The Weather Channel App (formerly The Weather Channel Desktop) 7.02.12

The Weather Channel Desktop is a software solution that brings the local temperature along with detailed forecasts and severe weather alerts straight on your desktop.

It's recommended to pay attention to the installer because it also attempts to drop on your computer some unnecessary software and, at the same time, it tries to change the default search provider in your browser.

The interface is more like a screen through which you can browse a web-based platform, showing you the current temperature for your default location, but also humidity, pressure and wind. In addition, The Weather Channel Desktop shows dew point, visibility, moon phase, sunset and sunrise times.

Last but not least, the application provides a quick overview over the next three hours, three days or the upcoming weekend, displaying not only the forecast temperature but also chances of precipitations.

An interesting feature of the program is the built-in System Tray icon that keeps users up to date with local temperature but, unfortunately, customization options are completely missing, You can't change background or text colors at all, so you're stuck with a white font on a blue background.

There is a settings menu as well that lets you configure locations and alert options, but also gives you access to a pretty rich theme center with a lot of different skins.

Of course, you can configure the app work with both Fahrenheit and Celsius units, play alert sounds, animate the Weather Today area when Desktop starts and show tooltips or not.

It's no doubt that The Weather Channel Desktop is a very handy tool, but it still needs some improvements in many key areas. Especially in the way the weather forecast is presented to the user.