This app started out great. I have a horse farm in an area where summer storms occur daily, and for about a week I thought Id found a great solution to the issue of knowing exactly when and where lightning was striking nearby. Then it stopped alerting me. For three days I never received an alert, even during storms that were on top of my farm. I of course checked and rechecked all my settings, both in the app and on my phone. I emailed support and their advice was to "turn up the volume." I wrote back to say that of course I had checked that, but that the app simply wasnt working. Their response was to thank me for my feedback and tell me theyre always working to improve the app. Yeah, great, good to know. But not even a little bit helpful. So, unless it miraculously starts working again before my first months subscription runs out, Im afraid Ill be canceling and deleting this app.
In addition to the lack of alerts, I also find that theres quite a delay between when lightning strikes and when the app registers it. I also use WeatherBug, which has a light in feature, and when a storm is moving my way, that app consistently shows lightning closer to me than LightningCast. WeatherBug doesnt do push notifications, but since LightningCast doesnt always do that either, Im sticking with WeatherBug for now.
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