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> terrible site redesign a few years back

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:

https://www.wunderground.com/forecast/us/ca/san-francisco

Don't overlook the Customize button at the top right.

Clean.

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.

https://forecast.weather.gov/MapClick.php?lat=42.3761&lon=-7...

The link you posted (weather.gov) is a 48 hour timeline - is it possible to create a 10 day timeline at weather.gov ?

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.

[1]https://forecast.weather.gov/MapClick.php?lat=42.3761&lon=-7...

I feel like weather.gov is 80-90% of the way there, but having incrementally grown the ui/ux feels dated and needs a little love.

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 replaced it with two apps. I mentioned MyRadar upthread, which replaces wundermap; FlowX replaces the forecast.

ublock origin won't let me load the page. I'm blocking kampyle, scorecardresearch and newrelic

^^Nope. It just took forever to load.

It is excellent, but glacially slow in loading compared to the previous version of the site.

For example I waited 82 seconds for your link to load and another 55 seconds after clicking 10-Day, on a 40mbps connection.

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.

I thought they only did wind. Thanks.

Check out https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.acmeaom.an... - for me it's a full replacement for wundermap (there's a lot of wundermap stuff that I didn't use though, so ymmv).

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.

You would be correct, they're owned by IBM: https://www.wunderground.com/blog/JeffMasters/weather-underg...

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.

"It's a shame because their forecast graph is quite possibly the best weather visualization ever"

I use WU because of the "10 day" tab that nicely shows me the temp/press/wind for the next ten days on a time graph ...

I would love to use weather.gov but I cannot find an equivalent (10 day) representation - does it exist ?

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.

Totally agree about the forecast graph... I honestly wish somebody would rip it off so I can look at it on a site that performs well.

Intellicast uses it, though I worry they're getting it via the API that this article is about.

http://www.intellicast.com/Local/Forecast.aspx (click the "graph" tab)

I worry the same, now. Intellicast has an amazing interface compared to WU!

I really like their scientific forecaster discussion.

That's an NWS product. Go to your Forecast office at Weather.gov (Here's SoCal: https://w2.weather.gov/climate/index.php?wfo=lox), then click Forecast Discussion on the left.

Awesome! Thank you!