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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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WU was my go to weather app until it was changed Dec 2019. (where is my local weather station?)now it's so difficult to use i have stopped using it... bring back the old version or I'm moving on. A very frustrated and sad customer
WU was my go to weather app. I've given it 2 or 3 weeks... can't read it, can't figure out the local weather. They need to quickly redo the app.
This used to be my go-to app for weather but I am deleting it from my phone. The new version is difficult to navigate and no longer shows precipitation totals on the daily forecast. For the rest of you who also now hate this app, try using the browser on your phone (Chrome, Safari, etc.) and using the full Wunderground website. You will probably want to use a computer to access the site and set the Customize options.
Used to be good now it's Unusable. Why did they have to screw it up don't fix it if it's not broken there was some update now it says IBM on the bottom and it just keeps shutting off I uninstall it then reinstall it wait a couple weeks try to do it again the same thing just turn it on and then it shuts off, it is Hell
Why did they do this? Since the update, it's only had the current temperature in my area shown once (it's just showing dashes every other time), the hourly and weekly graphs are hard to read and uninformative, all the little local weather stations, which was the whole reason for having the app, are invisible on the map without extra clicks and there are far fewer of them now. For God's sake it doesn't even show me the temperature at the airport for my city now. It's really, really, REALLY bad now.
After the new UI release in November or December 2019 the app is now useless. Very slow and very hard to find the information you want. Doesn't even have the weather forecast for the current day obvious nor does the daily forecast show how much it will rain or snow!
The previous app was more concise and easy to read, with the ability to drill down if you needed more info. Now the new app is difficult to read and information you really need is difficult to access
This must be some kind of ploy to get people to use the Weather app instead. Underground was amazing until December 2019 and now it's a pile of garbage.
The app has improved significantly over the past year. Precipitation feature is much better. The ten day forecast is better too, and it changes often, showing the latest updates, as it should. I was not happy a year ago, but I have to admit they've done a lot of work to make it more user friendly.
I've used Weather Underground for years on a daily basis. I've always depended on it for up to the minute local weather for my construction business. Now, after this latest update, it's become useless to me. Why change a good thing? Please bring it back!
Is Watson home? Is Watson home? Is Watson home? Is Watson home? Is Watson home? Is that azaleas 100 charters?
Ruined.
Weather.com, "powered by IBM" obviously worked out a deal where IBM would destroy their competition and thereby help weather.com maintain its monopoly.
This was my top weather site until the last update. Now I don't use as it only shows in portrait in my iPad and I have to hold sideways to view. This has been a big boost for all the other weather apps as I see over 400 one star ratings for Underground since they changed.
WU's update of their weather app is no longer readily useful. What was the was best weather app no longer allows one to see a summary of rain/snow totals on a daily basis--neither on the first graphic showing the daily forecasts, nor on the graphic for the hourly forecast. If one wants to use the forecast to quickly see upcoming conditions for say planning driving, they are out of luck; you now get to total up the hourly figures yourself. If you want to look ahead to a future day you now have to scroll, hour by hour, through all the previous days; no longer can you select a future day in the summary graphic and instantly get the hourly predictions for that day. This app is now loaded up with lots of new information that doesn't help with the most basic of forecast information, in a clear and concise format. We will check back with this app in the distant future to see if the developers listen to their previously loyal users. But we are now looking for a new app that understands its users.
I agree with the other posts in that I wonder what they were trying to accomplish with the December re-do of the Website and App? In a word, it is a disaster. No landscape view for iPads, hard to reed text and graphics, and generally clunky navigation. If the intent was to drive away subscribers, they accomplished that goal.
What were you thinking? A beautiful, useful app rendered crap by IBM. Time to delete and find an alternative!
What did everyone think when TWC bought Underground Weather. The TWC is in the business of drama and money.
Media mogul Byron Allen acquired the television network from its owners, The Blackstone Group, Bain Capital and Comcast/NBCUniversal.
Weather.com, Weather Underground and its Weather Channel app were acquired by IBM's The WeatherCompany division in January 2016.
These two groups purchased the competition to ensure they get the lions share of the market.
This is the same behavior going on through out the world. Big money buys small and eliminates the competition. Then the consumer can be sold less for more.
I am truly amazed at this past Dec 2019 update. Horrible. We used to see everything in one panel and could scroll for clear details. Everything is now multiple effort and not clear. Pretty, but useless. Please go back. Oh, and landscape view for ipads? Deleting in a month if no changes are made back.
They ruined it even more, no landscape mode on iPad, no webcams, information I don't need and quick useful info. Gone, another case of stupid smart people.
The previous version of the app was fantastic. It showed so much information while still being easy to use and beautifully designed. The update is an abomination. It's not even clear what they were trying to improve. Please, WU, swallow your pride and give us our wonderful app back!
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