Weather UndergroundReviews 665

My experiences with Wundermap very closely reflect what many others have reported. It used to be great when I first came across it in 2013 and worked well on either my aging desktop computer or cheapo tablet! It loaded quickly and was easy to use. An amazing level of local detail could be obtained.

In the last couple of years it's just become a dead loss and I hardly ever can be bothered to struggle with it. It's really slow and clunky and far less information is available than before. It's always reverting to Fahrenheit and forgetting my location.

I did wonder if it was my equipment but judging by other reviews it would appear not. It did seem strange that any website would configure itself to only work properly on high-end equipment and thereby exclude many potential users.

I might try this windy.com that was suggested earlier.

Another update today and now the map is smaller with a huge blank space at the bottom of the screen that cant be filled in. The new default map settings are stupid and it doesn't remember my settings. This was one of my 3 maps for comparison and seeing a quick recent radar map, not anymore, now it's complete garbage. Removed from my bookmarks and deleting my account. Fear mongers at weather channel have completely destroyed this site. Radar data is so far from reality now it's useless. https://www.wunderground.com/wundermap?lat=28.02&lon=-80.68&radar=1

This used to be a great weather site, with its detailed 10 day forecast graphs and the ability to select for a wide range of local weather stations. Sadly however that is in the past.

For a couple of years the performance of the pages (it now takes about 5-10 seconds to load the 10 day forecast) has been pretty terrible. The wide range of local stations have dwindled massively too.

Then about a week ago I found that it was impossible to set the site to show centigrade instead of fahrenheit, without setting up a profile and logging in. Ok, I did that... then the site had to be logged into almost every time I visited, instead of already being logged in.

Then what finally killed it for me was Trustarc. It's annoying enough to have to wait a couple of minutes for the thing to "update my settings" just the one time, but now it happen every few times I go to the site.

So although most of the information that made great is still there, the behaviour of the site has made it too painful to get to.

Since being gobbled up by TWC, WU has become useless. Simply, the once top-notch UI is dying of neglect.

Complaints fall on deaf ears. TWC would rather we settle for their second-rate, spoon-fed pablum instead of detailed weather information. Radar is all but useless, the click/drag to zoom feature having nothing to do with an area you'd like to examine, the 10-day forecast's customizations sometimes working, sometimes not. As of this writing, the feature has completely crashed. A new feature in the past 24 is that temps now randomly display as F or C, showing in my current feed at 85C (meaning, it's apparently Armageddon this morning... and I expect Jim Cantore to show up any minute).

Complaints might elicit an auto-response, but it means nothing. No one's home.

If TWC thinks this will encourage me to use their pablum-fed, second-rate site, the suits, as usual, are wrong. At least permit Wunderground a dignified death and pull the site.

There was a time when I subscribed to Wunderground. Then - along comes The Weather Channel to gobble them up and it goes from "Great to Good" and then from "Good to Useless!"

Not only did I unsubscribe and now there is NO WAY to resubscribe, but the account was locked out with no way to use the remaining "subscription!"

Additionally, using the NEXRAD in any web browser -- it is now impossible to zoom in on an area of interested without it taking the zoom to the wrong place.

Wunderground is now officially useless. Adios! And... thank you Weather Channel for mucking up another of the best things in weather. First the channel itself and now the apps and web-pages. GREAT JOB! NOT!