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- Price: Free
- Operating system: Windows Vista, Windows Me, Windows NT, Windows XP, Windows 2000, Windows 98
- Date added: February 27, 2007
- 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.
Version 5.6.20a removes tray message box that pops up when checking for a new version of Weather Watcher.
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User reviews of Weather Watcher 5.6.20a
- Average user rating: 4.1 stars out of 651 votes
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8 out of 8 people found this review helpful
Version: Weather Watcher 5.6.20a
Pros: I have tried others, but this is the best of them all because the freeware version is the top version. All of the other weather programs ask you to pay for an upgrade to get the special features. It uses very little resources.
Cons: Don't let it update more than once every five minutes or it tends to freeze.
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40 out of 48 people found this review helpful
Version: Weather Watcher 5.6.20a
"Be carefull its a ***** to remove"
Pros: not much
Cons: It would be nice if one was told that this only is for USA locations. For all of us that don't live in the land of the free and home of the brave, too bad. One other thing this program is one ***** to remove, so watch out.
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11 out of 11 people found this review helpful
Version: Weather Watcher 5.6.20a
"Better than Weather Channels Maps"
Pros: You can find the current weather for anywhere in the world in seconds. You get alerts right away and get the weather uploaded every few seconds and it is actually accurate.
Cons: I have seen nothing that I do not like right now. Have had the product for a few months and it only gets better and better
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12 out of 13 people found this review helpful
Version: Weather Watcher 5.6.20a
"Weather Watcher is a must have!"
Pros: It is so quick and easy to find out the forecast! This program is definately top notch. Weather Watcher is by far much better then the Weather Channel's program, which is just awful to use...I couldn't get the Weather Channel's program off my computer fast enough! Save yourself the headache and stick to Weather Watcher!
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4 out of 4 people found this review helpful
Version: Weather Watcher 5.6.20a
Pros: Everything.... perfect for weather fanatics!!!! Shows anything and everything you could possible want.
Cons: None as of yet.
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