# FOX 13: Tampa SkyTower Weather — user reviews > 101 indexed App Store user reviews of FOX 13 by Fox Television Stations, Inc., rated 3.10/5 from 240 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/fox-13-tampa-skytower-weather/id897521658/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/fox-13-tampa-skytower-weather/id897521658.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 81 · 4★ 32 · 3★ 30 · 2★ 34 · 1★ 63 ## What do users think of FOX 13? Overall sentiment: negative **Pros** - 📍 Detailed local radar capability - 🎥 Access to Fox 13 news forecasts and video - 🌀 Hurricane tracking and tropics information - ⚡ Lightning alerts and notifications - 🎨 Generally good app layout and interface design - 📱 Works across multiple locations - 🌊 Useful for water activities and boating **Cons** - ❌ Radar frequently inaccurate or shows no rain during actual rainfall - 📉 Hourly forecasts constantly change and lack reliability - 🐛 App crashes and freezes regularly - ⚙️ Excessive and intrusive advertisements - 🔐 Privacy concerns with data collection and fake ads - 📖 Difficult to read text due to background images - 🖱️ Overly sensitive touch controls trigger unwanted page navigation - ⚡ Lightning alerts too distant (10+ miles) or come after events occur - 🔋 Excessive data usage and background processes - 🗺️ Heat map overlay obscures storm activity - 🔧 Radar freezes or loads very slowly - 🎯 Alert overlays cannot be disabled and reset on each app launch - 📊 Removed dew point in favor of less useful relative humidity **Commonly reported bugs** - Radar shows no precipitation during actual rain events - Hourly forecast changes multiple times per day without accuracy - App crashes when adding new locations - Radar freezes or becomes unresponsive - Radar loads extremely slowly despite fast internet - Alert overlay settings don't save between app sessions - Touch controls too sensitive, opening pages unintentionally - Notification settings don't persist (Pling vs Announce) - Network error messages appear without actual connection issues - Radar cuts off at county lines - Text unreadable on night background images - 24-hour radar feature stopped working - App uses excessive data (6GB+ in two weeks) - Lightning notifications arrive after events conclude - Satellite view displays incorrectly on iPhone **Most requested features** - Restore dew point display instead of relative humidity - Reduce lightning alert distance back to 5 miles or less - Add sea breeze boundary layer visualization - Improve radar zoom functionality - Restore 24-hour future radar capability - Add dark mode option - Allow persistent alert layer preferences - Restore earthquake tracking feature - Improve hourly forecast accuracy - Add current temperature display on home screen - Restore tropics/hurricane information section - Allow users to control which map layers display by default ## Newest reviews (17 of 101) ### 2/5 — Needs work. Disappointing *2026-07-24* I thought that this app would be helpful to get weather notifications and be able to follow the radar.. but, every time I open the app I get ad after ad! You can’t see the radar without having to watch ads. Something that should be helpful is more aggravating than it’s worth ### 3/5 — No feedback button/ blank radar *2026-07-16* The information changes several times a day I noticed. Radar is fairly accurate, not exact. However today blank radar. Can’t send photos here. Double commercial ads. And the feedback button was removed long ago. So we can’t report any problems. Huge storm overhead so, I will have to find a competitor to place their app on my iPad ### 2/5 — New map/radar is terrible *2026-02-16* The old version of the radar was much easier to navigate. This one is difficult to zoom in or out because it moves all over the place. I have given myself some time to adjust to this newer version but it is just terrible. I have used this app in Wisconsin for many years and now in Florida for the past 3, but I will be looking for a new weather/radar app until this is changed. ### 2/5 — Notify *2025-12-15, version 6.1.101* So sorry you changed this app! Now it doesn’t show earthquakes from the rest of the world anymore! This has been very important to me! Oh well, I guess I have to find a new weather app! ### 2/5 — Not accurate *2025-10-27, version 5.17.705* Rain & thunderstorms are raging outside my window but this app says nothing is happening. Their radar is not accurate. Do better! ### 2/5 — Good Yet Aggravating *2025-09-07* The layout is good, the sections are good. I appreciate that I can watch a replay of the latest weather forecast as well as the tropics forecast and view hurricane spaghetti models on the map. But, it is highly aggravating to be on the homepage scrolling horizontally through the hourly forecast and have it automatically open the hourly page, which runs vertically. When I want to open that page I'll open it myself; please fix this! I want to get this information while I'm on the homepage; if I want detail details I will go to the hourly page. If you would fix this, I'd give you a five star rating. ### 2/5 — Something changed🤨 *2025-07-16, version 5.17.508* The radar is no longer correctly active it was showing in my area that we were under heavy rain, storm colors in the red yellow, but I’m looking outside and the sun’s out and was out for a few hours plus the app doesn’t do a full 24 in the future anymore, either it stopscould you please update ### 2/5 — Hardly ever right *2025-07-02* I finally had to get rid of this app standing on a beach getting poured on and the app didnt even show rain in the area and had given a 12% chance of rain before I left. After a year, it was never accurate and I got sick of being caught in storms the app never even forecasted. It can be dangerous to be this inaccurate when forecasting weather in Florida. ### 3/5 — Bugs *2025-03-05, version 5.17.508* 24hr radar hasn’t worked in months. ### 3/5 — Please fix this *2024-10-15* The latest update has caused problems with this app which worked perfectly well prior to it. Please fix this. With the latest update, any portion of the app that you touch instantly opens that section of the app, even if you only intended to scroll to some of the other sections below it. This is an aggravating waste of time and makes the app a lot less usefull. Would appreciate if you would fix this. It's always been my favorite weather app until now. Thanks ### 1/5 — Can’t rely on for forecast *2024-07-23* Pretty much worthless if you rely on it to plan your day. In the morning it will say 10% chance of rain, then in the afternoon when the storms come in and it’s 5 minutes away, they change it to 100% chance of thunderstorms. This isn’t a forecast, it’s just observing what’s happening now. I can do that just looking at the sky. And this is pretty much an everyday thing this whole summer. ### 1/5 — Junk *2024-07-15, version 5.15.402* I have this app for over a year and the radar page usually shows nothing even tho is thundering and lightning and also pooring rain outside. I’ve sent them multiple emails with screenshots of their live weather broadcast, screenshot of TWC radar app and this app but i have never heard back. So time to dump this junk app. I recommend twc app. ### 3/5 — Hate the heat map! *2024-06-29, version 5.15.402* It’s FL, it’s hot and we know it’s hot. Please stop giving us colors for the heat. Trying to look at the thunderstorm and all I see is orange and yellow lightning bolts. Ready to delete this app. ### 3/5 — What happened to the dew point? *2024-05-24* Please bring back the dew point. The dew point is so much more important than humidity especially in FL. I need a new weather app because you no longer show the dew point. Please fix this issue. And you also show in all of your guide to the new look see the dew point but it’s not there. ### 2/5 — Never accurate *2024-05-17, version 5.14.700* Only 50% accurate. WeatherBug is my go to because I can rely on it being accurate at least 95% of the time. ### 2/5 — Tough to Read *2024-05-09, version 5.14.700* The background pictures make it difficult to read the data on the app. In addition, the latest update remove the dewpoint, which is a pretty big deal for those of us who live and work here in Florida. ### 3/5 — Not accurate *2024-04-22, version 5.13.804* It’s literally raining now - when I check the app there’s no rain in sight. Too often this has not been accurate, lately. I hope they fix whatever is going on, I would hate to figure out another weather app. ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Completely useless *2026-02-27, version 6.1.301* Calls for 85% rain up to an hour prior and then 0%. Happens ALL the time. TRASH ### 1/5 — Too many ads *2025-12-23, version 6.1.101* Too many ads ### 1/5 — Junk snd full of junk and illegal ads *2025-12-17, version 6.1.101* Do not download It’s a app that takes your information from fake ads they support and sell your private information. ### 1/5 — Not accurate *2025-10-07, version 5.17.705* The apps radar used to be 90% accurate. Currently it's not accurate for rain at all. It constantly shows heavy rain at my location and we aren't getting any rain at all. It requires serious fixes. ### 1/5 — Not accurate at all!! *2025-06-26, version 5.17.508* Do not waste your time! For a local app this is horrible! ### 1/5 — Inaccurate! *2025-05-07, version 5.17.508* The information use to be very accurate, now it’s inaccurate garbage! The radar likes to freeze half way through and the weather predictions constantly so rain then change last minute the day of. I’m pretty sure who ever runs the app is just lazy with information updates. ### 1/5 — App is too sensitive *2025-02-16, version 5.17.508* Lately any time I barely touch a section on the home screen it automatically goes to a whole new page with more details about that section but I don’t want that. Like the hourly horizontal slider, if I click on it it automatically opens a bigger vertical view. This used to be my favorite weather app. But It’s gotten to the point where I’m going to find a different app. ### 1/5 — SkyTower update stinks *2024-12-28, version 5.17.508* This was my go to weather app until the latest update. Now if you want to explore HOURLY under the radar it kicks you to another area. If it ain’t broke why do you have to mess with it. Bye bye SkyTower. ### 1/5 — Far off in predictions *2024-11-23* All weather apps are about worthless. It’s all about data mining. They always show doom and gloom forecasts which back in the day would make me cancel charter trips and had cost me a lot of business. AI couldn’t find its rear end with a roadmap! And now barraged with ads. Gave up on local fox years ago because of lack of content. They should rename themselves foxbook 13 because it’s ALL fluff stories and very little REAL news!!! ### 1/5 — Finally Deleted *2024-08-06, version 5.15.402* Had to delete as the heat map overrides any storm activity occurring and not being able to track TS Debby was the last straw. Once again, we live in FL and it’s hot—no need for a heat index map. ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Radar and Hourly… *2025-11-09* It would be nice if I could count on the hourly weather forecast and the local radar. More often wrong than not. We were supposed to have storms, even rain, for a couple of hours this afternoon but nothing. Even showed the weather coming in on the radar. Can’t count on this, or probably any map or app as they are all run out of NOAA. Great for ruining plans. ### 5/5 — Great app *2024-08-03* OK, I have not installed this for quite some time. I’m gonna give it another shot especially since the new weather girl lady named Valerie is the best weather meteorologist in the universe so if I don’t see Valerie on this app, it gets deleted again no seriously it’s a good app and she’s the best keep up the good work ha ha ### 5/5 — Best Weather App for Tampabay hands down! *2024-03-20, version 5.13.804* I’ve tried every weather app around but this one gives me everything I need to know. Keep up the great work! ### 5/5 — Great app *2023-06-18* Don’t know what’s going on, but the app is really garbage right now and I deleted it. I have been a happy customer with this thing for at least eight years right now it’s been removed. The problem is the radar doesn’t load fast enough I have blazing 600 mag download from Spectrum right here in Tampa Bay and the radar loads real choppy that little thing that goes across to load the prior 15 minutes prior five minutes it scoots across now and it must take at least 60 seconds to load the map I don’t have 60 seconds to look at my phone for anything getting too old for that. ### 5/5 — Great app *2022-07-15, version 5.6.500* Beautiful app I have used it ever since its inception. Is there anyway you could add the Seabreeze boundary from the East Coast and the sea breeze boundary layer that shoots across the state I don’t see it unless I watch Paul on Fox 13 news or Max defender 8. But even their app does not show the boundary layers that would give us an awesome view of the weather because we know being Florida residence’s that when those boundary layers collide it’s time to get inside. And always remember if you’re too busy to go fishin especially on the weekend you’re just too darn busy! ### 5/5 — SkyTower App Review *2022-05-31* I enjoy using the app. It gives me up to date info. That is especially important when your offshore in my boat, and I’m free diving or scuba diving. The app will let me know if bad weather is on it’s way. Which is a must around here especially during the summer. I have fished and dived these waters all my life except for the 12 years I spent in the U.S. Army as a Ranger gh ### 5/5 — Awesome app!!! *2019-08-07, version 4.8.900* I absolutely love this awesome app, it works great. It even accurately worked while I was in Breckenridge,Colorado. Kept me updated on all the weather, lightning, heavy rain and air quality for Denver, and Colorado Springs. And I love that it’s Paul Delegado’s voice that keeps me informed. ### 5/5 — iPhone app *2016-06-07, version 4.2.1000* Great app shows all the info you need and great for keeping up with local weather. It would be convenient if there was a setting to allow the current conditions to be shown on the status bar/screen for iPhone. Yut ### 5/5 — Best weather App around! *2014-07-26, version 2.7.13* I love this app so far for several reasons, very easy to navigate, accurate to the minute, no problems, and some very cool features for example the compass:) being out on the water makes it very important to see what's coming, especially with the crazy lighting here in Fla! The " help" section is comprehensive, all you need to know to get the most from the app. Great job! ### 4/5 — Generally good *2024-10-03, version 5.16.1703* You changed from dew point to relative humidity a while back. RH is useless. Change it back or make it optional. --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. Ratings, prices and chart positions refresh continuously; this snapshot is from 2026-08-25.*