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- Price: Free
- Operating system: Windows 95, Windows Me, Windows NT, Windows XP, Windows 2000, Windows 98
- Date added: March 10, 2004
- Total Downloads: 48,405
- Downloads last week: 119
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- CNET editors' rating: stars
- Average user rating: stars out of 39 votes
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CNET editors' review
Reviewed by: CNET Staff
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.
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- Average user rating: 3.4 stars out of 39 votes
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2 out of 3 people found this review helpful
Version: Weather Exchange 1.09
"it looks like the controls of an aircraft"
Pros: IT HAS MOON PHASES
ALSO HUMUIDITY
SUNRISE AND SUNFALL TIME
WORKS FOR UK WEATHER
AVERAGE WEATHER STATS WORKS (LINK)
NO SPYWARE
Cons: IT ALSO HAS STAR CONFIGARATION (LINK) BUT THIS IS A LITTLE COMPLEX, FOR A BEGINNER. THOUGH THE PLOUGH IS NORTH, URSA MINOR. THE INERNET LINK FROM THE PROGRAM ALSO LEADS TO MAPS, SEE THE MOVING MAP.
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8 out of 11 people found this review helpful
Version: Weather Exchange 1.09
Pros: easy to use, timely info, the alerts are very helpful
Cons: non that i have experienced
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0 out of 2 people found this review helpful
Version: Weather Exchange 1.09
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3 out of 3 people found this review helpful
Version: Weather Exchange 1.09
Pros: I have tired WeatherBug, Weather Channel, Weather Watcher and others. This is the best that I have used. You are linked to Weather Underground which on their radar you can the storm track feature, which is free not like some others that charge you for the upgrade.
Cons: Wish you could zoom in to street level.
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2 out of 4 people found this review helpful
Version: Weather Exchange 1.09
"If you are into weather this is it!"
Pros: Connects to the closet weather satellite for your town, and gives you all the information you could ask for including animated maps and alerts, and one big plus, it's free!
Cons: None!
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