Weather UndergroundReviews 667

I WAS THRILLED WHEN I 1ST SIGNED UP FOR DAILY MULTIPLE FORECASTS "WEEKLY".
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This website was a true community. I used to send in readings from my weather station and we all felt we were contributing to an accurate resource.
Up until mid 2015 it was very, very accurate. Not any more.
Now people have to pay (yes, pay!), unless you want averts.
The accuracy has now slipped, forecasts are inaccurate and many of us have departed.
Greed and ignorance might be good in some businesses, but a community has ended!
Quite frankly, I hope they go bust!

If not then this is useless complaining. Many have complained about the ads, spam and over-complexity of browsing this site. I really don't have a problem with any of that, but I've been tracking the high temperatures for my town every day for months, and there has not been One. Single. Day. When the actual high wasn't 3-4 for degrees higher than what wunderground predicted. Today's forecast high was 96. It hit 102. My question is, who's monitoring this, and don't they see the consistent 3-6 degree underestimation? And maybe change their forecasting? If I were that far off, that consistently, in my own business, I simply would no longer be in business.

The "Classic Site" was great... then, somebody decided to change the design, cut off any rational customer service (even to paying customers), and not care about accuracy.

Where I live (rural California) temperatures are consistently five or more degrees higher than shown by wunderground.com in summer (I have my own exterior temperature sensor).

The site is broken: For one example: The RSS feed (which they refuse to attend to) is either feed :// rss. Wunderground. Com/auto/rss_full/CA/Placerville. Xml? Units=english OR
Feed :// rss. Wunderground. Com/auto/rss_full/CA/Placerville. Xml, and it changes arbitrarily, rendering the feed useless. Support's response: RSS isn't an important service for us (i. E., go away, pesky customer!).

I use them because (if you pay) there're no ads, and they do have an (often broken) RSS feed. For that they get 1 star.

I do wish The Weather Channel owners of wunderground (acquired in 2012) would give a damn... but, apparently they're just letting the site decay to eliminate a competitor, I'd guess.

Practical decisions of whether to venture out or not. It did not attempt to be a detailed weather site for professionals. The current version is complex to use, and filled with too much info to answer the question:... Is it safe to venture to a venue outside?
This is an example of when a company is bought by another and looses its integrity ( what made it unique). And supposedly it was done for cost-considerations. ( Shame of You) Drop the new version, and you will have made a definite profitable cost decision. May the Classic rest in peace, and never be forgotten.

I live in Florida and it's very hard to forecast rain in the summer as it is so widespread sometimes. This site used to be spot-on with it's forecasts and tropical weather tracking. Now, It will show rain chance of 80% for the afternoon, but when you look at 8:00 p.m., and it hasn't rained, it will change the forecast to whatever has happened (if it hasn't rained, it will drop the chance to 20%, an aftcast?). There is no place to comment on the site. To me, it's all a big ad for global warming. It's awful!

I have been a subscriber for years. It was better than anything out there. Then, suddenly, they changed their site and it just isn't as useful for my purposes. (Like going to a restaurant for your favorite dish, and they change the recipe). Further, accuracy is degraded -- different temps and weather on their different pages so apparently there is no sync between them. One sunny day, I noticed it kept saying it was raining and storming, although there were no storms nearby.

I prefer using "classic" because that's the useful setup for me. They're taking that away in November, so I will switch from wundergrounds to local weather station (and apps) and accuweather. IMO, wunderground has been upgraded out of usefulness to me.

I have been a member for years. Without any warning, the site was changed radically a couple of weeks ago, and now doesn't function in a way that is useful to me. I complained and was told I would receive a refund. I asked again today, as I did not get the refund and was told that they tried, but it wouldn't go through, and they provided me with a lame link that doesn't work either, and said I wouldn't get a refund, because what they offered in compensation was adequate. Ripoff.

Best source in an emergency (if you have internet available) - specifically their NEXRAD animated map.

Why? Because it is "near real time" with almost "google maps" level of granularity on zoom that tells you what is happening near your home and family. Simultaneously, it animates the storms, showing the storm cells (with their type, direction and relative power), and the area covered by the watch/warning from the National Weather service.

There were tornadoes in our area this summer. We found this more relevant and reliable than the tv reports (sporadic and higher level), the local news station websites, and competing weather reporting websites (too high level, or not granular enough). Fortunately, the tornadoes were well to the west and to the east of us, but we would never know for sure watching the news. We avoided being unnecessarily panicked, while having the surety of knowing when we had to pull the trigger to hunker down.

Sometimes the media over-hype storms, which breeds cynicism. Wunderground's tool will help you discern what is real and may well help save your and your family's life.

Only thing better would be an actual real time feed with this level of granularity, but I have not found that yet. If you do, post it in the comments please.

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.

Weather.com is SO 2000-and-late. Enter Wunderground, or Weather Underground, which gives you everything you will ever want to know about the weather, including earthquake activity, air quality, astronomy, sports weather, etc. In my opinion, it is also more accurate than other weather sites, and there are live updates from weather stations all over your city, so you can always consult with other sources. If you look up The Mission, San Francisco, it even says "The Mission- Even the Weather is Hip." Now that's cool.