NOAA Radar and Alerts
Free AppAbout NOAA Radar and Alerts
NOAA Radar and Alerts is a Live Wallpaper which displays live radar images for the US location of your choosing. When enabled, the NOAA Radar and Alerts wallpaper will display live weather radar images obtained from the NOAA National Weather Service in your background. Alternatively, you can launch it as a normal stand-alone app from the app icon.
You can also enable the optional weather alerts; Choose up to five counties to receive alerts for, set your threshold and receive NOAA weather alerts as notification in your status bar.
Please give us a good review if you like the app.
Features include:
* Ability to select from any NOAA-supported US region
* Configurable layers: Radar + Topography, County Boundaries, Highways and/or City Labels
* Pinch/Zoom/Move to position your radar map
* Configurable update frequency
* Ability to use Weather Alert feature separate from Live Wallpaper
* Portrait or Landscape mode
* Optional Weather Alerts as notifications
* Receive alerts for multiple counties (US, Guam, and Virgin Isles)
* Any, Statement, Advisory, Watch or Warning alert thresholds
Usage:
Install application, then select as wallpaper (from Home, touch: Menu key, Wallpaper, Live wallpapers). On the Settings screen, choose your Location and any other options settings, then touch "Set wallpaper". At the home screen, double-tap to enable positioning and pinch/zoom of the map - the wallpaper will respond to your left/right/up/down and pinch/zoom gestures. Double-tap again to exit positioning mode.
You can also zoom & position the app in the stand-alone mode and the settings will carry over to your wallpaper view.
You can now receive NOAA weather alerts without using the NOAA Radar as your wallpaper. Just 'Enable Alerts' unders Settings and leave your wallpaper alone.
A Compatibility Mode is now available which should help with some devices that are experiencing the 'blank overlays' issue. When compatibility mode is on, the app will operate the same as it does on low-memory device: Overlays are merged to conserve graphics memory and displayed on top of radar. Topographic overlay is not available. Overlays are cropped to 512 pixels high, leaving small top and bottom margins in the overlay.
NOTE that past radar images may not always be available from NOAA - Updates are dependent on the availability of an internet connection and images published by NOAA.
You can also enable the optional weather alerts; Choose up to five counties to receive alerts for, set your threshold and receive NOAA weather alerts as notification in your status bar.
Please give us a good review if you like the app.
Features include:
* Ability to select from any NOAA-supported US region
* Configurable layers: Radar + Topography, County Boundaries, Highways and/or City Labels
* Pinch/Zoom/Move to position your radar map
* Configurable update frequency
* Ability to use Weather Alert feature separate from Live Wallpaper
* Portrait or Landscape mode
* Optional Weather Alerts as notifications
* Receive alerts for multiple counties (US, Guam, and Virgin Isles)
* Any, Statement, Advisory, Watch or Warning alert thresholds
Usage:
Install application, then select as wallpaper (from Home, touch: Menu key, Wallpaper, Live wallpapers). On the Settings screen, choose your Location and any other options settings, then touch "Set wallpaper". At the home screen, double-tap to enable positioning and pinch/zoom of the map - the wallpaper will respond to your left/right/up/down and pinch/zoom gestures. Double-tap again to exit positioning mode.
You can also zoom & position the app in the stand-alone mode and the settings will carry over to your wallpaper view.
You can now receive NOAA weather alerts without using the NOAA Radar as your wallpaper. Just 'Enable Alerts' unders Settings and leave your wallpaper alone.
A Compatibility Mode is now available which should help with some devices that are experiencing the 'blank overlays' issue. When compatibility mode is on, the app will operate the same as it does on low-memory device: Overlays are merged to conserve graphics memory and displayed on top of radar. Topographic overlay is not available. Overlays are cropped to 512 pixels high, leaving small top and bottom margins in the overlay.
NOTE that past radar images may not always be available from NOAA - Updates are dependent on the availability of an internet connection and images published by NOAA.
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What's Changed
One of the two NOAA data feeds this app uses to determine which images to fetch is currently broken. This is a NOAA issue and we have informed them of the problem, but this release includes an important temporary workaround fall back to the older, but still working method. When NOAA corrects the problem, we will release another update.
This release also includes a fix to be more tablet-friendly.
One of the two NOAA data feeds this app uses to determine which images to fetch is currently broken. This is a NOAA issue and we have informed them of the problem, but this release includes an important temporary workaround fall back to the older, but still working method. When NOAA corrects the problem, we will release another update.
This release also includes a fix to be more tablet-friendly.
What are users saying about NOAA Radar and Alerts
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Really sucks big time
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tried the app during a tornado to check for updates. radar has been failing to load for the last 30 min. waste of my time and my phone battery
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The app won't keep my settings saved so it's really no use to me unless I continually reset them. They seem to stay in place for about 18 hours if I'm lucky. Anyone know how to fix this?
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Just downloaded and set my settings, when I went to look at the radar to test it out. 'Radar failed to load retry in x minutes."
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All this thing says is reloading radar in 60 minutes. It never even shows a radar
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Settings pulled up but it fail to fetch the maps at the get go. I'm uninstalling.
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Noa radar app downloaded but will not install on Samsung android s7v. 6.0.1
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I liked it on my old phone does not work on this phone Sony Xperia
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Brand new GS4 and radar won't even load, does nothing.
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An amazingly thorough weather application! Very cutomisable and full of options. The issue i'm having is with the alerts settings. You scroll down to pick the counties you live, work or visit in. But i clicked a few random ones on my way scrolling through to find my county. (Be careful with this!!) i also would like to be able to select custom alert types without selecting them all. (It gets annoying when you keep getting all clear alerts every 2 minutes) i still gave this 5 stars cause it really is cool.
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The app won't keep my settings saved so it's really no use to me unless I continually reset them. They seem to stay in place for about 18 hours if I'm lucky. Anyone know how to fix this?
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Radar absolutely will not load. This app used to work seamlessly for me but now it's a flop. Perhaps this is because the app hasn't been updated since September 2013. This is an app I paid for. Disappointed.
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Installed on lenovo ideapad. Always says that the app has stopped working
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Doesnt work!!
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Brand new Samsung Note 4 and the app won't load or work!
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Only one I have that's keeping me notified about a hurricane!! And I've got alot of wx apps!
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I liked it on my old phone does not work on this phone Sony Xperia
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Desktop image always says "radar fetch failed" "retrying in x minutes"
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THIS APP WILL LET YOU KNOW WHEN BAD WEATHER HITS
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the app works for me rather nicely. Only problem is that the list of counties selected for warning notifications gets erased every time I turn off my tablet, so I have to re-renter them... a pain. Apart form that, it's a nice little app... for me at least.
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Won't load the radar image.
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Won't "fetch radar" at all, ever, on my Nexus 7. I am deleting the program.
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I only get a black screen...until NOAA fixes whatever is wrong
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This app does not work ...the radar fails to upload, the app is completely non functional.... it doesn't do anything when you hit the button nothing that does nothing
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I actually paid for this app and has never worked! Garbage
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So far it's not working on my Samsung Galaxy Note 4. Keeps failing to fetch radar.
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Dont waste your time
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App won't load anything up onto my mobile, very disappointed. Have son in MO, very active weather there, was hoping it would give me peace of mind
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Doesn't load
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Other apps do it well.
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As explained , both didn't work . server issues .
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Didn't work had install an tried 3 more times failed retry in an hour
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I want my .99 cent refund for double charging me!!
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Does not work
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Won't load radar. Refund.
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It just keeps saying radar fetch failed. Retrieving in twenty minutes or more! Its tornado season dammit!! I need a weather app that alerts me when an approaching storm is coming my way!
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It cannot find url to nws. Don't waste your time.
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Sad because it does not show north carolina
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And I just got this...
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I want my .99 cent refund for double charging me!!