WeatherBug: Weather Forecast

This use to be my #1 app to go to!! It was always soooo accurate, and with all the random lightning/thunder shows we get her in NM...I REALLY relied on this app for not just the weather...but the safety of my family...literally!!! Then the past month or so I haven’t even been able to get the app to load properly!! I’d reboot my phone, make sure my phone was up to date...I literally did it all to try and get this app to work like it use to!! TONIGHT, an out of the blue lightning/thunder storm came through and I immediately went straight to this app! Why?!? Who knows...bc it did absolutely NOTHING!! It said the lighting was over 300 miles away...300 MILES AWAY!!! It was directly above us!!! My husband, (USMC vet) immediately ran out front to take down the flag since it started to rain...since BOTH OUR APPS SAID THE LIGHTNING WAS OVER 300 MILES AWAY, he ran out to take the flag down!! Huge mistake!!! HUGE!!! Thank God the lightning that struck right behind him didn’t kill him!! Would it have been this apps fault in the end, no!! I mean we knew it was closer than the 300 miles that the app claimed it at...but directly above us...we had no idea!!! A couple months ago before this app took a crap, I know for sure it would have told us it was above our flippin heads!!! Sorry for the rant...but I literally HATE THIS APP NOW AND DON’T WANT ANYONE RELYING ON IT FOR SAFETY...EVER!!!! ***Gave it a 1 star bc I had to give it something to leave a review! It deserves a negative Star count!!***

I have used weather bug both professionally and personally for many years. My first experience with Weather Bug cane when I worked as the Director of Safety and Chief Fire Official for the School Board of Broward County, Florida, the Sixth largest School District in the Country. One day Randy Smith from Weather Bug contacted me and we had s good meeting and between the two of us we were able to come up with Weather safety programs and devices that could be utilized by schools and outdoor events. Some of these programs were the first of their kind. I am especially proud of the lightning alert system for school events we developed that is now used by many local, state, and national agencies. Unfortunately, it took a fatal Weather event while we were developing the program to make it a priority project. I always tried to be proactive in my job, but unfortunately we are a reactive society. I was also able to install a Weather Bug Weather station at all of the Hurricane Shelters that we had up to the time of my retirement. This allowed us to see from the County EOC what was happening at each of our 45 Hurricane Shelters. It also let us know what areas of the county had the worse weather conditions from a hurricane. It helped when we set up our damage assessment teams. I have many more stories about my relationship with Randy Smith and Weather Bug, but it would take more time to write and it would make this a very long message. One last note: you cannot go wrong with using weatherbug. Take care, Jerry Graziose

I have used a lot of different weather apps and Weather Bug is by far my favorite one! The only thing that bothers me is that the widget on my lock screen will not update no matter what I do! On the good side, it has a lot more free maps than any other weather app that I’ve used. I really love the fact that it shows me how close lightning is to my location, this is something that everyone should have. The fact that it also shows the current fire danger and the closest active fire to me is a helpful feature as well because this can help people make smart decisions about burning brush or anything else. I highly recommend this app to everyone. It doesn’t matter if you work outside or not, weather still affects all of us. I have the free version of Weather Bug and I’ve discovered that it gives me a lot more features and information than my other weather apps and it seems like it updates very frequently which helps to stay on top of weather changes. I’ve seen some people say that this app is really slow and laggy but I haven’t noticed any of that, it’s always fast and smooth for me. WeatherBug is definitely my new favorite weather app!