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Minnesota
1 review
2 helpful votes
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Very inaccurate
August 3, 2018

This app constantly gets it wrong. I can look out the window for more accurate forecasts. I have several apps for weather and this one is all on its own, temperature, wind speed, forecasts, never the same as others. When I am told it will rain in 20 minuets, that means go out side, you may see some clouds, but if you check other apps there is nothing about rain. I am listening to pounding rain outside, accu weather says rain expected in 90 minuets.

Date of experience: August 3, 2018
Washington
1 review
0 helpful votes
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This is used to be one of my favorite apps, but it's become completely unreliable, to the point of being totally useless. This seems to be pretty recent, because the change has been very dramatic. I used to tell my friends how accurate the forecasts were to within minutes, not Accuweather tells me there will be no rain for the next hour during a downpour or vice versa. And forecasting for the next few hours is like a complete crap shoot. So sad to see what's become of this app.

Date of experience: December 17, 2021
Colorado
1 review
1 helpful vote
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If you're lucky you might pause or close all the pop-up ad windows quickly enough to get (I'm not exaggerating here, I've tested this) about 1-2 seconds worth of information scrubbed and compiled by real weather sites. Also, they sell your information as soon as you visit the site. The amount of money they must make in delivering you to others as a product and delivering your eyes to advertisers for money in comparison to the actual useful value of info you receive is like a 100,000 to 1 ratio. That's why this is at the top of my shortlist as the MOST craven site supposedly delivering a service on the internet.

Date of experience: March 12, 2021
Wyoming
1 review
3 helpful votes
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They are constantly wrong. I've been checking everyday for the past few days about snow and there was nothing and yesterday it started snowing. Today it poured snow... still said no mention of snow. By brother (in CO) left early to get to Estes Park where it was supposed to be snowing all day and had severe warnings. He got there and roads were nice and clear.

Date of experience: May 20, 2022
Colombia
4 reviews
16 helpful votes
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Yeah, if you own a mac, you know this website. And those who not, probably know it too... Anyway, I go on this website every single day while I have breakfast. Weather forecast with hour-by-hour details, precipitation, wind and so on probability, metric or english system,... very ACCUrate and complete.

Date of experience: July 8, 2011
South Africa
1 review
6 helpful votes
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What a pity, i downloaded the latest version for a new phone & what a lot of rubbish it has become. 3 bloody adverts on one page & so touch sensitive, when you try flick it away, it opens the ad. Really pathetic, im using Windy.com now, so much better

Date of experience: May 21, 2020
California
1 review
1 helpful vote
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Aggressive ads
March 22, 2023

I've relied on AccuWeather for many years, and find them to be mostly accurate.
But I've now uninstalled the app due to the aggressive ads.
They used to have small ads at the bottom of the screen, but now you are not allowed to see all of your forecast without being forced to go to their ad to upgrade.
I'm done with the

Date of experience: March 22, 2023
Minnesota
1 review
1 helpful vote
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Really?
April 7, 2023

Wintercast predicted 12 to18 inches of snow for Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. We'll, today is Thursday. We got maybe 3 inches and wintercast still says 12 to 18. For crying out loud you guys, fix it already! You just look like you really don't know what you're doing.

Date of experience: April 6, 2023
Netherlands
4 reviews
7 helpful votes
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Mobile app
December 1, 2016

I use the app on my phone and it`s rather precise. Almost always shows a bit lower temperature than it is in fact. Not very good on the one hand, but on the other - can get you ready for some unexpected cold.

Date of experience: November 30, 2016
Texas
1 review
10 helpful votes
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I work outside doing fence repair, so it's pretty useful for me to know what the weather will be like the next day. The hourly/daily forecast will be completely random. I'll check in the morning and it will say severe thunderstorms 80% chance all day. I'll schedule my work accordingly. Comes noon and the sun is out, bone dry outside. I check the app again and now it's showing sunny all day with 5% precipitation. This happens ALL THE TIME. What's the point of even using this app when just sticking my head out and looking at the sky results in a more reliable forecast for the day? Completely useless.

Date of experience: April 7, 2020
Oregon
1 review
7 helpful votes
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Something is seriously wrong and it seems Accuweather has changed, making it impossible to find a local forecast for more than 24 hours.
OR. Am I missing something? Is it ME? Of did they really mess up and change things around?
I'd give a ZERO star rating if possible, but i[m forced to leave a one star which is NOT how I see things.

Date of experience: January 19, 2020
Massachusetts
1 review
11 helpful votes
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New update is dreadful
September 11, 2019

Change for change sake. Dreadful result. Users are now suffering from an illogical format, slowed speed, and inability to find the most basic weather details. What on earth motivated this change? The previous format was streamlined and user-friendly. This is not. Plus all of the ads simply gum up the works and make this a ridiculous app to use. Absolutely ridiculous.

Date of experience: September 11, 2019
Pennsylvania
1 review
6 helpful votes
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There's thunder and pouring rain yet accuweather claims intermittent clouds. Is going by my gps location too. Therefore, it should say the same as weather.com with thunderstorms and rain. I have accuweather automatically on my smartphone and it's wrong 6 out of 10 times and that's being nice. I go by weather.com. It's more accurate.

Date of experience: April 30, 2014
Washington
1 review
4 helpful votes
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Terrible updated app.
September 5, 2019

The new update is awful. Why... when I go into the app. Does it automatically show me the next day's weather? The website is disorganized. Why can't I find the extended forecast anymore? The radar cannot possibly be right. Half the time it's raining here but the radar shows all clear. Or my weather will show partly sunny but it's pouring rain. I wish I could figure out how to have different weather app on my phone!

Date of experience: September 5, 2019
Florida
1 review
2 helpful votes
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Unreliable... sucks.
October 15, 2018

Whoever designed/runs this website should consider another job. Doesn't work half of the time. Unreliable. In this day and age w awesome technology why is it that you can notvmanage to keep a simple info based mobile app functioning? Speaks volumes about the company..

Date of experience: October 15, 2018
India
1 review
0 helpful votes
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It's such a pathetic app. Showing thunderstorm on my app whereas it's sunny outside, n wen it shows no probability of rain it's raining since hours. The most annoying forecasting no doubt after IMD itself. Better shut off then giving totally unreliable forecasts.

Date of experience: July 18, 2021
Wisconsin
1 review
10 helpful votes
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This is the crapiest (sh#$@est) app. Very hard to use. Very unreliable. Radar is worthless. Can't even look at hourly forecast cause it doesn't work decent. Just frustrates you. I would give this a negative ten if I could. Piece of crap!

Date of experience: May 24, 2019
Georgia
2 reviews
3 helpful votes
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Keep politics OUT
October 15, 2020

I liked accu weather pretty well until I opened the app today to see Obama pop up on my screen telling me to vote. I don't appreciate when companies become political. I think I'll look for a different weather app. Thanks for letting me know that you support the democrat agenda. I don't. Keep your politics to yourself.

Date of experience: October 15, 2020
GB
2 reviews
21 helpful votes
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I once wrote a negative review of another weather forecast provider (Wunderground) because they'd lost their accuracy and added so much advertising, they just quite frankly "sucked!". So I searched for and finally found Accuweather. I was so impressed by their UK weather accuracy, I won't use anything else now. I use it on my iPhone and my laptop. I'd say they were pretty well 99% accurate for the past year, so they get my vote. I've planned lots of outdoor work on the strength of their forecasting and it hasn't ended badly yet. Not too many adverts either, so give them a try.

Date of experience: December 4, 2017
Tennessee
1 review
3 helpful votes
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Use to be fine
November 27, 2019

Too many ads. Pop ups are so annoying. Takes to long. One thing these idiots newbu techs don't get is every time you have to hit another button you lose customers. Get your act together. Change is not always innovation.

Date of experience: November 27, 2019

Overview

Accuweather has a rating of 1.5 stars from 155 reviews, indicating that most customers are generally dissatisfied with their purchases. Reviewers dissatisfied with Accuweather most frequently mention pop ups, hourly forecast and many ads. Accuweather ranks 49th among Weather sites.

service
25
value
21
shipping
7
returns
7
quality
24