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- Price: Free
- Operating system: Windows Me, Windows NT, Windows XP, Windows 2000, Windows 98
- Date added: May 02, 2006
- 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 5.6.8 adds PNG wallpaper support; "Add New City..." at the top of the "Change Active City" system tray menu item.
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User reviews of Weather Watcher 5.6.8
- Average user rating: 4.1 stars out of 651 votes
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4 out of 9 people found this review helpful
Version: Weather Watcher 5.6.8
Pros: I have used weather programs like this & they all tend to be good for people living in the US
Cons: None, But if anyone in Australia is looking for a great Australian weather program I suggest Dulux Weather shield you can find the link on the weatherzone website just do a google search
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2 out of 2 people found this review helpful
Version: Weather Watcher 5.6.8
"Doesn't use a lot of resources - very user friendly."
Pros: Ease of use, and doesn't use a lot of resources. Customize to your liking.
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2 out of 2 people found this review helpful
Version: Weather Watcher 5.6.8
"clean code; intuitive interface; free"
Pros: I had been using WUnderground.com for my reports because of the massively intrusive popups weather.com allowed, but when I found WeatherWatcher I found that's all I needed. Competent design; responsive to users' requests; no crashes or hangs; a great list of options. Love the wallpaper feature, and although I'm not a 'skin freak' I like the new one. Kudos. (Also, pay the man - it's worth it.)
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Version: Weather Watcher 5.6.8
"A perfect desktop weather station & very easy to understand."
Pros: The weather maps are of great value for planning any outdoor activities and see what is happening around the world.
Cons: What isn't there to not like?
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2 out of 3 people found this review helpful
Version: Weather Watcher 5.6.8
"This little program has been uncannily accurate."
Pros: Weather Watcher has been better than 95% accurate for the Central Upstate New York region. It provides data for about any sort of information you could want. I could not be more pleased, and recommend it highly. Another nice feature is, it allows you to shut off the Pop-up ads that are attached to it, something many others do not provide. All in all, this program earns an A+. You can contribute to its designer, if you like it, and I will.... it's that good.
Cons: I only wish I'd known of it earlier, before getting stuck with less user friendly programs.
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