WeatherBug: Weather Forecast

This is the best weather app I have ever tried because you can look at the actual map and see your exact location and watch storms and lightning and wind speed temperature you name it in real time. This means that you are a better weather forecaster than a professional for your particular location. For example I can look at the map and see exactly where a little storm The size of a small neighborhood is heading towards my house. The weather channel or places like weather on google cannot give you accurate weather like this because a lot of storm clouds especially in Florida are small enough to invade the radar of professional weatherman. On the map you can switch between all sorts of different weather layers and I usually use the storm and lightning and temperature and air quality. So if I’m driving to a particular beach I can actually avoid storm clouds on the way by finding a different route because the storm clouds in Florida can be so tiny sometimes you can also press play and watch the storms and wear the direction that they are moving in so you can estimate when and where a storm will be

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