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Weather Underground Reviews Summary
Weather Underground has a rating of 1.4 stars from 665 reviews, indicating that most customers are generally dissatisfied with their purchases. Reviewers dissatisfied with Weather Underground most frequently mention weather channel, day forecast and many years. Weather Underground ranks 46th among Weather sites.
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I was a huge wunderground user before the Weather Channel bought them. It's obvious to me that they ruined wunderground so that people would turn to their weather dot com website.
I have an 8th generation i7 with 32gb of memory on gig fiber service with a commercial router. I'm not running any browser extensions. I've tried Chrome, Firefox, and Edge on Windows 10. I've also tried Safari on an i5 imac.
Just awful.
It doesn't load timely. Probably due to advertisements. I think weather channel was lobbying defunding US weather service so they could make more money...
Nothing works. No models, water temp is way off, no radar, I can't even sign in. I guess they don't care. Will not join again.
Wunderground used to be my go-to site for weather info. After the awful Weather Channel gobbled it up, Wunderground became awful too. Awful ads and awful slow---sometimes you click on a link and NEVER get there. Those stupid, unnecessary names for winter storms (many such irritations). Discussions by users, eliminated. The appearance of that hateful word "Premium" (you know what THAT means). I use the National Weather Service site now.
Used to be the best weather application and website out there. Since the Weather Channel bought it it's been going downhill steadily. Radar has stopped loading correctly, sometimes the app would tell you you were offline when you were online, and now it's finally completely down. The weather channel is slowly strangling Wunderground because they know they could never make a product as good as it and they want people to pay for much less than they were getting for free.
I was a big fan of the Weather Underground site, I used to use them everyday. These days it seems that it never works. The maps crash, the forecasts crash, the site has a difficult time loading most of the time. I'm moving on.
This website reminds me of the National Weather Service website when a bad storm comes. When you need them most, is usually when the site quits working. I knew it was going to be down hill when "The Weather Channel" got involved with Weather Underground.
This used to be the place to find local information from just about anywhere. Then they sold out to IBM and service and support has been horrendous. Data is not getting through, entire chunks are being dropped. After many years on WU I do not know how much longer I can put up with the terrible service we get now.
My CWOP is working perfectly. WU has stopped working almost completely.
Sorry to say, but I won't be coming back. I was an avid fan... thanks for the years though...
As another user described, gone are the days where the better product wins. I live in the SE and used WU daily for over 13 years to schedule my roof work. WAS by far the best weather site. Sadly, it seems it is being sabotaged and prepped for retirement by the new owners. I've stuck with WU through the ups and downs but today is the last day I (attempt) to use this now unusable website & app or any garbage website or app associated with the new owners. Really aggravating!
Where did the blog comments go? Suddenly there are no comments. I agree with others, this used to be a great place to go, and when I lived on the coast for several years and was responsible for a large portion of the coastline's wireless network, I almost exclusively used this website. Now it's not worth much more than checking to see if it's raining outside.
I have been using wunderground for over 15 years, but it has gotten to almost be unusable. They used to have the best radar on the web, but now it doesn't work half the time. The radar will not refresh, or is unavailable. What a shame. It used to be the best weather site on the web. The weather channel really screwed it up.
Wow... so disappointed... with Weather Underground. I am an Air Force aviator and this has been my go to site for many years but the last year, and especially the last 6-months have been absolutely poor. I am so very disappointed.
Too many times, when perusing Jones Beach, NY, it rarely has the correct map. By 400 miles. Instead of S. Shore Long Island map, I get Buffalo NY. Also, my base, Freeport, NY too often has way off temperatures, that are way off. [30 deg. F. in summer, and 135 degrees in winter and summer. It's obviously not that, but I get no real temps. Also... a BIG PROBLEM, is contacting them. They offer answers to problems that are not pertinent and make it impossible to reach them by email. Go with a WX reporting co. That is more credible
Why don't they just shut it down? I go there out of habit and then just feel awful when I remember the days when it was absolutely the best. It still has a button to subscribe. I can't imagine why I would do that again. All it does for me now is tell me the temperature and a few things that I can get anywhere.
Just for the heck of it I still go to WU, but only to see what new they have screwed up, but there is not much left they can destroy... the site is close to being unusable now. It would be nice if we could give them NO stars!
I've been with WU for many years and have my weather station reporting to their site for about 15 years. Their site was a great place to look at your weather data including graphs and many stats and things. All those things are on the new site but there are always problems such as errors loading and even error messages saying there is a problem with your own station when there clearly isn't. I send my personal weather station data to many sites. The point is this, since the greedy Weather Channel got their hands on WU, it's ruined. I haven't watched the WC in years since they went over to the weather drama in overdrive mode. If I watched just 5 minutes of the WC during a hurricane or any major weather event I would be dizzy from all their ridiculous hype and spin. Their meteorologist are nothing short of idiot puppets that are basically ordered to report dramatized weather.
Weather Underground, formerly an outstanding site, has steadily gown down hill since purchased by the Weather Channel. I suspect this is intentional.
It's rare that all the features of the site work at any one time and it's down many a time.
Sad really, since the Weather Channel is, in my and many others opinion, all but useless being loaded with social fluff-n-buff and, of course, drama reporting.
Used to be the Go To website for tropical storm/hurricane tracking & modeling. Now all I get is frustration when I visit this site. Used to be able to see all the models - now (2018) half the storms have no models & no discussion. Used to love reading Dr Jeff Masters updated, no more - now it's computer generated. Used to be an interesting attached blog where wanna be weather forecasters could comment. Gone.
Very sad.
USED to be... now, it's basically useless... it copies weather.com's data and their "wundermap" doesn't even load or work. It used to be great... but for over 8 months, never works.
It's a "wunder" they can even sell advertising for this crummy site... look at the reviews... they are the donald trump of weather services.
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