Weather Underground

Weathered underground radar has shown the Same radar shot for weeks. It has rarely worked in the past 6 months.

Intellicast. May she Rest In Peace. Wonderful while she existed: Clear, succinct, intuitive interface & results. Plethora of features, not always used, but available & useful when needed. The ads: Meh. Usual junk with occasional worthwhile clickbait. But the website itself? You could bet your life on it. I did.

Wunderground.com: Worse than useless. Any advertiser I see on it: I'm BOYCOTT-ing!

Remember: Past performance does not predict future results. But HERE, it does. IBM bought Intellicast.com & turned it into Wunderground. Great. IBM, who inflicted this fiasco, are the same idiots who subcontracted & gave-away the rights of what became DOS & Windows to a bunch of kids (Bill Gates & friends, who became Microsoft) for essentially FREE (see: http://thisdayintechhistory.com/11/06/ibm-signs-a-deal-with-the-devil/), denying their own (IBM) shareholders TRILLIONS of dollars that would eventually go to Microsoft.

IBM has a LEGACY of foibles. How else could Intellicast.com get so screwed-up?

This used to be a great weather site, with its detailed 10 day forecast graphs and the ability to select for a wide range of local weather stations. Sadly however that is in the past.

For a couple of years the performance of the pages (it now takes about 5-10 seconds to load the 10 day forecast) has been pretty terrible. The wide range of local stations have dwindled massively too.

Then about a week ago I found that it was impossible to set the site to show centigrade instead of fahrenheit, without setting up a profile and logging in. Ok, I did that... then the site had to be logged into almost every time I visited, instead of already being logged in.

Then what finally killed it for me was Trustarc. It's annoying enough to have to wait a couple of minutes for the thing to "update my settings" just the one time, but now it happen every few times I go to the site.

So although most of the information that made great is still there, the behaviour of the site has made it too painful to get to.

If you are looking for a goto website for weather and weather forecast keep looking. If you are looking for a website dedicated to pounding you with advertisements, well then you found it.

Not long ago I could nearly depend on the daily and 10 day forecasts. Daily forecasts were close enough that I could plan out my daily activities. Oh, yes they still provide a long range forecast, but not for my area. It is specific to an area that is not even close to property with different of about 1500 feet of elevation.

Lets talk about the good things still coming from wunderground.com. Yes, the ads! So many ads. Who else can put 20 ads on a webpage! Maybe they should put some of that ad revenue into updating and fixing the website.

I will miss all the great information on climate change! Oh, yes Climate Change! It was an article on Weather Underground that caused me to truly understand what they are talking about. Well, that article prompted me to do some internet searches where I learned that weather records have been recorded since 1880! The records indicate that the earths climate "average" has changed. Yes, I do believe it. Scientist also believe New York was once under ice. The point is the worlds weather has risen, wait for it, approximately 1.5 degrees fahrenheit above the "average". For the global weather believers, educate yourselves by doing some research on your own.

Good bye Weather Underground, may you rest in peace.
Oh, how about pulling the site from the net? Wait, they can't do that if no one is actually updating the site!

I loved wunderground ever since I found it after getting my smartphone. I kept it on my search page at all times and could always see at a glance, a clear, concise report and forecast that always proved to be very accurate. Then recently Everything changed and I cannot make heads or tails of it! A bunch of random graphs come up with no forecast at all, even when I click the 10 day forecast link. I can see the current temp and the current day's weather, but after that it is a bunch of technical B. S! I just want to see a clear, organized forecast like it was before for the whole day, 7 and 10 day forecast options and for it to stay on the station that I choose! What the heck did you do to my wunderground? Did you ever hear, "if it ain't broke don't fix it"? You fixed/broke it good and now it is terrible! I'm glad I wasn't the only person that noticed and complained! Site managers should definitely rethink bad move in changing what was a great weather site, the best, in fact! Too bad, I guess it's my loss, I will miss it!

Best source in an emergency (if you have internet available) - specifically their NEXRAD animated map.

Why? Because it is "near real time" with almost "google maps" level of granularity on zoom that tells you what is happening near your home and family. Simultaneously, it animates the storms, showing the storm cells (with their type, direction and relative power), and the area covered by the watch/warning from the National Weather service.

There were tornadoes in our area this summer. We found this more relevant and reliable than the tv reports (sporadic and higher level), the local news station websites, and competing weather reporting websites (too high level, or not granular enough). Fortunately, the tornadoes were well to the west and to the east of us, but we would never know for sure watching the news. We avoided being unnecessarily panicked, while having the surety of knowing when we had to pull the trigger to hunker down.

Sometimes the media over-hype storms, which breeds cynicism. Wunderground's tool will help you discern what is real and may well help save your and your family's life.

Only thing better would be an actual real time feed with this level of granularity, but I have not found that yet. If you do, post it in the comments please.

I WAS THRILLED WHEN I 1ST SIGNED UP FOR DAILY MULTIPLE FORECASTS "WEEKLY".
YOU NOW SUDDENLY REDUCE FORECASTS TO ONLY 3 DAYS.

EVEN YOUR ICONS REPRESENTING WHETHER SUNNY/CLOUDY/RAINY CHANGED FROM A GREAT REALISM DESIGN TO CRAPPY SIMPLIFIED VERSION.

IF YOU WANT TO PROMOTE YOUR "WEATHER UNDERGROUND", THEN PORTRAY IT IN PROFESSIONAL MANNER.

ALSO, PLEASE REFRAIN FROM POLITICAL ADVERTISEMENTS AS "WEATHER SHOULD BE A PURE UNBIASED TALENT". PERFECT EXAMPLE IS "ANTI-CHRIST, HITLER TYPE & BIGGOTED DONALD TRUMP GREETING ME OVER MY MORNING COFFEE. WHAT A HORRIBLE WAY TO START THE DAY!

AS A RESULT, I DISCOVERED FREE "WEATHERMATE" FOR PC'S~~ AN AWESOME DETAILED APP/PROGRAM FOR PC'S WHICH GIVES MANY SETTINGS OPTIONS ---

http://www.portablefreeware.com/index.php?id=1254 {SCROLL TO WEATHERMATE & CLICK DOWNLOAD}. ENJOY IT'S WEALTH OF OPTIONAL FEATURES TO PERSONALIZE TO MANY LOCATIONS,

I have outshined friends/colleagues' accuracy in constant-change 20° and rare rain weather, and goat about Wunderground - for years!

Did you all have a big top-tier management change (PERSON(S) WHO ARE LAME NOW HIRED AND WANT TO MAKE THEIR 'MARK')? Whomever was shoved aside needs to be apologized to swiftly, and the site restored- swiftly.

Excuse my French, but WTF where you all thinking when "approving" this F"ing disaster?!

Hey clueless execs, if we wanted TWC we would've used TWC all these years. People used weather underground strictly to *avoid* TWC and it's low IQ, click-baity, celebrity-focused, overly commercialized "weather" presentations. So what does TWC and IBM do? Obviously buy the competition and make them one and the same.

Gone are the insightful blogs, the interesting user content, basically anything that made WU unique and useful. We do we get instead you may ask? Well, lots of ads, lots of filler in place of scientific content, and overall a generic experience that's virtually indistinguishable from the countless other weather apps out there. It's slower, more bloated, and more buggy than ever before.

IBM and TWC are more interested in tracking and monetizing us, than tracking the weather and informing us. No doubt they derived and will continue to derive great value from all the data they acquired, only we won't benefit from that. The state of WU is proof of that.

Was WU ever the most beautiful or user friendly site? No. But it didn't matter, because there were so many alternatives if you preferred style over substance. Now how many alternatives are there?

The Phrase "IF IT's NOT BROKE, DON'T FIX IT" applies here 110%...

The Management who OKd This Redesign of wundground is OUT OF TOUCH with average "People Who Use it Daily" they should be fired.

How can you Take something that was working GREAT, That was the TOP Designed Weather Site, and "FIX IT"? Make it Worse?
Whomever re-designed wunderground should be ashamed of themselves, Period.