The new and improved Live Alert 19 brings the latest and best weather alerting technology to your device! * High-resolution radar down to the street-level view * 1-hour and 24-hour 'future radar' with user-controlled time bar * High-resolution visible and infrared-satellite imagery * Current weather updated multiple times per hour * Daily and hour-by-hour forecasts updated hourly * Ability to select alerts for 'current location' and multiple other user-chosen locations * A fully-integrated GPS for current location awareness * The fastest, most accurate lightning and thunderstorm alerts available * Notifies you when lightning is within 15 miles of your location * Thunderstorm alerts using the Baron Tornado Index that can give you advanced warning that severe weather is possible * The latest video and blog updates from The Weather Authority
My Review
I think that this app is very helpful, especially if you just want to do a quick check to see the temp and see if there is rain around before you head out. However, you have to go to Facebook if you go live with storms because when you hit the live streaming section, it tells you that the channel is not live unless you break into programming. Another issue for me is you can not layer more than one thing at a time onto the radar. Lastly the time lapse at the bottom of the screen on the interactive radar goes way too fast on the 24 outlook and the regular one only shows just a few minutes. I would like to add that when the weather is potentially bad enough that the meteorologists say we need to go live to warn people, you should break in to whatever programming is on no matter what it is. Weather can turn dangerous quickly and not everyone can get to a device but they can have the tv on. You can always replay whatever programming is on my announcing, we will replay this the next day at some late hour so they can record ot watch it. There is also the option of moving the programming to one of your other channels. Weather should always come first over programming.... unless there is a civil authority briefing on war breaking out or something like that. This is Alabama and everybody knows that even the mildest Cell can ramp up very quickly.
Crashes!
Still crashing! The other weather apps open right up but not WHNT’s! I reinstalled a few days ago.. won’t open again tonight!
Crashes!
It works great for a couple of months and then crashes…. Again! I also wish there would be clips of the last broadcast like the other channels have.
No Live Streaming
Links finally started to work…the live streaming in this app goes to WHNT’s web site where I had to click on more links to get the live streaming for the current severe weather. Why open the app when a person can go directly to the website? This is taking the app backwards and not useful or helpful during bad weather. There are other ways and other apps to get weather alerts on. —————————— No Live Streaming during tornado warnings! WHNT keeping their commitment to others and no longer the public in the city or county they live in and work in. This app is really lacking because of that and no longer useful while people are in shelter.
Best Weather Forecasting
The app is ok but stop with the “improvements”, please. However, you have the best, most reliable weather forecasting around. That’s what counts so keep up the good work.
Boring
What was wrong with the old version? I loved it. This is just boring to look at.
Bad update
7/8/2022 Nope. Do not like this app. I have to disconnect my IPad keyboard and turn my IPad so I can read it in portrait mode. Nope. Don’t like taking the time to do that. I’ll just find another weather app that I can view in landscape mode. I have to say farewell to a once good app. 7/7/2022: I do not care for the latest update. It’s like the update took the app five steps backwards. Examples: harsh to look at now, no alerts, pinned cities near state borders are showing the cities are in another state until the area is enlarged in view, can’t view entire app in landscape view…etc. It “was” a good app but not now since the latest update.
Here are the new features with this release! -Dark mode -Improved lapse speed and bar -Past (2hrs) and real time as well as future radar (2hrs) combined in one product -New stylized legends above the map -Updated Branding
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