KSAT 12 Weather Authority

Love the app, but what does a person want to see as soon as they open the app? I want to know “What is the high and the low going to be today”? On the new version for the iphone, there’s no place to see this on the opening screen. You can read it in the narrative (kind of) but it doesn’t show up on the top section which shows the current temp... nor does it show up in the second section which has a snapshot for the day including UV index, dew point and visibility. The SEVENTH section shows the NEXT five days but not today. The only way to see today’s high and low is to go to the FIFTH section and click on the “next 10 days”. There you can see today’s high and low. Can you please add it to one of the top two sections?

This app has been my go-to for local weather for quite some time. However, the revamping of the app several months ago (editing this review as June 4, 2025, though the xperience still remains the same) hasn't made the experience very pleasant. Almost everything about the older format version was much more user-friendly including the various radar maps. For one, the app could be viewed in portrait or landscape mode, which is a big deal when using the app on an iPad, in particular, or tablets in general. This format does not allow this on an iPad. The layout was far more easier to navigate overall and less condensed; live newscast updates and important weather alerts were at the top followed by daily, hourly and weekly forecasts, pollen counts, etc., which were displayed in a way that appeared better organized whereas now everything just seems very compacted, cluttered, and thrown together. With weather updates, the user is practically directed to the website within the app versus providing the updates directly on the app. The older radar maps were simplistic yet functional and very reliable, and less difficult to navigate. This version is just all-around buggy and needs reworking. Another feature that would be extremely useful is the ability to see and toggle on and off any warnings on the radar.

I use this app daily; often several times a day when rain or inclimate weather is headed my way. 90% of that use was to track precipitation and storm activity down to the street level of friends an family across the countr. . The new radar interface has been dumbed down to the point of ridiculous and looks like a child’s radar map. It is drab, no matter how you set it. The location pins are too large and there is no way to set one pin at a time for display. If you have several favorites defined, you have have all of them displayed with their big obtrusive bubbles or none. Although we have a powerful hurricane headed in our direction, you cannot see it reflected on the map unless you have it set to shoe the satellite version, then you only see clouds. If you looked at the radar set on national map in this app, it looks like the Caribbean an the gulf are free of storms. I do love all of Ksats weather folks, and they do a great job, but I don’t have time to sit and listen and watch. I need a robust radar map that I can do a quick check to see what is coming and from where. This new map is useless to me. I will be looking for an alternative.