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Not good anymore
This used to be my go to weather app but not anymore.
I want to keep track of the hurricane that’s making its way towards us but it’s a bit hard to believe this app when it says that the current temperature at my current location is 71 degrees when everything else including my own thermometer says it’s 82 degrees.
The app says that there is only a 7% chance of rain at my current location and it’s raining hard outside and has been for a bit. This app says there is only a 7% chance of rain for today, tomorrow and the next day and them rises to 12%, all of the other apps and news channels are saying 85% for today, 95% for tomorrow, 85% for the next day and 65% for the day after that.
The radar map apparently is no longer available on the free app because it wants me to get a paid subscription to view the radar map.
It’s odd that when I need the app the most, it wants me to subscribe. If they think that providing erroneous information and taking away the radar map will entice me into a subscription, they’re sadly mistaken, instead, I’m deleting it.Show lessSCUBA Wack
Sluggish & Often Incorrect
I’ve noticed over the last few months that the app has been much slower in updating the current weather and forecast when I initiate a page refresh. It sometimes displays weather from another saved city in my saved list as the local weather for the actual location I’m in.
Also, I depend on accurate hyper local weather forecasts. I do all of my work in the field, mostly while primitive camping. I need to know what to prepare for, to avoid setting up camp on a ridge versus a valley. A conservative estimate on their 3-4 hour forecast accuracy would be 40% at best. Far too often, I will check the forecast before bed and the night will be clear skies or partly cloudy, then I’ll wake up in the early morning to lightning and thunder! Prediction accuracy of major storms 4-5 days out is abysmal.
Please post your new favorite weather app because I’m looking around for a better service. This is just an ad machine with a basic radar function and broadly inaccurate weather forecasts.Show lessJoshualaska
Dangerously inaccurate
Update- for over 6 months this app only ever states that every day is 76 degrees. It hasn’t been near the 70s for months-its almost February. My location services are on. Location is set by GPS. I’ve deleted and reinstalled the app more than 10 times. I did a factory reset on my iPhone. Still refuses to provide accurate weather info. I have zero issues with any other apps or my phone. Everything works perfectly except this app.
Former review- Been saying it’s 70 degrees and sunny for weeks now, even though it’s 106 with severe flash flooding. I’ve tried reinstalling the app. Keeps going back to 70 every day. My spouse and I have been laughing for 5+ years at how we can turn on the location gps thing and standing next to each other have wildly different forecasts. This app is so spammy and full of ads, they don’t give you real weather, they just send you whatever garbage data they find first and spend the rest of the time stealing your data and draining your battery. Finally deleted the app for good, so much happier not being lied to and stolen from every day or having to recharge my phone every time I check the weather. Saying it’s 70 every day for weeks when there’s a heat advisory and several inches of flash flooding is going to kill someone. Tragic, but I can’t wait to see how much the greedy app creators need to pay out in wrongful death lawsuits.Show lessHdgggggggg
Great App with Free Features
This app offers great content for free. Yes, they have a $20 a year premium for additional content and no adds, but it’s not necessary to get if you don’t need the additional content. I love the almanac that tells you the sunrise and sunset, as well as the radar and customization. I miss back when you can see where the actual Doppler radar locations were on the map, don’t know why that’s gone now, but that’s a minor thing. This app is a great alternative to the other app Storm Radar, which I’m pretty sure Wunderground owned due to its similarities in notifications which popped up simultaneously. But Weather Channel bought it, and completely nerfed the free features trying to get people to buy their premium, forcing me to delete it. I’m using this app full time now. Please keep things how they are, and don’t go full Weather Channel.Show lessCrawlski
Meh. Cluttered. Not streamlined.
I was forced to find a new Weather app after Apple, the grotesque corporate tech behemoth, acquired the beloved Dark Sky app and killed it in order to crush the competition.
This app does not hold a candle to the weather app I’m used to using in terms of its features or ease of use. The information it contains is fairly consistent, but aren’t they all the same these days in that respect?
Everything relevant should be at your fingertips on one page of your phone. It’s not. You will find yourself scrolling and scrolling, vertically and horizontally, to access information. Views far into the future or far into the past are not easily accessible, if they exist. It’s overrun with advertising. I can’t find the precipitation radar app yet if there is one. and worst of all, with this app we’re back to the idiotic, simplistic weather icons. how is it possible that we have come this far with technology only to be reduced to describing complex weather phenomena with crude symbols, like the outline of a cloud, or a little sunshine symbol peeking out from behind a cloud? There has to be a more comprehensive way to describe this information that’s still quick and easy to read.Show lessJoe-Xcit34cfted
Has Been?
Current advise - not worth the effort.
I’ve had this app for years and years, and have loved it. I used to pay the extra because I believed it was the thing to do with quality apps. I thought the wind maps were awesome, and frequently viewed the surface wind as well as the jet stream maps.
The ease of use of the wind maps was one of the first items buried when WU and IBM became strange bedfellows. I called/emailed my concern and they helped me find them (buried). Over time, I forgot where they were. Since then, everything has become too busy and/or buried.
The cost for add free has gone way up, while usability has gone way down. Some of the storm info abilities have been removed, now requires another app. I am no longer happy with the app, nor with any of the companies related to this weather fiasco. I will keep it for a backup until I am comfortable with a new app. So sad. 🥲 🙈 ⛅️Show lessshhull
Ads! Landscape View, Missing Units, History; Map your weather station
OMG, ads have gotten out of hand - they’re super sensitive to any touch on the screen anywhere near them! I’ve never had so much trouble using this app for YEARS that the ads launch links so much! I mean they can either fix it or I can fix it by stop using WU, which would be sad after so long. Since the IBM acquisition it’s been a slow fall from grace, but doesn’t have to be - I mean just respond to feedback/update/fix!!! Do you want me to just use the original WU developers new app Windy?
Bring back Landscape mode!!! It was so helpful to turn your phone and look across the wider axis of the screen at the whole multi day forecast! What happened to the Hurricane/Tropical Storm section?!? Units on the temperature and precipitation Y-axis of the daily forecast inset graph are missing. Also, it was nice to scroll left and see a few past days weather grayed out. Today’s weather conditions like the old “About this weather station” should show it on a map and give you Lat/Lon of the station like it used toShow lessimhoReviewer
I'm tired of the problems
I've been a Wunderground fan for years because of the way Weather Underground sources their data and provides a comprehensive, helpful set of visuals. But this app is so buggy, so poorly laid out, and so full of annoying, performance-inhibiting ads that I'm just tired of it. There are so many weather apps that are just as good, especially now that Apple has upgraded their native app with legit sources. This app almost never refreshes when you open it, so you're always looking at the wrong data unless you remember to manually refresh. Everyday, my wife is confused by comments I make on the forecast because she's using the Apple weather app and I'm giving her bad info from Wunderground because it isn't refreshing or its got me randomly in a different location. Also adding favorites is super buggy, sometimes it sticks, sometimes it won't let you unfavorite. For something so daily and so commoditized as weather reporting, it's time to just stick with a reliable, accurate weather app.Show lessKylekylekylekylekyle
Weather men and women future
For anyone who wants to become a weatherman, this is the best app to choose it has advanced weather that most apps don’t have. it shows all the weather features it has all different kinds of radars for different people, and you can see multiple things on the radar. what’s the one thing that’s good is you can’t see the future, some people like that but they don’t like it because it has stuff that might not be true, so it’s really good because most of the apps have only future or you have to see the future you can’t see the past or you have to buy stuff to get to see that stuff. It’s a really good app and if people want to become a weather or understand better this is the app to choose. Sorry if I didn’t add the period at the right point but I’m still learning, but this is the best app for the weatherman and women future.Show lessJamison's responsible choice
Hourly and daily doesn’t match, drags previous search
Updated but still frustrated. Constantly crashes, then disappears. I can no longer determine if I’m reading the city daily forecast with matching hourly, and takes too long to match current data. Both my iPad and iPhone have that issue. Example, I look at a city in Texas, daily forecast shows 85* and sunny, yet it kept part of my previous search in Colorado, where each hour shows 19* and snow. If I compare two nearby cities, I certainly don’t know if it is matching. I have ultra fast high speed internet. I cannot get local areas without a long wait. Other weather apps load in 2 seconds. Local areas must have wind gauges inside their porch. We can have high wind warnings, gusts to 50 mph, yet my areas show winds 5 mph. Forecast isn’t as good as other apps, not sure why it steadily went downhill. It often has 0% chance of rain while it rains. I live in a difficult weather area on the edge of the Rockies, and depend on weather data, if the others can do it, why can’t W/U ? Extremely frustrating. Disappointed. I’ve deleted then reinstalled, no success. The Walmart app is even better, never crashes, always updated. What a shame.Show lessSterling 943
