Weather UndergroundReviews 665

Was headed down the tube before 2020 but has now entered the realm of Malware. Locks-up/freezes with almost every click. Won't do anything at all if you don't let all of the adds finish loading and cluttering the screen. Just as something finishes loading and you move to "x-out" an add or useless, oversized tool bar, the "x" jumps to the side and another useless adware/malware button is now right we're you just tapped the screen. When does design and intent go from trying to make money to out-right deception and criminality? I think we have our answer.

I had religiously used wunderground since ~2004. I just exorcised all links and bookmarks on all my devices. Good riddance.

I have used Wunderground since I got my first iPhone years ago, I depend on this app and the information it provides. Never had a problem. Loved it. No warning of the "upgrade" just one day the entire interface has changed. Now... what a frickin' disaster. I thought okay, I live with it and then decided to upgrade to the ad free "PREMIUM VERSON" on May 20,2020. What a FOOL. Not only does the app suck, I'm still getting ADS on my iPhone even though when I check my subscriptions on my iPhone it indicates the Premium Membership. W T H? I want my money back.

As soon as I saw that IBM had purchased WU I knew it was over. They removed the ability to easily find and store weather stations for different geographical areas. Personal activity forecasts are now a mess. And the radar screen plays like it uses integrated graphics from the nineties.

And the real tragedy is that the original app worked so very, very well. That's why it had great ratings! All IBM had to do was keep the original product and slap their name on it and they would have been fine. But like everything they touch, they just can't stop themselves and they have to "improve" it. Well, they blew it again! My subscription is up at the end of this month and I am NOT renewing.

Stay away. Stay far away.

Ever since IBM took over Weather Underground ("An IBM Business" is on the newest version of their app) their forecasts are good for $hit and my professional full weather station (made by AcuRite - $290) which reports rainfall, temperature, humidity, barometric pressure, wind speeds and directions, Ozone and a years worth of trends for all those, has been MISREPORTED on the Weather Underground App. Immediate Temps, etc are off +/- as much as 20% in real time on their app and this was NOT the case BEFORE IBM took over. Right now, WU is forecasting for ZIP code ******* a high of only 86f while NOAA and the US Weather and EVERYONE ELSE is forecasting a high today of 98f! This is BS! Consistently Forecasts are OFF by 3 to 8 degrees along with real-time reporting. I may take my weather station (KCAMISSI109) off the WU network and move it to a RESPONSIBLE Weather Reporting Network in very short order. WU SUCKS! Get your $hit together!

Too many flaws to list them all.

My biggest complaints are that you can no longer pin the map to get weather at a new location and the rain probability graph no longer has the dew point curve and temperature curve superimposed over each other. The best part of Wunderground was the raw data that could be interpreted by the user, that is no longer available.

The interface on iPad is horrible, basically just the phone version with lots of empty space.

Local weather stations disappear when you go to a bigger view of the US. A one time, web cams would show up but can't find them now. The original Wonderground app worked great on my IPAD. The Wonderstation app is still on my IPAD but sends you to the Wonderground app when you try to add layers. Bring back the web cams. Bring back to easy of seeing all of the personal weather stations around the world. Even the weather channel app is screwed up now (terrible format) compared to the older version. Fix it so it is user friendly for people than want more than a glance.

I felt like I was burring my best friend when I clicked on the delete button.

WU was my buddy, my "go to" in need, I introduced him to all my friends.

Then he started hanging with the wrong people and out of no where became unbearable and difficult to be around. I didn't recognize him anymore and he just wasn't giving me the attention I needed.

I implore all of you to track down those responsible for ruining my best friend, I think they could use a reality intervention.

RIP WU app...

Speedometer temperature display signalled the end of a great app. Too splashy and far less informative. If there is an app that replicates the original, please say so in a comment. Otherwise I and many others are gone. Marketing and millenial bit twiddlers have chased users away. Soon low readerships will justify total shutdown as a mechanism to get users to switch to weather.com and remove a competitor. Standard business is to buyout competition, ruin usefulness and kill it.