Weather UndergroundReviews 665

Now that Weather Channel has the reigns it has gotten really bad. Nothing to add that others have not already stated, other than my weather station used to update the main page. That feature has not worked in months. Everything used to be on one page and now you have to click different tabs to see the data. Plus, now the mobile apps are starting to be slow. WU was my go to, but now I'm searching for other sites. Weather Channel will not be one of them...

The app frequently hangs and crashes with the message "Try again later." The local weather station has wildly incorrect temp data, but the site won't let me switch to another station permanently; it keeps switching back to the incorrect station. The app UI is confusing and probably doesn't actually work. Many of the features that made WU great have been stripped from the site. This has been done to get people to stop using WU and move to Weather.com. Whatever you do, don't use Weather.com, since they're the reason why WU is no longer a good site or app.

Once again this miserable excuse for a weather site is messed up, and all the local radar maps and the maps showing the nearby weather stations are missing all the map details AND almost all of the nearby weather stations! This has been going on for at least 4 or 5 days now, how many times is this going to happen? They had a similar problem last summer, I posted a previous review of this site dated 7/5/2018 that said in part "Along with all the problems everyone else is reporting, the Wundermap link on our full-feature laptop no longer brings up the map underlay! All we get is the radar against a background of a blue-on-blue grid with no physical or map features whatsoever. Not much help when you're trying to track storms or lightning"... This time it's the local map on our Forecast and Current Conditions page that's missing all the map details, and the weather stations locator map has the same problem and most of the stations are missing.

We're right at the start of tornado and spring storm season and once again a site supposedly owned or run by TheWeatherChannel has turned into a piece of dog doodoo. TWC should be ashamed of this mess, or maybe they're just trying to knock out what they consider a competing website.

And yes, I've done all the browser voodoo with trying a different browser (it's the same mess on IE, FF, Opera, and Chrome!), clearing cache and cookies, checking and disabling my ad blockers, blah blah blah. COME ON, WU, hire someone in your tech department who knows how to actually FIX a problem!

The new Windstream layer looks like it could be very helpful, but I can find zero information about it. Here's an idea; how about a banner somewhere on the site with a link that says; HEY WE HAVE A NEW LAYER WE'RE SUPER EXCITED ABOUT FOR OUR INTERACTIVE MAP! CLICK TO FIND OUT MORE INFO. I assume like most high IQ clicks(not quite the word I want to use) they must figure if you don't know what they know already, your too dumb to bother with. I can barely chew gum and walk at the same time with a near handicapped 121 IQ so, I need to know some basic things to make use of the new layer; Does the name Windstream imply jet stream? If not, there is a ton of real estate between the ground and the ospheres. Where are the measurements taking place? What speed are the various colors etc? If TWC truly cared about their brand they would help their customers understand. Instead, they make 15 second clips, and discontinue emergency on air storm tracking just after the storm leaves a highly populated area because ad revenue goes down. I guess if they stayed on air to alert people in a town of 10,000 they'd lose their cocktail party privileges with the elites.

Weather Channel's systematic destruction of their too-successful arch-nemesis seems complete. Weather Underground used to be my favorite website/app, and their Storm app was terrific. All good things must die, though, as the modern tech-industry mantra seems to dictate.

This website just flat-out doesn't work anymore. That's it. Temperatures and information doesn't display. It looks like whoever maintained it was fired a while back but management hasn't caught up to this yet. The keen destruction-focused management at the Weather Channel (which bought Wunderground) has made important decisions to handicap and ruin what they purchased. Good job, guys! Hope you give yourself some nice raises before your company eventually goes bankrupt.