NOAA Radar Pro: Weather Alerts Reviews

by Serenityx1234029483828

If another noaa radar app wasn't out there offering heaps more functionality (for a similar price) then I might give NOAARadarPro more stars. Currently I can not find a feature in NOAARadarPro that offers layouts for a temperature map, wind speed, water temperature, and even a storm path layout, as is available in another app similar to this one. All I see is the option to view information for specific locations by entering/tapping around a location. The only layout I can find is storm coverage (by layout I dont mean satellite view..) Sad to see NOAARadarPro charging people over 4$ (3.99 at 30% off??) for what? Notification functionality?

On the other hand the widget and notification features are a strong point in NOAARadarPro.. But notifications require location services to be ALWAYS ON and as you see on first opening NOAARadarPro their is a big fat privacy star next to this. If your fine with your location being used for ad content then you might not consider this a con.

Anyways I hope apple doesn't decide to hide this under the thousand or so other reviews NOAARadarPro has like it does with all my reviews.

by Ttabacchi

I have to say that after using NOAARadarPro compared to the multitude of other weather notification apps that I have, I am not impressed at all. I live in Savannah, GA where we get some pretty bad weather from time to time and I like to know when that weather is on my back door. Just recently we had a mild tornado outbreak, as well as a slew of severe thunderstorms. Of all of the apps that I have for weather with the notifications turned on, NOAA was the very last app to give me a notification that the storm was happening, and at times that notification was almost an hour after the storm had passed. If this was the only app that I had giving me notifications, my family and myself could have wound up seriously injured or worse if just one of those tornado producing storms had hit my house and I was relying on NOAARadarPro. The sad thing is that this is a paid app, that I purchased for a little bit of reassurance during bad weather to give me some piece of mind and the only thing it has done is make me more weary about severe weather in my area. And for anyone that reads this and is wondering, this has not been the only time that NOAARadarPro has been extremely delayed in letting me know that there was bad weather approaching. It happened in April, as well as January, during the tornado outbreak across GA. So basically, it's not a fluke.

by Lge501

I'm a certified storm spotter and have chased some of the largest storms on record for the Oklahoma area. The notifications are great. The radar, not so great. I use the free app of weatherbug that seems to be more accurate. I still chase storms in Las Vegas and have noticed that weatherbug shows more information and more accurate information. Looking at the radar on both apps, I prefer weatherbug. I've missed a few storms due to the inaccurate radar information. They seem to be behind. It all could be accredited to what your use to. I'm use to radar that shows everything at realtime. Hook echo is very difficult to read on NOAARadarPro. I've been in the center of a large storm and pulled up NOAA. The radar said the storm wasn't over my location. I pulled up weatherbug and it showed me otherwise. The accuracy was much better and easier to read. I’ve also compared the radar to several other sources. Including The Weather Channel website and app, Apple weather, and AccuWeather and weather bug . The NOAA map will tell you the system is weaker than it actually is. Not good!!!

by Therelybare

I really like the usefulness of NOAARadarPro. I use it to keep track of storms and all of the watches/warnings. I travel a lot and I like having information about the areas I visit. That being said, today wasn’t as pleasant as usual. With a big storm coming in, while traveling, I got about 30 updates from almost every community I passed through. It got to be a joke every time another notification popped up. Yet another town with a Flood Watch, yippee! After a while I wanted to chuck the phone out of the window.
Thank you for the 20 or so Flash Flood watches today, as well!

It seemed we were getting an Flood watch alert in about every town from Johnson City TN to Atlanta GA. Granted, we travelled the Blue Ridge Pkwy to Asheville so when we’d get a signal, there was a new alert. I don’t know what I expected to get in the following mode, but I guess I didn’t expect to get all of those alerts. Unfortunately, all of the notifications from that day are gone and I have no idea how to get them back.

by Asdelia

I used to love NOAARadarPro, and it always worked perfectly. Tracking storms as they come and go is really useful, as are the flooding alerts and such that are given for the area you’re looking at.

However, for the past two months, the temperature shown in large font for my location has been incorrect. When it’s 30 degrees with a high of 40 degrees, the main number at the top is always in the 70s. Luckily, the hourly information further down is correct. It’s just frustrating to not know the correct temperature at a glance anymore.

The exact location where this behavior is observed: Washington DC area. Main number at top says 70-80 degrees and sunny. Actual weather (at the time of the review) was 30-40 degrees and cloudy/sunny/rainy (occurred systematically regardless of weather). Currently, it reports 81 degrees sunny when the weather is more like 70 degrees and cloudy. Again, the hourly details are correct. It is only the top level number/image that has an error.

by Geojen_

A squall line just passed over my area and I was looking out for tornado watches/warnings using NOAARadarPro and twitter. The storm got really strong and I thought there must have been a tornado watch even though I didn’t see it on NOAARadarPro . I saw the warning on twitter a full minute and a half to two minutes faster than on NOAARadarPro thanks to capital weather gang retweeting the national weather service tornado page. Luckily my area was fine, but if it wasn’t, those two minutes could’ve made a big difference.

Also it’s great to see the progression of storms in the radar over the course of the last 30 minutes, but when the storm is happening, you really don’t need that much info—you just need to know what’s happening now. Would be nice if you could narrow in on the last 10 minutes. Maybe that could be a setting?

by Momlovesames

People were complaining about large location icons, fast radar time lapse, etc. Well guess what? There's options to change those in Settings! Just because you're not App Savvy doesn't mean you should give bad ratings and complain. I'm a 47 year-old single mother and if I can figure out what the circular gear icon symbol means and tap it to find the settings you can too!
You can also choose map or satellite imagery, the degree of clarity on the coverage of the "clouds" so you can still see what city it is. Change the speed of the playback. How long do you want that red pin with the nice, visible print for the location to stay there? 10 seconds or 1 minute? I think there were 4 options.
Those are just the ones I looked at before the "please rate NOAARadarPro " popped up.
I really like it and find it functional, accurate (so far), and not too difficult for a grandmother to use. If you can't figure it out, get your kids to help. 😊

by HPILOT33

This is NOT like Any Other App! When You Find A Great RELIABLE Weather APP; You Tend to Use It as An Important TOOL as A Professional or Private Citizen! Responsive and Up To Date, Accuracy is Important! So Far This WX Radar Pro is Doing Great! I Concur with The Grand-Mother! If you have a "Head Space and Timing" Problem operating NOAARadarPro, get someone In The Family who is the Computer Genius/Guru to Help! Most Good Apps have a System Settings Gear like Icon to Customize NOAARadarPro ! So before you give a Poor Rating; Please, Read The Instructions, and at least try To Communicate with The Developer's Tech Team! By The Way; When You Do Write or Rate Any App, You will have to Think about Organizing Your Thoughts and Complaints in a Constructive Manner! Don't Complain Just for the Sake of Complaining! Especially, If You don't Even Try Reading the Instructions or Communicating An Issue with a Valid Point(s) to Help These Developers Solve Any System or Application Issues!

by Who Luvs Ya Baby

I've had NOAARadarPro for sometime now. I must admit I was skeptical and doubted a weather app. Mainly because there are so many out there that well just plain stink. This one however is reliable and provides several tools to effectively forecast the weather. After almost 2 year I am very pleased with NOAARadarPro !

Updated- 4/3/17, I've noticed that since about the December of 2016, the accuracy of forecast has been slipping. I check NOAARadarPro three or four times a day, and there have been times where the weather has totally changed in the matter of hours. This isn't isolated dates, it's occurring often, I wonder if they switched to a sub par monitoring system or something like that? If I am confusing you, let me put it this way. The iPhone weather app has been more reliable over this same period.

by Tornado Alley Parent

Like a lot of people who live in Tornado Alley, I have multiple notification systems. I use a phone call service for my home location, but I really like NOAARadarPro for:
- Ability to set alerts for multiple locations (son’s summer camp, sister’s town, clients’ business locations etc.)
- I live in a rural location and like being able to see the “big picture” of tornado-warned storms in my region. During a recent multi-day outbreak, I set a temporary alert on towns southwest of mine to get extra lead time on severe weather that might head my way.

My suggestions would be to allow users to control which specific types of severe weather notifications sound an alert, I.e. ON for tornado warnings but OFF for tornado watches, per location. Right now there are about four types grouped together. When monitoring multiple locations (I.e. hospital clients), I really just want to know about tornado warnings, not watches & severe thunderstorm warnings. But when I’m monitoring my kids’ locations, I want to know all of the above. It’s hard to keep track of the important tornado warnings when the lock screen pops up & layers 10 notifications for renewed watches, T-Storm warnings, etc.

Keep up the good work. Thanks.

by Boricua En La Luna Y El Sol

I used very effectively NOAARadarPro 2 years ago to predict the raining periods in Orlando’s theme parks, looking at raining trends real time within 40 minutes before to current time. This helped me determine whether staying indoors or outdoors, helping me enjoying the parks to the fullest. However, current version does not allow me to see the 40 minutes time frame, instead a fixed 24 hours. Now, I cannot determine whether staying indoors or outdoors effectively, as it is not precise and accurate enough for short time frames. I will be disappointed if the usual use I had is not reestablished. I have tried too many times the configuration settings without success. If problem is solved, I will give 5 stars back to NOAARadarPro .

by The Kitchen Witch

Like so many others, I also migrated to NOAA Radar Pro from the Storm app after they reverted to an ad-only version. Too bad. It was very nice and used crowd sourcing for exceptional data.
NOAARadarPro is exceptionally clean in appearance. It's something you're not likely to think about until five flavors of weather hit your area at the same time and everything gets cluttered up. The option to view as a road map format or satellite view is great, especially if you're traveling. Everything is presented in an easy to see and logical manner with numerous options for display. This is important for those of us who don't have the best of vision. Great job on a great app!

by Alamocity1

I admittedly found some flaws about a year ago when I started using NOAARadarPro but they have been responsive and I'm very pleased with what I see now. The greatest function of NOAARadarPro is you don't have to put up with all the gloom and doom on the weather channels. It's a direct feed from NOAA so we don't get all the extra could be this could be that stuff. Living in Florida now, this was my way of staying in touch with what was going on with Irma. When our power went out it was the only way I had of keeping up with what was going on with Irma. I got the pro version because I don't like to be interrupted by commercials on TV or on my phone it was well worth it.

by Victim Of Thievery

I don’t know of anyone that enjoys boating offshore, in rough seas. It’s unpleasant to say the least and often times dangerous or life threatening.
Perfectly calm seas can turn rough without warning in a matter of minutes and knowing what’s ahead in the weather forecast is a must, if you have to seek shelter in a hurry.
I’ve used NOAARadarPro. for a few years now, and it helped me decide whether I want to go fishing that day, or I should just postpone the trip for a better day.
I found NOAARadarPro to be quite accurate in forecasting the weather for the areas that I’ve chosen to fish in, or just spend the day on the water with family or friends.
Never mess with mother nature. Boating should be fun, don’t risk your life doing it.

by ThunderingTatanka

I have had NOAARadarPro for several years now, and must say that; it has been a very reliable tool, in Weather Preparedness! When you live in Tornado Alley; you can't go wrong; with NOAARadarPro!!! The local news, tends to spend 95% of their time; on covering the " Big City " and, Not the small town's ! Who cares about, the City, getting rain! Concrete & Asphalt, doesn't grow; no matter how much or little rain it receives. PERIOD ! When your a Farmer, you need rain to grow your crops; Especially, in Drought areas! NOAARadarPro, gives me the most important Weather Info, I need. When your town Population is only 227, give or take a cow or two; Trust Me , You need NOAARadarPro.