Weather UndergroundReviews 665

What the hell happened to this site. I have been sending my weather station date to WU for years. Then recently went to view my site and to my surprise the whole interface has taken a dramatic step backwards. No more real-time rapid fire updates just a static site... back to the stone age. Its like the site has been restored from a very old back up because if your going to role out changes you certainly wouldn't remove existing, often used features. No longer useful in it's current form! Went from a 5 star to a zero rating

For years wunderground had been the place to go to send your personal weather station data to, if only for their excellent online display... but not any more.
The new PWS page is the worst thing I've ever seen - badly sized, badly laid out, poorly planned and generally crap. It doesn't update automatically; displays empty panels for no good reason and makes me feel that I don't want my data there any more. Even their q & a section (which was always a tough place to find) has now disappeared - and they don't reply to questions via email either.
All in all every sign that they've gone bad - so I'm off and I'd advise the rest of you who want their data displayed to do the same.

https://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/04/us/as-weather-channel-buys-weather-underground-fans-fear-change.html

Tell me if the fans were right.

Today is the absolute last day I'll ever visit the empty vestige that is currently 'wunderground'.

All of the useful information has been unnecessarily simplified into a static page that no longer updates. I have a hunch that the rapid fire data will be a 'new' feature in the future that will be only for paying people.

Thank you The Weather Company and International Business Machines for taking a site with some of the richest, free, weather data available to the public and razed it into the ground.

As for an alternative, I've been frequently visiting windy.com. They're new and have a relatively small team, but show potential.

I'm extremely disappointed in the disgrace that has become wunderground.

I've been sending my personal weather station data to weather underground for over 10 years. Each time they change the design of the personal weather station home page it's for the worse. This iteration is much worse. I really hate that I can't see all the current readings without scrolling down. I used to get the map, temp, humidity, rain, wind etc all on the main page. Now all I get is the map, temp, humidy and dewpoint. And what happened to the rapid fire update? Missing features. Many things that don't work anymore. And terrible heuristics. This was obviously designed by someone who has never been part of a serious software development team. Bring back the previous version and fire the new developer.

Seriously, their geography is wrong, the satellite functions don't work, and the forecasts are wildly inaccurate. The site is a collection of widgets which often don't load properly. I'm not a big conspiracy guy, but I suspect it was bought by IBM and allowed to rot on the vine, so to speak, to eliminate competition for their other weather sites (which are also not very good). Before that purchase, it was probably the best site for my area. However, IBM's Weather Underground is an extremely poor service/site.

The last thing left I like about Weather Underground is the format of its graphical forecast, but the app is impossibly clunky, especially its widget, which is usually hung trying to update. I'm really annoyed at how much time I have wasted poking at it, trying to kick the widget into gear -- the whole point of the widget is to display updated conditions without having to open the app! I prefer international units; the website will display them, but it's an afterthought, as it first displays temperatures in Fahrenheit and only then changes them to Celsius. The organization and functionality of the website used to be much better. I've about had it -- as soon as I see a similar forecast widget that functions, I'm getting rid of the app.

I have been using Weather Underground for the past 10 years+ and this site has gone from the best to the worst. Every single "update" they roll out, makes the site more and more useless. One of my favorite aspects of the website used to be their helpful tech support and they would always quickly fix glitches when they came arise. Over the past 2 years, its evident that they no longer have any tech support because every email goes unanswered. In addition to absolutely no help when problems arise, they have made the historical weather portion (which was what drew me here to begin with) completely unusable. The data isn't even accurate. Its full of glitches and there are these huge graphs that stick out that are completely useless. I don't care about the "pretty" graphs. I want to see the data. Fortunately, I have learned that the NWS has an excellent way to look at historical weather for any city you want to. Hopefully Weather Underground and the Weather Channel won't try to buy the NWS out. Nothing else has seemed to stop The Weather Channel from obtaining a monopoly.

I'm mourning the loss of Intellicast, too, but earlier today I stumbled on https://96.8.93.198

Would someone please try http://96.8.93.198
https://96.8.93.198
Or 96. 8. 93. 198?

Please report if it works.

It looks like the old Intellicast site, EXCEPT without advertisements. I don't think it's an old image of the site, as everything LOOKS up to date. On some machines the "https :// "; prevents getting to the proper site, or on others, is seems needed (please excuse me, I'm NOT a software engineer). Same with the "http :// ".

Here's hoping it continues to work, if it's real. Please let us know.