AccuWeather Platinum vs Weather Underground

Accuweather's prediction of "Now" includes a list of weather details and suggestions under My AccuWeather for DIY Projects, Fishing & Game, Outdoor Fitness, Respiratory Health, and Travel.

AccuWeather uses Google's suggested app structure for displaying categories with scrolling tabs similar to the Play Store for "Locations," "Now," and "Hourly" etc. The UI is very clean and functional but not as visually appealing as other weather application such as Yahoo Weather.

AccuWeather offers a free version of the application with all of the same features but it includes annoying banner ads at the bottom.

AccuWeather is somewhat middle of the pack concerning map options. The maps are live but there are only two options for map types: radar and cloud cover.

They have a proprietary real feel temperature which tells you how the temperature feels taking into account direct sunlight and wind.

The AccuWeather application includes useful weather widgets in both the 4x1 and 4x2 size.

AccuWeather offers video forecasts in English and many in Spanish.

Weather Underground is packed with useful information and its charts are some of the best. Access to temperature, precipitation, and wind changes all on one chart make it easy to make predictions on when the storm will hit or the best times to be outside.

One of Weather Underground's biggest differentiating factors is the option to contribute to the weather forecast. Weather Underground offers both "sky reports" and "hazard reports" as methods for crowd reporting. Sky report allows users to report on the accuracy on the current weather forecast in their current location with either a check for correct or x for incorrect. This addition can help improve the accuracy of the weather forecasts with real eyes in the skys to check their accuracy. Hazard report allows users to report flooding, power outages, road debris, high surf, slippery roads, white out, and roads unplowed to warn other users in the area.

Wunderground supports crowdfunded weather data so you can setup and read the weather from your house.

Like most other weather applications, Weather Underground includes banner advertisements but in this application they don't feel as intrusive. Weather Underground included them at the top of the screen, out of the way of accidental touches, and they are smaller than the normal banner advertisement. If you decide to remove the advertisements, it is $1.99 a year.

Weather Underground offers a very large selection of map options including: radar, temperature, precipitation, crowd reports, IR sat., wind, US fronts, visible sat., regional temp, severe weather, hurricane, active fires, fire risk, and storm tracks. Weather Underground also provides the weather station name and location if you touch each balloon of information on the map. The amount of options can be overwhelming but it is a useful tool if your interested in using it.