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- Price: Free
- Operating system: Windows Vista, Windows Me, Windows NT, Windows XP, Windows 2000, Windows 98
- Date added: January 24, 2008
- 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 5.6.25 adds hundreds of new weather maps (most in the US) and "Precipitation" (POP) to the "Values to Show in Tray Tooltip".
What's new in this version:
Version 5.6.25 adds hundreds of new weather maps (most in the US) and "Precipitation" (POP) to the "Values to Show in Tray Tooltip".
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User reviews of Weather Watcher 5.6.25
- Average user rating: 4.1 stars out of 651 votes
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3 out of 6 people found this review helpful
Version: Weather Watcher 5.6.25
"There are many other weather programs, but I think this is the best, so far."
Pros: I have been a user of this program, and its antecedents, for several years, and have found it to be remarkably accurate. I have seen written, that it gets its information from another program, and I don't care. With Weather Watcher I have never gotten any Ads, Spyware, or Spam, something that can't be said of some of the other programs. It has been, constantly, more accurate than our local TV station; for a while I checked it, daily, and my experience was an accuracy better than 90%, which certainly beats almost any other source of this information. It is easy to optimize for your own needs, and has many opportunities to set it up to your specifications. I could go on and on, but one last point. I liked it so much I contributed to the author, and, believe it or not, I received a personal thank you note from him. I lied, one more last point: I found an improvement I thought would be helpful. He incorporated my suggestion in the next update. I was impressed that he really listened to his program's users.
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5.6.34 !! I think this is the best, so far.
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1 out of 4 people found this review helpful
Version: Weather Watcher 5.6.25
Pros: Easy to install and easy to configure.
Cons: The temperature/weather is not accurate - it says it updates regularly, but it's more like every 6 hours or so. Most of the info comes from other sources and websites. No real weather maps, just satellite images which are pointless to most people. I prefer to use Accuweather plugin for Fiefox - much better and sits more comfortably in the taskbar.
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2 out of 3 people found this review helpful
Version: Weather Watcher 5.6.25
Pros: This is a great little helper and it don't cost.
Cons: Still looking????????????
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1 out of 4 people found this review helpful
Version: Weather Watcher 5.6.25
Cons: it wouldn't remember the city and it locked up my computer. the wallpaper it installed looked like a kids drawing on a refrigerator.
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3 out of 4 people found this review helpful
Version: Weather Watcher 5.6.25
Pros: Every once in a while you come across a really useful, well designed and easy to use program.I have been using it for sometime now, small in size and bug free, this has some great features and my favourite is the feels like temperature. It might say 10 degrees outside but with the wind it gives you a better idea of how cold it feels once out in it. Auto update, weather alerts, you also have hourly and daily forecasts. Another nice feature is you can set the city you want as your default one, but you are not restricted to just the one, and can switch between them to suit you. Looks nice and has been well designed. To be honest it's the only one I use to give me the weather. It is free and well worth having. As I always say, if you don't like it you can always uninstall it. I do believe though that once you do have it you will use it all the time.
Cons: To be honest there is nothing not to like about this weather watcher, it is a great addition if the weather is something you need to know.
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