Weather Underground: Local Map

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Last verified 30 Aug 2026

3.9 31649 ratings · App Store

1. 1/5Awful

   This used to be hands down the best weather app anywhere to be found. There is nothing close, even today, to what this app had. From live Doppler radar, to privately owned independent weather stations throughout the country, it was the absolute best with good resolution and great accuracy. I dedicated an iPad; its only function in life was sitting on the countertop 24/7 logged into the weather. It was like (only better) than sitting at the National Weather Service Station because a live Doppler radar scan could be activated in any location including your local major airport. No other app has anything close to that today. THEN the Weather Channel Bought the app, took away 3/4 of the features, and offered less then 1/2 of those back with a paid subscription! The Weather Channel (Storm app) still doesn’t have near the features even with their paid subscription. Wunderground was like having a leased line to the National Weather Service with all their tools at your fingertips. What a shame! Someone should bring that live sweeping Doppler Radar back to one of the existing apps or build a new one. It was a valuable service and should be available to everyone. Really, the government should subsidize it with federal tax dollars instead of spending our money on other wasteful projects.

   1TheNightOwl1 · 30 Aug 2026

2. 4/5Not Nearly as Bad as People Say

   Due to the negative reviews, I was scared to update, and didn’t do so until today only because the old version was no longer supported. And I must say that I am a bit confused as to what all the fuss is about. I think this new version is just fine. Sure, there are some little hiccups, such as the daily details and graph not being fully displayed without clicking on “more” and the seemingly more prevalent appearance of ads. But first off, those are very minor things, and second, this is a big change for the app and developing team, so there’s obviously going to be some kinks to work out. And there are some features I LIKE about this app; it appears and behaves a lot cleaner, and I kind of like the design better. But that’s just my personal opinion. And let’s not forget that while the interface is different, the data being reported is still the same. You still get accurate, hyper-local forecasts that are hard to beat, and for free, no less. I don’t know who these people are writing the negative reviews, or why. Maybe they’re really into weather and used the old app more features more extensively. But I can say as an average person who just wants to see the daily weather, it is still a great app.

   sicbprice · 30 Aug 2026

3. 1/56.4 is Crippleware.

   As a longtime user, I must unfortunately concur with criticism of this latest forced upgrade. Simply put, it is commercially-driven crippleware. An example is the daily summaries, which have been replaced by a conspicuous advert: ‘Upgrade now to get 15 days of summaries’ (for $48/year). The existing summary menu is buried at the bottom of the screen where most users won’t find it or recognize it. Hourly forecast graphing is harder to access and far less readable, and even the Wundermap itself, the distinguishing feature of Weather Underground, has been made less useful and visible. (Although, I approve of the improved mapping quality.) Instead of fixing long-term bugs like disappearing crowd-sourced weather report controls, and cumbersome menus, they have made the app less distinctive, more generic, less functional and more obviously commercial. Within minutes of using the new app, I found a new bug. Woe be the user who selects ‘my location’ (GPS), when searching for the missing Wundermap station functionality. (Make that two new bugs, or one new bug, and one old one.) As of 6.4, I am looking for a new weather app. Unfortunately, none of the mundane options which these developers are inexplicably trying to emulate come close to what WU offers in terms of granular weather data. If only they would hire competent developers....

   kurt_s · 30 Aug 2026

4. 1/5All the wrong emphases

   I avoided the version 6.x upgrades after reading the reviews. They were pushed anyway. I really hate opening the app, then having to search to find weather. That’s absurd. Current temp? That requires only a small numeral. Instead, I get a tachometer display filling half the screen. An ad larger than the radar thumbnail appears below. Developers, here are two thoughts for you: (1) I carefully ignore ads. The bigger they are, the more I ignore them. Tell your advertisers that I have NO IDEA whose products are cluttering half of my screen. That’s the honest truth. (2) It’s tornado season. When a storm is coming, I IGNORE YOUR APP. I don’t have time to go zoom-zoom with the pretty tachometer, carefully avoid tapping a big ad that launches Safari, make my way to the tiny radar map or one of several “MORE” taps that eventually take me to weather...then wait for the miserably slow data load, assuming I tapped the correct “MORE” spot and didn’t end up with a pretty sine wave chart of sunrise/sunset times. Really? A graph of the sun’s movement? It’s a SINE WAVE. You see it once, you’ve seen it forever. Just list the times! So today, 6.6 was pushed. Now the graphs are taller, in response to complaints. So tall, in fact, that you cannot read the cursor time and the rainfall graph at the same time. When is the heavy rain coming? Hmm, can’t tell! I begin to think that the development team deliberately makes the interface poor. Is it a joke among coders? Is it fun? No matter. Version 6.6 crashes constantly.

   Weather Control Central · 30 Aug 2026

5. 4/5Very useful but too busy

   Love the Doppler radar. The app was better when it didn’t have so much “stuff”. The basics are good and aviation layers helpful but you still must call and verify. Just basics with radar, forecast, precipitation predictions, outlook, and options for storm warnings, marine warnings, etc. I like the allergy and flu info, but would be much better if more specific by region. The fire data is not updated and simply lists all the fires even if they are not active. Would be better to list most recent in 7 day window, then separate list of all still active with touch screen to isolate. Really would be fantastic to make many of the features (fire and earthquake, etc) like this instead of trying to put them all into widgets. Despite all that rambling, I still use the app daily because of the the radar. Living in Florida, it helps with planning around frequent afternoon storms. The hurricane option should be a regular option selection along with a regional/local warning when the hurricane flag goes up, not a premium addition. This option is just as useful if not more useful than fire and earthquake info which is free. In the continental US, hurricane info is much more valuable and far reaching with regard to loss of life and property than earthquake and fire so why not add it at no added charge far ahead of other apps? Feedback for thought and consideration. Thank you for this helpful and useful app. Val

   Hungarian Paprika · 30 Aug 2026

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