The Weather Channel App for Windows puts you just one click away from customized, timely weather information and critical severe weather alerts. Features include: Beautiful weather-triggered imagery for a deeper weather connection. Local temperature and severe weather notification in your system tray. An immersive weather forecast screen displays current conditions and hourly forecasts. Completely redesigned look with a more elegant and simplified user interface. Larger, easier-to-read interactive radar maps with additional layers so you can display more information related to radar, clouds, UV index, rainfall and more. Offers lifestyle integration to see how weather affects everyday activities, including pollen, beauty, and cold and flu forecasts. Compatible with a mouse or touch interface, it's device-friendly for desktops and laptops. Enhanced video experience including updated news, weather forecasts and featured content from TWC on television.
A miracle! Somehow the makers of this crapware stay in business.
You get a lot of unwanted extras with this app: malware, browser changes, search engine changes, all in a very hard-to-remove package. If you enjoy those kinds of things - and more - then this is the weather app for you!
"RUN AWAY ! ! !"
If you can isolate the app and kill all the attached malware, it is pretty helpful.
I can't believe that an organization like The Weather Channel would agree to attach advertisement malware to this very useful tool...... boy was I wrong.
*It gives you the weather.
I was looking for a simple weather application and had assumed that The Weather Channel would be a good place to get one. I was completely wrong. Not only does the application not work half of the time, it bogs down my system when its doing it (Intel i7 Processor with 12 GB of RAM!!!). Assuming I had been infected, I ran Malwarebytes to find that it did contain malware.
Do not install this program!!
Thank you for your post. I thought that it was just me. I can't believe that an organization like The Weather Channel would agree to attach advertisement malware to this very useful tool...... boy was I wrong. After the installation, it is possible to locate the 3 (or more) unrequested "malware" programs that were attached and uninstall them. It was a lot of work and took a lot of time but now the app works as originally designed. I would suggest that you STAY AWAY ! ! !
Convenient when it didn't crash, but crash it did.
I wrote a review earlier saying that the app didn't work very well and often created script and other errors. Often showed no data and was convinced that I had no internet connection.(I did)After they issued an update I decided to try again. After installing, my computer dragged along - it seemed to use way too much processor. Finally I got the dreaded "blue screen" and decided that it had to be the weather channel app. I uninstalled and my computer is running smooth and fast again. Running Win 7. I recommend that you stay away.
This app and a few others were installed without my permission when I downloaded Filezilla. I never even installed Filezilla, just downloaded it. Malwarebytes identified the exe as a Trojan and wiped it out. Beware!
Version 7.59.99 includes future radar and animation, precipitation start/stop timing for next 6 hours, horizontal hourly forecast, snow accumulation forecast, Thanksgiving, Hanukkah, and Christmas themes, improved 5-day forecast layout, and various bug fixes.