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Storm Radar: Weather Tracker App Complaints & User Negative Comments 2024
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Storm Radar: Weather Tracker for Negative User Reviews
✓ Sad to leaveI’ve been using this app for 4+ years to see the weather and the upcoming rain. I live in a tropical area so I find the app very helpful to see the daily rain expectations. I didn’t let it phase me when extreme amounts of ads were added to the main screen eliminating 30% of the screen. But now you have to pay to see future weather? You can only access past hourly radar and what’s currently happening. Which I could truly see by opening my blinds. I’ll have to find a new app that hopefully does what this app used to do. Thank you to the developers for being great. I just can’t bring myself to pay for something like this when the app has made no improvements but continues to try and monetize itself. I understand we all need to make money but making some features that are actually helpful (like the next few hours of rain) free entices the audience to want to pay for other features (like hurricane tracking…etc). Seeing what is currently available does not entice me to want to pay for a full experience and I’ve experienced it before so imagine someone new to your app.Version: 3.14.1
✓ Inflation or greed?It would seem I feel the same as many others re the removal of features from the regular version and charging users an extremely high monthly rate to regain access to Future Radar. Good bye, there are others who will provide me with what we want. Lew.Version: 3.14.2
✓ Bell Qld AustraliaI am happy with the app but your weather is from DALBY which is 400 meters lower and 40 kilometres south We have a local weather station that was upgraded last Wednesday to the latest technology Temps Humidity Barometer Rainfall Due point Uv index Solar luminous level sun and moon Your temp is always wrong along with the wind and wind speed The station uploads to Weather Underground WOW Weathercloud Thanks Tom.Version: 2.0.2
✓ Beware they’ve started charging!I’ve had this app for a few years and found it very useful to to see the ‘predictive’ rain feature. This shows your location on the map and runs a prediction of how they think the rain clouds will move over your area in the next few hours. Generally very accurate too. But now they want to charge for this feature which sort of makes it useless as it now only shows what has passed and what the weather’s doing now. I can look out the window and see for myself..Version: 3.14.1
✓ DisappointedI’ve used this app for years and loved it. I’ve recommended it to everyone I know. BUT something changed a few months ago after an update and now every single time I open the app it takes me to Africa. I live in Georgia. There is never a time now that it takes me to my location on the first time of opening the app. So I have to close it out and then open it back up again. My husband also has the app and his opens up to Africa as well and when you hit the location icon it takes you to our location but you can’t pull up any forecast information or see the radar or anything. It’s just blank. So no matter what you do you have to close it out and open it back up again. We’ve both tried deleting and reinstalling it. I even went on and paid for the pro version just to get it to stop doing what it was doing and if anything it got worse when I upgraded. I’ve sent messages to the developer (or whoever the feedback goes to) 3 different times and have yet to get any type of response. I’m so disappointed because I have loved this app for so many years and relied on it to keep me informed of any severe weather at home and also where our kids in college are and now I’m trying to find another app that even compares to the way this one used to work..Version: 3.1.1
✓ Took a good app and ruined itThis app is so disappointing, there’s probably too many things to list. First of all, it was way better when it was just Weather Underground. Once they forced you to move over from “Storm“, everything went downhill from there. First, I had paid for an ad free experience on Weather Underground (WU), and when they forced you to move over to Storm, they didn’t credit you for the ad free experience you had paid for on the original app. I have contacted them repeatedly, and have gotten no response whatsoever. Apparently they just don’t care about taking your money and then not providing the service you had paid for. Secondly, the underlying map in Storm isn’t nearly as good as the one they used to use when it was WU. Currently, you are unable to edit saved locations or recents. The delete button does not function. The satellite layer on the map doesn’t work. I’d say that their customer service sucked, but you would actually have to have made contact with someone to make that assessment. They can’t even be bothered to reach out to you when you have a problem and request some help. The list goes on and on. How do you take a product that was really good (WU), and then make it significantly worse, while effectively stealing people’s money for a service they had prepaid for. Truly mystifying. Don’t waste your time with this app..Version: 2.0.4
✓ Awesome app but …This is the best weather app I have for looking at storm paths and predicting rain however … the last update took away from the free version this forecast functionality that differentiated it from other apps and now it is no better than any other free weather app. Please bring this functionality back to the free version, I don’t have the need for the other premium options so cannot justify the annual subscription for this one feature that has been in the free version since the app launched..Version: 3.14.1
✓ Am I missing something? (Updated again)It got better by only a little. Storm Radar is still an inferior app to what it replaced. Several updates to fix bugs and still hasn’t fixed most. App opens up showing Africa and the Eastern Atlantic. Must close the app and then reopen it to connect back with my location and current radar. I use it, but still wish for something better. Exploring other apps. All the comments below still apply. _________________________ The Storm Radar app is supposedly the replacement for the Storm app, which gave a notice of being discontinued May 24. I eventually found a very difficult to read graph of hourly temps and daily forecast. OK maybe for a LARGE display, but too tough to read on typical smartphone screens. I can save favorites of destinations I go for work but then constantly get unwanted weather notices for all of them. Haven’t found out how to turn that off while keeping my home location on. This is still NOT an improvement over the former app. It is a major step backwards. It is not intuitive. It is not easy to use or to read. I have to search for information where the former app gave great info all on one screen. Disappointed in the extreme. I’ve started using local news weather reports rather than turn this thing on. Hanging in there to SEE / HOPE it improves. Giving it the Summer months. If no better, it’s deleted..Version: 3.1.1
✓ Please bring back the previous version!!!Why change something that was one of, if not the best weather apps available? You expect changes in apps to "add" features and improve the UX, but this is a big fail on both. I'm not wanting to give the developers a hard time here, just please please return to what we had as it was great..Version: 1.4.3
✓ Storm radarWhy is it every time an app needs to be upgraded you lose half of what you had before and now have to pay for it as is exactly what happened with this app is now everything extra that you want you have to pay for your wares you didn’t prior to this does not make one happy.Version: 3.1.1
✓ New ver. removes free featuresVery disappointing and very greedy! Free features replaced with expensive monthly payments..Version: 3.13
✓ Weather AppSince downloading the updated app yesterday, I can’t get into the system any more. I just get some silly verbiage re privacy laws, I can’ get out of the legal mumble jumble and back into the weather screen showing local weather and radar. D.......Version: 2.0.4
✓ What happened?When I first got this app it was easily one of the best one the App Store. Great radar, easy to use tools, alerts that were on the mark. I’m in landscaping and snow removal so it was perfect, but that was 5 years ago. Since then through several updates and “improvements” the developers have gotten sloppy and greedy. On my iPhone 10 with the most updated free version the app constantly shuts down, won’t open several “free” and important features like special weather statements. A few years ago they changed the app so you could click on any part of the map and get the weather, but it’s very seldom I need the weather anywhere but where I’m at, and if I do need the weather in Canada I could easily search it. The only thing this map does it make me mad when I accidentally click it instead of the small carrot to minimize the forecast screen and get thrown into Toronto! Then there is the greedy part, only a few short months ago you could do anything on this app. There were some features to upgrade but they were very specialized or to go without adds. Now I can’t even make the app full screen without a subscription, what are the adds for? Don’t get me started on the IPad version.. bug city! I plead with the developers and owners, take a look at the old version of this app and remember what it was like when you were #1, Thank You!.Version: 3.1.2
✓ Bring back the old app!UPDATE: Just paid for a one month sub so I can see lightning and the lightning tracker won’t toggle on. Utter joke. Want a refund. I miss the 3 day thunderstorm/spc outlook display! The earthquake monitor (which the new app has but it’s hard as the dickens to see)! I miss the lightning monitor (again, this app has one but it’s not nearly as reliable). I miss being able to search a location by typing it in. Hunting it down and tapping the screen is a pain when I’m not 100% familiar with the area I might be looking for radar info in. I can’t tap my saved locations anymore and I miss that, too! My husband works in a different town, now when he asks is it going to rain, I have to hunt him down rather than tapping the location at the top of the screen. Overall, the radar is gorgeous...it’s the sheer loss of functionality that stinks. I miss the current conditions at the bottom of the screen; the tap-to-expand setup now is frustrating and very confusing to read. Sometimes it opens...sometimes it causes the location pointer to relocate, causing me to again have to find where I wanted to be looking in the first place. You have a great radar, at this point. That’s about it. One star..Version: 3.2
✓ Great basic app made more basic by greedThis app used to be amazing and powerful in a wonderfully minimalistic format before the weather channel stripped it down to the bare minimum. The few features it has is enough for me to continue using the app. It is lite and still provides all the most useful information. However I saw a notification that the greedy weather channel is further stripping the app of features that I can subscribe to in the near future. I do t know what they will remove e from an already sparse app but I may have to switch to another weather app. I used to live the weather channel but the company has become so corporatized and greedy with subscriptions and ads that I prefer to use it as little as possible. I just want to clarify that the app is almost 5 star worthy due to its accuracy, ease of use and it’s concise information format, however the low 2 star rating is for my disdain of the greedy corporatization of the weather channel and it’s ridiculous subscriptions..Version: 3.11
✓ Go PremiumIt’s a very good app. The only reason I gave it a low rating is because we’ve been using it for a long time and then all of a sudden you have to buy premium to see past the present time. Never had to do that before. I get the go premium but to just cap it off like that all of sudden was a piss off. Could have at least let it go an hour or 2 past present time. We use it out on the water for safety reasons..Version: 3.15.2
✓ Bring back the old AppPossibly as stupid a direction as when they decided to take weather cams off weather underground! Such a poor app and makes me sad..Version: 1.4.3
✓ A severe downgrade from the WU Storm appI was extremely disappointed with this app when the developers moved away from Weather Underground. It has none of the interactive overlays that their last app had, and the tooltips appear at inopportune moments. It is significantly less Injustice to use, and lacks the wind and rain overlays that were so useful in their last app. It is absolute rubbish..Version: 1.4.3
✓ Used to be 5 starThey now charge a lot for the predictive radar, a feature that used to be free. Too much surcharge for Australia..Version: 3.12
✓ Pointless nowThis app used to be great when you could see the incoming weather for a couple of hours ahead, but now that’s locked behind a paywall and you an only see past data. Absolutely pointless because I already know whether it rained an hour ago. I don’t object to paying via ads or a one-off fee, but I’m not a fan of subscriptions, and it’s too expensive for the limited information on offer. Will be uninstalling..Version: 3.15.2
✓ This app is garbage...I’d just like to go on record as saying how poor a weather app experience this app gives now. I’ve had the “Storm” app for several years (when still under previous ownership) and it was remarkably good, reliable and an overall it provided a great app experience. It stinks now. Not only have you made it where you must pay for premium for less than premium (even basic I’d say) services, the maps are unreliable and it crashes often. This looks like a classic business decision where a product that wasn’t broken and was very solid was traded for a cheaply made counterfeit all for the sake of more profit. I pay for premium versions (as well as standalone) of apps but there NO way I’d give a dime for this product. I feel like what we had in the previous version of Storm was Coke and you’ve tried (like Coke did once) to change the formula. Do you remember “New Coke”? No, you probably don’t. And neither does anyone else. Because it was crap. Be like Coke. Change it back. Make it better, but change it back please..Version: 3.1.2
✓ Wow a lot of fake 5 star reviewsHi, my name is John Fujita-Beaufort Weathervane and I was an Air Force hurricane hunter pilot before I became a tornado chaser for a big name weather company and I’ve got 45 years of experience with forecasting, even though I’m only 38 - Oh, I didn’t mention, I was orbiting the moon on a secret weather mission to see if there was moon weather, and I was going so fast that time actually slowed down, so that’s why my earth age is 38 but I have those seven extra years of experience. Relativity is a crazy thing! Anyway, this app has brought me so much joy that it brings tears to my eyes every time I open it on my phone. Most of the time it crashes, like that one time my C-130 crashed while hunting a hurricane, and the app has reduced functionality like, well, that one time when my C-130 lost an engine Come on people this is a terrible app, please review to balance out all of these fake five star ratings. Storm by WU was the best weather app ever, and I gave this app a chance for a long, long time, waiting for it to mature and it has just gotten worse. I’ve never been more sad about a piece of software in my life. 1 star because it works about 20% of the time, because of the baffling amount of patently fake five star reviews, and because I can’t assign a lower score..Version: 3.1.1
✓ Good app but cannot family share this appWould give it a 5 star if you could share with Apple family settings. It's very disappointing.Version: 3.14.3
✓ The only good thing about this app is watching it crash and burn.Ok. I’ve hated this app from day one. It was a huge step back from WU. But watching the developers dig themselves into a deeper hole? It’s getting to be entertaining at least! I found new apps after a dangerous situation that Storm showed nothing and we had hail and tornados. I contacted the developers and got the canned responses of thank you for your feedback. There was a glimmer of hope when they added storm tracks again several months ago. It still sucked. But slightly better. And now we have to pay for it for premium in a subscription model? I deleted it today as these bad storms are moving through and I can’t get any info on them. How is it that the weather channel app is this horrible? I’m so disappointed they bought out WU and ruined it. If you want a basic radar that’s horribly inaccurate- there are a ton of free apps that will give you that. Weathermate, Aeries Pulse and Accuweather are my go to-s now if anyone is looking for help. None of the three give me everything I want but together have what WU used to..Version: 3.0.0
✓ Useful ......but !This started off as a great app, it was useful to track the storms and also see other things (earthquakes, thunderstorms etc ) but lately it’s been majorly glitchy. Not sure it’s just an iPhone thing or something general. It’s just taken me 8 attempts to open it and get the storm names up. When I eventually got the storm names up and clicked a storm name, everything vanished and I got left with an empty screen. I though the last update fixed it and it did for all of a few days but it seems even worse now :( Also perhaps being able to track UK storms would also be nice ? When it’s less glitchy I shall amend my rating with more stars..Version: 2.0.1
✓ New stormWhere did the wind arrows go?! Really don’t like this new app!.Version: 2.0.1
✓ Hoping for moreThis app, which replaced Storm, looks pretty cool with the theming. Unfortunately, that’s about all I have good to say about it. It has just a fraction of Storm’s features and customizability. I sorely miss seeing more details like dewpoint, cloud cover, and pressure in the daily/hourly forecast graphs. And those graphs need to be full screen instead of trimmed down to fit just three days/six hours at a time. The map options are drastically reduced from Storm’s, too. I could go on and on about what this app is missing in comparison. It just baffles me that they removed the best weather app (Storm) before releasing those features in this app. I’m not sure who this app is targeting. On the one hand, there is the great future radar, but some of the forecast details we weather aficionados use to understand what’s coming and how to plan are missing. Hopefully this is just an interim, growing pains gap (akin to Apple Final Cut Pro’s 7 to X), and the missing features will work their way into subsequent versions. In the mean time, this app doesn’t really offer much, so I will have to use a combination of weather apps and websites to piece together the full picture..Version: 2.0.1
✓ CAN OFTEN BE WRONGMany times the storms and TIMES this app show just don’t happen, ..Version: 3.9
✓ Was my go to wx app, now deletedThis used to be a great app, could see the radar for a few hours in advance and it was usually spot on. Now they charge to see any future weather, only the previous two hours is free. I don’t need to know what the wx was like the last two hours, I watched it from my window. Sadly another app ruined by greedy developers as it’s completely useless now..Version: 3.12
✓ Very basicThe app is great, but very basic, completely lacking in the detail of its predecessor, with no highs and lows, no weather fronts, no jet streams, no wind details, and less local detail..Version: 2.0.2
✓ Very disappointedWe are very disappointed that TWC has removed features from the free version and have made them available only with a premium subscription. If you were going to offer a premium subscription, maybe you should have developed and offered MORE features, rather than take away current important features that were once offered on the free version. We used to monitor the projected radar tracking (a few hours in advance) to determine whether or not someone should remain vigilant during the overnight hours when dangerous weather conditions were possible. Now we can only see radar in the past, up to the present. I thought TWC was a service that strived to help people remain safe during extreme weather conditions. It’s a shame that future radar projections are now only offered for money. Greediness is very unbecoming..Version: 3.12
✓ Lowered rating. Pretty good but why does it lose the most immediate radar info?New version severely limited functionality. The whole purpose is to see what storms are coming. But now all future views are premium only. This app is now useless unless you are a weather historian. Old review: Pretty good app. Easy to use, clean interface, reliable data. But over and over I’ll be tracking the history of a front moving through and when it gets to NOW the data disappears and the map is blank. It stays blank for several time slices and then (sometimes) the future radar prediction appears. This happens a lot and makes the app a lot less useful because the time period you most want to see is NOW and the time immediately following. But that gets blanked out. And this is not irregular. It happens a lot. Kinda makes the app not too useful when boating, hiking or doing anything outdoors! Update. Did it again. Tracking a storm coming in and right at my location after NOW time, the storm disappears. Your future predictions are horrible.Version: 3.15.2
✓ Used to be the best weather appNow one of the worst. I will most likely be deleting it.Version: 2.0.4
✓ RubbishThe new version of this app is rubbish. Tool bar is all over the main screen and bright white. Very distracting. I’ll wait to see if this rubbish improves to sign up for the premium package. Other wise I’ll send my money elsewhere. There are plenty of weather apps out there.Version: 3.1.2
✓ Original app was perfect.The original app was perfect. Why change it?? Now I use a mixer of weather apps to get the info I want..Version: 2.0.4
✓ Get something else...Saves the city multiple times and then you can’t delete them..Version: 2.0.4
✓ Remember when...?Remember when this application used to be hands down the best detailed weather tracking application one could have a smart phone? Remember when you could track an individual storm’s direction, wind velocity, cloud Atlas, windshear, and other detailed information so as to predict the storms severity relative to your specific location? And, Remember when it was completely free? I don’t mean this basic unintelligible version that exists now,... that you’re forced to get whenever you buy a new phone, or because they shut down support for the previous version. And to the developers… Don’t patronize us with the fact that you charge a subscription to provide a more intuitive ad free experience. We had that already that (ad banners were minuscule at most) and you decided since you bought the rights you could take that away from us. I realize that legally yet immorally, you can. But you didn’t even make the app better, you made it completely and appallingly worse. We prefer the original app. Give it back!.Version: 3.1.1
✓ Loved it until it became a subscriptionI have used this for years and today I open the app to find I can no longer see the weather movement for the coming hours only what has already happened. $30 a year is a big jump from $0, I would have happily paid a reasonable amount for this app..Version: 3.14.3
✓ NoWas great until the premium feature was added no fuss tho im sure i could easily find another app for free.Version: 3.14.1
✓ Not where it thinks I amI just received a warning of a lightning strike near me in cairns. Been back in Melbourne for over a week.Version: 3.19
✓ New version. Less functions but you can get premiumWell done devs, give us less and expect to upgrade to premium to get some of these back.Version: 3.12
✓ Never seems to workPlease bring back the storm app buy wunderground.Version: 2.0.2
✓ Terrible replacement for WU StormAll the best features have disappeared, a total downgrade. Used to be my goto app, could tell exactly when rain was coming and the most amazing animated wind, now it’s useless. Please turn support back on for the old version, this is awful.Version: 1.4.3
✓ Paying for this app for the Third time!So a few years ago I bought this app for a couple bucks, and it was a great companion to the weather channel app during stormy weather. It was a phenomenal app that I still miss in bad weather. After a couple years TWC discontinued that app and migrated to the *new* storm app. I paid a couple bucks (again) and got a app with reduced functionality, but it had weather boxes and lightning strikes. So I swallowed the loss and eventually sought out another app that had storm tracks and timing and some of the other functionality of the old app. Now Storm is insisting that I pay a few more bucks to continue doing the same thing I already paid for it to do, lightning and severe boxes, and that it was already doing just a few weeks ago. So now do I invest a few more bucks in an app that has now proven itself unreliable? Especially after I had to pay for a competitor app to fill the gaps left by the last migration? Perhaps I’ll delete Storm for the time being, and see if I miss it next time there’s a storm, the way I miss the original app..Version: 3.1.1
✓ Sub par at best.I had storm for a very long time before this. Paid the $10 for it years ago. Loved it enough to move to the subscription service when they dropped that. I gave this a chance but I refuse to even pay $.99 for the ad free version of this. A few of the issues I have with this app: the touch location feature is horrible I find myself accidentally clicking a location while moving around the radar. The radar centric version with the expandable bottom banner was wonderful over this. Also, why are advisories different colors from the standard! This is probably the biggest complaint, I see a red box around my country and worry it’s a tornado warning... it isn’t. I miss the markups on the radar you could do on storm, you could measure the distance and use this to predict when the front would arrive. Used to love the storm tracks but now they just don’t mesh well, and guess what when I try and tap the storm track to get more information I end up changing the floater box location because it’s easy to accidentally tap a location on the map rather than the track. Lastly, the ability to use local radars was great! I loved being able to look at the velocity track and find the hook when there was a nearby tornado. All in all what was an extremely user friendly and advanced weather app has become another “simplistic” “pretty” ui for the masses, next they will push out an update to include a news feed like the weather channel..Version: 2.0.1
✓ Costly…The app seems really good, works ok. It’s just a shame it’s so expensive. Has not got a one payment option, instead it drains your bank account monthly or weekly. If it had a one payment only option at an affordable price I would buy it, but no way am I going to keep paying those current costs. Other weather apps are far more affordable..Version: 3.7
✓ What happenedThey redid the site and decided to charge for extras. I don’t mind that part because others sites charge. I will be deleting this app. First the menu for upgrades is permanently on the side blocking information. I don’t see how to remove them if I decide not to pay. Secondly, the app has become extremely unreliable. More than half the time nothing loads. I have to open a more reliable app to double check. This app is a waste of time and certainly not worth any extra $$$.Version: 3.1.1
✓ Was Good, Now It’s MediocreInitially gave 6 hour radar tracking, now it’s only 2 hours. My job is weather-dependent, Storm Tracker is always promoting “Go Premium” when you look at the radar screen. I’ve decided to “Go Elsewhere” for storm predictions..Version: 3.15.2
✓ Rain radar forecastJust installed the latest update and rain radar forecast has been removed. Only access for paid subscribers now. Would have been nice if the Developer of the app would have advised that this function would be removed once the new update was uploaded..Version: 3.18.1
✓ Fix the premium acknowledgment5.2.23 Update: Customer service reached out upon seeing my initial review, and recommended I completed uninstall the app from my phone, and then make sure to install version 3.15.1. I did. The issue with not recognizing my premium subscription still exists. Bummer too, because uninstalling and reinstalling caused me to lose all my saved places, settings, etc… that I had to redo. Wouldn’t have been a big deal if it fixed the problem, but alas, I still get pushed to upgrade 90% of the time. Love this weather app, and when they changed it from fully free to paying to get more functionality, I paid my $20. However, it’s hit or miss with whether the app recognizes I paid for premium or not. I’d say 90% of the time it thinks I haven’t, and on the seldom occasion, it automatically loads my premium version without me having to restore purchases. Sometimes when trying to restore purchases, it says it can’t connect to the App Store. The content itself is great as always was, but the annoying, ongoing inconsistencies with having paid for the upgrade, moved it down to two stars for now. I hope the developers get that fixed. It’s been doing this ever since they went to the paid model..Version: 3.15.1
✓ Was good until last updateWas an excellent and pretty accurate app before a recent update that now doesn’t open on your current location. Also update switch off the notifications and changed all the settings. It was fine before they buggered it up. 😬.Version: 3.1.1
✓ Way worse than the last versionWhat’s up with this?! Why did you launch a new app with a fraction of the functionality? I can’t find any of the old options I liked in the older version, like the wind arrows, which were actually amazingly accurate. Much worse. Revert back please. The loading is horrendous, especially the tropical storm/hurricane tracks, which are the most critical. It’s basically random as to whether storms will show up on my iPad screen or not. I open the app, then sit and stare at it for several minutes. Sometime none will load, so I zoom the view in and out, and sometimes that eventually works. Sometimes some storms will load, but not others. After all that, I still keep going back to the old version to view the wind arrows (which are my favorite feature, and are gone now), and going through the “OOPS, there’s an upgrade!” Screen, just so I can see where the arrows go into a tight circle, which indicates a hurricane. The arrows are so accurate, last year they predicted hurricanes before any service, or other data did! Bring back the arrows!.Version: 2.0.1
✓ UnstableThis app locks up and quits regularly on me. Pretty frustrating..Version: 2.0.4
✓ Not bad except for BUGI’m unable to set my location permanently with this app so it keeps opening with my old location 1800km away which is useless. No matter how many times I delete the old location, it remains as the default location. Otherwise pretty good. Be great if they didn’t have flashing ads..Version: 3.2
✓ DisappointedThey now make you pay, to be able to see the forecasted radar. So I downloaded ‘The Weather Channel’ app, which offers it for free..Version: 3.15.2
✓ Emails in link in app must go to trashI’ve been a user of this app for years, mostly in summer to watch for tornadoes and hail. Then they downgraded it and make you pay for it. I paid for the summer at least this year but I’m about to cancel it. I mostly use the storm track details but it doesn’t work. It worked last year and every year before that but now I pay to have it not work. The storm track details won’t scroll. I can’t even get to the hail info. I’ve emailed twice for help but receive NOTHING. They must send them straight to the trash instead of replying. And the search for help topics, another big joke. You can find Covid info there but nothing about how to fix a problem with the app. So not worth it. EDIT: well I’m happy most people have an app that works for them. Me, nothing works. Still paying for it but this is now the 4th time I have written and said what the problems are and I get no reply whatsoever. No help nothing. It worked beautifully when it was free. As soon as I started paying-nothing works. That tells me one thing. All they care about is the money and could care less about any problems..Version: 3.2
✓ New Storm not as good as old StormWell the Weather Channel has now ruined a perfectly good app. Since they “remodeled” the Storm app into the new “Storm Radar” app it’s just not very good anymore. The layout is odd and not very intuitive, plus they changed one of the best things on Storm, the wind speed graphics. It was real easy to see the wind movement with many wind speed arrows, but now it is the occasional arrow and no movement, just a direction. No where near as useful. The radar is ok, but when you zoom in sometimes the rain/snow that was there disappears! Something is wrong there. The current weather info seems to be lacking a measure of precipitation in the last 24 hours, something that is pretty basic for weather information. After using this for several months (I would switch to another app, but they are all bad!), I’ve found it pretty flakey. Quite often the app just quits for no reason. Other times I try to move the map area and it takes 10-15 seconds for it to respond. I also do not like the radar to go into animation mode when I open the app and have configured it to not do that ... but it still does occasionally. This is all pretty sad given all the time they have had to work on this. Update, now they are pushing the “Pro” version and have some icons on the left side of the screen that are only active in the “Pro” version. Problem is they block the view on the iPhone, but you can’t get rid of them. Another annoying money grab .....Version: 3.0.0
✓ Sadly not what it used to beI downloaded this app about 5 months ago and it was amazing to use. I used it almost every day and had some very useful and insightful information that I like to look at when viewing the weather and the radar. Recent updates have since stripped away all of the functionality that I used to enjoy in favor of a bogus $20 annual fee which wouldn’t be so bad if you weren’t additionally extorted by a completely useless app for those who don’t wish to pay. I know this company knows how to do premium — the main The Weather Channel app introduced a premium program a couple months back as well, but instead of forcing users to pay by excluding features they already used, new and exciting features were made available on top of the free experience if they so wished to use them. I don’t understand why the same company could find it so hard to just do the same thing across all their apps. I’ll be sure to telling the people whom I recommended this app to to uninstall it if they haven’t already made the good decision to use the storage this app occupies for something actually worth keeping..Version: 3.1.1
✓ Uninstalled now.Been using this app for 5 years now and uninstalling today due to recent update not letting you do anything you used to be able to do unless you paid. If it was a one time payment I’d consider it but I’m not paying monthly. Real shame considering how good the app was. New update has rendered the app useless compared to other apps you can get. Real let down by the developers..Version: 3.14.1
✓ Advertising?There’s no way to by-pass advertising with a current WUndergound subscription to Storm. Fail!.Version: 3.16
✓ Subscription lockUsed to be a great app, my go-to for weather, but now a lot of features are locked behind a pay wall, and an overpriced one at that. Used to be free with all features but they realised they can make money so ruined the app by taking away a chunk of its functionalityEven full screen mode is subscription only so i have these horrid white bars on top and bottom of screen. I would pay £2.99 for no ads etc, but a monthly fee for a weather app is ridiculous..Version: 3.1.2
✓ IBM Downgraded Weather AppDon’t waist your time with this ‘upgrade’ —IBM’s ‘new’ Storm Radar app is sadly disappointing and wholly inferior to the original Weather Underground Storm App. It’s a shame to see that IBM purchased the Weather Channel and Weather Underground with the long term intent of implementing dated technology, removing superior competition, and providing decreased value. The original Storm app had easy access to everything one needs in a weather app, with the ‘new’ Storm Radar Weather app by IBM one would have to use multiple weather apps to even get anywhere near the performance of the original and still they would be lacking. The original WU Storm App helped my family weather Hurricane Harvey and saved us once from running directly in to the path of a tornado. Sad to think that IBM would purposely take away the public’s choice and access to an app that helped so many during Hurricane Harvey and could help countless others in the future. It’s also sad to see that someone is trying to raise the ratings on this app with all fake 5 Star one line reviews rather than fix the app’s issues or bring back the original Storm app features — in one month the rating has gone from 2.9 to 4.4 yet nothing has changed with the app..Version: 2.0.1
✓ Favourites disappearGood app, but all my favourites disappear after I close the app. Didn’t do this before, but now I don’t get alerts for other cities where family lives. As a paid subscriber, this makes me question my subscription.Version: 3.16
✓ Miss the OLD WUndergroundI don’t usually write app reviews, but this one is a long time coming. I used to love Weather Underground, and used them exclusively. Ever since The Weather Channel acquired WU, this app (and the desktop site for the record) has steadily decreased. After nearly a decade of loyalty, you’ve lost this subscriber. (1) TWC separated what was once ONE SINGLE APP, into two apps, the spinoff being this Storm app. Ok fine, I thought, this will help focus on severe weather. (2) Then it got glitchy and started crashing when trying to view the radar in future mode. (3) Then they take the awesome storm tracks feature from the free app and make it a premium-only setting. WTH?! That was like the one advantage this app had over others. (4) Finally, today was the last straw. I get a river flood alert in the push notifications. Opened the app and what does it always do when you try to get more info? It crashes. After three dIfferent iPhones...IT. ALWAYS. CRASHES. I’m done. THIS APP COULD BE ALL A PERSON HAS IN A SEVERE WEATHER EVENT. At the very least, it should not crash on us!.Version: 3.1.2
✓ Gone now was the main feature of this appMy habit of not updating apps when they work just fine has once again been solidified by the recent “update” of this app. Now included on this “update” is reduced functionality, so unless you pay for a subscription, the future radar is no longer available to free users. Like many I was upset when this app replaced the old app that was already an amazing app, but I eventually got used to this version and use it extensively for quick access to radar maps. No longer will that be the case because you can only see the past radar and not the future radar (as a free user). Time to uninstall this app and go back to viewing radar via bookmarking a radar page on some other weather information provider. I understand you want to be paid for your work on this app, but this money grab is going to alienate much of your user base starting with me. Im sure others will agree that we shouldn’t have to pay for a service that is free everywhere else. Complete disappointment this “update” was done. Had I never updated I would still have a perfectly function app, but now it’s just a waste of space for me..Version: 3.14.2
✓ Storm TrackerNow you have to pay to view, it’s useless! Don’t bother downloading!.Version: 3.1.1
✓ StormGive me back my weather underground any day..Version: 2.0.4
✓ Cluttered and counter intuitiveThis app was great in its previous form. Now it’s an annoying mess. It’s got so much information in it, but the UI is horrible. It covers the map and only gives a tiny window to view. How many different ways to I have to turn off the animation of the Map? There are so many warning larders turned on that I can’t see THE MAP. I’ve turned them all off and there’s still several on that can’t be deactivated. The only good thing about this app is the lightning strike warnings. The previous incarnation of this app was still better at it though. When I’m trying to find the weather conditions I want to know now, not after if turned off a bunch of layers, then stopped the reader animation, and pressed the now button 3 times to get it to the current radar, then accidentally changed the location of the forecast by putting my finger on the side of the screen. This app has become a total mess. You can have all the information possible, but it’s useless because the UI is so bad that I do to want to use the app..Version: 2.0.2
✓ Was the best when it was IntellicastThis app was the greatest radar ever, and then when it changed to storm I found it more inaccurate. And now they want to charge for it. A shame such a good app has become so poor..Version: 3.15.2
✓ Great App though Recent Location Searches Cannot be ClearedI’ve purchased and used at least twelve other weather apps over the last seven (7) plus years and this app is simply a superior product overall with side-by-side comparisons. That said, with the latest app software update, I am now unable to clear any of the many recent current searched weather locations. When I attempt to slide the location text to clear it, the app now crashes and closes up leaving me to start the weather app process all over again. This has become increasingly frustrating and leaving me considering going back to inferior yet more reliable Weather Bug or the original AccuWeather apps. I’ve removed and reinstalled this app with no success whatsoever when rebooted. I hope that this issue is fixed soon as the number of searched locations is well over twenty (20) and currently populating more every day. I’m sure that this cannot help the overall speed and performance of my less than two (2) years old iPad Pro and less than one (1) year old iPhone 8..Version: 2.0.4
✓ CrashesThe app crashes every time, you should fix this bug.Version: 3.2
✓ SO DisappointingLike all of the other reviews state this app is subpar at best. Doesn’t even deserve one star. I miss, miss, miss the old Intellicast app! The “upgrade” to storm has just steadily gone downhill and now I have to PAY for features that have always been standard features. Additionally 50% of the time when I open my app it is showing the continent of Africa on my screen. I have learned that the app is not functioning at this point because if I touch on the screen the app crashes. Also most of the time when I open the app there is no radar showing. I have to widen my view and then the radar will pop onto the screen. Plus the satellite view is terrible! If there are clouds showing I can’t see them! Only if I widen my view can I see them very faintly. Have tried adjusting the opacity which does nothing. Of course like others I could go on and on. And the few Developer responses on here are BS! It’s 100% about profit. They know how popular this app has been for years and are trying to capitalize on that. Don’t waste your time people!.Version: 3.1.1
✓ Charging for what was previously free.Was good, now you want to charge for predicted rainfall when it was previously free. I’m out, bye..Version: 3.19
✓ Was Amazing Until it Wasn’tI’ve been using this app for years, and have enjoyed its very simplistic and user friendly layout compared to most weather apps. I’ve noticed over time though that a lot of features have been moved to being premium only, and that’s fine. But now the most basic feature of all has been made into a premium feature: the 6 hour future radar. This is where I stop using this app and move onto something else. Almost every weather app offers this as a free feature, and I can’t see why this has to be guarded now after years of it being free. I don’t want to be paying for a feature I can get on a different app or even off google for free. Prior to this change, this app has been consistently great and easy to use and I’d recommend it, especially if they every the “premium” lock on the radar. I hope they will rectify their tendency to make things a paid requirement and make this app as wonderful as it has been all these years..Version: 3.12
✓ Not 5.0 out of 5!Why does this app show a rating 5.0 out of 5 when many reviewers are giving it one or two stars?.Version: 2.0.1
✓ Used to love this appUsed to love this app until they now require a subscription to get future radar predictions. Time to find a new app to use!.Version: 3.15.2
✓ Not as good as the originalNo upper/ground level wind arrows, pressure lines gone, layout and readability of the forecast is a mess. The hours view has no date reference. The second star is for the weather radar which is the only thing this app is good for now. Bring back the original. That's the one I paid for. Update: No improvements from developers, so it's getting deleted. For those missing the original features check out the 'Windy' app. It much better.Version: 2.0.1
✓ There’s always something ...As others have said, this WAS the best weather app available ... until Weather Channel bought it. There was no need to “improve” upon the best, and they didn’t. We are full-time RVers who MUST HAVE accurate weather information in order to keep ourselves out of danger. I never feel that I can trust Storm Weather now like I used to. For instance, I just spent two solid days trying to decide if I should do a guided nature photo shoot today for $200 non-refundable. Two days I looked at your app and chose Tuesday over Monday for this outing because Monday’s forecast was cloudy, cool and quite windy all day whereas Tuesday was partly sunny, a little warmer and lighter winds. On Tuesday morning, I woke up to rain. After two days of checking the app and feeling confident that Tuesday would be better. Also, when I look at your app, at the top is the symbol for fog; just below it says 42% chance of rain; then there is a heavy fog advisory; then when you look at the hourly forecast it only shows 15% chance of rain for right now. Yet it is raining lightly but steadily. I’m so done with the way you cover all your bases. I need a RELIABLE weather tool. The last thing I need is to be in the path of a tornado and not know it because your app is telling me otherwise..Version: 3.4.1
✓ Where is the airport database?This app used to be good until they dropped the global airport database...ICAO/IATA? Bring it back...”everything good gets canceled!” Also, the Weather Underground version had so many good features...new version by Weather Network is literally crap!!.Version: 2.0.4
✓ Terrible!Please give me my old Storm back!.Version: 3.1.1
✓ Wind SpeedYou should also have knots.Version: 3.19
✓ Has become useless since TWC/IBM took overApp has slid downhill for ages now. Really, how does an app manage to get WORSE? I had been a paid subscriber $0.99 month for years to get the AD free experience. Started having issues with radar images not loading requiring an app restart. Then it started serving me ads even though I was paying to remove them. Numerous emails and support requests sent over 2 months with no response. Finally canceled subscription last month and was going to give them one more shot with re-subscription at the .99 rate when it officially expired a day from now with hopes it would reset my subscription token or whatever. Now I see they want 3.99 a MONTH to remove ads and see basic weather data other apps offer for free. No way I am taking that chance with no previous response to support requests. Putting 75% of a weather app behind a pay wall....hilarious. I am preparing to free up some storage space by removing this app. “Weather Mate” as mentioned by another reviewer has some amazing features and customization for free..Version: 3.1.1
✓ Storm Was BetterThis app has been stripped of a lot of what made Storm my go-to weather app. In Storm, I could have various locations set across the top so I could see at a glance what the temp was in another city. In Storm, I could get an hourly or daily forecast—extremely useful when traveling. In Storm, I could get specific weather stats like dew point, wind chill, and more. In Storm, I could GET RID OF THOSE ANNOYING ADS!!! In-app ads have the potential to track you or follow you and you would not know it. C’mon, Weather Channel, fix this thing!! Until then, I probably will use other weather apps that give me better information. They are still saying it costs 99¢/month. That is no longer true. It is now $3.99/month—a whopping $48/year. There is no longer a yearly option, either. This is being deleted off my devices now. I will periodically check to see if things have improved, but I doubt it will happen. There are other weather apps out there that easily have similar, if not better, features for a far more reasonable price. It was good while it lasted. :-(.Version: 3.3.1
✓ Bad MoveNot as good as it use to be. I no longer need this app. Removing future animation did it a for me. I use Accu Weather and Weather Underground now..Version: 3.14.2
✓ Layers once free, now a premium purchase! What happened?!!Many of the layers once free have been taken away and now are only available as a premium purchase. This also applies to some really basic layers you’d think would be free; such as satellite cloud cover and wind speed just to name a couple. This App was always somewhat buggy, but was still a must have for any weather geek. Now it’s just a simple weather app that cant stand apart from the pack after taking so much away once given as free and/or considered a basic feature and locking them behind a premium pay wall. I HIGHLY suggest looking elsewhere for a weather app. One that doesn’t drastically change their business model just to sell you something once given for free or considered to be an industry standard/basic weather feature. This is my first ever review left for an App if that tells you anything. I really hope this App comes back around and they resolve any internal differences, cause it really was once a great app. Not worth the price of admission today with the added concern of company’s unstable nature toward a business structure to build around..Version: 3.0.0
✓ Total Extortion!!! Don’t waste your $With this new “update”, which again made this IBM/Weather Channel app even more useless than the original, they now are requiring you to pay for basically everything in the app that has been free for years! I have been a user of this app for years (even after IBM/Weather Channel bought and ruined it) and now they expect people to pay for this garbage app they have created? No Thanks!! ***There are tons more apps that are much better and are free!!*** I have never seen an app update that locked the entire app down and won’t unlock unless you pay for it! This is just infantile GREED AT ITS CORE!! Whoever at IBM/Weather Channel that changed, I’m sorry, RUINED THIS APP really needs to contemplate a career change because I’ve never seen garbage like this...ever. You should be so ashamed of this that you should fire yourself, and take some time off to figure out how you so profoundly messed up a great app. Or, go stick your head in a toilet and flush, because that’s the experience you get with this app since IBM/Weather Channel bought it. You have been warned!.Version: 3.2
✓ Below averageWhat was once a good app is now below average and untrustworthy. It was good for the not always accurate future radar that you had ads to watch but then they got you to update the app after there seeming to be a glitch and removed the future radar by putting a go premium button over the top of the radar slider. There were no notifications to this happening and it was done in a way that was not transparent. I will be deleting this app now and using other better weather apps. Customer service does not care about this..Version: 3.12
✓ Not working ??Why is the HD Radar not going by “Now”? Suppose to read 2 hrs past and 6 hrs future…with no cost… it’s not a “premium feature”. Used to love this app…now just frustrates me 🤨.Version: 3.15.2
✓ StinkI hate the change to this update I really miss the old version.Version: 1.4.3
✓ Scam AppDon’t pay for this, use the FREE Instant Weather instead. No mention anywhere in the description that *all* future radar is behind a paywall. Pointless to have an app that doesn’t provide any forecast..Version: 3.14.2
✓ Worthless, unreliable. Don’t waste your timeThis app was amazing a few years ago. Why is there always a need to take something great and “update” it to something that is trash. Every time I open the app, it shows me as somewhere in Africa (I’m in the Midwest USA). When I click the arrow to find my location, the app crashes and closes. Upon reopening the app, it shows my location and sometimes shows the current radar. It no longer shows weather alerts (highlighted counties with active weather watches and warnings), even with the “alerts” button selected, each time I open the app, I have to turn on storm tracks and lightning alerts because it doesn’t remember my preferences anymore. I’ve tried emailing Storm support, but get no response. Ever since “the weather channel” name was added to the app, it turned into trash. TWC is worthless in my opinion anyway. Bring back the old intellicast the way it was before TWC “fixed it”, or at least have your developers read the reviews and fix the bugs. I am away from home a lot of the time and rely on apps like this for weather alerts. It’s just too unreliable anymore. Fix it please.Version: 2.0.4
✓ Use to be goodThey changed the radar map to only show an hour ahead , which is ridiculous..Version: 3.15.2
✓ Now only 2 hours !This is a brilliant APP unfortunately in the last 2 weeks it’s gone from giving at least 6 hours incoming forecast to only 2 hours which is pitiful- would be interested in others views. I don’t want to change to another APp particularly.Version: 3.14.2
✓ Why did you break a great app?I loved the old “STORM” App but this replacement falls far short. Cons: 1. Adds at bottom of screen take up valuable screen space. No option to buy no adds premium like old App. 2 Controlling layers is not convenient. Requires too many taps. 3 Can’t turn off custom layers to access a single layer. A single tap should be able to turn off all customers layers so you can examine any one layer in detail. 4 Storm Tracts layer does not work very well. Haven’t seen a storm track on any very large intense storm. When storm tracts do show up, they do not show a direction cone! This is important PLEASE FIX IT! 5 legend fly-out does not work half the time. 6 Please explain what the Favorites fly-out is all about. Doesn’t make any sense to me right now. 7 A touch on the screen to ID ant colored weather alerts just changes the weather information location. Very disturbing. 8 No frontal boundary and high low pressure area layer is available. This is important in examining the weather. Especially important to pilots looking at flying weather. Pros: 1 None that I can think of. The old “Storm” App was far superior..Version: 3.12
✓ App crashes/Bad updateDon’t like the newest version. Crashes frequently, doesn’t save custom settings, but it won’t delete recent cities viewed. Why did you ruin a good thing?.Version: 2.0.4
✓ A huge step backAlthough it gives you the basic info storm was way more detailed and much more enjoyable to track weather earth quakes and more. Storm was above the rest, it also had radar.. storm radar boast “video” displaying forecast, but the rest is very basic. Storm had great layouts and loads of info, radar is pretty much like all other weather apps I do not understand how this can be promoted as an improvement Bring back storm.. please.Version: 1.4.3
✓ It used to be a good appIt used to be a great app until they added the go premium button and we can’t see the future forecast anymore. Now deleting it..Version: 3.19
✓ Best Storm App Except for the BUGSThe Storm App functionality is awesome. High resolution radar, very easy to use, lightening tracking, storm tracks with timeline, hurricane details and cone map forecasts, and the best part are the alerts. I paid the premium subscription, which is fairly priced, to get the lightening tracking, storm tracks, and alerts. The in-app alerts are awesome. Can set government alerts for any location and severe weather/lightening/rain for your current location. But the bugs are frustrating and it takes IBM who owns TWC who owns Weather Underground who owns the Storm Radar App too long to fix them. Maybe too many layers or lack of focus in a company too big to be responsive. Current issue is that ALERTS arbitrarily turn OFF without warning. This happens many times. Generally every 2 to 3 days (3-4 times a week) that I know of. Sometimes multiple times in the same day. This has been happening for the last 5 weeks, since at least August 8, 2023. I reported this 3 times to the support organization via email with no response. In the past, the wrong alerts were getting sent. They responded to my support email and fixed that within about a month. Prior to that my favorite locations (which also trigger alerts) were arbitrarily disappearing. Support replied to my email saying it was a known problem and was fixed in about a month..Version: 3.18.1
✓ I really liked this app but.......I guess because I chose not to upgrade to premium I don’t get to see the weather at all. The last couple of times I’ve gone to the app all I get are dashes where information should be. My saved locations were gone so I entered them again to see if that would help, no. I refuse to put an app (that I can get the same information else where for free)on the payroll. I’m only willing to make a one time payment. Update..... The makers of this app contacted me after my first review assuring me that I would still receive basic weather information to keep me safe in the case of hazardous weather. I just went through a hurricane here in NC no thanks to this app. The entire time leading up to the storm all I got was a picture of the continents, I couldn't even zoom in on my location to see anything. I got the notification for a warning but because I couldn't open my location I didn’t know how to get to the warning. I probably wouldn't say anything now but this morning I got another notification for a weather warning. Why is it I can now get all the detail I could ever want about a storm that has already passed..Version: 3.1.1
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