So far, I like this app. I saw it mentioned somewhere on social media and I have been looking for a weather app to receive severe weather alerts. You can set alerts for your current location, customized locations, or both. But what sets it apart from most of the popular weather apps is the ability to customize which specific alerts you want to receive, which is very rare in most weather apps. For example, I might want to receive tornado warnings and severe thunderstorm warnings, but not flood warnings. With this app, you can do that. I have been comparing it to Wunderground along with the built-in Apple weather alerts, and so far I have been receiving Wunderground alerts first, followed by NickelBlock, followed by Apple weather. I’m not sure why NickelBlock’s alerts are 10-15 seconds behind Wunderground. Another difference (that I like) is that NickelBlock appears to only alert you if your defined locations are within the warning polygon. This is how it should be. In comparison, Wunderground and Apple Weather will alert you if there is a warning anywhere in your county which may or may not affect your specific location. The only thing I would like to see as an improvement is for the app to send severe weather alerts as a critical notification (or at least give the option to toggle that on/off).
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