WAFB First Alert Weather app review: full-featured weather forecasting within the palm of your hand

Introduction

With extensively detailed radar map imagery and weather forecasts covering your local area for the next 10 days, WAFB First Alert Weather provides you with everything you would to find in a weather app, with the added bonus of exclusive video content direct from the WAFB News Live studios.

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Following along a very similar vein to many other apps in this genre, WAFB First Alert Weather is more than capable of delivering some pretty comprehensive weather reports. The interface looks great and is very easy to navigate, so I would definitely recommend checking it out if you need a reliable weather app.

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The default location of this app upon first starting it up appears to be set to Baton Rouge, LA but you can very easily change this by tapping on the house icon in the top right-hand corner. From here, you can either use your iPhone’s integrated GPS to determine your current location or simply search for it by tapping the plus icon.

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Once you’re done, you’ll promptly be presented with a radar map of your local area with loads of information on the current weather conditions, including temperature, humidity, wind speed and direction, rain, and more.

This screen also includes a basic overview of the weather for yesterday, today, and tomorrow, but if you’re looking for a little more detail, you might want to check out the 10-Day section.

 

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The 10-Day Forecast includes an overview of what you can expect the weather to be like, and tapping on each day will bring up even more detail with information such as the high and low temperatures, chance of precipitation, and UV Index.

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Even more impressive is the Hourly breakdown of today’s weather which includes forecasts for precipitation, wind, and temperature.

If you live in an area which is prone to severe weather conditions, you might want to consider setting up some notifications within the Alerts section so that you and your loved ones can always stay one step ahead of any storms or hurricanes that may hit your region.

 

Pros and Cons

Pros

• Detailed weather forecasting in a variety of formats
• Hourly and 10-Day forecasting included
• Extensive radar map imagery for your local area
• Video content from the WAFB 9 News Live studios
• Submit your own photos and videos

 

Cons

• No sharing via social networking sites

 

Final Words

I would ideally like to see some function for sharing content via sites like Facebook and Twitter, as I think this could be quite important for some when it comes to warning others about oncoming storm fronts.

Aside from this, WAFB First Alert Weather is definitely an above-average weather forecasting app that will provide pretty much everything you need.

All of the features run very smoothly and I especially like the way you can submit your own photos and videos to the wonderful folks at WAFB News Live, so this app is well worth downloading.