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Why?
This app has become just like all the others. Its not special at all. I used to use this app to see what the weather actually was in my immediate vicinity. It has ceased to be useful in that way. It’s fine if you just want a general idea of the weather but it no longer has the same functionality that it once had. Today I tried to use this app again to check in the rain that is falling from the sky. This app told me is was dry and no precipitation. I used to be able to see reports from other local users that could report rain. I can’t find this information anymore and I can’t even report the rain myself. This used to be a great app that crowd sourced some of its data and was able to be very accurate because if that. Now it’s no more accurate that the newspaper or any other random weather forecast. You all ruined this app for some reason. Are you making more money now? I hope it’s worth it to you. I used to tell people I work with about your app all the time. I won’t do that anymore and I’ll instead say how terrible you have made this app.Show less12876496574&$:())/@
They’ve ruined the app.
I used to love this app. Used it several times a day and recommended to everyone. But no longer. They “updated” it and it stinks. I can’t think of one improvement that they made. And right now a storm is clearly coming out of the SE on the radar but the app say it’s coming from the NE. This is on top of rain not being calculated/reported accurately. Last year in August after we’d had almost 2’ of rain and my road was flooded for the first time in 40 years but the closest weather station reporting to them that we hadn’t had rain since May. I contacted them about it and they said a weather station hadn’t been calibrated or something like that. Whatever. It’s just not accurate or reliable in a lot of ways. I trust the radar but that’s about it. This isn’t data from your local meteorogist on the tv. It’s a bunch of people with weather stations on their roofs and that’s not reliable for a lot of the info you may want. How they screwed up wind direction tonight is beyond me. Don’t spend $ on this app.Show lessMoreRainyDaze
EDIT: REG OLD Weather app
Well, As it happens when a big company (IBM)buys a great little company...they change it so much that it loses what made it special. Can’t select the specific PWS that is next to me for precise weather(as far as I can tell), this was my favorite feature. However you can still do this on the website. I mean it’s better than the apple iOS weather...that’s not saying much. If you are a weather nut..there are WAY better apps. “My Radar”, “PWS Monitor”, “Carrot Weather”...Wunderground because of its past rep persist..but IMO it has started to blend in, rather than stand out among the other weather apps. So I’ve uninstalled you. Maybe you’ll come to your senses. Someday oh oh someday. LOL.
OLD REVIEW...
I keep jumping from app to app looking for that perfect weather app...all the while wondering why my favorite weather site doesn't have an actual app. Well, it was worth the wait. Detailed weather info, NOAA Radio streams! I LOVE IT! Thanks Wunderground! (added bounus, it's free!!)Show lessThirtyfivetee
Atrocious Weather Reliability
The app is frustratingly unreliable in my area. Woodstock, GA. It prognosticated 2 days of rain followed by a cloudy day earlier in the week and it ended up not raining those 2 days. Now it’s pouring down like crazy on the one day it said it wouldn’t. Earlier today it said there would be rain for one hour today which is fine but now it’s changed to rain for 5 hours?!?!? How are you even that far off on the same day!!! I planned moving into a new home around what it had told me 3 days ago and nothing that it prognosticated came to be. Everything was wrong!! It changes dramatically even on the same day you’re checking the weather for. This is beyond frustrating. This has been my experience with the app so if you live in a different area it might be better but for Georgia, it’s an absolute rodeo as to whether it’ll be accurate.
Also just to note. This is not the first time I have had a bad experience with the app’s reliability. This was the final straw. I unsubscribed from the premium and uninstalled the app.Show lessionceateapotato
Another Weather App Down The Drain
As a weather enthusiast this was the app we (the weather enthusiast collective) used.
It used to be a fun glorious app to use. All weather right at your finger tips. Crowd sourced hyper local forecasts with the ability to have home weather stations shared and to help other locals.
We could choose how we wanted the weather laid out when we opened the app. Nothing was buried having to dive into a more section then scroll through graphs or down a page to get what in the old app was “just there”!
I could go on a lot about how this app has been dissected and put together with “more” sections which are actually like a web based app deflates safari page and all of the users choices removed and great relevant information that is no longer available here. Oh wait I jus did…
A big sincere thank you to the original Weather Underground for selling out to The Weather Channel and to The Weather Channel as well for giving us weather enthusiasts a wake up call as to how corporations will always move in an unconscious selfish direction as to make it so people are not informed and control and monopolize their product, (even if it is nature, hell who was it Exxon that tried to patent the sun lol), so that they can sell you back features. Us weather enthusiasts will just go back to tracking things the way we used to which is an individualized experience. We where having too much fun and got to lackadaisical and too informed.
Thank You!Show lessGodDaMonster
Was better before the update
I used to use Wunderground for everything related to weather. I still do sometimes. This is because I have no other weather apps. But the update has made the usefulness of this app go down so much that I would prefer practically any other app. Now there are ads everywhere, you have to subscribe to see the really interesting stuff, and there are no more Smart Forecasts or weather videos. I enjoyed both of those features quite a lot. Now I have to pay a bunch of money to use Smart Forecasts and I don’t even know when or how to get the videos back. Please get rid of the ads. I don’t particularly care about Wegmans Fresh Seafood, as one example. The Wundermap doesn’t even register that there used to be a weather spot in the next neighborhood over. It doesn’t seem to exist anymore and that was my nearest weather station! I don’t want to pay 20 dollars a year just to get the same stuff that I had before. Revert the update if at all possible, PLEASE.Show lessPurple Pillows
Not very accurate at all. Not safe for outdoor enthusiasts...
I have five other weather apps, this use to be the best and it would notify me way before the other apps with sever weather but, not anymore.. I have to watch the weather very closely due to all the extreme outdoor activities I’m involved in and this app could get you killed in the backcountry with the failed information they provide. I gave it two stars because it has a map that works... that’s about it. The radar is very sketchy and does not pick up everything compared to the other apps. It’s approx 90% wrong all the time anymore with the forecast and accumulation. Seriously if you do outdoor activities where your extremely far from any help, please do not trust this app! Weatherbug is crushing this app with the exact forecast. Weather underground said it was going to rain yesterday. Never dribbled a drop.. even though the radar showed it was which makes no sense.... I think you need some new programmers and developers because you turned this app into a pile of compost.Show lessJimJoe Donut
Why did they change the Interface?
Wunderground used to be (Yes, I said USED to be,) my favorite and go-to weather app. It was accurate, simple and easy to use, and most importantly, it didn’t have any advertisements popping up on the screen every 5 seconds. All of that changed once they came out with the new update. I went onto the app one day, wanting to check the weather to see if it was going to rain that day, and then suddenly, I was greeted by a slow log-in screen, a completlely different interface, ads all over the top, bottom and sides of the screen, and banners popping up saying “Upgrade to premium to get 15 days of summaries.” Along with this, the app felt extremely slow, and I felt that they are ridding you of your money, and trying to get you to pay countless amounts of money to use features that used to be comepletely free. I hope the people at this company notice the mistakes they made, along with the loss of customers and hundreds of 1-star reviews, and will decide to bring back the old Wunderground we know and love.Show lessN1ck08C@5c@d1ng
I PAID AND STILL GET ADS!
What was a great and straightforward, easy to use app is now cluttered, awkward, and hard to decipher. In this case more is not better, it is instead confounding. On top of that it has constant ads. I bought the subscription but the ads are still there.
I really loved Wunderground. Unfortunately I mistakenly allowed it to be updated yesterday on my ipad. This new version is nearly useless. The temperature and condition predictions are inaacurate, it is difficult to impossible to change the location. Really annoying is that although I have a subscription I now again have ads back after the update even though the subscription is still in force for nine more months and there seems to be no way to get rid of the ads every time I open it. On top of that the sliding system and complex displays make it almost impossible to get information quickly. All of my settings for outdoor activities are gone, and why don’t we have the simple to useSunrise sunset information displayed?
This really is a terrible downgrade. Is there anyway to revert the app update?Show lessHate tweets
Widget? Information? Privacy? Less of it!
This used to be a great app. It had a wonderful and informative widget, giving a quick snapshot of what to expect for the day. Why did you get away with it in the update? The new version and its new layout is even more confusing and less useful. Information is hard to find and ads occupy considerably more space. Speaking of privacy, the app seems to be more intrusive and less reliable. I’m going to switch to a different app.
UPDATE: The new version of the app has improved in terms of user privacy and contains clearer information about data use and advertising. The ads are still annoying and space-devouring. A widget is back, but it is NOT *the* widget that Wunderground used to have, which contained an informative, day-in-a-glance graph of temperature and precipitation. If this kind of widget is back, I will update my rating to 5 stars again.Show lessBozorgmehr
