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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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The Android app has taken a big step backwards. The graphics used to be crisp, clear and concise while giving good detail. The new graphics are more low-resolution and rather clunky and confusing compared to the old graphics. The neighborhood weather stations I relied on for the most accurate conditions are no longer to be found in the weather station list. And to top it off, a notification saying it had updated the weather showing on my phone home page woke me up at 1am and there does not appear to be a way to turn the sound off for that notification. I felt like a respected adult user with the old app graphics, now I feel like I'm being treated like a kindergartner.
Won't rotate to landscape on iPad. What all the other bad reviews are saying. Enough said. Bring back the old version
Seriously, why did they update it... ot should i say downgrade it? Used to be very easy to use, would tell you percip (snow or rain) accumulation forcasts... could go on and on... did they purposely ruin this app to
Promote another? Seriously, it is. Iw garbage.
Have to agree with the other comments on the web, WU is now ruined! Was the best weather app, but since TWC purchase it has tanked to the toilet!
... with what so many others ate saying, this new app is so representative of our time, shiny, overweight and bloated. Harder to use than the old version, and HELLO there are no precip totals to be found... on a WEATHER APP! Why must we always fix what is not broken and make life ever more complicated?
In the past 2 days I have sent 4 reports. After the "upgrade" and subscription requirement it seems to have completely tanked. I have used WU for years. I'm pretty pissed that now it won't even open. What the hell is going on?
New app is worthless POS. I was a weather station and long time user. No more. Bye bye Weather Underground
Bring it back. If you want to charge more for the app at least give us the old version as an option.
Been an early adopter of W. U. Clean & clear information. Well, no more. It just turned into a bloathware. Ridiculously hard to navigate AND now, even if you have an existing "paid" subscription (for an add free app) it will push ads down your throat. Wanna get rid of them? Of course, buy a new membership for 10 times what it was before. For all those who got themselves a Personal Weather Station and helped W. U. become a leader in it's field, well, they are up the creek without a paddle also. It just became a greedy software company... Should not be a surprise, IBM bought it!
I've had WU on my devices for almost a decade. It was a great design and was super useful. This latest "upgrade" is the worst. Bye bye WU
I'm not sure if they loaded it up with so much ads and bloat or what, but 95% of the time I can't even get access to anything but the screen with the logo. They've ruined what I thought was the best weather app out there. Anyone have a recommendation for something else that has the ability to check the weather in places not tied to where I am with anywhere near the geographic specificity WU used to have?
What a worthless upgrade. You need to lay off the meth. Bring the old app back or I will change to a different weather app. Why be so stupid when the old one was far better than all the others. Goodbye and die a long slow death
I used WU probably 10 times a day. Quick glance at what was going on and precipitation totals. So concise and easy to use, plus it seemed to be the most accurate forecast around. Now it's a complete mess starting with the "city"/favorites page. Who would lead with a complicated mess of station letter and numbers? No one who's using it would need to see that information more that once, but you lead with it and bury the city name? Ugh! And the wasted space with the huge tempetature circle? I know what 39 degrees feels like, I don't need to see it in a circle in blue. Now I'm going to have to delete this new awful app and find something else. It's so sad.
Wunderground seems to have rebounded from its low point after IBM acquired The Weather Company. 10-day Outlook works again, and its graphics appear slightly enhanced. Personal weather station (PWS) reports, including day-by-day history, are working. The link to the NOAA forecast discussion, nonfunctional for months, has now been eliminated altogether. That's a backhanded "fix", but at least we can easily get the discussion from weather.gov. The Wunderground iOS app is also fully functional, and it still links to the NOAA discussion. Am upping my rating from 2 to 4 stars, in part because Wunderground avoids the hyper-commerciality of its cousin Weather.com.
Wunderground.com used to be a great weather site. Since it was acquired by Weather.com which in turn was acquired by IBM, its usability has steadily declined. The link to NOAA discussion for your area no longer works, the 10-day outlook has quit displaying reliably. I've written to wunderground feedback and received no reply. This is death from a thousand cuts.
This website is useless. Why? Because Wunderground or the corporate entity that owns it (IBM?) has loaded so much crap on the site that it's become totally dysfunctional. Nothing loads or, if it does, it moves slower than a glacier. It's always intrigued me how corporations and other large entities, as they become larger and more profitable, seem to attract the most dimwitted and incompetent of employees. Probably because they're looking for subservience, not competence. Regardless, they have totally *******@cked up this website.
The original Weather Underground was A-1 in terms of in-depth and reliable weather info and appears to have been significantly compromised as present options do not offer the same reliability or depth in terms of actual information.
Original site managers have over-the-top credibility so the question becomes... what happened to the 'REAL' Weather Underground?
Every single time I go to the site, something else is either broken or dial up slow or non existent. Now even though I have a webcam key, webcam view is a constant rotating rainbow, 4 different browsers. Underground is right. As in buried...
Where do I start?...
1. Wrong units displayed (mix up mm and cm all over the place)
2. Location search doesnt work
3. Random locations (miles away) selected when city is chosen from a list
4. Select a city, you get wrong lat/lon location displayed. Select lat/lon location, and a totally unrelated city is displayed, nowhere near the lat/lon you keyed in
5. Setting favorites does not work
6. Setting home location does not work
The list is endless
The site is broken and not getting fixed
Updating my review from 3 weeks ago where I assigned 1 star - now giving it 4 stars since the graphs have reverted to how they used to look. Glad that IBM is responding to all the recent terrible reviews. Still not 5 stars because the top of the display still shows a giant temperature readout, which is a waste of screen real estate.
WU was my favorite weather app and I turned a lot of people on to it. Now it stinks. Great graphs have been replaced by much sparser views. Time to find a different weather app...
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