News 9 Weather 4+
Griffin Communications, L.L.C.
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- Free
- Offers In-App Purchases
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Description
Take the News 9 Weather team wherever you go with News 9 Weather app. Get the latest forecasts, radars, alerts, videos, and blogs from Chief Meteorologist David Payne.
What’s New
Version 6.8.2
Update to the mapping background in the radar tile and page to give it a new modern look. Boundaries, roads, cities display on top of radar data to make it easier to view your location on the map.
New look to the current conditions and forecast tile to make it more modern looking and easier for users to read weather data. Changes include a white background, colored icons, and larger text to make data easier to read.
Updated Current Conditions/Forecast Page. Updates include:
-Page opens to the ‘Overview’ tab which gives current conditions, 3 hour hourly forecast, the 7 day daily forecast, and access to the radar page
-The 'Currents' tab will give additional information on humidity percent, cloud cover, visibility, dew point, barometric pressure, and sunrise/sunset times.
-The 'Hourly' tab will give detailed weather information for the next 24 hours on the forecasted weather condition, temperature, pop and wind speed and direction.
-The 'Daily' tab will show the 7-day forecast in a manner that is much more similar to on-air 7-day forecasts with a detailed forecast for the next 7 days/nights below.
Ratings and Reviews
Too Broad Area
This app does not allow me to select what counties I want to receive alerts from, so I constantly receive alerts for areas that do not even remotely affect me. Last night during a storm I received tons of alerts (50+). This has the opposite desired effect, because I start deleting them without reading them and it becomes a nuisance. Kind of like the "cry wolf" effect... if they would fix this so I could only get alerts for where I live I would give it 5 stars.
Not accurate and cop out responses
This app has been great from the time I first downloaded in 2013. I didn’t care for the new layout but I figured I’d get used to it. I used it a great deal for the radar when I lived in Oklahoma for farming. Then when I moved, I kept it because of how accurate the radar was and the notifications. I have family scattered all over Oklahoma; I have relatives that are terrified of tornadoes so I keep tabs when weather events are happening in their area. Last night I received alerts of excessive heat, lightning, thunderstorms, and flooding for the Guthrie area. At no time did I receive alerts for high wind or the freaking tornado that bounced through there. I emailed the app to ask why the TORNADO notification didn’t come thru, explaining I’d received other notifications. I was told there were notifications and I needed to make sure the notifications option was turned on. I sent a screen shot of the notifications I’d received, asking if they could just have someone look into why some alerts were sent but not others and was told I should have had my news alerts on too.
Be aware this app just isn’t what it used to be and the support isn’t very helpful.
Needs A Cleanup
News 9 is the only news station I’ll watch in OKC but their weather app is not very user friendly. KFOR (who I don’t watch) has a very simple and clean weather app that sends out warnings when needed. I wouldn’t know if News 9’s app does because it’s too cluttered to keep on my phone. I strongly suggest making the home page of the app more simplistic with maybe the radar with a strip along the bottom showing the forecast and maybe a side with options to watch live, recent videos etc. The current layout involving scrolling and and opening different stuff up is just not user friendly in my opinion. Again, News 9 is the only news station I’ll watch but I wish they’d update their app.
App Privacy
The developer, Griffin Communications, L.L.C., indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy.
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Information
- Seller
- Griffin Television OKC, L.L.C.
- Size
- 80.7 MB
- Category
- Weather
- Compatibility
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- iPhone
- Requires iOS 13.0 or later.
- iPad
- Requires iPadOS 13.0 or later.
- iPod touch
- Requires iOS 13.0 or later.
- Languages
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English
- Age Rating
- 4+
- Copyright
- © 2021, Griffin Communications
- Price
- Free
- In-App Purchases
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- Weather Radio $9.99