KSL Weather

2ND UPDATE: I absolutely hate how this app has no way to send feedback. They changed things again. They added an “improved” map menu but I really don’t like it. The play bar is too big and takes up way too much space, especially on my phone. But the worst thing is how it opens up with the view on Massachusetts. Why?? Then it rapidly shifts over to where I am located in Utah. Seriously, why? There is no logical reason for it to do this. I wish I had the option to send feedback. Leaving a review here is ok but I don’t know if the developers even read this. UPDATE: Zooming (very) quickly from the national view to the local view is not any better. It actually kinda makes me dizzy. Why can’t you put it back the way it was? Unfortunately there doesn’t seem to be a good way to submit feedback. I have used this app for many years, it’s the one I go to first when I want to know about local weather. However… this latest issue with the map ALWAYS opening up to the whole United States is more than a little annoying. When I open the app, Every. Single. Time. I have to go to the pull-down menu and reset the view to my location. Please fix this! It’s driving me nuts.

I have used this app from about the time it was originally released (10 years ago?). It’s always been good and accurate data that I use many times every day. Lately, however, it has gotten to be just a giant KSL money grab from “Sponsored by” companies like Whipple Plumbing and RC Willey. If you open the app to look at something and then minimize it for a moment to answer a call or look at another app, it makes you wait for the long, annoying sponsor to show up on the startup page all over again. It’s like I had closed the app and restarted it. It lasts for about 5 seconds before useful information starts to load, but that is an eternity in the age of instant data. I just finally moved it off my Home Screen and buried it in a “References” folder on my third screen over. You know the spot. The one with cobwebs and the MySpace and Sears app. I’m just going to use Apple Weather for now and try other apps until I find one that doesn’t waste my time. I feel really bad for the hard working business owners and their employees that are spending a large amount of their advertising budget on this. Right now I have just been repeatedly seeing poor Whipple Plumbing while I’m mad for waiting to open an app that is already open. Sorry Whipple (and KSl). I’m associating your name with waiting in standstill traffic while there are quicker routes to take.

This used to be my default weather app, namely because it shows you the storm activity in our area with the radar imagery and such. After the last update however it no longer starts centered on neither my location nor my selected weather location, instead forcing me to scroll over to my city and then zoom in, which is just tedious. As for the weather alerts, I have those turned off because often I’d be getting alerts for things that had nothing to do with my region.