Yahoo Weather Reviews

by Benicia Pam

Yahoo weather is my go-to; Numero uno. Next the NYTimes and puzzles and news and so on. For me, I always look at the weather with attendant moon, tides, air and natural phenomena. However, the Covid 19 has taken precedent to everything else and I sincerely am thankful for your daily updates on relative vital statistics on the county level, the state and America. However, there is a glaring omission that I feel could be easily corrected, which would be helpful and illustrate and underline the message. POPULATION NUMBERS and % I have a list of the population of each state and the county where my family and my friends live.l This gives me personally a more conclusive look at the concern I have logistically for family, for friends, for my world as a whole. I even have the populations of most of Europe, which inform me as to how California stacks up. The message is, that Pam Dixon is not unique or very different in many ways from millions of others who are probably writing in to tell you how they cherish their Yahoo Weather News, yet, there is something missing!! Thank you for being so ‘present’ for all of us, for we are all in this together. Happy Holidays! Pamela DixonThis never got ‘sent’. ?
And now phone won’t ‘flip’ to other weather locations I have checked. Maybe a menu would work if the phone is dumbing down?!

by Iikkonn

I have used this Yahoo weather app on and off for the past few years, and today will likely be the last day I use it. I woke up to cloudy and cool weather, so I checked the Yahoo weather app to see when the possibility of rain will be. Upon opening YahooWeather , it said “sunny”, with a clear bright sun icon. What? So I thought oh, YahooWeather probably didn’t have a chance to update, so I checked another weather app, immediately the other app showed cloudy skies with possible rain in two hours. This “other app” also showed the exact temperature that my home thermometer was showing too. So I went back to the Yahoo weather app...doink! It still showed the weather in my area as sunny with not even a cloud underneath, and it also showed a much higher temp than what I showed in our area. This is typical of the non-accurate Yahoo app that has disappointed me as in many times past. There are many other weather apps out there that I have found to be more accurate than this Yahoo app. Maybe for other people it is different than what I stated, but for me it has proven to be mostly inaccurate.

by Marylea

What happened in your update? Where’s the data, the Coronavirus stats??! This looks like a kid’s book now. Ridiculous changes and design decisions in this update. It’s bulkier and gives less info at a glance. What a disappointment. This used to be my go to app. I loved its concise data, small hourly view of the weather, and general appearance. There’s little left from the original version to keep me returning now. I have no idea why you would ruin a good layout and design. Your design team missed what people want. With the most recent update this month (August 2020) The weather icons are chunky, and fill up the screen. No appeal whatsoever. The original app was beautiful to look at with local photos that changed about every 30 seconds, pulled in from Flickr. They gave a personal view of the area with a stunning overall effect. I loved checking the weather just to see the photos in an area, too. That changed a few years ago. Now I rarely see any local photos and the ones selected rarely change or have nothing to do with the region. Often they weren’t even taken in the same country. I have no idea why each update has become less appealing. What were you thinking?

Two stars. Downgraded from five. I think the weather is about as accurate as it used to be. But I can get that elsewhere.

by Redo9359

On the positive side I like that I can add and click on certain cities to see what they’re weather will be or that when traveling YahooWeather “usually” maintains good location services, but sadly more often than not—the forecasts aren’t very accurate. At home I can almost NEVER get active radar and sometimes can’t get any weather info at all. I can check and literally watch the apps forecast change, but like today the forecast called for no rain and partly sunny yet their radar clearly showed a band of showers (although it wouldn’t show active radar—again) it was pouring down rain and 10 degrees cooler than what YahooWeather showed. Sadly, this is typical for YahooWeather. It seemed pointless to give feedback when—apparently no one either reads reviews or does anything about the complaints. So, I’ll just look outside and check the temperature on our outdoor clock. Forget planning ahead.

by Toca🥰Life🥰Lover

Today I updated YahooWeather , and when I went to check the weather I couldn't find my app all of a sudden. I searched for YahooWeather in YahooWeather Store. Once I found it the download button said open. I clicked on the download button (that said open) and a message popped up on my screen. It said that I cannot use YahooWeather because of the age restrictions. I'm pretty sure this is because of my data plan. (It's one of the child ones.) I LOVED YahooWeather so much to begin with! I found the pictures to be beautiful and the weather forecast to be (decently) reliable. If there is anyone the age rating could be changed that would be amazing but I'd also understand if that's not possible! I'm still pretty confused why the age rating went up to a shocking 17+! It said it was for unrestricted web access, which is even more confusing. I will be giving YahooWeather three stars. The first star I took off is because YahooWeather only worked on WiFi which was really annoying because I'd use it in the car a lot to see how I should lighten my load. And I'm taking the other star off because when you make an app it should be usable for everyone, not just those who have data plans that are for over eighteen. I'm very disappointed that this age rating occurred. Overall though this was one of the very best apps I had on my phone, and I recommend it to my friends and family 24/7.

by CnxAtx13

You changed YahooWeather so it looks more kid-friendly. Wow. And, in the middle of a pandemic, you decided to shove the corona virus stats down to the bottom instead of front and center like it was 3 days ago. (Sure, THAT will make everyone forget.... just in time for....). Ok, I accept that not everyone wants to see the covid-19 stats every time they look at the weather. But WHY have you removed my State and the USA stats? Do you think each of us only cares about our city or county? What if we are in a hot spot and think the whole State is a hot spot when it’s not? Or, worse, the reverse? Please go back to giving us the information that we all need. The coronavirus hasn’t gone away. It’s still here and it’s still taking lives - all over the USA. AND, people are recovering all over the USA. Give us back our unadulterated stats! Please!!!

by Jaymce

Why exactly did you change the UI? There are a few issues here. The bars for each hour of the day... time is continuous and the graph for this should be as well. Nobody thinks about weather at the top of the hour. That area also used to integrate a clean view of precipitation probability. It’s lost. The hours of the day in each bar took me a minute or so to figure out. They are single numbers and not in time format. It is not intuitive. Also, the new “colorful” cloud and sun graphics in next section lack contrast and are seemingly bad for the color blind. This entire refresh seems to be design over function. You used to be five star and the only solid app yahoo had but now I’ll have to find another weather app. Remember when YahooWeather launched and the kudos it got? It was because the UI. You just erased that advantage and that is all that’s different from app to app. IMO, with this release you’ll lose some of your base (at least me) and the design lacks function so you’ll lose out to other apps for new installs. Remember when snap unnecessarily changed their design and nose dived? You were over 4 stars and your new designer might have harpooned you.

by Marcintosh

The latest redesign has made YahooWeather less useful for me. It’s showing me less information in less space. It used to use the whole screen to present more data, now it uses half the screen, in a centered column, to show less information. You have to scroll quite a bit to see everything. In some parts, the text scrolls past the window it’s in and you can’t scroll to see the rest. Without the animations YahooWeather is far less “delightful.” I think YahooWeather Store editors should reconsider their praise for the design of YahooWeather.

Update: they’ve expanded the “centered column” of info to fill the whole screen, so there’s less scrolling and info seems to fit in each frame. I still miss the rain graph which showed precipitation as a graph under the temperature graph. Now I have to read the percentages and process that info. A minor complaint, I understand, but “at-a-glance” info was the appeal of YahooWeather for me.

by Dsmitidaho

I’ve used this weather app for years, but haven’t reviewed it until now. What I’m writing about isn’t new — it’s just very frustrating. I depend on weather forecasts because, due to vision problems, I can’t drive in the rain. So tomorrow — after HOURS of searching for an appointment — I have my Covid vaccination. But will it RAIN? Checking Yahoo Weather, WHO KNOWS?
The Tuesday symbol shows clouds & rain, but the hourly forecast shows part clouds/part fair or sunny every hour, night & day! NO rain!
WHY is that? It obviously looks like a mistake, but if so, Yahoo doesn’t ever check its own app, because I’ve never seen this kind of thing corrected.
I CAN — and WILL — check other sources, but why should that be necessary?
This is a free app, and it is said “You get what you pay for!” But I really don’t understand why SOMEone at Yahoo isn’t looking at Boise’s weather forecast and saying “What the heck!?! Is it going to rain tomorrow or not?” 🤔

by LovJerryLewis4Ever!

Like Yahoo weather app very much. It’s accurate and gives little details that some don’t, like sunrise/sunset, the Moon phases, the 10 day(not just 5 or 7) forecast it gives a good general idea. Also Air Quality for those of us with allergies! I gave you 4⭐️ but will give you 5⭐️ if you’d update the city pics more often! It’s boring to look at a pic of just “water” every day, over & over again for Mackinac Island when that place has SOO much beauty to photograph! Although I live in Chicago, we go on trips, & have relatives in other locals so I check weather in about 5-6 locations & think you can update the pics more often than seasonally? How about monthly? That’s all! Still a good app! Not yet 5!

by KD2ADL

In general, I like the new look of Yahoo Weather which appeared when I upgraded to iOS 15. I also like the info on air quality and the hourly temperature forecasts for the next few days.

But some of the redesign decisions are negatives. I miss the local photos; I don’t expect you to have pictures of my little suburb, but I am only 11 miles from a major city, and live in a medium-sized state. Surely you could come up with something less boring than a generic sky photo as background to the forecast.

My biggest problem is with the lack of an index for the radar map. How am I supposed to interpret the large purplish cloud moving in from the west? Not a clue in YahooWeather . Which is better, a green cloud or a red cloud? No way to tell. Without an index, this stuff is just decoration.

by 1beachgrl

This has been my go to app for the past 5 years. When the opportunity arose I highly recommended Yahoo Weather to others because I did not had one thing that I would request to be changed. Not the case since the 2020 New Look. The graphics now make YahooWeather look like a kids app, but I’m willing to look past that. Other than the daily weather, I used the satellite images the most. But with the New Look the graphics have made it unusable. If this does not improve, I will have no choice but to go on a search for another app. I’d like to say Thank you for meeting my weather needs for all these years.

by Wiliscio

The Yahoo Weather Apps provides all I need at a glance to help me plan my week. I like day by day break down that gives me how many hours in a day with sunset times so I could plan my evening walk to end before sunset. I also want temperature and wind speed when I ride my bike. If wind speed is 10+ mph and temperature is 40 degrees F, I know it is too cold to ride. I also have allergies and I need to know the quality of the air and this apps give me just that. I have compared this apps to other apps. The Yahoo is the best and is short and sweet and to the point to help me to make good decisions. I look at YahooWeather at 3 or 4 times a day. It is a great apps and I highly recommend this to others.

by Jason Ripp

This MUCH IMPROVED weather app is now impressive. They clearly understand what is and isn’t important for weather data. It’s not loaded down with time consuming and uninteresting videos like “the big” weather app. Plus it’s down-to-earth approach is simple to read and quick to go through without all the annoying ads. I wish there were an option to “buy out of the ads” if so desired but the fact that it really only has one ad is impressive and makes it clearly a #1 pick and a “must have” app for anyone going out of their home! Way to go folks - you nailed it! I can now delete “the big” weather app!

by Phuckthisbs

I gave it a middle of the road score because it's right about 50% of the time. I'm not sure where they get their forecasts from but some improvement wouldn't be a bad thing. My wife's Weather Channel app is clearly superior to the Yahoo app I'm sorry to say because I do like Yahoo.
I'm adding on to my last rating and I've lowered it. There is no rain, 0%, according to the next 10 days. Realistically, I just want the immediate future and as usual it's not close. It's raining right this moment as I stare at the 0% chance icons. They would do better to get the weather channel app and forecast from that. I have nothing to do with the weather channel but at least they had a 20% chance of rain. Sad to see no improvement.

by MACMediaTX

I’ve loved YahooWeather since I first downloaded it 5+ years ago and it’s become one of the first things I check before starting and planning my day. Not only is it extremely accurate, its stunning photos, animations and real-time effects allow you to visit locations around the world you might already know and love, just aspire to visit one day or may have clients, friends or family in. Quick tip: if you load your fave locations by order of time zones, west-to-east, you can zoom around the world simply by continuous swiping! As an aspiring world traveler, it helps inspire me, season-to-season. Also, the satellite maps allow you to explore regions as you check-the-weather there. Perfect for business or vacation travel planning. I’m rarely caught off-guard, thanks to Yahoo Weather!

by Kristen1917

The older version icons were easier to read at a glance. I am not sure what the gray figure is to the upper left of the sun/cloud icon. YahooWeather is not as attractive and not as easy to read as the older version. Childish looking is what I think when looking at YahooWeather now. Why not work on the overall accuracy of the weather information??

Also, please take off the covid information. Your job is to give accurate weather information. Please work on that in YahooWeather . We are already reminded most of our day about pandemic. I use your app to try and find a time to go outside and have an escape for the situation ,since for months that was all we were able to do here. Please take it off...stick to the weather.

Sorry guys I did the update and still disappointed in the “ childish” look of YahooWeather . Good thing there are other choices.

by My Nooch

Yahoo is my go-to, quite compulsively I confess! There’s plenty of information in what I find is an attractive and whimsical layout. The pictures are beautiful, often stunning so, it adds to the enjoyment. I’ve been an outdoor woman for all of my life so, I live by it and delight in weather experiences during each wonderful season. I would say that weather is one of my hobbies so, apart from all the fascinating stories I enjoy reading, as well as, research, Yahoo! is the perfect little tool in my toolbox! I have it set to various countries because I like to check on weather happenings in the world and I diligently refer to Boston’s forecast in advance, as well as, the countries I’m traveling to and of course when I’m there. All in all, I can say that I’m obsessed with weather and in awe of Mother Nature so, Yahoo! is the best. I love getting updates too! I always recommend Yahoo!

by KAP_PApeach

I have not tried a whole lot of weather apps, but I did read about several before choosing one. The reason I tried this one is first, that it is free. Second, it is detailed with many options and as far as I can tell, seems very accurate.
I love all the little animations that it adds for effect. Like showing the windmills spinning according to how fast the wind is blowing, and showing the sun moving across until it hits the area that it currently is at in the sky. There is a map of the area at the bottom that has several options for viewing such a satellite and radar. You can add and delete cities and move them around as you like. It gives a 10 day forecast. And a beautiful picture to go with each city.
For a free app, this one is very impressive. And the advertisements that are inevitable with a free app, are non-intrusive. They show up as a section of their own as you scroll down through the various sections of each city. So you simply scroll past them and it is no big deal. They do not interfere with viewing.

by Dvenwa

Have had a Love-Hate relationship with YahooWeather over the years. Still using it though, and right now it’s looking as good and working as good as it ever has.
The weather information is nicely presented throughout and the vertical scroll of additional weather detail never feels cluttered or chaotic; quite the opposite in fact!
I’ve always liked the Sunrise/Sunset section right at the bottom of the page and the way the sun stops revolving at the exact moment you perform the check.
The collection of photos for the various cities chosen as weather locations was much better some years back, in that, had MUCH more variety, but again it’s a feature I’ve always liked, those shots of cities worldwide. Kudos!

by Abel-kun

I’ve been a user of Yahoo’s weather app for a long time , as well as several others . One of the nicer features of YahooWeather is that each city I’ve chosen is represented by a photo , most of them lovely and appropriate . My issue is the photo chosen for Boynton Beach . I have lived in this community for awhile & know it pretty well . It is a diverse community of many ethnicities & religions & yet the picture chosen to represent Boynton is a church with a large cross on top . I’m Jewish & find this sole representation insensitive & offensive . We have a number of synagogues & even a mosque in our community yet no other house of worship has been displayed . Frankly , I don’t think any house of worship should be the picture chosen for that place . We have lovely beaches, parks , nature reserves but they haven’t appeared . There is one other picture that is infrequently displayed of a park area which is very nice . I could comment on some other pictures chosen for other places that do not flatter that city but that Boynton Beach picture is the standout for me . I tried to contact someone at Yahoo in the past but to no avail . I hope this time someone who reads this can make the appropriate adjustment. I enjoy the weather reports but not always the scenery .

by Not Good At Reviews

The esthetics of this weather app are phenomenal. I don't like ads on my apps and would gladly pay development to be able to remove them but it's a minor gripe. The main concern is over the functionality, specifically in the maps. For one, it uses satellite maps which makes it look antiquated and hard to pinpoint where I am in relation to everything else. Second, the accuracy of the radar seems to be off at times and doesn't show rain when there clearly is. I like my apps to have options as to how I want to view the data but with yahoo there is none.

Sincerely hope that the devs read reviews and decide to add some better and more useful features than just a pretty app.

by Va1234

This is a decent app with a simple and elegant interface. However it would be excellent if it displayed more granular details about future days (unless this feature is there and I'm missing something).

For current day it shows hour by hour breakdown of temp and precipitation. However I can't see the same for any future day. I travel a lot for work and to know if the rain is going to be periodic or all day or if it will be significantly warmer or cooler from am to afternoon is very valuable. I have resorted to multiple sources for this info which defeats the purpose of having in app. This one will probably be short lived and I will look for something else.

by Shaun Conlin

Update:
Lately in the past couple months I am getting notifications saying rain is forecast in the next 15 minutes, which is great, except the city it says it’s going to rain in is 300 miles away, and not a place I’ve been to/through/heard of. I even deleted and re-added the cities (only two along with current location), but it didn’t change anything. It’s also doing the same thing for next day temperature alerts.

Original:
There's nothing better than opening a weather app and seeing a beautiful picture associated with the location you've chosen, along with the temperature! No wonder they won a design award, this is by far the best design I've seen so far!

by Clerk Kant

I realize that this is primarily a weather app, and as such it seems to perform well. But it’s also an aesthetic object, meant to enhance our experience of weather information, and in this it often fails.

For the past few weeks it has fed me the same, very boring background picture on each of my chosen cities. Whenever I update the information it gives me the same boring picture again (it used to give me a new picture every time I updated the screen). I wouldn’t mind so much if the picture were a good one, but it’s a terrible picture - just a flat piece of ground at the very bottom and bland, grey sky above.

Am I being punished for not having a Yahoo account? Did the world suddenly become flat and bland, with a grey sky? Who knows.

by Cameraphone91

I go to bed there is a weather alert I wake up in the morning there is a weather alert I’m watching television with wonderful friends and family there is another weather alert don’t you have any real lives I’m doing things here I already see there is a weather warning and I don’t need to be told another time thank you shut the f up. News computer alerts tablet alerts smart watch alerts as if I didn’t have enough to deal with I need a break from all this. It is loud obtrusive the only good use for this would be an alarm clockPS don’t post this review and you’re taking the whole meaning out of reviews it’s not a review if you post it

by Andywms

This is the 4th weather app I’ve used since smartphones and apps became part of our lives. The simple weather app that usually comes with a phone doesn’t provide quite enough info. The Weather Channel app is not easy to navigate and taxes the phone. A wind specific app I tried was quirky. But this Yahoo weather app has exactly what I need and is user friendly. I like the settings that tell me the weather when I wake up, and remind me in the evening. Like the wind features. Like the “feels like” display. Nothing I really don’t like... I’m just not in he habit of giving 5 stars to anything!

by FreeGlorybetoGod

Good basic weather.. i would add to the radar map the option to 2have live radar sweep and storm track it would be a great service for those in tornado alley. The loop radar doesn’t provide time sensitive data. The STORM app use to do live active sweep radar not any more they did away with it on the forced upgrade iMay 2018., now their app is just a loos. Like everyone other app. You want to be the primer weather app add live active storm tracking weather to the map so people can zoom into a towns streets to see if the storm hail , tornado is tracking toward their location, this would be a life saving feature. Where as the loop is useless in those situations. .

by SandmanSF

I’ve always loved YahooWeather! It’s my favorite weather app out there, but I’ve noticed that ever since I got the iPhone 11 Pro Max I haven’t been able to delete locations. The current location also wouldn’t update from Vegas back to California even though I’ve been back for four days now. I updated my iOS to 13.1.1 and updated YahooWeather and while the current location now updates, I am still now able to delete locations like Iowa and others that I don’t want anymore. Any help or new updates would be appreciated. Thank you!

by #1ChelseaFann

I’ve had YahooWeather for a few years and I have to say that if you’re reliable & loyal to YahooWeather for accurate weather, (girls) you’ll ultimately end up covering your hair from the frizz zombies due to a lack of knowledge about the actual forecasting. Because YahooWeather has nothing accurate about it. Except for what kind of moon there will be. And what time the sun rises and sets. That’s it. I’ll check it before I ride my motorcycle and it will say zero chance of precipitation, and it will be raining on my Fing head. Zero chance of rain means no clouds. For a thousand miles. Period. Find a different app. Or suffer from the frizz zombies

by Roctor11

I have found this site to be a more accurate source than any of the channels on telly. Perhaps, it is because I have moment-to-moment access; then again, The Weather Channel does, purportedly, yet, whilst they are fairly impressive with guessing Atlanta's weather, we in Brentwood TN are a veritable afterthought. (Plus, Channel 5's lovely Daphne can only be one place at a time ... 🙄😊😎💟✝️!)

This site has played "dead" a few times on me and I would appreciate that being ameliorated in the future. Still, I cannot expect perfxn out of man-made devices. Thank you for your service and attention to excellence.

by Blind As A Bat In The Dark

I think this is a great app! Beautiful pics, 10 days out, and the current time in each city you build into your list. Not to mention all the little extras like the wind speed, the humidity, and even the moon phases. I think it has the moon phases. If not, yahoo, can you please add that in? Thanks! And...I LOVE it that it is so easy to alphabetize your list! That right there was a game changer for me. I love it also, that when you’re on the road, and you check the weather, the location that you are in is the first forecast that comes up. I love YahooWeather!!!