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Fred K.

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1 Review by Fred

  • Weather Underground

3/31/19

I have been submitting data from my Personal Weather Station to Weather Underground for years. However, I am now looking for an alternative to Weather Underground. Over the past year their site has been hit or miss. However, their recent update for Personal Weather Stations has completely destroyed my confidence that they can resolve the current problems. They managed to take the PWS interface that provided useful, near real-time data and turn it into a useless poorly designed interface with which to view PWS weather station data. The new interface needs to be screen refreshed to display the latest data. Also it only displays the weather station data in 1 degree increments which results in very crude data plots. Weather Underground has benefited from the data that thousands of PWS owners have supplied to them freely for years. This is how they pay us back. I don't know about other PWS owners, but I expend considerable effort to make sure my weather station online and providing accurate data to Weather Underground. The current downward spiral of this site indicates to me that they could care less about our data.

If I were IBM management, I would not want my companies name associated with this site. The new screen layout is distressingly poor. Portions of the display such as the associated Webcam no longer work. It must be refreshed to see up--to-date weather data versus the rapid fire interface they used to use. What 2nd grader programmed this mess!

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