Why is the website “Weather.com” so terrible?

[Anonymous]

Very silly random rant here, but as a part-time web developer, I have to direct my rant at:

The Weather Channel.
While I find the forecasts to be accurate, the website itself is awful. One would think to own and manage the domain weather.com you could have a better website!

Slow, buggy loading. Dozens of stupid clickbait articles. Mandatory 30-second ad before 60-second hurricane video. What an absolutely terrible website.

[Anonymous]

+1 Yes - I have often wondered this - its horrible

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Very silly random rant here, but as a part-time web developer, I have to direct my rant at:

The Weather Channel.
While I find the forecasts to be accurate, the website itself is awful. One would think to own and manage the domain weather.com you could have a better website!

Slow, buggy loading. Dozens of stupid clickbait articles. Mandatory 30-second ad before 60-second hurricane video. What an absolutely terrible website.

Exactly. It is unfortunate being that they are 'the weather channel'. What goes on over there?

[Anonymous]

You're right, OP. It's the single worst website I ever use.

[Anonymous]

What’s the best alternative? I hate it too

[Anonymous]

its horrible and it has been not accurate lately.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What’s the best alternative? I hate it too

I like weatherunderground, but lately i've just been using apple's weather app.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Very silly random rant here, but as a part-time web developer, I have to direct my rant at:

The Weather Channel.
While I find the forecasts to be accurate, the website itself is awful. One would think to own and manage the domain weather.com you could have a better website!

Slow, buggy loading. Dozens of stupid clickbait articles. Mandatory 30-second ad before 60-second hurricane video. What an absolutely terrible website.

The BEST radar online used to be Intellicast Interactive Radar, but the Weather Channel/Weather Underground bought them out and closed it down, as too many people were using it instead of watching the weather channel or the news.

[Anonymous]

I recently switched to Weather Underground for all of the reasons OP cited and am very happy with it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I recently switched to Weather Underground for all of the reasons OP cited and am very happy with it.

Same corporation. https://www.weathercompany.com/about-us/

[Anonymous]

Weather.com is an absolutley terible website to weather forecasting. Better watch out for those clickbaity ads and articles on that website!

P.S: Weather.gov for the win

[Anonymous]

Their app is terrible too!

[mike314]

Weather.com is owned by IBM in addition to Weather Underground, and The Weather Channel. Building great consumer weather media is probably very far down their list of priorities.

[Anonymous]

I have the Accuweather app and think it’s pretty terrible, too (too many ads and the data isn’t very accurate, despite their name).

[Anonymous]

I like the WeatherBug app, particularly for watching lightning proximity. I also follow my local national weather service office on social media and they post at least daily.