WSFA First Alert Weather

We are so blessed to have you Josh and all of the WSFA Weather team!!!...I know that you saved me and my family last March when we was under a tornado watch then thunderstorm warning and Birmingham said it was ok to come out of your safe place and you said “NO”... you did not like the way things looked!!!...I less than 5 minutes a tornado was right on top of us!!!...we had a lot of damage but by the grace of God and an awesome meteorologist and weather team we were all still in our safe place!!!!...thank you all for what y’all do and especially staying on air the whole entire time !!!!.... just can’t say enough about WSFA WEATHER!!!!...love the way all of you guys and gals cut up and have a good time on Facebook live!!!!....you all are awesome!!! Cynthia Spigener Titus AL

I’m very thankful for the WSFA Weather APP. I live in the country and have satellite TV which means a little wind and the satellite goes out (not your fault)! But that means I cannot always watch the live TV radar or continuous weather reports. I have to TOTALLY depend on the app at times during a storm. Thank you for always keeping it up to date. Also I love your FB lives during a storm. I can check FB on my IOS so that’s another form of contact with the news team. Keep up the good work. PS... after seeing the damage at WindCreek on Sunday, I will definitely need a weather radio for our camper. But I will need help to know how to program the different places we camp.

I’ve seen multiple reviews mentioning the inconveniencing of the ads during severe weather — and I have to agree. I can understand during a pretty day with no severe weather that you have the occasional ad... but having to watch an ad when you’re under a threat of severe weather and delaying you being able to watch a video you need to watch for anywhere from 10-20 seconds is very frustrating. Here recently, I’m lucky if I can even get the ads to play. I will get an error message saying video cannot be played at this time — or something along the lines of that. When I open the radar to check the radar, there’s a lag and sometimes I have to sit for over a minute... sometimes even a few just to get the radar to load. I have the most up to date version of the app and this still happens. Also keep in mind — I live in an area where I have LTE and 3 out 4 full service reception bars in my area, and it does the same when connected to any WiFi as well. I think the concept of this app is a great idea but there’s too many nit-picky things. It lags too much, the ads make it hard to even watch a video (there’s been a few times where it’s made me watch 2 or 3 ads before a video even plays) and overall the functionality of this app is OK, but many improvements could be made to keep those who have no cable or weather radio on hand safe and aware. A storm just came through my hometown a few days ago and destroyed just about everything that crossed the path of it and even with full service... my app was not reliable. I had to keep watch on James Spanns Facebook page.