Weather Channel App alerts

[Brodieb]

We had severe weather in my area last night and I was in and out of the Weather Channel App checking things out. I really like the radar screen and the alerts section - but it would be even better if I could animate the radar and get alert notifications from the app. Ideally they would be like caller ID and would be able to be turned on and off like it is. Is this even possible with Hopper Apps? Are they always on or just when you are in them?

 

[ScooterMan]

I do not know what is all possible with their OS. More then likely it would be too much coding for them to implement something like this so I do not think you will see app stuff outside the actual Apps.

 

[3HaloODST]

Seriously, Dish's weather apps are quite anemic. I would hope that they change that with Hopper, but so far from what I'm reading, nope. If they would at least do the Local On The 8's feeds on the spotbeams that would be great. So far they haven't gotten out of Oklahoma and Texas (I think) with that idea. Not sure what's so hard about it. I guess most of Dish's customers don't care, Dish assumes everyone will use the Internet anyway, so I guess they don't care either. I know nothing beats the Internet for weather info, but it would be nice to check the weather on the couch on the big screen without having to pull out my keyboard and mouse.

 

[Brodieb]

it would be nice to check the weather on the couch on the big screen without having to pull out my keyboard and mouse.

The Weather Channel app lets you pretty much do this - you can see the current radar (static image only but still), the forecast, hourly forecast, etc. It is much better that I expected it to be.

 

[3HaloODST]

Well what I meant was mainly looped radar. To me static radar is not nearly as useful. Certainly, the app is better than nothing, but it should have more features, especially if it could get severe weather alerts.

 

[Stargazer]

WunderMap Interactive Radar & Weather Stations : Weather Underground

This is the one I use. I also like this one ...

Storm Tracker 2 HD Interactive Radar | www.wsbtv.com

This lets you go full screen as well.