I don't know what the internal situation is with WU, but I have to wonder if they're not really a going concern within TWC anymore. Between their terrible site redesign a few years back that just sort of stopped once it got to about 75% functional, and the way they seem to disable features whenever they start requiring a little more effort to support, it feels like there's maybe one or two people working on the site in their spare time trying to keep the lights on.
It's a shame because their forecast graph is quite possibly the best weather visualization ever - at a glance, I can see what the whole day is likely to look like. I will miss it when they inevitably discontinue it.
Edit: In fairness, I just visited the site for the first time in a while and it looks like they finally fixed their weather map - for at least several years after the redesign was "complete", the default view for the weather map would load so many weather stations it would grind pretty much any browser on any machine to a halt. Looks like that's no longer the case, so maybe something is still going on over there.
Their 10-day weather graph is one of my favorite interfaces. There is no better way to grasp the weather, and it transformed my conception of daily weather patterns. Try it:
I use the similar (but a bit wonkier) weather.gov graphs. I have it bookmarked on my phone, for checking the weather before I ride. After a bit you can figure it out at a glance. It also tells me sunrise and sunset times.
Unfortunately I don't think so. You use the "forward 2 days" button" to get more data, but they don't fit it on one page. You can get about 6 days total
They have a regular 7 day forecast[1] with text, but I prefer the graph for my commute.
I completely agree, as a long term WU user I am continually frustrated by their newer site design. The 10-day view is my favorite one but their site reliability and speed are atrocious. Like others in this thread I've been wondering what's going on over there and if they are just going to shut down some day. I used to even have my weather station send data to WU but I stopped doing that because I don't see any value in doing it anymore because their site sucks. Wundermap is slow as well and I've had issues with their iOS app lately too.
I would love to hear what people are using as alternatives. I already use Dark Sky on iOS as well, so that's one. I just want a good 10 day view :(
wunderground is my favorite, and I have a PWS that contributes to it, and I love the 10 day graph, but damn I was pissed when it was no longer the default view.
It seems spotty as to whether it remembers to use my PWS or not.
I just paid for Carrot (iOS weather app) plus the uberpremium subscription version so I can use WU data in it.
I used to use one of their weather maps. North Georgia gets a lot of random, unpredictable storms from the gulf. I used one of their maps to see if one of the thousand tiny half mile wide storms would pass over me. If it did, I could be in for a heck of a storm and need to unplug stuff. If not, all that effort would be wasted.
They had a map. It would show you all the little cells that rose to the level of concern along with speed, direction, and predicted location by time. I could match those cells to a violent-looking cloud sliding by in the distance. I could never find that map after the redesign. That was the only reason I went there.
I have to assume all their designers are from places where storm clouds come in big, predictable blobs instead of tiny terrors that miss you 90% of the time.
If you haven't try windy.com. Switched a while back (Central/West Georgia with same micro climate issue south of Carrolton). It works well for me ...phone app on the tractor is handy. They just switched their forecast model, a week ago?, so I don't have experience with the new model.
TWC is owned by IBM as well. With TWC absorbing Weather Underground you would think they would continue to support the great work from wunderground. In reality, seems that is not the case.
It's IBM. I'm not sure what's keeping this shell of a company functioning, but they are not a company I'd want to work at, if you could find a non-outsourced job, with regular layoffs and insane demands on their people. None of the people I know who've worked there have spoken well of it.
They still have some random dropouts and errors. Occasionally they'll send malformed json to the mobile app and it'll crash. Often times data from my weather station is rejected for no reason. Sometimes the 10 day graph just doesn't work or other data goes missing.
And of course they have no real support. It's a shame because having all the nearby weather stations aggregating data makes for some pretty accurate weather.
It's a shame because their forecast graph is quite possibly the best weather visualization ever - at a glance, I can see what the whole day is likely to look like. I will miss it when they inevitably discontinue it.
Edit: In fairness, I just visited the site for the first time in a while and it looks like they finally fixed their weather map - for at least several years after the redesign was "complete", the default view for the weather map would load so many weather stations it would grind pretty much any browser on any machine to a halt. Looks like that's no longer the case, so maybe something is still going on over there.