Weather Watcher is your personal Windows desktop weather station.
Automatically retrieve the current conditions, hourly forecast, daily forecast, detailed forecast, severe weather alerts (US only), and weather maps for over 77,000 cities world-wide.
The current conditions can be quickly viewed by holding your mouse pointer over the Weather Watcher system tray icon.
Weather Watcher allows you to automatically retrieve your weather data at a set interval, 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.
Here are some key features of "Weather Watcher":
· Forecasts available for 77,000+ cities world-wide
· Current weather conditions
· 46-hour forecast
· 10-day day/night forecast
· Severe weather alerts from National Weather Service
· 450+ weather maps
· 18+ weather unit conversion choices
· Locally export and log weather data
· Skinned interface/forecasts
· Customizable system tray icon/tooltip
· Dual tray icons for temperature and condition image
· Proxy server support
· Smaller memory footprint than other weather software
· 7 bonus forecast/interface skins
Requirements:
· IBM compatible PC
· 12 MB free disk space
What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]
· ADDED: Tray icon left single-click and left double-click actions to refresh the wallpaper.
· FIXED: Previous changes caused the status window to lose its transparency, so the original code has been restored.
· FIXED: For Windows 64-bit users, the Weather Watcher system tray icon was reverting back to Italic after retrieving the weather when the "Set tray icon to Italic until first weather update" option was enabled.
· FIXED: Updated colors of all textboxes and dropdowns on the Weather Watcher interface so that they will display properly when using custom Windows colors.
Reasons why this program is marked as ad-supported:
· Offers to download or install Ask Toolbar that the program does not require to fully function
· Attempts to change the default search engine for web browsers installed on the system