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National Weather App Complaints & User Negative Comments 2024
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✓ New app is terribleI had to fully reset my phone. When I downloaded the app it wouldn’t recognize that I already paid for it. I can’t find a way to do it. I can’t upgrade without lying again and my app just renewed for another year under the previous plan. So i am out money. The radar only views past time frame and not future. Tapping 24hr just locks it up. This system is beyond terrible!.Version: 4.17
✓ Not As Consistent As I’d ExpectI just can’t give it more than three stars. In the first place, like others have noted, when a major update occurs, all my locations disappear. Second, many times it will simply show 0° for the current temperature and even restarting the app or removing and re-downloading doesn’t correct this. It might be the app, or it be its connection with whatever monitors/sites it gathers its data from. Either way, this is not the most consistent, but let me end my review on a positive note: it IS still more reliable than other mainstream apps of the same kind. At least, that is my experience. So that’s why I’m ok to give it three stars and not less. I hope this review is helpful to others. I also hope that the developer(s) can take some of these observations and fix whatever is the problem..Version: 4.17
✓ Could be excellent but notThere is a lot of information that they have available. I push the Humidity map and the Ice map comes up. When I pull up the statistics graph it is to a different city entirely. NOAA, should have the best information since all the weather apps get the information from them. Sadly not the case. With some changes this app could be great. Someone would have to pay attention..Version: 4.17
✓ ProblemsI have been using the app for several years but I am very frustrated with how well it works. My big issue is with the current temp for my selected locations. For my city it has listed the current temp of 70 degrees for the past 6 weeks. It NEVER changes. Several other cities have current temps of 0 degrees. Wish it would work the way it should..Version: 4.17
✓ Not sure yetHad a different version of noaa weather where I could add and check various cities’ weather, but now it seems weather info isn’t free and I’m not gonna pay for weather. This app I’m still trying to figure out - I’m no meteorologist, I just want to know if it’s gonna rain or not, if a hurricane is nearby, stuff like that. And IF I have to maneuver this site with an overkill of ads, it will be deleted..Version: 4.17
✓ Accurate!Far more accurate during this supposed ‘once in a generation storm’ here in South-Central Michigan than AccuWeather. FAR more. My complaint is it shows up incredibly tiny on my screens, like an inset and not the full screen. VERY hard to read. If this wasn’t the case, I’d rate the app with all five stars..Version: 4.17
✓ No charts visible after paying for the upgradeSeriously disappointed with this app. I wasn’t able to see any charts with the free version and so I paid to upgrade to the full version so I could see everything. Well, don’t bother folks. I still cannot view any charts on my iPhone X. My software is up to date so I’m at a loss and out of a few bucks for nothing. (Thankfully it was only a few bucks.).Version: 4.17
✓ DisappointedThis looked like it was going to be great app and I paid for both extra packages and to get rid of ads. BUT, I still don’t have radar! I reinstalled, I emailed the developer and reviewed once but still, a couple months later, I don’t have radar. I’m ditching the app. Also, the list of weather locations on the front page have nothing to do with my intrests and I can’t get rid of or replace them. Disappointed..Version: 4.17
✓ Missing key NOAA features and point forecastI thought this would provide a colorful interface and shortcut to favorite point forecasts and current conditions plus hourly forecast condition graphs. For me, these are the most useful features on NOAA weather website and most accurate. But sadly, these are not available. I spent a half hour with it, but I am deleting it and going back to the web for NOAA. Maybe I’ll see if these features are added in a couple of years..Version: 4.17
✓ Good 2020 WU replacementAfter the formerly best WU app destroyed by latest update (and member upcharge) I found this one that gives most of same info reliably but needs work. Update: oops! Ads don’t go away after purchase as described and no response from support. Generally a bit buggy with links sometimes going to wrong link. Not as clean interface as it could be but not bad. Includes scientific discussion and aviation info which I use daily. Also use MyRadar which tho also buggy better than NOAA radar apps..Version: 4.17
✓ Completely useless to meI’d give negative stars if I could. This app is totally useless to me. The opening screen shows a farm field. Whoever made the app seems to have no idea that farmers rely on weather AND often have slow internet connections. The app NEVER loaded my location. Did not give me any of my local locations. Never gave me the weather for today. Said it Did Not have my local town- then I found it on their list of cities. But never showed me the weather. I tried to get my local city to load. It never did. Kept giving me Indianapolis. When I tried to reboot - it stayed on the opening screen - the farm field - for 45 minutes. Then asked me- for the second time- to rate the app. Why is it that ads load. Indianapolis loads. Rate this app loads. And. None of my local cities load???? Total waste of my time and money..Version: 4.17
✓ Serious flawsThe previous version was great. This version has serious flaws. 1. Can’t read forecast discussion . When l turn my iPhone X sideways the screen doesn’t work. Every other app on my phone works fine. 2. Predicted windspeed for every hour of every day into the future is 55 to 57 MPH. 3. Predicted high temperature is often wrong. Last week we had a heat wave that got up to 112°. This app said the daily highs would be in the 80s..Version: 4.17
✓ Inaccurate wind and low temp reportingYour wind direction indicator is pointing backwards. Weather vanes always point in the direction from which the wind is coming. So, an East wind would have the wind indicator pointing East, not West as yours does. This is elementary meteorology. Also, by listing today's low temperature as the overnight low for tomorrow morning puts today's morning low in yesterday's data. Today's low usually occurs this morning, not tomorrow. Both of these anomalies in your app have me wondering why you avoid these long-standing conventions..Version: 4.15
✓ Fix the following, please# 1. Really annoyed that the font size for future weather forecasts in the week is impossible to read. #2. The ADS. NOAA is a branch of the federal gov’t, no? My taxes already pay to keep you functioning for the public good. No ADS should be slapped on top of this. Otherwise, the website is good and, in the main, reliable..Version: 4.17
✓ Locations are strangeThis app is very colorful and has useful info. I have three problems with the locations. First is that the location list reset to the default for no reason. I suspect it downloaded an update and did not remember my custom list. I think that because the instruction overlay came up again. The feature overlay is nice when starting out, but gets old quickly. Second, my default or auto location is not correct. I am in Irvine CA not Cowan Heights. That location is northeast and inland from my location. If you are going to track my location data as part of the price for this free app, at least get it right. Third, while it is easy to delete locations, a new location can only be added to the top of the list, and the list can’t be reordered. That means if I and a new location I have to delete and re-add my home location to get it back to the top of the list. New locations should be inserted below the currently selected location or at the bottom of the list. By list I mean the favorites list with the star in the title. It wIll not take too many more time fighting this basic UI functionality if my favorites list to earn you a delete..Version: 4.17
✓ So-so app, but could easily be betterI started using this app instead of the app from the Weather Channel because the forecasts seem better. Unfortunately, toggling the forecast information brings up a forecast where the font is so small I can’t read it. How difficult would it be to leverage my iPhone’s display settings and use an appropriate font? This makes the app a whole lot less useful for me, and I wind up reverting to the Weather Channel app..Version: 4.17
✓ Doesn’t update and no useful featuresThis app displays 20 day old data and doesn’t update. And no hourly forecast that I can find. NOAA local web page offers that just not this app. Right now I gave it a rating of 2. It deserves a 1 and if Developer gives me ANY argument it will be 1 and I won’t say anything further. Uninstalling as soon as developer does or doesn’t argue with me. Apple says app soon won’t be here anyway bec developer can’t even follow rules..Version: 4.17
✓ Gone down hillI’ve had this app for a couple years and really liked it at first. One of the things that I liked was that you could really pinpoint your location. Lately there is a ton of pop-up ads and sometimes the app just doesn’t work properly. For example right now during a hot evening following a heat wave day it’s showing that it is zero F or -18 Celsius out. Not worth the space it’s taking up on my phone..Version: 4.17
✓ NOAA Weather App ReviewI completely agree with Fly Fishing Aficionado: Not as much detailed information as the NOAA Clime app on my iPhone. Consequently, I have to use my iPhone, rather than my new MacBook Pro, in order to get really complete weather forecasting over a period of hours on an hour-by-hour basis or over a period of days. Very disappointing. Spend a lot of many for a new, state-of-the art laptop and then have to use my iPhone to get better weather reports than on the laptop..Version: 4.17
✓ Inaccurate and cumbersome to useI usually just go straight to NOAA’s website for local forecasts, but I tried the app for a week, hoping it would be easier to use from my phone. Unfortunately, I have found it to be inaccurate, with the current temperature sometimes as much as 10deg F off. It is also difficult to use. The daily and hourly forecasts are difficult to navigate and read, with an annoying pop-up graphic over the graph that can’t be minimized. After a week, I am so irritated with this app, that I am deleting it and going back to using the website..Version: 4.17
✓ Great pay app except for the ads.Added the free app years ago found it to be exceedingly useful, so I purchased the pay addons. I still get a large numbers of ads, in fact the frequency of the ads has seemingly ticked upwards in the last 6 months. So to sum up: as a free weather app it can’t be beat. However the in-app purchases ARE NOT WORTH IT..Version: 4.17
✓ Go back 3-5 years appThe first NOAA app I downloaded was great! Worked every time, all the time AND without delay. This new one doesn’t even load the radar map which is what I loved about the other version. I delete apps that will not load radar quickly. Isn’t that the point of having a radar map? So we can see?.Version: 4.17
✓ Idea good, but buggy👍 I like “Today’s chart” under "current condition”. This is very useful in studying “trends” of weather parameters. Keep this feature forever. 👎 BUG: “Wind” direction is specified incorrectly in “current condition” and on the “Today's Chart”. This is always specified in reverse direction. Example: When NOAA database labels wind as W we normally think <— ; in reality what they mean is —>. Wind direction "from” west not “to” west. Similarly for other directions. You can check out this convention by comparing in other weather apps. I believe this bug can be fixed easily and should be fixed immediately. 🤔UPDATE: For little while I thought this bug got fixed as I was seeing correct wind direction. Then it was wrong again. Then right again. This is very strange since in the programming world it should be “consistently” right or wrong. It should not flip flop like this. Very strange. 🤗 One suggestion: I will be very happy if you include “atmospheric pressure” (barometer) as one more layer on “Today’s chart”, and on the “Week’s forecast” chart. Thank you. ⭐️ ⭐️ This app has some features that no other apps has; I want to use it but I am losing trust. The “data” it is reporting is suspicious. 🤷♂️ I also see that this app has not been updated for 3 years..Version: 4.17
✓ It’s not the app it’s the accuracyI got this phone new a month and a half ago. Always had noaa on three previous phones and loved it. The alerts don’t go off unless you pay them. Sure you can pick up your phone and see tornado warning but no alert sound. I took my phone to Verizon and nothing is set up wrong. I’m a programmer but I went for a second opinion. Two of my past phones i gave one to my mother one to my spouse. Their alerts stopped going off recently when I put the same version I have on their phones. I swore by NOAA being accurate but since April I was outside when the wind started picking up. I looked at my app clear mild wind. It started darkening I started grabbing my things but couldn’t make it in my house in time before my metal arbor held down with five rebars and copper led lights went flying twenty steps from me and hit the tree next to me. 60 mph wind gust and a tornado watch was put on local weather.Version: 4.15
✓ I like this app, but...The app have some nice features but also some issues. For example, after I selected to rate it and it launched the App Store app my cities list was deleted and the long default list was back. There are display issues and I still get an occasional full screen ad after purchasing the full option package. I do like getting the data direct from NOAA as well as the list of local stations. I wrote to the developer and then noticed the app hasn't been updated in well over a year so I guess that was a waste of time..Version: 4.17
✓ Decent App But All Trump Ads?!A little hard to read the data in some screens, but I loved the slider where you could look at temp and rain chance hour by hour. But why the Hell are all the ads on this app paid for by PACs for Trump? Makes me wonder if NOAA has been corrupted by dark money, or if this is just another way the President uses his office for personal gain..Version: 4.17
✓ Don'tNot accurate and no support for Canada. Don't do it. I bought in app purchase and still a waste.Version: 4.13.221
✓ Has great potential, but there are some kinksA weather app that gets its data straight from NOAA is a fantastic idea, but there are a few problems that need addressing. The current conditions icon is actually an icon for the forecast for the whole day, so that definitely needs checked out. In the location list, I couldn't find a way to delete the predetermined list of cities, which could be annoying. If these bugs were fixed, this could be a phenomenal app for weather, but as is, it's a bit on the buggy side..Version: 4.15
✓ SpottyWho wants an app that plays music and other sounds without warning as part of their ads? How does it work for people who are in an office environment and they don’t know that they’re going to be given in the ad with audio? Then the technology on the mobile app is clearly in need of work. If you look at the forecast and click on a day you are delivered words in a font size that has to be maybe a font size 1? Unreadable even with classes. Then there is the ultra conservative forecasting. How does that serve us? Often times precipitation is truly forecast within the last 36 hours..Version: 4.17
✓ Waste of moneyI bought this app excited that it uses NOAA data directly but it won’t save my home location when I travel elsewhere and I can’t even search for my home location when I’m not there. Also, it keeps reading 0 degrees and seems to be stuck there no matter what time of day. I want my money back!.Version: 4.17
✓ RubbishDoesn’t load. I click the app and it’s just saying “now loading” and nothing actually happens. I’ve now deleted the app..Version: 4.17
✓ Weather ReviewSite provides the basic weather stats but offers no user information to use interactive charts or optimize the site. Lots of cities are listed but I am really only interested in a couple of cities. How does one remove unwanted cities that are listed or changing the order of cities. Finally, I could not find predictive forecasting for my area other than the general (ie chance of thunderstorms this afternoon). NOAA warnings were given for parts of my state located far from my area of interest. You need to see what other competitive weather sites are doing to optimize your weather site..Version: 4.17
✓ Not very helpful for the future.Radar showing only the past and not even the near future? Perhaps I haven’t figured out how to get real time radar. I have always said the weather forecast would be more accurate if one predicted for the future the same as what was seen today. Apparently the support staff of this app has similar ideas. If one assumes that the top 10% of a graduating class gets weather predicting jobs, how bad must the other 90% have performed?.Version: 4.17
✓ Radar doesn’t workI have had this app for three or four years and I have loved it. It. But lately for the past two weeks or three weeks the radar will not come up, now it comes up but it will not show the bigger portion like the western section or the whole United States you hit on those links and it just stays in the local radar. You need to fix this no one is going to use your app. So could you please fix the radar so it works. My phone has all the updates and it still is not working. Why is it not working? I didn’t really even want to give you one star but it made me pick something.Version: 4.17
✓ Paid but still getting adsI paid for the full version of this app for iOS expecting it to be free of ads, yet full screen ads are still being shown. I have force closed but that made no difference. Also, the widget shows the temp in Celcius and i can’t see a way to change that..Version: 4.17
✓ Bad just badToo much info and not the info you want. You get better weather from a local news site weather section. For example; how often do you want to see national radar? Do you want to know that it is going to rain or when it is going to rain? The NOAA web page weather is great. The app has too much info crammed into it. Btw the weather channel app is a joke. It is worse case forecast that changes hourly..Version: 4.17
✓ BuuuuuuuugyI deleted this app after only a few minutes. The radar section immediately crashed. You can't sort your favorite cities, unless you enter them in exactly the right order, in reverse, that you think you want. Then, that's it, no changes to the sort unless you delete them all and start over. Very low res display. Also, the app has never heard of Ventura or Oxnard, California. Otherwise, it was promising in appearance. Too bad..Version: 4.17
✓ NOAA, you can do better than this.I keep trying NOAA’s weather apps, because I like getting my weather straight from the National Weather Service. However, so far I’ve been disappointed, and am deleting their app once more. Every time you click on the app, a very loud ad blares at you, the forecast only goes out for 7 days, all my weather info. isn’t on the main page. The main page contains weather for parts unknown, while I have to swipe left to see my forecast. Not nearly as user friendly as the other weather apps I’m used to..Version: 4.17
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