The Weather Network

The Weather Network Review: Usable in the US, Built for Canada First

What US users get: °F, NWS alerts and Canada-only extras

Every forecast tool is free: hourly, 7-day and 14-day outlooks, radar and severe weather alerts. For US use, switch to Fahrenheit under Settings. With current location on, forecasts are calculated for your coordinates down to about 1 km (0.6 miles), and the App Store screenshots show a National Weather Service Winter Weather Advisory for Milwaukee County. The Canadian wiring shows elsewhere. The red, orange and yellow alert colors apply only to Environment and Climate Change Canada warnings, and the highway conditions map covers Canada only. When we opened the website's New York forecast page on October 1, 2026, its news strip led with Canadian stories.

Precipitation Page: 10-minute rain bars for the next 3 hours

The Precipitation Page opens when rain or snow is close and splits into a Next 3 hours tab and a Next 24 hours tab. The 3-hour view stacks bars in 10-minute steps, green for rain, blue for snow and pink for ice, and prints a plain line such as "Rain stops at 2:40PM" above the graph. The full map opens on radar whenever precipitation is due within 3 hours, and its Precipitation layer runs up to 5 days ahead. Two newer tools earn their space: a Fire & Smoke layer that tracks wildfire smoke drift and a Monthly Calendar comparing each day with historical averages. AccuWeather's MinuteCast, by its App Store listing, looks four hours ahead; the 10-minute graph here stops at three.

Ad Free at $6.99 a year: cheaper than rivals, with caveats

In the US App Store, the Ad Free Subscription costs $1.99 a month or $6.99 a year; check the current price in the app, as it varies by region. Pelmorex reset its plans in November 2025, adding a 7-day free trial for new yearly subscribers and keeping old prices only until each subscription ran out. One App Store reviewer reported a June 2026 renewal notice raising the yearly plan from $2.99 to $6.99. Even so, the yearly plan undercuts The Weather Channel's Ad Free at $9.99, WeatherBug's at $10.99 and AccuWeather Premium+ at $29.99. The limits: it covers only the app on the store account that bought it, never the website, and Play reviewers from May to August 2026 describe repeatedly tapping Restore Purchases to hide ads again.

Privacy label vs. policy: location, ad networks and Canadian servers

Apple's privacy label says location, identifiers and usage data may be used to track you across other companies' apps. Google Play's Data safety form says nothing is shared with third parties, yet the privacy policy, last reviewed April 14, 2025, names Google Ad Manager, Google DV 360 and The Trade Desk among networks that receive information to serve ads. The same policy says Pelmorex sells aggregated insights, buys precise location data from outside suppliers, captures app sessions with Microsoft Clarity and stores user data in cloud servers within Canada. It has no section on US state privacy rights, and the terms of use put disputes under Ontario law. CBC News reported in 2017 that Pelmorex bought the mobile ad firm Addictive Mobility.