CNET Editors' review
This free application provides a smorgasbord of weather-related information and a healthy set of features. Weather Exchange shows a variety of local, regional, and global maps, some of which can be animated. However, the interface does display some distracting ads and cannot be resized to a full-screen view. Entering your ZIP code or city lets you check out the local radar, and you even can see details such as the temperature, dew point, and wind speed in select neighborhoods. Clicking over to the Maps section reveals that this program hasn't forgotten the big picture. After choosing a continent, you then can view colorful maps that display information such as temperature, wind chill, humidity, UV rating, fronts, and heat index. You'll find a section that details pending natural disasters, and you even can set a number of alarms to alert you when a certain condition changes. We can see how Weather Exchange will be useful to just about any user, but those with an intense interest in meteorology are sure to be especially pleased.
Publisher's Description
From Ambient Weather:
The Weather Exchange is a free PC desktop application that accesses live community weather from the world's largest free personal weather station network. The Weather Exchange also provides up to the minute forecasts, radar, warnings, and detailed weather maps, keeping you instantly informed of any changes in the weather. The Weather Exchange displays a tremendous array of real-time and animated regional and national weather maps. Colored coded temperature, wind chill, humidity, dew point, UV, wind, jet stream, radar, visibility, satellite, fronts, snow, and air-quality maps turn even the casual weather observer into a meteorologist.
The Weather Exchange sounds personal alarms you set based on wind speed, wind chill, temperature, humidity, barometric pressure, rainfall, dew point, and heat index, each customized for your favorite station or network of stations. The Weather Exchange hides away, and can display the temperature and weather advisory/alarm level on your taskbar.
What's new in this version: Version 1.32 may include unspecified updates, enhancements, or bug fixes.
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"Improper grammar w/ high or low- It's not highs or lows"
Version: Weather Exchange 1.32
Pros
I found the content to be accurate and it's excellent to be able to get a visual through the various webcams.
Cons
Improper grammar can be disconcerting when you observe growing children exposed to it. This is especially true when it comes to the high or low of the day. It is true; that if one was referring to all the of the cites of a given area it may be proper to say we'll have a variety of highs and lows. However a person is stating only one tempereture for a city and surrounding areas, there is only one high or low (not highs or lows) being stated for or in that given place.
Summary
I suggest if you use this source for your media outlet, that you inform your announcers or editors to make the correction before publishing. As a consequence we won't have to cringe to an announcer or hear a child say "we're going to have a HIGHS near 40 today!" Aaugh!
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"Gives me weather for a specific neighborhood"
Version: Weather Exchange 1.32
Pros
1. My setup has it launching at startup with the program hidden, which puts my local weather in my taskbar. I like that place better than on my desktop.
2. I get no warning messages from PC Matic, unlike when I used The Weather Channel's desktop.Cons
None so far.
Summary
I subscribe to Weather Underground, so I was happy to find a way to put personal weather station info in my taskbar.
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"Excellent desktop weather product"
Version: Weather Exchange 1.32
Pros
Comprehensive interface. Easy to use. Many easy to understand features. Browser independent. Delivers the goods, and it's free.
Cons
None so far.
Summary
Immediately after installing Weather Exchange, I liked it better than The Weather Channel Desktop, which I had been using for years and which continually had one problem after another, including regular Internet Explorer scripting errors and not being able to start up on occasion. The Weather Channel Desktop also annoyingly issues almost daily the same cell phone usage survey over and over and over and over and over again. The big plus is that Weather Exchange is associated with Weather Underground, which is far superior to The Weather Channel.
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