WLOX Weather app for iPhone and iPad
4.4 (
7904 ratings )
Weather
News
Developer: Gray Television Group, Inc.
Free
Current version: 5.7.301, last update: 1 year agoFirst release : 13 Oct 2011
App size: 109.13 Mb
The WLOX Mobile Weather App includes:
* Access to station content specifically for our mobile users
* 250 meter radar, the highest resolution available
* Future radar to see where severe weather is headed
* High resolution satellite cloud imagery
* Current weather updated multiple times per hour
* Daily and Hourly forecasts updated hourly from our computer models
* Ability to add and save your favorite locations
* A fully integrated GPS for current location awareness
* Severe weather alerts from the National Weather Service
* Opt-in push alerts to keep you safe in severe weather
Latest reviews of WLOX Weather app for iPhone and iPad
Love the new look
The app worked great before but now it works and looks great.
The app worked great before but now it works and looks great.
Noisy app!
Wouldve given the app 5 stars but for the irritating noisy ads that you cant skip or turn off. Otherwise the app is a great improvement over the initial app that WLOX put out. Wanted to view the various thumbnails for the possible depression that will form in the Caribbean but the ad keeps repeating with each varied thumbnail.
Wouldve given the app 5 stars but for the irritating noisy ads that you cant skip or turn off. Otherwise the app is a great improvement over the initial app that WLOX put out. Wanted to view the various thumbnails for the possible depression that will form in the Caribbean but the ad keeps repeating with each varied thumbnail.
Very PoorApp. Bombards you with commercials
Ive been using this app for several years, and have watched it developed into a reliable app, logically organized, and optimally featured app. It has been my go-to app for local weather and news casts even when I am out of the country and I want to know whats going on back home. The information flowed logically, allowed expansion to full screen and took you right to what you wanted to see. This last version destroyed all of that. It is nearly useless. Every time you want to see anything, like forecast videos, radar, 5-day forecast, etc, you are forced to watch a 30-second, high pressure, boosted audio commercial before you can see the information you used the app for in the first place. And there is no way to skip the commercial. You MUST watch it ALL. The main menus has likewise been poorly redesigned. You see little horizontal Windows of text or a small image, and when the user clicks on the window, and sits through the inane commercial, the information stays in the little window, showing about 3-4 sentences. The user CANNOT enlarge this window to see the entire text. This is against best practices of human factor engineering. Comprehension decreases as the amount of the text of a story is shown. If you are looking for information about an approaching tropical system, getting screamed at for 30 seconds, plus trying to read the bulletin through that narrow strip of a window is not very effective. The IT manager who thought this format and redesign was a great idea knows nothing about apps, mobile devices or interface design at all. If WLOX designers came up with this, fire them and get someone who knows what they are doing. If, however, this is attempt to drive people back to watching their TV newscasts, its highly effective give. Di not install this app until these problems are solved. Unless you want to be screamed at repeatedly when you just want to see if its going to rain tonight.
Ive been using this app for several years, and have watched it developed into a reliable app, logically organized, and optimally featured app. It has been my go-to app for local weather and news casts even when I am out of the country and I want to know whats going on back home. The information flowed logically, allowed expansion to full screen and took you right to what you wanted to see. This last version destroyed all of that. It is nearly useless. Every time you want to see anything, like forecast videos, radar, 5-day forecast, etc, you are forced to watch a 30-second, high pressure, boosted audio commercial before you can see the information you used the app for in the first place. And there is no way to skip the commercial. You MUST watch it ALL. The main menus has likewise been poorly redesigned. You see little horizontal Windows of text or a small image, and when the user clicks on the window, and sits through the inane commercial, the information stays in the little window, showing about 3-4 sentences. The user CANNOT enlarge this window to see the entire text. This is against best practices of human factor engineering. Comprehension decreases as the amount of the text of a story is shown. If you are looking for information about an approaching tropical system, getting screamed at for 30 seconds, plus trying to read the bulletin through that narrow strip of a window is not very effective. The IT manager who thought this format and redesign was a great idea knows nothing about apps, mobile devices or interface design at all. If WLOX designers came up with this, fire them and get someone who knows what they are doing. If, however, this is attempt to drive people back to watching their TV newscasts, its highly effective give. Di not install this app until these problems are solved. Unless you want to be screamed at repeatedly when you just want to see if its going to rain tonight.
Too many dumb alerts
This update is terrible. I am constantly receiving stupid alerts with this new update. I just want to know when the weather is really bad, not that jacket weather is here. This used to be good and now it is deleted.
This update is terrible. I am constantly receiving stupid alerts with this new update. I just want to know when the weather is really bad, not that jacket weather is here. This used to be good and now it is deleted.
No way to exit the settings page????
On the last several updates Im surprised no one has decided to introduce a way to exit the settings page, the only way Ive found to get out of it is to exit the app and force the shutdown... Will somebody please fix on the next update
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On the last several updates Im surprised no one has decided to introduce a way to exit the settings page, the only way Ive found to get out of it is to exit the app and force the shutdown... Will somebody please fix on the next update