# WDAM 7 First Alert Weather

> Weather

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/id419352047](https://chrome-stats.com/d/id419352047)

## Overview

- **ID:** `id419352047`
- **Platform:** Apple
- **Type:** Apple app
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** Gray Television Group, Inc.
- **Category:** Weather
- **Rating:** 4.70 / 5 (11,274 ratings)
- **Version:** 6.2.604
- **Last updated:** 2026-08-11
- **First published:** 2011-02-15
- **Size:** 260 MB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-17
- **Store listing:** [Apple App Store](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/wdam-7-first-alert-weather/id419352047)
- **Website:** [https://www.wdam.com/category/216866/weather-app](https://www.wdam.com/category/216866/weather-app)
- **Privacy policy:** [https://www.wdam.com/privacy-policy/](https://www.wdam.com/privacy-policy/)

## Description

WDAM 7 First Alert Weather Chrome extension offers our mobile weather content with 250m radar, future radar, and high-resolution satellite imagery, plus real-time updates.

Save your favorite locations, rely on GPS for current position, and receive National Weather Service alerts. Hourly and daily forecasts update from our computer models, with opt-in push alerts for severe weather.

## Rankings

- #16,595 — Overall

## Review summary

Users praise WDAM for accurate, locale-specific forecasts and strong storm-tracking with reliable team reporting. They value broad coverage and timely updates. Major drawbacks are intrusive ads, readability problems from background images, radar UI issues, and a frustrating post-update interface that changes familiar features.

### Pros

- Accurate, location-specific weather information (often described as more accurate than competing apps).
- Comprehensive storm tracking with radar and real-time updates (approaching rain, lightning, and tornadoes).
- Credible, on-air weather team and reporting (positive mentions of Rex and the WDAM crew).
- Wide area coverage with timely updates that users appreciate.

### Cons

- Intrusive ads and pre-roll/video ads disrupt use, especially during severe weather warnings.
- Readability issues due to background imagery or low-contrast color schemes that hide temperatures.
- Radar map issues such as not loading, not going full screen, and time delays.
- Post-update UI changes that create a learning curve or remove familiar features.

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Source: [Chrome-Stats](https://chrome-stats.com/d/id419352047)