Contact What The Forecast Support

I drive for a living. I don’t care about a funny comment about the weather at the current tiny township I’m passing through because it will be in the rear view mirror soon enough. I want the weather 50 miles away at one of the locations I entered in the settings. But this app demands to look up the weather for my current location upon every startup and refuses to default to a preset location. For being designed in such a presumptuous way, it gets a single star. Reply to Dev: I thought I was clear. It’s not about foreground / background location lookup, it’s about pushing a location lookup at all. It’s not about battery, it’s about pushing the current location lookup at all. Perhaps Dev doesn’t move much during the day, but I’ve ranged across 1000+ square miles as part of an average workday and when I pull out the weather app I don’t care about *current* location - I’m looking for one of a few preset locations. Dev didn’t understand my review at all.

First let me clarify that the one star rating is for the new feature where you can look at things like how the weather is impacting allergies, sinuses etc. There is a category called “migraine” and I was super exited about it because I suffer from chronic migraines that are triggered by weather fronts. I thought this was going to be another tool in my chest to help me predict my week. I was even excited to show it to my neurologist.... initially. Then I tested it out the past week. What crap. We have had severe storms roll through, even had to hid in the basement (with a migraine) because a funnel cloud was spotted a couple miles away and the entire week the app kept saying “minimal” migraine impact. I don’t think your developers have ever had a migraine or they would know that severe weather fronts LIKE THUNDER STORMS/rain and quick changes in barometric pressure trigger migraines. Go back to the drawing board in this one gang. Other than that the rest of the app is great and entertaining.

I enjoy this app, and it’s no less accurate than any other. It’s entertaining first and foremost. Unfortunately there’s no option I can find to simply enter a location you wish to know weather info about. It only works with ‘location services’ on the phone. I keep location service off as a general rule and it’s frustrating to have to turn it on to get weather! I then have to turn it back off afterward. I would like to enter my town and have that info saved. I also would like to know the weather in a couple other places too, especially when I’m on a road trip! I often don’t carry phone service on the iPhone and only use it on WiFi, and grab my hotspot when I am going to be away from free WiFi areas, so I am afraid what the forecast won’t work in those times... Just not as useful as I would wish. Maybe the paid version offers the ability to save several locations and provide weather without needing location service on? I don’t know! But I think I’ll be going back to no weather app and and simply checking on a weather website where I can input my location as is useful.