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- Price: Free
- Operating system: Windows Me, Windows NT, Windows XP, Windows 2000, Windows 98
- Date added: November 13, 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.
In version 5.6.16, the skinned tooltip window will auto refresh if visible when the weather is updated. Reverted weather download method to the Weather Watcher 5.6.14 download method.
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User reviews of Weather Watcher 5.6.16
- Average user rating: 4.1 stars out of 651 votes
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16 out of 17 people found this review helpful
Version: Weather Watcher 5.6.16
Pros: lots of information, low memory usage, free, no ads! The reason I DON'T use weatherbug or recommend it is because of the ads (it's disputably considered adware). With this program you don't get any ads or any of that extra junk. What you see is what you get! which is how I like programs to be. Even if you're not all into weather, I recommend this program because it tells you a lot about what to expect, current conditions, severe weather warnings and a bunch of other stuff. Give this program a try and you won't be disappointed!
Cons: what cons? I don't see any!
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6 out of 7 people found this review helpful
Version: Weather Watcher 5.6.16
Pros: No ads, popups. Better than Desktop Weather or Weatherbug by far.
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9 out of 9 people found this review helpful
Version: Weather Watcher 5.6.16
"Best online weather checking program."
Pros: i have tried every weather program i can find, and this one is the best.
Cons: the RAM usage is about 13 megs but thats for a LOT of functionality and its still less than most other weather programs. + i would really like to see an option to monitor 2 cities at once instead of only one.
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11 out of 12 people found this review helpful
Version: Weather Watcher 5.6.16
Pros: Comprehensive, nicely laid out and highly configurable. Easy to use - the only utility I've added to my desktop. Six out of five.
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7 out of 7 people found this review helpful
Version: Weather Watcher 5.6.16
"A slick, reliable wx utiltiy."
Pros: WW is a snap to install, highly configurable - and best of all: it works - flawlessly. Snap this gem up!
Cons: None!
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