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- Price: Free
- Operating system: Windows Me, Windows NT, Windows XP, Windows 2000, Windows 98
- Date added: May 21, 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. 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 5.6.9 adds: HTML wallpaper format in "Wallpaper" options; ability to toggle between old wallpaper changer and new Active Desktop wallpaper changer in "Wallpaper" options.
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User reviews of Weather Watcher 5.6.9
- Average user rating: 4.1 stars out of 651 votes
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14 out of 16 people found this review helpful
Version: Weather Watcher 5.6.9
Pros: NO Ads, NO pop ups. Priceless! Also like the ability to select your favorite weather map.
Cons: Can't seem to select the wallpaper for a weather map that I found on the internet.
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15 out of 19 people found this review helpful
Version: Weather Watcher 5.6.9
"Best free weather monitor available"
Pros: No spyware or adware, easy installation and setup, low resource usage, fast updates.
Cons: Selecting maps is a bit tedious.
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1 out of 1 people found this review helpful
Version: Weather Watcher 5.6.9
"One of the BEST Weather Programs"
Pros: I was using Weather Pulse for so long time. But one of my friends recommended me this program. I'm truly very satisfied with this program. Its better than Weather Pulse.
Try it out.. Great Stuff..
Cons: No Cons at all :)
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3 out of 5 people found this review helpful
Version: Weather Watcher 5.6.9
"Great little program; does just what it says it will, and what you want."
Pros: This is my second positive review of this fine program.
This program has proven to be more than 90 to 95% accurate for me, in Upstate Central New York, which is better than our local NBC affiliate's record, (although their Chief Meteorologist is much prettier). There are so many ways you can set this program to give you the output you want; it is truly customizable. Although it comes with AD-Ware attached, it tells you how to eliminate that option, easily, if you do not want it, and it works, just like that. In short, "Try it, you'll like it."
Cons: Getting the maps is not as smooth a process as one might like. Each time you change from one map, to another, e.g., precipitation to barometric pressures, you are forced to go back to the beginning of the map choosing process (having to choose the Country, then the area, etc.) This is far from a reason not to use it, however. Otherwise, a great program.
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