WDIV 4Warn Weather Reviews

WDIV4WarnWeather quit working properly recently. When I would open it, the picture of Ben Bailey would stare at me without opening the next window. Since the update a few months ago, WDIV4WarnWeather hasn’t functioned well. More often than not, the radar would not open and would often freeze when it did open. So, I’ve decided to try another source for weather. I am disappointed. Finally, please remove Ben Bailey’s picture! It is not the only meteorologist working for Channel 4, WDIV, Detroit, MI.

The newest update changed the formatting of WDIV4WarnWeather . While the changes may work for some people, people like me, who have been grateful for this apps simplicity, are likely to be disappointed. I find that this version is harder to navigate. Instead of having the menu on the side, it is near the bottom, and instead of having multiple sub-sections, this version requires you to scroll down to find some of the accessories. If this sounds wonderful to some people, I’m happy to hear that they can continue using WDIV4WarnWeather comfortably. If I am not mistaken, there were about the same amount of bugs in both versions. I noticed that when you go to type in another location, I was unable to see the word as I was typing. This may have just been an issue with my phone, but if that happened to you, you’re not alone.

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Had WDIV4WarnWeather , enjoyed getting a daily briefing of weather to come as a notification each day, really simple!

Then i started seeing these daily notifications getting “cute” that was sort of it for me...I don’t want cute, the weather is to the point informational, not cute.

Something has occurred over the last many years where they have tried to make weather entertaining and light, again it’s just informative not supposed to be fluff!

With WDIV4WarnWeather, I see the same thing you see on the 3 hour daily morning news broadcast with weather every 10 minutes, where it gets monotonous.
Well I choose to not get my weather in a cutsie way, I don’t need a report telling me at 6am as a notification “No 50s today”
I need the accurate info at a glance when I look at my phone...a quick simple “High of 45, no rain expected, cooler to 15 tonight” simple, easy, to the point, and most importantly doesn’t talk about what it’s not going to do today!

I gave it a month or so and never used any of the other stuff on it, this is a hard pass!

We just had a severe storm but the most current update is from 4 hours ago?! Where’s the current update when we really need it?! There’s Ben Bailey broadcasting live on TV but WDIV4WarnWeather has a four hour old report. What’s the point of WDIV4WarnWeather if you can’t get current available info? This happens all the time. Many hours old forecast updates on WDIV4WarnWeather -even in active weather situations. How difficult is it to put that recent report on WDIV4WarnWeather ? Looking for something reliable. Not worth it.

Until the last update, the Today view of weather was condensed which I prefer. I could see the entire day with one swipe up. Now it's so big with graphics that I have to swipe multiple times sideways to get the whole days information.

I also do not like the tracking and the blue bar so I'm always taking WDIV4WarnWeather out of memory.

Yesterday there was a "wind" advisory. It it should've been for the dog we really had.

Good app. VERY informative... but done a bit aggressively. Needs more detailed settings for Alerts. Need the ability to choose what alerts I want. Example: I Don’t need alerts waking me All throughout the night stating “Lightning detected 3 miles away” or “Moderate rain near your location” or “Get ready for some wind” over & over. What I Do need are Emergency Alerts: Tornado Watch/Warning, Severe Thunderstorm with High Winds, etc. OR The ability to get alerts only at certain times: “No alerts from 11:00pm - 7:00am unless life threatening emergency situation occurs.”
Good information on WDIV4WarnWeather an it is informative. It just needs more Settings to accommodate our Alert Preferences. Thanks!

Yesterday we had thunderstorms come through. I have TWO FULL SCREENSHOTS of all the notifications from WDIV4WarnWeather. Some were just two minutes later than the previous one, and basically said “lightning strikes 3.2 miles from current location.” Noooo, really? Like I can’t hear the thunder? If raindrops can be heard from my location, I don’t need WDIV4WarnWeather to tell me it’s raining.

I have an iPhone 6s Plus and I have had difficulty with temporary locations. I don’t know if it’s the phone or WDIV4WarnWeather , but when I identify a location as temporary, I am unable to pull up weather information about it. I can only get weather information on cities that I identify as permanent. And then I am unable to remove the cities, except one time when I got lucky. Mainly they stay and I have a long list of places that I have visited and I’ll probably not visit again for quite a while.

I've had WDIV4WarnWeather since it first came out years ago. I like it a lot. I would have given 5 stars before the update.

Three concerns I have with the update.
1. Even though I have it set to only use my location when I am using WDIV4WarnWeather , I have to "kill" it every time I am done with it because it will continue to use my location (blue bar at the top of the phone screen indicates this).
2. I can't figure out how to delete a city once I am done wanting to know the weather there. For example, I was going on a trip to Charlevoix so it got added to a list of locations. But once I was done with needing to know, I can't seem to get rid of it. Should be more user friendly.
3. I wish the daily breakdown of temps was what was on the screen when it is first opened instead of the radar.

I just switched to this weather app. I do like it and would probably keep it, however, I don’t like that it opens to the “Radar” page as opposed to a “Forecast” page. I like to see a quick weather forecast and not a radar. I do like to have the option to switch to radar but a quick look at weather, in my opinion, should always default to the forecast and current conditions. Sorry that it isn’t possible on WDIV4WarnWeather.

I just got this recently and so I’m not too familiar with it yet. I can definitely say one thing I don’t like, though. I assumed the push notifications would be warnings of imminent inclement weather. I really don’t need multiple messages a day from you guys, telling me things like “the sun is still shining” or some such nonsense. At least give users a choice on what level of notifications they want.

Pretty good website. Radar very good except for the contrast between rain & the green background of the land. Sometimes hard to see where the light rain is.
Recently, I’ve had problems getting it to open. I just see the picture of one of the weather people.
I did use it while on a trip to West Virginia & got good weather info when I could get it to open.
I’m not sure the current weather screen shows the humidity info.

I recently moved here from out of state. When we were looking for houses it was March and in the week we visited we had spring weather and snow. I watched 4 casters on TV and they recommended WDIV4WarnWeather . I’ve found 4 casters to be highly accurate up to the hour about what is happening in our neighborhood . Thanks for helping us keep a true eye on the weather so we can be geared up for whatever Is happening day to day, season to season.

When I first downloaded WDIV4WarnWeather it worked fine. Then after a couple of weeks I stopped getting alerts for some reason even though they are turned on to receive.

Weather app is always accurate, the Local4Casters put hard work into developing a trustworthy forecast. Detects lighting and rain in my area. Would recommend to anyone who lives in southeast Michigan or anyone who has family in southeast Michigan! Best weather app I’ve owned!

I just want to know the temperature. The first screen is a map. Then you have to tap the photo of the weather forecaster. Then you have to read his spiel. Or else you have to tap the menu tab to select your choice.
I'm very disappointed in my local weather website.

Thanks for displaying the Dew Point !!! I’ve removed the Weather Channel & Accuweather apps because if too much news and NO dew point value; Humidity value is blah as the barometric pressure is figured into the value and I could care less about the ‘real feel’ temp; dew point tells me when it’s Muggy out.

Your radar map would be much, much better if you got rid of all of those large-letter city names on the map. All this crap just gets in the way—-viewers are not grade-school children—-anyone who uses your map already knows where they are and the area they are interested in. I love the radar picture itself but absolutely hate all of that unneeded name clutter that blocks the view. Sincerely, Gordon Roberts

Hi. I really appreciate the updates and the newformat Only one problem: when giving the forecasts, the guys talk in counties. While I recognize them as Michigan counties but don’t always know wWHERE they are. It would really help if the county names were on all the maps.
With the radar I can check on my kids:
AnnArbor, Pinckney and Abingdon Virg.
I even liked the old way. Thank you for being there and giving updates, warning,
and locations of bad weather to this senior
citizen who lives alone and can’t drive
anymore. Hello to all the weather guys.
I enjoy watching them. But get those county names on there— for our state and
any others that can be brought up on the maps. Take care God Bless. Linda Kuffel,
Farmington Hills.

I just wish the “today” hourly was still set up like “tomorrow’s” hourly is set up. It used to be that way, but changed a few months ago to where we have to scroll left and right instead of up and down. Now we can’t see the whole day at once. That’s the only thing I don’t like. But still my favorite.

Great app I love how you can get the forecast videos. If you have the locator on you will get weather updates for whatever city you’re in no matter what state. Only complaint is that picture of Ben Bailey that pops up when you open WDIV4WarnWeather . It’s kind of in your face. So please take that down.

Just downloaded WDIV4WarnWeather yesterday. Still learning, but am impressed so far. One thing I may have missed, but would be nice is to be able to send weather related photos to WDIV weather via WDIV4WarnWeather ..

I have a new iPhone 12 mini. All data was transferred from iPhone 6 to new phone.I am still getting daily weather updates on old phone but not on the new phone.I have checked to see if all the data was the same from one phone to the other.I have googled for help but nothing works.