[Nextgrid]

Take this with a grain of salt, but I’ve heard that there are stupid legal reasons (lobbied for by the private sector) why government agencies such as the NOAA are prohibited from offering their own apps or services. If that’s true then I think it might be worth directing your anger there first and foremost.

[lultimouomo]

Accuweather (which relies heavily on the national weather service data for its forecasts) lobbied for a bill in 2005 to prevent the weather service to provide data directly to people; the bill failed. Then during the Trump presidency the former Accuweather CEO (whose family still owns the company) was nominated undersecretary of the weather service, but he failed the confirmation hearings.

[every]

I don't know about apps but I access my local NOAA weather[1] daily on the web...

[1] https://www.weather.gov/ewx/

[analog31]

NOAA weather, on the web, has always worked for me. I've never used an app. The website is slightly klunky, but works. I get around town by bike, so it's helpful to have some indication of what I'm heading into.