The Weather Channel
The Weather Channel Overview
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The Weather Channel has a 1.7 star rating from 468 reviews, with 18% who would likely recommend. Consumers report high price level, frequent app and website failures, and many ads despite paid subscriptions.
Key Takeaways for Future Customers
- Expect mixed The Weather Channel reviews and frequent app redesigns affecting usability.
- Consider alternatives if you value fast, ad-free forecast access.
- Be cautious about subscriptions and auto-charge practices.
Negative Feedback / Risk Areas
- Customer complaints about billing, hard-to-cancel subscriptions, and no responsive customer service.
- Poor app performance: slow loading, intrusive ads, missing local reports and inaccurate forecasts.
- Frustration with reduced local coverage and UI changes.
Positive Feedback
Users praise coverage reliability historically and personalities like Jim Cantore.
The generated data is based on reviews and questionnaires provided by PissedConsumer.com users.
The Weather Channel has a 1.7 star rating from 468 reviews, with 18% who would likely recommend. Consumers report high price level, frequent app and website failures, and many ads despite paid subscriptions.
Key Takeaways for Future Customers
- Expect mixed The Weather Channel reviews and frequent app redesigns affecting usability.
- Consider alternatives if you value fast, ad-free forecast access.
- Be cautious about subscriptions and auto-charge practices.
Negative Feedback / Risk Areas
- Customer complaints about billing, hard-to-cancel subscriptions, and no responsive customer service.
- Poor app performance: slow loading, intrusive ads, missing local reports and inaccurate forecasts.
- Frustration with reduced local coverage and UI changes.
Positive Feedback
Users praise coverage reliability historically and personalities like Jim Cantore.
Media from reviews
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Verified Reviewer |
Atlanta, Georgia
Why, why, why!! The breakdown of the...
Why, why, why!! The breakdown of the daily weather on the cover page sounds ridiculous!
Is it being written by AI ~ sure sounds like it because it's not direct and to the point! It's "fluffed," "sing-songy!" Go back to humans composing the daily breakdown!!!
New update sucks
The new weather channel app is crap. You need to switch back.
Totally hate the new update. Will not use.
- - I loved the weather channel.
- - The new version is terrible; the color is awful.
- - No quick 15-day look.
- - I am dropping it now.
I loved the weather channel. The new version is terrible.
The color is awful and most of all there is no way to do a quick look at the 15 day.
Fine if you want to show mornings and afternoons just let me have it the old way and then let me ask if I want something more. It’s terrible and I am dropping it now.
I hate this change it takes too much time to navigate. I will be looking for a new app for my weather!
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Newark, New Jersey
I sincerely miss the Twilight Live...
- - Twilight Live is missed and should return permanently as a soft wake-up and sleep aid, and it's preferred over talk-based content and Heavy Rescue.
I sincerely miss the Twilight Live programming. And wish theyd go away from their talk based repetitive garbage.
I work long hours when Im not in bed with health issues and it was nice to have something gentle and soft to wake up to as well as having something there when I couldnt sleep. Please bring this back permanently. I know you might not think its worth it, but there is a huge demand for this type of programming and content and its so much better than watching heavy rescue that feels like its 30 minutes of annoying, repetitive commercials for 30 minutes of not so great show.
Please. There are many more like me than you might realize.
- Accurate data
- Information
- Love the old version
- Too many annoying commercials
- Time it takes to access the desired information
- Too much talking
Preferred solution: Apology and correction, even if they won’t apologize a visible and noticeable course correction
User's recommendation: Start boycotting and getting weather direct from the NWS
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Verified Reviewer |
Cleveland, Ohio
New Design is AWFUL
Hourly view shows one thing at a time: Temp OR wind OR Precipitation. You have to scroll down to see the day/time you want, then scroll back up, then change it and scroll back down. It's honestly the most miserable experience imaginable if you want to look at more than one thing!
- Ive always used it clean interface
- Worthless unless you pay too many ads
- New design removes key functionality like seeing the weather
Preferred solution: Go back to the old design
User's recommendation: Go Somewhere Else.
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Verified Reviewer |
Indianapolis, Indiana
Weather channel inoperable, no help
FINALLY got the "help" line. No answer, voice mail only.
Never returned my call! I paid for the premium ad-free weather.com, has been inoperable for about a WEEK, can't get hold of anyone to fix it!
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Verified Reviewer |
Davisville, Missouri
Location
When weather alerts are shown close up there is no state reference. We as viewers have no idea where you are.
Preferred solution: More information on where you are showing specific info. Like what State.
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Verified Reviewer |
Tucson, Arizona
Stop auto charge
- - I'm being charged for a service we don't have and want it canceled.
- - There was no phone call or email to cancel.
- - Please cancel now.
trying to cancel a service that we do not have, but we are still being charged for it
no phone call
no email to send to
so, please cancel, NOW>>>>>>>>
That you for your attention to this matter of national security...
- No customer service
Preferred solution: Full refund
User's recommendation: never, ever sign up for this thing
Alexander City, Alabama
Horrible app! Full of ads that cover the entire page.
Terrible site
Too many ads. Slow to download
Stop covering the daily rain percent with your ads.
Terrible site!!!
User's recommendation: Use another weather app.
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Verified Reviewer |
Van Nuys, California
Easy to sign up for/ hard to cancel
- - No customer service.
- - Hard to cancel.
- - They have been charging my credit card despite no service.
- - Easy to sign up.
No customer service
Does any one release why this service is so hard to cancel?
They have been charging my CC and per their website I do NOT have service
Easy to sign up for
Hard to cancel
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Verified ReviewerCancel
Not paying to get help, App not working, Cancel my subscription, This get worse by asking for a payment up front to fix your problem.
Preferred solution: Full refund
Trenton, Michigan
Lack of coverage on blizzard in Michigan upper peninsula
- - Coverage stopped at Green Bay, rarely reaching Marquette.
- - Upper Peninsula counties got over 3 feet of snow; I couldn't contact family.
I was dismayed because The Weather Channel had very little coverage of the blizzard snowstorm going on in the upper peninsula of Michigan. I have family that lives up there and was concerned about what they were going through.
96-97% of the time they stopped the coverage at Green Bay Wisconsin, very rarely even going into Marquette Michigan, which is in Michigan's upper peninsula near Green Bay. I was unable to contact them. Many counties in the upper peninsula got in excess of 3 feet of snow.
Shame on The Weather Channel for not covering it better. Since I have no other way of keeping track of the weather in upper Michigan I have no choice but to watch The Weather Channel, bur I'm not happy about it.
Holmen, Wisconsin
Disappointed
- - Ads load quickly and play fine.
- - The content you want to see doesn't load or loads slowly due to ads, making me leave.
It seems the ads load right up and play just fine and dandy. The things you actually want to see either do not load at all or take so long (due to ads?) that I end up leaving.
Very frustrating. Go elsewhere
User's recommendation: Go elsewhere.
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Duxbury, Massachusetts
Fed up with this website!
I would give it negative stars if possible! This website is one of the worst for performance, it's slow, glitchy, freezes, and has WAY too many ads. It needs MUCH improvement!
User's recommendation: Recommendations to future customer.....use a different website!
Love my new job
IF I COULD GET HIRED IN 2036 IN December IT WILL BE IN THE EASTERN TIME ZONE SO THANK YOU I WANT TO STAY INSIDE IF I CAN GET A HOTEL
User's recommendation: ASK THEM IF THERE NEW
Ocean City, Maryland
Latest app change
- - Navigation is difficult; daily/hourly info are hard to find.
- - Ads are intrusive with games.
- - I may switch to AccuWeather or Weather Underground.
To difficult to navigate, Daily, Hourly and other useful information that was easily accessible before is now at the top. Ads have been ridiculous with stupid games to play, I want the weather not games. No choice but to move to accuweather or weather underground
User's recommendation: Uninstall
About
Since 1982, WeatherChannel has brought timely weather information to the world. Beginning as a 24-hour, 7 day television network devoted entirely to weather, it has expanded across several mediums to bring the breaking weather to its viewers and users. Cable Networks through the WEATHER STAR, the immediate real-time relay of severe weather watches and warnings is the most vital service provided by WeatherChannel. Information from the National Weather Service, such as severe weather alerts and current conditions, is transmitted to custom equipment at each cable location, as are thousands of customized weather forecasts prepared by WeatherChannel meteorologists. Consistently rated in the Top Five for News, Entertainment, and Information web sites by Media Metrix formerly PC Meter, Internet web site at www.weather.com features current conditions and forecasts for over 98,000 locations worldwide, along with local and regional radars.
The Weather Channel is ranked 448 out of 6636 in Media category
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Way too woke disgusting
A computer programmer would find the app hard to use. Why are they forever more trying to reinvent themselves.
Common ordinary people are the ones who try to use the app. Keep it simple stupid.
Can't access radar info,IT SUCKS
I agree that new app is terrible.
Garbage app and my widget locations are useless now. Stupid decision, maybe the Bud Light exec works for TWC now.
My thoughts exactly!
I don’t need a radar map for the week. Put it back to an hourly map please.
I agree this was NOT an improvement. It is no intuitive nor useful.
After several years of using this app I just deleted it. The “update” is not user friendly, it’s actually a very unattractive mess.
Why change what was working well? Glad to have found another app that’s much easier to read.
All I can say is I hate it went to local news and Weather
I agree. I deleted mine too. Why mend something that is not broken?
I hate the new weather channel app. It’s terrible. Please go back to the old one
Terrible!!! Return to old app.
Two-thirds of the screen is radar. why?
The daily/hourly is visually awkward. Ugh.
It’s as if they tried to find a way to make it as useless & hard to use as possible. They succeeded.
Wind stream is very glitchy and hardly ever can get it to work when I need it to, I’ve been a premium user for years but this year it’s the worst, I’ve sent many e-mails asking for help and no responses, I won’t be using them again next year if they don’t fix soon, old version was much better
Reduce the size of the radar map! Show more current data on the screen instead (humidity, %rain, wind)
Agree!
I agree..t updated app is terrible! Need to revert to old version.
Top line is comparing Today atr temps to slightly higher or lower than yesterday’s. Who cares?
Is it gonna rain or not?
Is it Gina be nice or not? Awful and hard to find local radar.