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- Price: Free
- Operating system: Windows Me, Windows NT, Windows XP, Windows 2000, Windows 98
- Date added: November 27, 2005
- Total Downloads: 1,207,776
- Downloads last week: 1,402
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- CNET editors' rating: stars
- Average user rating: stars out of 651 votes
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CNET editors' review
Reviewed by: Jessica Dolcourt on November 08, 2008
This updated weather application offers a smorgasbord of weather-related data. Once you've provided a zip code or city, Weather Watcher's easy-to-use interface displays detailed weather information, including forecasts, temperature, and expected highs and lows. You can add as many locations as you'd like and switch among them using the system-tray icon.
Automatic updates keep you abreast of the current wind speed, dew point, humidity, barometric pressure, and moon phases. You can display your location's current weather conditions by mousing over the temperature readout in your system tray. Weather Watcher provides extensive customizations, measurement conversions, and numerous maps from all over the globe, and a log for quick reference. You can view weather data with hourly and daily forecasts, and create a keyword list to filter severe weather alerts.
The application also features a wallpaper changer for your desktop using several file formats, including JPEG, GIF, BMP, and HTML. Our only serious complaint is its hefty 19MB memory usage. Overall, though, this informative, customizable program can benefit a wide range of users, and it's free to boot. This is a top pick.
Publisher's description
From Singer's Creations :Automatically retrieve the current conditions, hourly forecast, daily forecast, detailed forecast, severe weather alerts, and weather maps for over 77,000 cities world-wide. The current conditions can be quickly viewed by holding your mouse pointer over the Weather Watcher system tray icon. Weather Watcher will allow you to automatically retrieve your weather data at a set interval, display the current temperature in a customized tray icon, display the current condition image in a tray icon, designate which weather information is displayed in the Weather Watcher system tray tooltip, convert the weather data using almost any conversion, display a weather map as your desktop wallpaper, log the weather data in any format, export the weather data in any format, customize the look of the Weather Watcher interface and icons via skins, and much more.
Version 5.6.2 red bar across the top of the Splendid forecast skin to display the current severe weather alert, when available.
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User reviews of Weather Watcher 5.6.2
- Average user rating: 4.1 stars out of 651 votes
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1 out of 2 people found this review helpful
Version: Weather Watcher 5.6.2
"NOW I can recommend this ap!"
Pros: Great interface, and I like the fact that there is lots of information on the main panel, that some programs spread out over two or three panels. It's also pretty small, stable and reliable. Easily among the best. It beats Weatherbug if only by not being so ad-laden.
This program used to install some kind of spyware toolbar, but I'm glad the author saw the light and removed it; now it's truly free!
Cons: Interface isn't skinnable (which means nothing for functionality, of course), as some other programs are. Other than that, I really can't complain about this one. It does just one thing and does it well.
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1 out of 1 people found this review helpful
Version: Weather Watcher 5.6.2
Pros: No spyware or pop-ups
Cons: Not enough text information provided about forcast such as probable snow acumalation.
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1 out of 1 people found this review helpful
Version: Weather Watcher 5.6.2
Pros: I don't know what Toulinwoek is talking about, Singer has NEVER included any spyware with his Weather Watcher, and it IS skinnable. This is by far the best weather program available, it has NO ads of any kind, it's clean & easy to use, has all kinds of configurable options, and is absolutely free. I've used it since it's first version and it just keeps getting better. Try it, I guarantee you'll like it better than any other weather program out there.
Cons: None!
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Version: Weather Watcher 5.6.2
"Great! and low memory footprint"
Pros: An all-around stellar program. The best feature is one you barely see: when you minimize it to the tray, its memory consumption instantly drops to less than 1 MB (it creeps up a little after that, but doesn't hog anything like the memory that other weather tray programs do).
Cons: Haven't found any yet.
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