key bottom scroll ads and occasional requests to upgrade but the new advertising model is more than I can bear.

WeatherRadar functions well having used it for years now. But for the last several months almost every ad is a political one for the tin-pot wannabe dictator in the US and it makes me nauseous. I have to question the relationship Impala has with the campaign. For non-US users this may not appear like a big deal. For me it is and I will move on unless this changes soon or until I find a better alternative. Are they intentionally choosing to be on the wrong side of history with the almost constant promotion of this sick, failed leader who most right-minded people want to see long gone? There are other advertisers I am sure. Too bad.

I use WeatherRadar every day. It has a quite accurate forecasts for 7 days, hour by hour, and includes charts for pressure trends, etc. It also tracks air quality parameters. The data comes from NOAA which is the proverbial horses mouth that all other weather apps use. The only thing it lacks is a good short term forecast, for which I use Dark Skies. It could also have a more understandable way of expressing the amount of rainfall.

MyRadar used to be my go-to for weather, but lately not so much. It’s become very confusing as to the precipitation, showing big light green blobs instead of indicating snow or rain and where it actually is. The NOAA app is much much better, including forecasts, which seem to be more accurate than the TV weather forecasts. And it also shows the weather outside the US. It’s become my go-to.

First of all, the name of my town is not Kitts Corner. Where did you get that? But that is what it comes up as. Second, why would you design the label so it covers the area around where you want to observe where the cloud cover is? Why not just place a red dot for the location and put the placard off to the side somewhere? Third, I don’t think that I could blow the map up to reduce the size of the placard enough to make the radar useful to look at. What is worse, when I take the size of the map down enough to see what the patterns of the Northeast US are, that silly label covers nearly the entire state of Rhode Island. NOAA I think you could do better.

The weather can shift in a moments notice here. It's nice to have a system that shares updates, dangers, and potential disasters on the fly. The Vermont mountains are typically horrible for receiving and transmitting sometimes life and death messages. Your weather app seems to be an ambitious app that reliably delivers the meteorologic data in a timely fashion. That is not the accepted way of most of your competitors.

Today it wasn’t possible to remove an ad to “Go Premium” for WeatherRadar. Realizing that possibly the only way to get rid of it was to comply and buy the upgrade, this was done. In the past, WeatherRadar had been accessed only when rough weather suggested it should be. Now the intent seems to be to make WeatherRadar the “go to” place for all weather information. While this may be reasonable, The Weather Channel (by Watson) has become my favorite. My preference MAY change.

The update killed WeatherRadar when they transitioned from local to world. WeatherRadar is no longer current and does not provide accurate information any more. I used WeatherRadar primarily for the rain radar as it was alway the most accurate, but not any more. It’s so far from what WeatherRadar used to be its not even worth it any more. Very disappointed. I used to use WeatherRadar daily. Now its not even worth looking at for the time it takes to load. If you go to view a rain storm you could have a huge storm over the top of you poiring rain and the radar shows zip. What a huge disappoint. Please bring gack the old orginal version.

Hi, I’m a 10 year old child and love the weather. This is the best weather app I’ve ever downloaded! I recommend WeatherRadar to other people that like weather. It gives you warnings around areas around the US. And one thing, can you add alerts around other places too, thank you if you do. Cause I wanna see what’s happening around the world. Thank you for WeatherRadar, anyway! Love it!

It is difficult to see the icons in the legend and the precipitation colors in inches are difficult to see. The radar time is OFF and I have no idea how to correct it as it is showing me time in the past which I don’t care about. The time should be going forward like a forecast. Instead the time shows me an hour and thirty minutes behind the current time even after I inputted my City into the Location selector.

The printing on the forecast page is very light. This makes it difficult for us seniors to read, I’m 84 visually impaired. This doesn’t seem any where to enlarge the fronts, or darken them.
If the printing was as dark as this page I would not have a problem. When I tried to email you, I get a message that this device cannot send emails. This is a apple 5 with the latest software update. If this coukd be fixed I would rate it a fuve.

I ♥️ WeatherRadar it has great features even without subscriptions! I never tracked a C5 hurricane yet but I’m right now tracking a C4. You can do so much! But 1 problem… how can I track hurricanes but I can’t see the radar on hurricanes how can I see the radar on hurricanes? If it’s part of a subscription than I’m not interested.

I’ve tried at least five other weather apps at some expense $$$ that all had user glitches, poor reliability and bad design. Weather underground is by far the most accurate where micro climates exist and more predictable locations. The web design is friendly and easy and makes more data available. I’m sold and it’s FREE!!!

4/19 I'm happy to say it's working again, but with 2 important issues needing attention - the sulfur dioxide levels are missing from the air quality info (VERY important info!), & accuracy is still lacking - for instance, right now it says my skies are clear when actually cloud cover is about 50%. Also, forecasted temperatures for the day don't seem to be updated when actual temperatures vary from the forecast. I've seen the forecasted high being 5 degrees below the current temperature while it's still getting hotter. But it's still the best weather app I've got - thank you for getting it functioning again.
Original review: I just updated WeatherRadar & now it won't open - crashes as soon as it starts to load. Happened several times in a row.
3/25 I have had to delete WeatherRadar - it won't open, just crashes. Very sad. I used WeatherRadar every day to check on friends' weather around the world.
3/28 Sorry, no screenshots - app has been deleted. It would try to open for maybe 2 or 3 seconds, then crash, reverting to home screen, leaving WeatherRadar unopened but lurking in the background. Retry, crash again.

It's just not worth it. The contrast and colors on screen/ weather map are not pleasant to look at. Eyes just can't focus right because map looks so cheesy and outdated compared to other radar apps I've seen and used.
My biggest complaint is to the left of your not so big radar map are cities or cities you select to display instant weather readings. Well you should be able to swipe those out of the way, so you can use the whole screen for the weather map. Unfortunately, you can't do that so your favorite weather cities stay implanted on the left side of the screen and then you have a very limited size radar map on the right. I emailed this company and they emailed me back and basically said that's just the way it is. Not planning on changing it
So I only used it maybe once or twice a year and will probably delete it soon.

I’ve tried at least five other weather apps at some expense $$$ that all had user glitches, poor reliability and bad design. Weather underground is by far the most accurate where micro climates exist and more predictable locations. The web design is friendly and easy and makes more data available. I’m sold and it’s FREE!!!

I don’t mind some ads, but there were too many and they were ads that don’t allow you to close them down. I just needed to quickly check the radar on a storm that came out of nowhere (I live in the mountains where storms don’t always roll in and can just fire up), but then an ad popped up. So, I closed it,...then went into settings to adjust the radar loop speed and another ad popped up which I couldn’t close down. So, I just deleted WeatherRadar altogether. You can’t even get real time radar anyway, so not real useful for me.

I like the accuracy of the information.
They could probably do better with the design. The numbers and icons are too small.
And, hate the super intrusive ads. Sadly, if you want to upgrade to no-ads app, you have to pay for a monthly subscription. A bit ridiculous.

This used to be really good, then something happened and now you’d be better off not having this. I couldn’t tell you how many times we had severe weather and my weather map showed nothing. My wife would call and say hail and tornadoes were coming, I’d open my app and the radar didn’t show storms, I’d turn the TV on and sure enough we were under a storm warning. WeatherRadar is actually a liability, someone, someday will be killed by a storm they didn’t know was coming. Can’t believe the NOAA would write off on this.