# First Alert Weather

> Weather

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/id418407216](https://chrome-stats.com/d/id418407216)

## Overview

- **ID:** `id418407216`
- **Platform:** Apple
- **Type:** Apple app
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** Gray Television Group, Inc.
- **Category:** Weather
- **Rating:** 4.70 / 5 (19,568 ratings)
- **Version:** 6.2.604
- **Last updated:** 2026-08-11
- **First published:** 2011-02-10
- **Size:** 257 MB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-17
- **Store listing:** [Apple App Store](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/first-alert-weather/id418407216)
- **Website:** [https://www.wlbt.com/apps/](https://www.wlbt.com/apps/)
- **Privacy policy:** [https://www.wlbt.com/privacy-policy/](https://www.wlbt.com/privacy-policy/)

## Description

First Alert Weather is a Chrome extension that delivers real-time local weather with high‑resolution 250m radar, future radar, satellite imagery, and frequent updates. It includes GPS-based location awareness and hourly forecasts from trusted computer models.

Users can save favorites, access station content for mobile users, and receive National Weather Service severe weather alerts with optional push notifications to stay safe in severe conditions.

## Rankings

- #11,862 — Overall

## Review summary

The app is valued for accurate, easy-to-navigate weather information, hourly updates, travel planning benefits, and in-app video coverage. However, frequent crashes, heavy ads, unreliable radar/forecasts, slow live video, and location/alert mismatches are common complaints. Overall, it’s highly useful content-wise but reliability and UX issues significantly detract from the experience.

### Pros

- Accurate and dependable weather information with an easy-to-navigate interface
- Timely hourly updates and alerts that help with planning and travel
- In-app weather videos/coverage from the news team
- Useful for daily planning and scheduling around weather
- Generally reliable performance and broad weather coverage

### Cons

- Frequent crashes, especially when tapping Daily or Hourly, with no easy crash reporting
- Heavy and annoying ads that disrupt viewing and delay updates
- Poor live video experience: redirects to a website and loads slowly
- Radar/forecast data often appears inaccurate or inconsistent with other sources
- Location/alert issues: alerts from the wrong state or content not relevant to the user

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Source: [Chrome-Stats](https://chrome-stats.com/d/id418407216)