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California
1 review
25 helpful votes
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Really unfortunate - i loved the old site and the new one is terrible. Can't get information on the opening page like before, have to do multiple clicks (ad revenue, yes!) to get what used to be easy and available on the first page. Unreadable, not user friendly, am now looking for my next favorite weather site to replace this one.

Date of experience: September 8, 2017
North Carolina
1 review
16 helpful votes
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NO zoom, stupid little flags everywhere, bring back intellicast. This is the worst site ever. New and improved stinks like manure. I liked the original intellicast from 8 yrs ago but at least the last one was usable. Also, why does the weather channel get the tornado radar (the one with the green and red) but the general public does not? Could save lives, but that is another story. At least the old site had decent zoom. Everything about this site is stinks.

Date of experience: February 24, 2019
Wisconsin
1 review
17 helpful votes
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WU was on my bookmarks bar; always kept it up. Accuweather has replaced it. At least I can get a quick 5 day forecast. I finally got used to the old design and now you've really messed it up: slow, too much button pushing to get what was on page 1. I was a member; no longer.

Date of experience: September 6, 2017
Georgia
1 review
11 helpful votes
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I've used WU for years. Recent changes making the site unstable/unreliable combined with their view that earth and sky are falling due to the politically-charged, climate change issue have made me question WU.

Recommend WU fix their site glitches and stop claiming all weather happens now due to "climate change"... just report the weather and move on.

Date of experience: April 19, 2019
Ohio
2 reviews
13 helpful votes
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They should simply shut things down if they are not interested in fixing problems. Webcams attached to a PWS did never really work, now the cams go into an "approval" process (what an utterly BS...) and nobody EVER looks at approving these webcams.
I am ready to pull my PWS and stop supporting them with my free data. Either they move their behinds or will go belly up soon with the crappy support they provide. Well DON'T provide.

Date of experience: February 13, 2018
Virginia
1 review
15 helpful votes
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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.

Date of experience: July 12, 2015
Connecticut
1 review
2 helpful votes
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Waste of time
August 5, 2023

The precipitation amounts are rarely even in the ballpark. Lately the temperature isn't even accurate. I spent money on the app and will not be renewing now that I see what garbage it is.

Date of experience: August 5, 2023
Washington
1 review
13 helpful votes
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I've been a paying customer of this site for years. Now software bugs are all over the place, and messages to their tech support via email, FB, and twitter are all ignored. This was once not just the greatest weather web site, but one of the greatest sites on the web. So sad to see it abandoned and falling apart due to corporate ownership.

Date of experience: June 26, 2018
Florida
1 review
4 helpful votes
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You made a beautiful baby, everyone was happy and supportive of this benefit to humanity. Or maybe, you did not make this baby, but are jealous and soulless corporate raider that uses its money and power to tear down all that is good and useful to serve your greed and ignorance. Either return the baby that you are holding hostage to is rightful creators so it can serve humanity as originally intended, or you will continue to expose the fact you are not really in the weather information dissemination business online or on the cable system, but rather another shill to undermine this country and it safety, security and happiness in the relentless pursuit of your race to bottom of worthlessness and vapidity.

Date of experience: September 23, 2020
Florida
2 reviews
6 helpful votes
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Used to be so good.
July 16, 2018

I have used you weather underground app for almost 3 years on the same phone. It used to be great but slowly its performance has gone from bad to terrible and there is no technical support responding. It crashes every time I open it and it crashes until I close everything running in the background, then it might work. The same goes for my wife and my adult kids. I did give it 1 star for once when you do get it up and running it works good. Thank You

Date of experience: July 16, 2018
New York
1 review
15 helpful votes
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Terrible
January 20, 2019

I have used intellicast for 10 years. This new layout is confusing and the maps are terrible. Your title says same maps as intellicast is not true. I'll now be switching to accuweather. Very disappointed! I loved intellicast

Date of experience: January 20, 2019
New Hampshire
1 review
13 helpful votes
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Avid user
June 25, 2018

Rip wu. I dont usually review but its a shame to see the destruction of a great piece of scientific information. Good competitors abound. Discontinuing scientific forecast discussion was the last straw for me.

Date of experience: June 25, 2018
Alaska
1 review
29 helpful votes
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Why did they do this? Since the update, it's only had the current temperature in my area shown once (it's just showing dashes every other time), the hourly and weekly graphs are hard to read and uninformative, all the little local weather stations, which was the whole reason for having the app, are invisible on the map without extra clicks and there are far fewer of them now. For God's sake it doesn't even show me the temperature at the airport for my city now. It's really, really, REALLY bad now.

Date of experience: January 10, 2020
Pennsylvania
1 review
13 helpful votes
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Update: They don't answer email or social media either, so save your strength. I mean, complain publicly but don't expect a response. Wish we could have a class action suit against these guys.

Original review: I'm grateful to the reviewer who said Wund was bought by another company. Perhaps that explains why, when I volunteered $10 for an ad-free UX, the ads came back soon afterwards, and customer service did not reply. Used to be a wonderful site. All things must pass.

Date of experience: May 12, 2018
GB
2 reviews
6 helpful votes
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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.

Date of experience: August 24, 2019
Wisconsin
1 review
17 helpful votes
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Terrible
January 28, 2019

I used Intellicast daily for almost a decade. We work outdoors. The 10 day graph view was very useful... not always completely accurate however we know how to interpret graphed temperature, barometric pressure etc. to make daily decisions for our crews. It kept us better informed and loyal. The new interface seems complicated, slow with childlike pictures and captions. You really used to attract a sophisticated user... now it isn't even G. E. D level!

Date of experience: January 28, 2019
California
1 review
15 helpful votes
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Just my experience over the last few years on Chrome, Windows10, Nexus 5, Pixel XL. Super frustrating. Nothing works well anymore. App crashes. Animation is super slow and buggy. Button don't respond. On and on... Feels like it went from dedicated passionate engineer team of 10+ to that poor sad soul in the basement with the red stapler. What happened? Who cares?

Date of experience: April 7, 2017
GB
1 review
13 helpful votes
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For years wunderground had been the place to go to send your personal weather station data to, if only for their excellent online display... but not any more.
The new PWS page is the worst thing I've ever seen - badly sized, badly laid out, poorly planned and generally crap. It doesn't update automatically; displays empty panels for no good reason and makes me feel that I don't want my data there any more. Even their q & a section (which was always a tough place to find) has now disappeared - and they don't reply to questions via email either.
All in all every sign that they've gone bad - so I'm off and I'd advise the rest of you who want their data displayed to do the same.

Date of experience: March 29, 2019
North Dakota
1 review
12 helpful votes
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This forecast is rarely accurate. Learn to read radar, the people who write these forecasts obviously cant. Although they will change there forecast from partly cloudy to chance of rain 20minutes after it starts pouring

Date of experience: October 26, 2017
Georgia
3 reviews
36 helpful votes
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I can't believe they have kept it up this long. I switched after they killed a great website but check back now again just to giggle. They arent joking about Brutus -he not only destroyed the servers but apparently ate all personnel with coding skills. If you want an object lesson in how NOT to do things then look no further than WU.

Date of experience: April 24, 2019

Overview

Weather Underground has a rating of 1.4 stars from 667 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 47th among Weather sites.

service
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value
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shipping
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returns
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quality
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