But like so many they turned commercial and kicked off all the hobbyists that made them big. It was a really nasty move. I have never found a suitable replacement. I don't know what it is about weather that gives people so much greed.
The only "bad" thing Weather Underground did was they ended their free API for non-contributors. [1]
I believe personal weather station contributors still get free access to a different API that wunderground moved to. [2][3]
[2] https://docs.google.com/document/d/1eKCnKXI9xnoMGRRzOL1xPCBi...
[3] https://github.com/cytech/Home-Assistant-wundergroundpws/?ta...
It was a wonderful community-driven service and they basically canned the whole community, and moved to focus on commercial users. I think that's very bad. Even the site is totally useless now. Only crap news and some basic weather reports but it's very hard to find anything community generated.
What's worst though is that no alternative emerged. I had expected that to happen. It's sad that community alternatives always end up selling out. The same with ADS-B Explorer.
Yes, their acquisition by IBM really messed things up. I went from totally loving the app to uninstalling it and never looking back.
Definitely going to feed my local data to weather.gov.