More accurate weather widget?

Can anyone recommend a more accurate weather widget than the default Apple one? I don't need a ton of information, just something which at least maybe divides the day into a.m. and p.m. (so that if you see a rain cloud you don't think it's going to rain all day for example), plus better accuracy, if that's possible to get (seems like it should be).

This one?
http://www.apple.com/downloads/dashboard/information/theweatherchannelmacwidget. html
If you do a Google search on "weather widget mac", you'll see other choices.

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I cannot get my city of Vancouver, BC into the weather widget. I hit the i button and a Canadian postal code does not work. How do I change it to a Canadian city please?

PS I find Environment Canada's forecasts to be more accurate than the ones in the Apple widget. Apple's widget is predicting sun for Tuesday, and Environment Canada is predicting rain all week. I guess three days from now we'll know who's right.
You can sign up to get the EC forecast e-mailed to you daily. I get mine at 7:00am.
http://www.weatheroffice.pyr.ec.gc.ca/e-products/Disclaimer_e.aspx
Or you can go here with Safari: http://www.weatheroffice.gc.ca/city/pages/bc-74metrice.html and select "Open in Dashboard" to add your own widget of the Environment Canada Vancouver forecast. Not nearly as pretty as Apple's, but more accurate IME.

Weather widget - location

On my yoga 2 10 tablet I would like two weather widgets. One for my current location and the other for the city where my daughter lives. How do I prevent widget two from defaulting to my current location?

I actually somehow broke it on my lenovo phone, but i think that i have 2 different lenovo weather widgets, and i can use them separatelly with different cities, but i don't know how i did that. One more stupid thing about lenovo weather widget is that you can't change the weather provider, as accuweather is not very accurate. I'll check how i did that if you like to use exactly the lenovo widget.
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Hi
The site is www.heritageharbourcommunity.com
My site opens on a three column fixed page with header and footer. I have been able to define the area between the nav bar and footer as editable. When I go to incontext and try to make that area editable through incontext it seems fine until I test it. I receive a message that the area is not editable and I can make regions editable through incontext. Only the right most column has a dashed line around it. From that I assume the problem is with the weather widget in column 1 and the slide show in column 2.
All of my other pages are single column and seem to work well with incontext. Any suggestions? Thanks...Morgan

Hello MoBet,
InContext Editing regions cannot contain Flash or JavaScript content, so you should wrap the sections you want to have editable with div tags to separate them from this content. For example:
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<script type="text/javascript" src="weatherwidget/weatherwidget.js"></script>

<noscript><a href="http://www.dwuser.com/" title="Dreamweaver Extensions">Dreamweaver Extensions by DWUser.com</a></noscript><script type="text/javascript">
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WeatherWidget({swf:'weatherwidget/weatherwidget.swf',w:'180',h:'125',redirect:'',textColor :'#FFFFFF',bgColor:'#98082E',bgAlpha:'100',useBevel:'true',loc:'34212',units:'e',loadingTe xt:'Loading...',humidityText:'Humidity: ',windText:'Wind: '});// ]]>
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      <h3>Community Garage Sale</h3>
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      <p>It’s time to start thinking about what you want to dispose of around your house and in your garage. Our annual garage sale is just the ticket for unloading your treasures. Once again, the sale will be held at the Beacon Park Soccer Fields on February 6, 2010. This is a monster event and it attracts a huge crowd of buyers. Cost is $10 per space which allows you to park your car and set up right behind it. Applications are available at the Stoneybrook Recreation Center. Space is limited so it pays to sign up early. All applicants will be called just prior to the sale with full details. Call Anita or Lan Janecek at 746-3730 with your questions.</p>
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You will then be able to make individual editable regions for the two sidebar elements. Do the same for the center column:
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      <p>Helping Hands of Stoneybrook will host a breakfast with Santa for the children of Stoneybrook December 5th from 9:00 to 10:30 a.m. at the Stoneybrook Recreation Center. Sign up at the Stoneybrook Recreation Center or call Cathy Faust (941) 747-7379 for details.</p>
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      <h3><img src="images/two_little_girls.JPG" width="155" height="153" align="right" />Adopt a Family</h3>
<p>A number of Heritage Harbour residents have been lending a hand in Santa’s Southern Workshop this month as he gears up to help needy families for Christmas. The workshop is run by Adopt a Family and provides Christmas gifts to the children of families who have applied and are residing in Manatee County. </p>
      <p> Most days you’ll find Patti Sue Peotter-Bettes, a Stoneybrook resident, taking applications at the warehouse which was donated for the use of Adopt a Family. Louise Blank has been helping with applications as well. If you see her, ask her about the families and children she’s talked to. Janet and Luis Hidalgo have been indispensable in their role as Spanish translators. Many of the families are Spanish speaking and Luis and Janet Hidaldo help the interviewers learn the sizes of the children and what things they would like Santa to bring them. <a href="documents/adopt__family.pdf">more </a></p>
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Best regards,
Corey

Weather Widget bug: doesn't display full city name initially

I have a brand-new Mac Mini.
The weather widget is configured incorrectly if you go through the default set-up process for Philadelphia.
I went through the standard Mac OS X first-time setup, telling it my location (Philadelphia, USA). This pre-configured my time zone correctly for east coast, but for some reason pre-configured my weather widget for Philadelphia, NY (instead of the MUCH more likely Philadelphia, PA).
BUT it just said "Philadelphia" on the widget, and in the widget settings, so it looked correct... it took me a week to figure out why the weather data was always so wrong. It was just on a whim that I tried re-entering the location in the settings (even though it appeared to be correct.)
Really, it should be smart enough to assume the larger city, but at the very least the widget should have displayed "Philadelphia, NY" in the settings instead of just "Philadelphia".

I can't help with a fix but I can confirm seeing the same behavior, not only with the 'snow' image but with others. It is very erratic: sometimes the city name underlines & I get the hand pointer on mouse overs, sometimes no underline but the hand pointer, sometimes nothing but a flicker of the hand that reverts to the arrow as soon as the pointer comes to a stop over the name.
Worse, this seems to have little to do with the ability to click through to the web page. Sometimes there is no visual pointer change or underline cue but the link is live; other times it isn't.
Try this: Cmd-option-clicking on the weather graphic icon cycles through all the graphics & changes the location to "Nowhere." Cute, but sometimes "Nowhere" sticks as the location the next time Dashboard is displayed, sometimes not. Other anomolies have been noted in other threads, too.
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Apple weather widget

Does anyone by chance know if in the new iOS 6 which I have installed on my iPhone they will update the weather widget to show a real time temperature dispaly instead of the constant 73' icon. Or at least can they give the option of having the temperature displayed by the battery icon or wi-fi 3G/4G icon. It would be nice if the weather widget was a little more up to date considering todays technologies... Just a thought.

We are all users here, just like you. But you can tell Apple about your wishes here:
Apple - iPhone - Feedback
And there are many 3rd party weather apps in the Store as well.

Weather Widget Disappears

After installing Leopard, I am having two regular issues with Widgets. 1) My weather widgets (I generally keep two of these on my dashboard) disappear. If I have one or more open in my dashboard, it (they) slowly seems to "creep" up the screen until it's gone. Then I re-load new ones. It seems as if they're simply up off the screen somewhere, in which case I might have 20 weather widgets currently running.
2) my Webclips almost never load on their own. I have to click on them and hit Cmd+R to get them to re-load.

I'm also having the same problem. One thing I've done to clean up weather widgets that have managed to escape to the top of the screen before I catch them and move them back down is use the "Manage Widgets" widget to disable the Weather widget and then re-enable it. This kills all the weather widgets so I don't have any hanging. Unfortunately it means I need to replace and reset all the widgets. I'm running the widgets on a secondary monitor, so I wonder if that is related.
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Weather widget defaults to Cupertino

Hello all, I have 4 weather Widgets on Dashboard. These are for Bridgewater USA, Montpellier France and Bergen and Oslo Norway. 4 times of 5 when I fire up the dashboard for the first time i.e. after booting the computer from shut down, at least 2 or 3 of them list Cupertino- Now I know that I am a Machead deluxe - have had my hands on almost every model since 1984, this sort of flattery is too much to bear. If I spin them (i - icon) the location shows correctly i.e. Montpellier but on return to the Weather interface Cupertino is still there - with Cupertino's weather by the way. The only way I can force the weather is by opening the Accuweather site or by closing the Dashboard and re-opening it. Even this does not always do the trick and I have to re-locate the weather location by deleting the Montpellier that is there and re-entering it anew. Yet lo and behold - when I n´reboot again we are back to the 4 of 5 times etc. Any good ideas on this one??

Same problem here (had begun with Tiger). Having once displayed widget content and discovered that in moonphases folder there are only 24 icons (when there are 28 days in a complete mooncycle, I wonder if this could explain the fact that the cupertino icon appears frequently some days and then no more for a quite long time. For me the Cupertino appearing icon is always a nightly one.
May be somebody with more knowledge than me in software could check it ?

Weather widget date screwed up post 01/01/09

Hi. I'm in New Zealand, and as of yesterday my weather widgets are showing the wrong day. It's Saturday morning here, and any New Zealand (or Australian) city I add on my dashboard displays as Friday. Up until a day or so ago this has never been a problem. I've called a few other Mac-users in NZ, and they're all having the same problem, where the dates/forcasts on their weather widgets seem to have defaulted back to American time zones. Any other non-Americans having this issue? Thanks.

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Weather widget bug? - dont show my city

After upgrade from 10.5.8 to 10.6.0 (and 10.6.3) weather widget dont show my city - Radom, Poland(Mazowieckie).
My city is not small (over 250.000 people). Widget show smalest cites around my location, but Radom no.
Ealier version weather widget correct show weather in my city (10.5.8 system in other computer). It is bug or future?
Is possible to delete new version (system 10.6.3) of weather widget and install old widget? (from system 10.5.8)

Only certain more major cities are listed. You need to find a major city near your's, and listed in the widget's list, and use their weather lisitng. Obviously not ALL cities are listed.
Hope this helps

Weather widget replacement for Windows 7

I work as an IT for a small business. And I believe that Microsoft once again has removed one more of their products that was sold to us. I keep getting tech support calls about weather widget not working on Windows 7 desktops installed in our offices. I
need to replace this:
with something that actually shows a weather forecast and runs on a Windows 7 desktop.
Any ideas?

Ok,
There is a serious issue with the Widgets platform, that has been clearly stated before. If you are not technically oriented, maybe you should use any of the other alternatives on the replies for your question (except the answer to look out the
window which is between silly and idiotic, plus mean.
Now, if you *do* want to fix the widget. The solution is somewhere else and is basically to "touch" a configuration file and restarting the widget. The solution is temporary so a [hopefully] definitive solution is exposed on the thread and
is basically locking down the file after "touching" it, with a date in the future.
The solution is
http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_7-desktop/weather-gadget-not-working-cannot-connect-to/6707d8b4-1a37-4412-a609-5677c9b99a7a?page=27&tab=question&status=AllReplies%2CAllReplies
As to why someone would want to run such an outdated and unsafe piece of software? Simple: Some people do not mind, and in fact are willing to take responsibility (to him/herself) if somehting bad happens to the system, plus this particular
widget is simple, unobtrusive, light (doesn't slow anything down), not spammy and is "always there" to glance at instead of going to a website as someone suggested. It reminds me in fact of the beautiful Windows 8 Weather app.
So, some people may still want to run this widget. Above is the solution to this pestering issue.
Since you are the IT for other people, not for yourself, I do recommend to use an alternate product.

Z1 COMPACT WEATHER WIDGET GONE IN LOLLIPOP

I updated to 5.0.2 lollipop and my weather widget is gone. There's only a block with some clouds where the widget was and nothing more except for "No network connection" written in the block over the clouds, but I do have network connection (E, H and LTE). Oh, and a grey "no entry" sign in the middle of the clouds. The widget worked perfectly with KitKat just before the update. I did a "Power off" and also a "Restart". I can access AccuWeather via my broswer though. The GPS is also working fine.
Solved!
Go to Solution.

See these topics:
https://talk.sonymobile.com/t5/Xperia-Z3-Z3-Dual/Lollipop-lock-screen-widgets/m-p/969050#M13926
https://talk.sonymobile.com/t5/Xperia-Z3-Z3-Dual/Weather-app-home-page-Weather-i-calendar/m-p/956002...
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Nokia Weather Widget for E6

I tried installing the Nokia Weather Widget on my E6 but for some unknown reason, I cant open it when installed. I am currently using the AccuWeather Shortcut but I prefer to see the weather updated on the screen rather than to have to open the app everytime I want to know the weather. Any suggestions?

Sorry rancebobo, I was talking at cross purposes - thinking of the app in Maps Suite 2.0. Perhaps Nokia is abandoning the E6. It's no longer listed on the Danish website and none of the Belle improvement out so far seem to have become available for it.
I bought an E6 because my E72 had lagged way behind, and hey presto! IMHO the E6 has already been hobbled.
I'll certainly buy a new Nokia if it does what I want, but when I pay good money for a phone I don't expect it to run out of steam before Midsummer of the year I bought it.
Smile away?
PS
On the subject of good weather forecasts/reports, I use YR.NO - which also has English menus so don'y get put off by the Norwegian. It's not an app as such, but in my experience it's accurate both in Scandinavia and the UK.
hughm_nyksj_dk

Weather Widget data?

Does anyone know the source of the Weather Widget data? (ie. Accuweather or TWC another). I did an inspect the IP data from my STB which indicated the source of the data (169.254.1.42), but ns reverse lookup only provided:
OrgName: Internet Assigned Numbers Authority
OrgID: IANA
Address: 4676 Admiralty Way, Suite 330
City: Marina del Rey
StateProv: CA
PostalCode: 90292-6695
Country: US
NetRange: 169.254.0.0 - 169.254.255.255
CIDR: 169.254.0.0/16
NetName: LINKLOCAL
NetHandle: NET-169-254-0-0-1
Parent: NET-169-0-0-0-0
NetType: IANA Special Use
NameServer: BLACKHOLE-1.IANA.ORG
NameServer: BLACKHOLE-2.IANA.ORG
Comment: Please see RFC 3330 for additional information.
RegDate: 1998-01-27
Updated: 2002-10-14

thetick wrote:
Does anyone know the source of the Weather Widget data? (ie. Accuweather or TWC another). I did an inspect the IP data from my STB which indicated the source of the data (169.254.1.42), but ns reverse lookup only provided:
OrgName: Internet Assigned Numbers Authority
OrgID: IANA
Address: 4676 Admiralty Way, Suite 330
City: Marina del Rey
StateProv: CA
PostalCode: 90292-6695
Country: US
NetRange: 169.254.0.0 - 169.254.255.255
CIDR: 169.254.0.0/16
NetName: LINKLOCAL
NetHandle: NET-169-254-0-0-1
Parent: NET-169-0-0-0-0
NetType: IANA Special Use
NameServer: BLACKHOLE-1.IANA.ORG
NameServer: BLACKHOLE-2.IANA.ORG
Comment: Please see RFC 3330 for additional information.
RegDate: 1998-01-27
Updated: 2002-10-14
Not sure where you got the IP address from, but as listed in the wikipedia article, it is only used for local comms. Most of use have a 192.168.x.y IP address on our STBs. This is just used to communicate to the rotuer that then will nat the address out.
I know this doesn't answer your real question though. My guess is either accuweather or weatherchannel. Try going to either one of these sites and enter your zipcode (same as you did in the widget). See which forecast more closely matches.
If a forum member gives an answer you like, give them the Kudos they deserve. If a member gives you the answer to your question, mark the answer as Accepted Solution so others can see the solution to the problem.

Changing weather widget default location

Hello,
My Mom has a G4 running OS 10.4.11. She likes to use the weather widget (I never use widgets). However, the default location changed to another city. All I'd like to know is how I can change it back to the city or zip code she lives in. Thanks a lot for your time and assistance.

hi
What weather widget?
Identifying the exact app would help enormously with providing a solution.
Some of these have a 'rollover' functionality so you wont always see the component you are trying to identify. Move the mouse around the widget face.
FWIW- AccuWeathers widget has been playing up[for a month or more]. They have been cycling their urls on the site (witness broken bookmarks too) and mine has broken frequently, based on SQL or whatever location the widget has to look up.
It does restore, but IME has rebroken several times. Good luck.
dave

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