App Detail » Action News Jax Weather

What's New

Bug fixes and improvements.

App Description

Get the most accurate Jacksonville-area forecast in town with the First Alert Weather App from Action News Jax - WJAX/WFOX. The app features the forecast from your neighborhood, live radar, breaking weather alerts, live streaming video from Chief Meteorologist Mike Buresh and the First Alert weather team.

Summary of Features:
- There is a new radar in the weather app that matches the radar found on other digital platforms and also includes future radar to provide you with a likely path and outlook of storms. The radar has 250 meter resolution, the highest available.
- New tracks - We added earthquakes and storm tracks as layers in the radar. Now you can track the location and magnitude of earthquakes as well for storms the speed, direction and type. Tap the “storm symbols” icon in the radar to see the list.
- Push alerts are FREE for more than 25 alert types including everything from tornado warnings to winter storm warnings and tropical storm alert types.
- Now you can scroll through the home screen to access most of what you need or want on one tab.
- Place a location pin precisely where you want it for a specific address or any position on a map. When saving a location you can name it exactly how you want it.
- The app works with identical features on tablet and handset.
- Additional items added seasonally

The weather app also has these critical benefits and features:
- The radar zooms down to your neighborhood or zooms out to check radar anywhere in the country.
- The app provides Location-Based alerts. While many other apps offer alerts based on your county, This app supports a more precise type of alert issued for the most dangerous types of weather threats. More precision means you get alerts that matter to you, not false alarms.
- Current conditions, hourly and daily forecasts for any location you enter.
- High resolution satellite cloud imagery
- Ability to add and save locations
- A fully integrated GPS for current location awareness
- Additional items added seasonally

*Data and alerting available for the United States only

App Changes

• April 08, 2013 Initial release
• July 20, 2013 New version 1.2.1
• July 27, 2013 New version 1.2.2
• October 10, 2013 New version 1.2.3
• December 19, 2013 New version 2.7.0
• December 31, 2013 New version 2.7.1
• January 03, 2014 New version 2.7.2
• February 27, 2014 New version 2.7.3
• March 17, 2014 New version 2.7.4
• April 26, 2014 New version 2.7.5
• May 15, 2014 New version 2.7.6
• September 28, 2014 New version 2.7.7
• October 12, 2014 New version 2.7.8
• December 17, 2014 New version 2.7.9
• August 26, 2015 New version 3.0
• September 26, 2015 New version 3.0.1
• January 10, 2016 New version 3.0.2
• July 21, 2016 New version 3.1
• November 06, 2016 New version 3.2
• January 04, 2017 New version 3.2.1
• June 15, 2019 New version 4.8.600
• August 17, 2019 New version 4.8.900
• September 24, 2019 New version 4.10.800
• December 10, 2019 New version 4.10.1700
• January 22, 2020 New version 4.10.2002
• January 28, 2020 New version 4.10.2500
• July 15, 2020 New version 5.0.402
• October 23, 2020 New version 5.0.802
• September 16, 2023 New version 5.10.504
• November 03, 2023 New version 5.11.503