WRAL Weather App Reviews

Just... No. For all of the reasons already stated in other reviews. I hope WRAL didnt actually pay a firm to "redesign" this "upgrade."

The best thing about the old app was the selection of Dual Doppler views (just like the website). I hate iControl, and the Radar Livestream is useless. The new 7-day forecast view is a bust too--the temperature doesnt stand out enough.

With this version, what was once a perfectly usable app has been made unbelievably horrible. Really, a slider to see hourly conditions? Used to take 2 seconds to get a sense of the day, now Im fiddling with a tiny slider. Users want to see temperature and conditions trends quickly. Features I used every day have been buried or deleted. Ive been turning to WRAL for weather since I was a kid (thats decades). Not up to the standard Id expect of WRAL. One struggles to understand just why someone would deliberately create such a weak, unusable app. Goodby WRAL, at least on my iPhone!

Looks like someone failed to test the font size on the 7 day forecast details. Talk about sloppy. The slider for the hourly forecast does not work well and doesnt allow users to see any hour they wish. Worst of all, to even use the app, I had to get this awful update. What a joke--I might as well delete it now.

I dont like not being able to see all of the hourly temps at once

There is nothing in this new version that didnt make this app worse, if not unbearable. Advice for WRAL, do NOT try to fix this version, go back to the last version. Go back NOW! If you are wise enough to do that, dont try to make it look pretty or fancy, just keep it simple, like it was.

Prior app version was far superior especially for radar.

Goodness gracious! The point of a weather app like this is ease and quickness. The new version is neither. I agree with the points everyone else has mentioned... Go back to last version. I will be using the weather channel app..and abc11.....now until this gets reworked.

The previous version of this app had the best radar map anywhere. Used it all the time when traveling NC. The new version ruined by including a crappy wunderground style map. The best part is there is a big plus sign right over my location that I cannot find a setting to get rid of. So I can see weather approaching, but when it gets near me it becomes a big annoying obscured mystery. Uninstalling. Bring back the old radar.

Whatever WRAL paid for this revision was a terrible waste of money. The current version is a complete makeover of what was previously one of the most useful apps available. In the previous version the radar was useful, clear and accurate. This is gone, replaced by something awful, including an intrusive location arrow so large that it covers local conditions one could previously view. WRAL has a great weather department. This representation of their expertise is an embarrassment - bring back the old one. As the say in Virginia, “The old one was better!"

I loved the old version. Now the app crashes constantly when I try to get alerts. The radar used to be easy to read and very accurate. Now it is useless. I hope they fix this fast. In the meantime I have to rely on another TV stations app. When tracking a dangerous storm I need information fast, not bells and whistles that make it impossible to know what is happening.

I have tried hard to like this current update. I have tried to give it time, to try and learn my way around the app. Every time I open the app frustration begins. I have finally given up. The overhaul of this weather app is awful. It is not user friendly, at all. I do not understand why developers insist on changing things that are not broken. The only answer I can come up with is job security. While this used to be my go to app for weather, it is not anymore.

Terrible. Bad design, nothing makes sense. The dopplers been called Doppler in all the apps and now its called something else. Radar doesnt close gracefully you have to kill the app. Never remembers my city. Daily view is a mess and I have to slide something to get an hourly view by hour, cant just get an hourly view at a glance. Terrible. Love WRAL weather but will look elsewhere for a weather app.

I really do not like the App update. Please go back to what I use to use everyday!

Your new app. Is not worth a. ? I will watch channel 11.

Love to hate... Traded in best radar for 2 junk replacements WHY ?????

The old app had just gotten their refresh problems worked out and even with those problems it was a better app than this one. Their radar was the best and the reason I came to your app years ago. Now that useful radar is gone, replaced with a useless icontrol. The Doppler switching between two widely separated viewing areas every 15 seconds is also not useful when users are trying to pin down a powerful thunderstorm in your neighborhood that a phone call has just alerted them to. How about two doppler views for the two areas? The combination of trying to depend on this and what little you had online in the last big storm in my neighborhood pushed me to ABC 11 so I guess Ill leave it at that.

** updated after a month of using. ** The radar is much improved, and for those of you missing dual Doppler views - they are an option on the Icontrol radar. It also has overlays that lets you see all the active alerts. On any of these options you can quickly zoom in locally or zoom out and see the entire nation. it took me a while to find the settings because I was used to the old version. I think this is a problem for a lot of users. I am running the last version of iOS 7 and this app freezes all the time. Cant get out of video forecast or radar live stream without closing the app and relaunching it. This sort of bug should have been eliminated before publishing the app. While I find the aesthetics of the new version pleasing I agree with some of the functionality complaints from other users. The slider for hourly temperatures is fun but not quite as easy to use. I have always preferred WRALs forecasting (seems most accurate in my experience) but this app is kind of a pain.

Wont sit through video ad to get a two-second glance at radar. Delete.

Hooray, the nice Dual Doppler views are back and now will loop 1 or 8 hours. Getting back on track!