Weather Underground

With sadness, I've deleted my Intellicast links, as it appears those excellent sources of data are gone forever.

The Weather Channel's Weather Underground couldn't compete with Intellicast, so they bought it and plowed it under.

I will never view a Weather Underground web page ever again, or view even one second of The Weather Channel's broadcast, unless the Intellicast Interactive Radar map and East Pacific Animation pages are restored. I don't believe that will happen, so I guess this is a final goodbye.

From a business standpoint, how does it make sense to destroy the best product? What retention rates is Weather Underground seeing? Well under 20%, right?

Arrogant bastards!

I tried to be patient, thinking that the site changes would be something I could get used to. But after this long (what has it been -- 3 weeks) I realize that we've lost an awful lot with all the tabs and the lack of useful information at our fingertips. This was a site that I used to check multiple times in the day -- and I'd always dig down deep. Now cumbersome and for some reason filled with glitches (what the heck has happened to the wundermap -- often unavailable and really slow load times in the best of circumstances). I'm looking for another site. The loss of this once fine location is heartbreaking, but no point being sentimental. The weatherunderground as we knew it is dead -- a sunken flagship.

Too many times, when perusing Jones Beach, NY, it rarely has the correct map. By 400 miles. Instead of S. Shore Long Island map, I get Buffalo NY. Also, my base, Freeport, NY too often has way off temperatures, that are way off. [30 deg. F. in summer, and 135 degrees in winter and summer. It's obviously not that, but I get no real temps. Also... a BIG PROBLEM, is contacting them. They offer answers to problems that are not pertinent and make it impossible to reach them by email. Go with a WX reporting co. That is more credible

Wunderground used to be the only weather source I used multiple times daily. But the redesign has killed everything about the site that made it the most useful. Now it looks like a phone app even when you're on your PC. Hey Wunderground... did you know that you can make an android app for phones instead of making a full webpage mimic a phone app? Or making a mobile version of a page works too. You really didn't have to alienate all your PC users.

Please give us an option to return to the previous layout. Without it, I'll never use Wunderground again.

https://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/04/us/as-weather-channel-buys-weather-underground-fans-fear-change.html

Tell me if the fans were right.

Today is the absolute last day I'll ever visit the empty vestige that is currently 'wunderground'.

All of the useful information has been unnecessarily simplified into a static page that no longer updates. I have a hunch that the rapid fire data will be a 'new' feature in the future that will be only for paying people.

Thank you The Weather Company and International Business Machines for taking a site with some of the richest, free, weather data available to the public and razed it into the ground.

As for an alternative, I've been frequently visiting windy.com. They're new and have a relatively small team, but show potential.

I'm extremely disappointed in the disgrace that has become wunderground.

As a pilot, I have used Intellicast for many years. It gave me a great concise overview of current weather, progs and a great radar presentation.
Since it has "merged", more like taken hostage, by Weather Underground it has been a huge disappointment. I can no longer rely on the information presented or that it will even work at any given time.
I really hope that WU can get this program back to the standards and operational availabilty that Intellicast spoiled us with for years.

I miss Intellicast. Wundermap is almost useless. The animation is crap. Every time I use Wundermap my CPU fan comes on when nothing is happening. I really can't tell what the weather will do by looking at the maps anymore. With Intellicast I could plan by the minute for any outdoor actively. Sometimes I would look at the Intellicast map to see if there would be a break in the rain to go for a quick walk. Or on a sunny day I used to be able to tell If some clouds were coming so I could give the car a quick wax. My wife used to ask me if there will be break in the rain so she could do something. The Weather Channel doesn't care as long as the ads load ok.

It's hard for me to explain why I use wunderground.com to check the weather. I *think* it has less ad spam than weather.com, but it might just be because the name "Weather Underground" is an interesting name for a weather site (despite its association with the 1960 radical left group: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weather_Underground_(organization) which got its name from lyrics to Bob Dylan's Subterranean Homesick Blues: "You don't need a weather man to know which way the wind blows.").

Oh, and I like to use the hourly forecast, not that anyone cares.

I've been sending my personal weather station data to weather underground for over 10 years. Each time they change the design of the personal weather station home page it's for the worse. This iteration is much worse. I really hate that I can't see all the current readings without scrolling down. I used to get the map, temp, humidity, rain, wind etc all on the main page. Now all I get is the map, temp, humidy and dewpoint. And what happened to the rapid fire update? Missing features. Many things that don't work anymore. And terrible heuristics. This was obviously designed by someone who has never been part of a serious software development team. Bring back the previous version and fire the new developer.

I've subscribed to Wunderground from its inception. Once the Weather Channel took over, it's been a total disappointment. For example, they changed the Wundermap, which used to show my exact location to just showing a regional area. I loved being able to track a storm headed right to my location. I'd emailed them several times regarding this, and I got just the usual, "We are working to better your experience." line. I will no longer pay the yearly fee and look elsewhere for my weather info.