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Accuweather has a rating of 1.2 stars from 155 reviews, indicating that most customers are generally dissatisfied with their purchases. Reviewers complaining about Accuweather most frequently mention pop ups, hourly forecast, and many ads problems. Accuweather ranks 50th among Weather sites.

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    8
  • Quality
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Top Positive Review

“Not very accurate”

Rose R.
8/24/22

While it is lovely they have a listed forecast for most places (or at least one nearby), they are often off by by up to 4° Centigrade in places like Alice Springs, Australia. A considerable over/underestimation. After some weeks I've become accustomed to re-jigging their forecasts based on my experience. I suspect they have no software that let's them know there forecasting is very inaccurate. Wind speeds are out as well though direction is good. The humidity thing is a complete joke in this country. Don't download the app but if you want forecasting for far-flung places, just bookmark the pages & adjust for their numbers related in accuracies.

Top Critical Review

“Total sham”

Ken G.
6/25/24

Do not trust this company they can't forecast weather more then two hours ahead. The 45 day forecast is just pie in the sky useless

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Paul R.
Pennsylvania
1 review
1 helpful vote
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May 27th, 2018

Updated the app & it was pouring rain & they said it was cloudy , the worse & worthless weather app. i have ever seen accu weather is a false weather guessing game do not use and get rid of it.

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Maryland
1 review
3 helpful votes
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February 12th, 2020

Your weather forecast is nothing but a piece of $#*!. It is right less than 10% of the time. We were at Breckenridge ski resort. It registered sunny when it was snowing and snowing when it was sunny

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Pennsylvania
4 reviews
10 helpful votes
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September 23rd, 2019

Accueather was always my favorite weather site. A few weeks ago (Sept. 2019) they changed their site, forcing viewers to find hidden information by clicking down arrows for each hour of the day. It is a huge chore to find what you want to know. I recommend using Weather.com which lays everything out in front of you - no clicking.

Accuweather has also put up a nag telling you to shut off your ad blocker. I used the ad blocker to block the nag. Then they put up a small nag which will only block on each single page. It is not that big a deal. If you want, you can just push the browser down until the nag is hidden.

I cannot imagine what was in their minds to force people to do all that clicking unless they actually think people will look at ads on the page while they are forced to click arrows. I wouldn't buy anything from an ad on their page now that they made it a lot less useable.

I highly recommend abandoning Accuweather for Weather.com, Wunderground, or any other weather site. They give me no reason to even want to use their site.

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Florida
2 reviews
0 helpful votes
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September 5th, 2020

Allow to load. The app had some kind if future weather radar map. It was so slow to load and inaccurate. Before 2020. Update it was great. Finally deleted app. Went with weatherbug.

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Texas
1 review
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December 16th, 2019

1. All reports: The high shows first /low secondly as a conversational default. Would be logical to state the day's morning coolest temperature first and the evening or day as the second temp. All reporting should be so.
2. The presentation of "the day" ends at 12am for the sake of clarity. Apps are trying to address this problem by reporting morning of the next day as a part of the previous and causes huge confusion. With so many people living in less than a real home situation weather reporting needs to be in a standard followed by all reporting sources.
3. The information needs to be collected from more places.
4. Localism: just like we need term limits, we need to have local people, maybe retired working with highschool student, in managing everything for their neighborhoods from recycling projects to weather collection and reporting.

Why not make weather reporting part of education?

Why are we setting ourselves up to be so detached from our own local social needs?

Why not educate youth, include seniors for their valuable knowledge and create self sufficient communities?

Who benefits? A question we should all be asking ourselves but clearly we are distracted with making money to survive in a financial war.

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Georgia
1 review
0 helpful votes
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June 27th, 2023

I'm a casual weather bug and monitor NWS forecast and several others. AccuWeather is awful, I see day after day significant missed forecast of temperature, and rain probability for my local area.

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Wisconsin
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1 helpful vote
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August 19th, 2018

I've never saw a weather reporting site that is as in accurate as this one. Not only did I trust it to drive two hours to my job, after about 20 minutes into my drive, I was caught in the absolute worse torrential rain that I can remember. Traffic on I94 between Johnson Creek and Milwaukee was at a crawl with many vehicles setting under over passes. AccuWeather stated 30% chance of rain. 30% is a very low number. Not only was my job rained out I was stuck in Pewaukee WI for an additional hour waiting out the storm. Pewaukee is about an hour from where I live. All told, I wasted 20 dollars in gas and 4 hours of driving in extremely dangerous driving conditions. Never again will I use this app. It also sucked my battery dry on my phone multiple times. I couldn't figure out how my battery was dying on my drive to a little north of Milwaukee from Janesville WI. I changed my settings on my phone and it would tell me that AccuWeather app was emitting multiple errors. My phone settings put the app asleep until I had time to delete it. Junk weather forecast and extremely heavy ads. I only look at AccuWeather to see how wrong they are compared to other weather apps I use. I looked up the reviews tonight to warn others to avoid this site at all costs. Junk, Junk, Junk. It's telling me that there's a 67% chance of rain in my work areas tomorrow when in fact the local weather is saying a 100%. I won't be going to work tomorrow

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Maryland
1 review
7 helpful votes
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January 22nd, 2019

The Accuweather app is terrible. All I get are ads and pop-ups, can't get the actual weather under all the ads. I will be reinstalling it and shopping for a user friendly weather app.

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Spain
1 review
4 helpful votes
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April 20th, 2018

Unbelievable inaccurate, here in Northern Galicia it's 14c full cloud cover, you say 82f and 30%cloud cover, first get your expert to work out 14c is, I'm not making your job easier.

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GB
1 review
0 helpful votes
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December 16th, 2021

Always wrong it should be something who correct information... you should improve because people have temperature metered in car don't forget

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Florida
1 review
6 helpful votes
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October 18th, 2018

Is this site administered by elementary school $#*!s? It is as accurate as a warped rifle barrel. It's laughable and a waste of time. It's unprecendeted and catastophic. Heartbreaking nonsense.

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Singapore
2 reviews
2 helpful votes
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July 4th, 2021

Its just so inaccurate. People who use this know what i mean. Says rain at 10am, its raining at 8am. Says its gonna be sunny the whole day, suddenly rains at 3pm. Useless app.

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GB
1 review
3 helpful votes
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May 15th, 2017

Absolute $#*!ing rubbish. Changes completely every 10 mins. Never right. Its a sad day when london met office gets it right more often. Piss poor

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Massachusetts
1 review
8 helpful votes
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December 28th, 2018

I used to love this for radar information. Recently they have added adds that pop up on the screen with no option to close them.

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Florida
1 review
2 helpful votes
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June 8th, 2018

These morons haven't the clue about forecasts. Do not trust. It was supposed to be nice in their forecasts but we get thunderstorms instead. Figures.

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Colorado
5 reviews
23 helpful votes
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March 6th, 2019

Service data they use on the taxpayers dime... which doesn't prevent them from adding online ads on top of it all. Weather.com seems okay so far.

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Texas
1 review
4 helpful votes
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July 21st, 2020

The new weather app is nothing short of useless, inaccurate, and so frustrating. What was wrong with the previous version? Please fix this trash.

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New York
2 reviews
5 helpful votes
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June 8th, 2019

Twice recently my accuweather app reported the current weather in my specific location to me as, "partly cloudy," during a torrential rainstorm.

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Arizona
1 review
1 helpful vote
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August 20th, 2020

It will say one thing but change days before every week threw every month all this summer. 8-20-2020. Tucson az

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Ohio
76 reviews
124 helpful votes
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August 8th, 2018

I use the app/ website almost everyday so I know if its going to rain or snow. Of course its not 100% accurate, no weather app/website is though.

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Florida
1 review
0 helpful votes
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March 22nd, 2019

3-22-19: Why does my Accuweather Pollen count state that "Pollens are Low", Central Florida, when the ACTUAL pollen count is extremely HIGH? Not very accurate "Accuweather"!

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Canada
1 review
2 helpful votes
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August 3rd, 2020

It says sunny but it's pouring rain. What a stupid and useless app it can't even see what's the current weather, how could it predict.

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Canada
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2 helpful votes
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April 21st, 2022

Came with upgrade on computer and I can't get rid of it. Puts me in wrong location and gives constant banners I don't want.

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Texas
1 review
4 helpful votes
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September 24th, 2019

Terrible at forecasting the weather. I'm done with it! We cannot plan anything with this inaccurate app. I can't believe anyone still uses it.

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Florida
1 review
5 helpful votes
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July 9th, 2020

Confusing, sloppy and full of adds. They are now trying to sell you this app without adds. Goodby accuweather...

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