Weather Watcher Live Changelog

What's new in Weather Watcher Live 7.2.276

Apr 26, 2023
  • ADDED: Added new NWS and Zoom Earth radar maps in the "Maps" menu.
  • ADDED: Added "Weather Station Website" system tay icon menu item for easy access to the current weather station's source website.

New in Weather Watcher Live 7.2.275 (Feb 5, 2023)

  • FIXED: Resolved an issue that was causing the radar map to show an incorrect location in the NOW section of the main Weatehr Watcher window.

New in Weather Watcher Live 7.2.274 (Nov 16, 2022)

  • FIXED:
  • Resolved a few connectivity related issues that were preventing the weather from updating in Windows XP and Windows 7.

New in Weather Watcher Live 7.2.271 (Aug 25, 2022)

  • ADDED: In the previous version of Weather Watcher, a search would auto initiate for the current location when the Weather Stations search window was openeded. A new "Load weather stations for current location when Weather Stations search window opens" setting was added in the "Weather Stations" section of the Weather Watcher Options window to enable/disable that functionality.
  • CHANGED: Prevented a new search from starting until the previous search has completed in the Weather Stations search window.
  • FIXED: The current wind speed was sometimes displaying as ".0" instead of "0".

New in Weather Watcher Live 7.2.270 (Aug 25, 2022)

  • ADDED: In the previous version of Weather Watcher, a search would auto initiate for the current location when the Weather Stations search window was openeded. A new "Load weather stations for current location when Weather Stations search window opens" setting was added in the "Weather Stations" section of the Weather Watcher Options window to enable/disable that functionality.
  • CHANGED: Prevented a new search from starting until the previous search has completed in the Weather Stations search window.
  • FIXED: The current wind speed was sometimes displaying as ".0" instead of "0".

New in Weather Watcher Live 7.2.269 (Aug 24, 2022)

  • ADDED: In the previous version of Weather Watcher, a search would auto initiate for the current location when the Weather Stations search window was openeded. A new "Load weather stations for current location when Weather Stations search window opens" setting was added in the "Weather Stations" section of the Weather Watcher Options window to enable/disable that functionality.
  • CHANGED: Prevented a new search from starting until the previous search has completed in the Weather Stations search window.
  • FIXED: The current wind speed was sometimes displaying as ".0" instead of "0".

New in Weather Watcher Live 7.2.267 (Jul 5, 2022)

  • FIXED: Updated the temperatures in the daily forecast text description to match the high and low temperatures in the daily forecast.

New in Weather Watcher Live 7.2.265 (May 24, 2022)

  • ADDED: Default Interface Skin to "TextOnly" when starting Weather Watcher while a screen reader is running.
  • CHANGED: Migrated maps in the Local Observations and Station Search windows from Google Maps to OpenStreetMap to allow the maps to be compatible with more versions of Windows.

New in Weather Watcher Live 7.2.264 (May 24, 2022)

  • CHANGED: Migrated maps in the Local Observations and Station Search windows from Google Maps to OpenStreetMap to allow the maps to be compatible with more versions of Windows.

New in Weather Watcher Live 7.2.263 (Mar 15, 2022)

  • FIXED: Made several adjustments to allow existing Weather Watcher features to function properly for Windows XP users. See this forum thread for other changes that must be configured in Windows XP.

New in Weather Watcher Live 7.2.262 (Feb 17, 2022)

  • FIXED: Updated Google Maps version to resolve blank map in the Local Observations and Station Search windows.

New in Weather Watcher Live 7.2.261 (Feb 12, 2022)

  • FIXED: Resolved issue causing Earth Networks stations to always show the current wind direction as N.

New in Weather Watcher Live 7.2.260 (Feb 12, 2022)

  • FIXED: Some of the skin settings were not loading/saving properly.

New in Weather Watcher Live 7.2.259 (Dec 14, 2021)

  • FIXED: Some of the skin settings were not loading/saving properly.

New in Weather Watcher Live 7.2.258 (Dec 8, 2021)

  • CHANGED:
  • Replaced some older web browser components with Microsoft WebView2 (their new Microsoft Edge based web browser component).
  • FIXED:
  • Resolved issue causing weather updates to sometimes stall for a few minutes half way through the update process.

New in Weather Watcher Live 7.2.254 (Sep 14, 2021)

  • FIXED: Degree symbols were displaying as "�" instead of "°" in some locations of the interface and export/log files.

New in Weather Watcher Live 7.2.253 (Sep 12, 2021)

  • FIXED: Some values in the export/log file were showing N/A even when the data was available.
  • FIXED: NWS data was not available when running Weather Watcher on discontinued versions of Windows (e.g. Windows 7).

New in Weather Watcher Live 7.2.248 (Jun 22, 2021)

  • CHANGED: Hid offline weather stations in the weather station search results.
  • FIXED: Resolved issue causing the feels like temperature to show N/A when the wind speed data was not available.

New in Weather Watcher Live 7.2.245 (Feb 26, 2021)

  • FIXED: Resolved issues causing the weather update process to freeze or take longer than usual for some weather stations.

New in Weather Watcher Live 7.2.242 (Jan 19, 2021)

  • FIXED: Resolved discrepancies for temperature and POP values that sometimes appeared in the daily and hourly forecasts.

New in Weather Watcher Live 7.2.241 (Jan 19, 2021)

  • FIXED: Resolved discrepancies for temperature and POP values that sometimes appeared in the daily and hourly forecasts.

New in Weather Watcher Live 7.2.240 (Jan 19, 2021)

  • CHANGED: Updated weather update process for NWS stations to get the latest available NOAA data.
  • FIXED: Removed discontinued weather maps and replaced others that were moved to new locations.

New in Weather Watcher Live 7.2.237 (Dec 13, 2020)

  • FIXED: Resolved a few issues causing a blank map to be displayed in the NOW section of the main Weather Watcher window

New in Weather Watcher Live 7.2.234 (Dec 6, 2020)

  • FIXED: Restored missing weather stations in the Local Observations window.
  • FIXED: Resolved issue causing map not to load for WeatherBug stations outside of the US.

New in Weather Watcher Live 7.2.233 (Dec 5, 2020)

  • FIXED: Restored missing weather stations in the Local Observations window.
  • FIXED: Resolved issue causing map not to load for WeatherBug stations outside of the US.

New in Weather Watcher Live 7.2.231 (Nov 22, 2020)

  • FIXED: Restored current conditions for NWS weather stations.

New in Weather Watcher Live 7.2.229 (Aug 26, 2020)

  • FIXED: Restored radar map image and resolved slow refresh process.

New in Weather Watcher Live 7.2.228 (Aug 25, 2020)

  • FIXED: Restored missing weather station search results and current condition updates.

New in Weather Watcher Live 7.2.227 (Aug 23, 2020)

  • FIXED: Restored missing weather station search results and current condition updates.

New in Weather Watcher Live 7.2.225 (Nov 9, 2019)

  • FIXED: Updated links for broken radar and satellite maps.

New in Weather Watcher Live 7.2.222 (Sep 15, 2019)

  • FIXED: Resolved issue that was preventing the station search window from opening on some computers.

New in Weather Watcher Live 7.2.221 (Sep 12, 2019)

  • FIXED: Resolved issue that was preventing the main Weather Watcher window from opening on some computers.

New in Weather Watcher Live 7.2.218 (Sep 12, 2019)

  • FIXED: Restored radar map in the main Weather Watcher window.

New in Weather Watcher Live 7.2.213 (Sep 12, 2019)

  • FIXED: Restored radar map in the main Weather Watcher window.

New in Weather Watcher Live 7.2.212 (Aug 13, 2019)

  • CHANGED: Refactored changes made in 7.2.208 to prevent Weather Watcher from hanging/crashing.

New in Weather Watcher Live 7.2.210 (Jul 31, 2019)

  • CHANGED: Refactored changes made in 7.2.208 to prevent Weather Watcher from hanging/crashing.

New in Weather Watcher Live 7.2.208 (Jul 28, 2019)

  • ADDED: Show weather station id in the weather station search results to make it easier to find a specific weather station that has an assigned id.
  • FIXED: Prevent the focus from being stolen when the weather updates while the main Weather Watcher window is closed.
  • FIXED: The "warm and humid" weather condition was showing a daytime icon and color at nighttime in the hourly forecast.
  • FIXED: Prevent instances of dl.exe from continuing to run idly in the background after they are done doing their work.

New in Weather Watcher Live 7.2.203 (Jul 24, 2019)

  • CHANGED: Reverted a few previous radar map changes that appeared to prevent the radar map from displaying on some Windows installations.
  • CHANGED: Always open the lightning map in the default system web browser so it displays properly.
  • CHANGED: Only open the context menu when pressing "M" on the main Weather Watcher window if using a TextOnly skin.
  • FIXED: Duplicate weather alerts were sometimes popping up when NWS changed the order of the available alerts without changing the alert content.

New in Weather Watcher Live 7.2.201 (Jul 4, 2019)

  • FIXED: The daily forecast was showing conflicting POP values in the "Condition" and "POP" columns.

New in Weather Watcher Live 7.2.200 (Jul 4, 2019)

  • FIXED: The tooltip background was showing the daytime image for NWS stations at nighttime.

New in Weather Watcher Live 7.2.199 (Jul 4, 2019)

  • FIXED: The radar map in "Now" section of the main Weather Watcher window was displaying as a solid blue image.

New in Weather Watcher Live 7.2.198 (Jul 4, 2019)

  • ADDED: Added a "Map Type" skin setting to toggle the "Now" map between a radar and satellite map.

New in Weather Watcher Live 7.2.197 (Jul 4, 2019)

  • IMPROVED: Made more changes to the "Now" radar map to attempt to generate a map that's compatible with more versions of Windows and weather station locations.

New in Weather Watcher Live 7.2.194 (Jun 24, 2019)

  • FIXED: Made adjustments to prevent the radar map from displaying a black image in the "Now" section of the main Weather Watcher window.

New in Weather Watcher Live 7.2.192 (Jun 21, 2019)

  • FIXED: Round all Fahrenheit temperatures in the "Now" section of main Weather Watcher window when auto updating the weather data in real-time.
  • FIXED: The current conditions were not updating in the "Now" section of the main Weather Watcher window for Earth Networks weather stations when auto updating the weather data in real-time.
  • FIXED: Weather Watcher now auto restarts after automatically installing a new Weather Watcher update.

New in Weather Watcher Live 7.2.191 (Jun 20, 2019)

  • FIXED: Made more changes to the date logic to try to resolve issues that occur when using a non standard Windows short date format.

New in Weather Watcher Live 7.2.189 (Jun 20, 2019)

  • FIXED: The radar map image in the "Now" section of the main Weather Watcher window was blank on some Windows XP installations.

New in Weather Watcher Live 7.2.188 (Jun 20, 2019)

  • CHANGED: When a new version of Weather Watcher is available, the new version can now be automatically installed.
  • FIXED: Resolved date conversion issue that was causing a blank forecast to display in the "Daily" section of the main Weather Watcher window.

New in Weather Watcher Live 7.2.187 (Jun 20, 2019)

  • FIXED: Tweaked the date logic to try to resolve issues that occur when using a non standard Windows short date format.
  • FIXED: Weather Watcher was stealing the cursor focus when updating the radar map image.

New in Weather Watcher Live 7.2.183 (Jun 20, 2019)

  • FIXED: Adjusted the radar map in the "Now" section of the main Weather Watcher window to ensure the image is as sharp as possible.

New in Weather Watcher Live 7.2.182 (Jun 8, 2019)

  • FIXED: Suppressed Flash dialog on weather updates when Flash is not installed.
  • FIXED: Resized the radar map in the Splendid2 and Splendid3 skins.

New in Weather Watcher Live 7.2.179 (Jun 4, 2019)

  • FIXED: The radar map in the "Now" section of the main Weather Watcher window was often either unavailable or not updating consistently.
  • FIXED: The current weather conditions were not updating for some weather stations outside of the US.

New in Weather Watcher Live 7.2.177 (May 23, 2019)

  • FIXED: All test weather alert messages from NWS are now being ignored.

New in Weather Watcher Live 7.2.176 (May 22, 2019)

  • CHANGED: The "New Weather Alert" pop up window now auto refreshes itself to show additional alerts if it's currently open when the weather is auto refreshed and new alerts are discovered.
  • FIXED: The "Alerts" link at the top of the main Weather Watcher window pointed to an alerts page that was no longer available.

New in Weather Watcher Live 7.2.174 (May 22, 2019)

  • FIXED: The POP values were sometimes being shifted one day ahead or one day backwards in the Daily forecast.

New in Weather Watcher Live 7.2.173 (May 22, 2019)

  • CHANGED: US weather alert data is now being retrieved directly from NWS to ensure all available alerts are being displayed.
  • FIXED: For some weather stations, the lightning map was being opened when clicking the map in the "NOW" section of the main Weather Watcher window.

New in Weather Watcher Live 7.2.169 (May 22, 2019)

  • ADDED: Added CWOP (Citizen Weather Observer Program) weather stations for the US.

New in Weather Watcher Live 7.2.140 (Aug 23, 2018)

  • FIXED: Wind speeds were not being converted properly in the detailed forecast when using units other than MPH.
  • FIXED: Hours to sunset/sunrise in the system tray tooltip were not being calculated correctly for some locations.

New in Weather Watcher Live 7.2.138 (Aug 12, 2018)

  • FIXED: Formatted the UV index to a whole number in the system tray tooltip. This change also fixed the inaccurate UV index description.
  • FIXED: Incorrect day names were being displayed in the "POP" section for some countries outside of the US.

New in Weather Watcher Live 7.2.84 (Mar 27, 2017)

  • Released on 2017-03-09)
  • FIXED: TWC Radar/Satellite map was not being resized when the map window was resized.

New in Weather Watcher Live 7.2.82 (Mar 27, 2017)

  • Released on 2017-03-06
  • Added TWC and WeatherBug radar/satellite maps to the "Maps" menu at the top of
  • the main Weather Watcher window.

New in Weather Watcher Live 7.0.77 (Mar 30, 2011)

  • ADDED: When using a Weather Underground weather station, the real-time weather will update more often if the selected weather station is updating frequently.
  • FIXED: When using a Weather Underground weather station, the current conditions were sometimes being pulled from a nearby weather station when multiple weather stations are very close together.
  • FIXED: When installing Weather Watcher Live for the first time, the slider in the "NOW" view at the bottom of the main Weather Watcher Live window was not toggling through the daily/hourly/moon views on click.
  • FIXED: Tray icon color was sometimes not displaying the correct below/above freezing background color.
  • FIXED: Various display issues in the Splendid skin.

New in Weather Watcher Live 7.0.66 (Mar 7, 2011)

  • ADDED: Double-click the slider at the bottom of the "NOW" section of the main Weather Watcher Live window to toggle between days, hours and moons.
  • ADDED: A new screen reader friendly interface skin named "TextOnly" is available in the "Skins" section of the Weather Watcher Live Options window.
  • CHANGED: In the daily forecast, nighttime low temperatures were showing the low temperature for the entire day, rather than the low temperature for the night.
  • CHANGED: When the Weather Watcher Live Options window is opened, the left menu now has focus. This change was made to make the Options window more screen reader friendly.
  • FIXED: Rebuilt the DL.EXE application to resolve an issue where the DL.EXE process would remain in memory. When this happened, the WW.EXE process would often get stuck and use a continuous amount of CPU until restarted.
  • FIXED: The thermometer on the main Weather Watcher Live window was not always displayed using the correct color.
  • FIXED: After midnight EST, some weather stations were displaying daytime icons for nighttime hours in the hourly forecast.
  • FIXED: When desktop magnets are loaded while an Internet connection is not available, the magnets were not loading at the proper size when an Internet connection returned and the magnet images were loaded.
  • FIXED: The pressure unit was not displaying in the tooltip window.
  • FIXED: Restored the links to the Opentopia world sunlight maps.
  • FIXED: Made many changes to correct various weather data display issues in the main Weather Watcher Live window.
  • FIXED: All severe alerts were being displayed for Weather Underground weather stations. The selected alerts in the "Severe Alerts" section of the Weather Watcher Live Options window were being ignored.

New in Weather Watcher Live 7.0.50 (Jan 31, 2011)

  • FIXED: Script error was appearing when resizing the main Weather Watcher Live window.
  • FIXED: The complete daily forecast was not showing near the end of the month for Weather Underground weather stations.

New in Weather Watcher Live 7.0.47 (Jan 7, 2011)

  • FIXED: Rebuilt parts of the Splendid2 interface skin to remove scripting that was causing the main window to improperly display all contents in the top, left corner of the main window.
  • FIXED: Max wind was not displaying in the wind bar graph at the bottom of the "NOW" section of the main window for Weather Underground weather stations.
  • FIXED: Tweaked weather station search to display additional Weather Underground weather stations.
  • FIXED: Some Weather Underground weather stations were displaying a nighttime current condition icon during the day.

New in Weather Watcher Live 7.0.41 (Dec 29, 2010)

  • ADDED: Press ALT+F4 to minimize/close the main Weather Watcher Live window.
  • CHANGED: When a severe alert is available, click the "ALERTS" button at the top of the main Weather Watcher Live window to load the severe alert text into the main Weather Watcher Live window.
  • FIXED: When updating the weather in real time, the max wind was resetting in the bar graph at the bottom of the main Weather Watcher Live window when automatically updating the interface with real time data.
  • FIXED: Reduced the time it takes to show and refresh the main Weather Watcher Live when opening it from the system tray.
  • FIXED: Incorrect moon phases were being displayed when in a time zone that does not observe daylight savings time.

New in Weather Watcher Live 7.0.39 (Dec 20, 2010)

  • FIXED: Weather Underground weather stations were showing "N/A" for the daily forecast condition whenever there was a chance of snow.
  • FIXED: An Internet Explorer message box was sometimes appearing when starting Weather Watcher Live using an old version of Internet Explorer.

New in Weather Watcher Live 7.0.37 (Dec 6, 2010)

  • FIXED: Some Weather Underground weather stations were reporting negative wind speed values.
  • FIXED: Synched the Weather Underground weather station temperatures in the daily forecast with the hourly forecast temperatures. In previous versions, the daily forecast was showing highs and lows that were far outside of actual recorded temperature range.
  • FIXED: Weather Watcher Live was crashing when the "Use custom tray tooltip window location" box was checked in the "Tray Icon" --> "Tooltip" section of the Weather Watcher Live Options window.

New in Weather Watcher Live 7.0.36 (Nov 29, 2010)

  • FIXED: Maps, news, and other Internet content not linking properly for WeatherBug weather stations.
  • FIXED: Feels like temperature not displaying in the temperature bulb on the main Weather Watcher Live window when displaying temperature in Celsius.
  • FIXED: Formatted bar graph values in main Weather Watcher Live window so only whole numbers are displayed.
  • FIXED: Negative temperatures not rounding properly in the temperature bulb on the main Weather Watcher Live window.

New in Weather Watcher Live 7.0.34 (Nov 1, 2010)

  • FIXED: As a result of a change made in version 7.0.33, the weather was not automatically updating when "Update in realtime" was selected in the "General" section of the Weather Watcher Live Options window. After restarting Weather Watcher Live, the weather would update okay again until the first automatic realtime update occurred.

New in Weather Watcher Live 7.0.32 (Oct 27, 2010)

  • FIXED: Made changes to the data downloader application (DL.EXE) to prevent situations where the application was stuck in a loop and/or not responding during weather updates.
  • FIXED: Decreased the wait time between severe alert checks when the "Auto Update Rate" is set to "Update in realtime" in the "General" section of the Weather Watcher Live Options window. Prior releases were waiting up to 15 minutes between checks.
  • FIXED: Severe alerts were sometimes being bypassed because data was being downloaded from servers that did not contain current severe alert information.
  • FIXED: Decreased the height of the Station Search window because the buttons at the bottom were displaying outside of the visible desktop area on systems running low resolutions.

New in Weather Watcher Live 7.0.30 (Oct 8, 2010)

  • FIXED:
  • If the Windows regional format is set to use a comma as the decimal symbol, then no weather stations were being returned when attempting to add a new weather station.

New in Weather Watcher Live 7.0.29 (Sep 16, 2010)

  • FIXED: The day names in the hourly forecast were ahead one day for some weather stations

New in Weather Watcher Live 7.0.27 (Aug 27, 2010)

  • FIXED: The day names in the hourly forecast were ahead one day for some weather stations.

New in Weather Watcher Live 7.0.25 (Aug 19, 2010)

  • FIXED:
  • Corrected the daily forecast date format and the "Observed" and "Downloaded" dates at the bottom of the "NOW" section of the main Weather Watcher Live window when using a Windows short date format other than MM/DD/YYYY (for Weather Underground weather stations).
  • FIXED:
  • Some international Weather Weather Underground weather stations were not appearing in the weather station search results.

New in Weather Watcher Live 7.0.23 (Aug 12, 2010)

  • FIXED: The "NOW" values in the Splendid2 bar graphs were sometimes lower/higher than the min/max values (for Weather Underground weather stations).

New in Weather Watcher Live 7.0.22 (Aug 12, 2010)

  • ADDED: The new WeatherBug Interactive Map map has been added to the "MAPS" button list in the main Weather Watcher Live window (for WeatherBug weather stations).
  • ADDED: Doppler map has been added to the "MAPS" button list in the main Weather Watcher Live window (if available for Weather Underground weather stations).
  • CHANGED: When clicking the map in the "NOW" section of the main Weather Watcher Live window, the WeatherBug Interactive Map will be displayed (for WeatherBug weather stations).
  • CHANGED: When clicking the map in the "NOW" section of the main Weather Watcher Live window, the radar will be displayed (if available for Weather Underground weather stations).
  • FIXED: The daily forecast days were displaying out of order around midnight for Weather Underground weather stations.
  • FIXED: The "Map Image Link" in the Splendid2 skin settings was being reset after updating the weather.
  • FIXED: The barometer gauge and bar graph in the main Weather Watcher Live window were not displaying properly when bad pressure data existed in the Weather Underground data feed.

New in Weather Watcher Live 7.0.21 (Aug 12, 2010)

  • FIXED: Splendid2 skin settings not all properly loading when Weather Watcher Live was started.
  • FIXED: Splendid2 graphs sometimes displaying when closing the skin settings window and not in the "NOW" section of the main Weather Watcher Live window

New in Weather Watcher Live 7.0.20 (Aug 12, 2010)

  • FIXED: Took care of another issue that was sometimes causing an "Object required" script error to appear when Weather Watcher Live was started.
  • FIXED: The tray icon alert message was not displaying when a new severe alert was discovered.

New in Weather Watcher Live 7.0.19 (Aug 12, 2010)

  • FIXED: An "Object required" script error sometimes appeared when Weather Watcher Live was started.
  • FIXED: The tray tooltip window was not displaying information for Weather Underground weather stations.
  • FIXED: The observed time stamp was displaying the time without the date for Weather Underground weather stations.

New in Weather Watcher Live 7.0.16 (Aug 12, 2010)

  • FIXED: The map at the top of the weather station search window was displaying a blank, white box for some locations.
  • FIXED: When displaying daily icons in the tray tooltip window, the number of icons displayed will no longer exceed the number of icons available in the daily forecast.

New in Weather Watcher Live 7.0.14 (Aug 12, 2010)

  • ADDED: A history is now kept for the last 20 URLs used in the desktop magnet feature. When creating a new desktop magnet, click the "Select Magnet Image..." button to choose a URL from the history.
  • CHANGED: The bar graphs in the "NOW" section of the main Weather Watcher Live window now resize to fit the available area.
  • FIXED: The "Observed" date in the main Weather Watcher Live window was not properly formatted.
  • FIXED: The hourly forecast was sometimes displaying data for hours in the past.
  • FIXED: The daily forecast was sometimes displaying incorrect day names and/or days out of order.
  • FIXED: The POP was not always matching in the hourly and daily forecasts for Weather Underground weather stations.
  • FIXED: The station search results have been reordered by latitude and longitude.
  • FIXED: When displaying temperatures in Celsius, the daily temperatures were not converting properly. This was also causing broken images to appear in the daily slider at the bottom of the "NOW" section of the main Weather Watcher Live window.

New in Weather Watcher Live 7.0.12 (Aug 12, 2010)

  • FIXED: The "WeatherBug" icon set was not displaying properly for Weather Underground weather stations.
  • FIXED: Daily conditions were sometimes displaying as "Sunny" instead of "Clear" for nighttime conditions.
  • FIXED: Incompatible Interface Skins can no longer be selected in the "Skins" section of the Weather Watcher Live Options window. "Splendid2" is the only Interface Skin that is compatible with Weather Watcher Live 7.

New in Weather Watcher Live 7.0.11 (Aug 12, 2010)

  • ADDED: Weather Underground weather stations can now be accessed.
  • ADDED: The "Wallpaper" section of the Weather Watcher Live Options window is available again.
  • ADDED: Desktop magnets can be locked in position by right-clicking the magnet and choosing "Lock Magnet Position".
  • ADDED: Desktop magnets can be resized to a custom width and height.
  • CHANGED: Made many modifications to the Splendid2 skin to boost performance.
  • CHANGED: The Splendid2 daily and hourly headers stay in place while scrolling up and down.
  • FIXED: The "[TEMP PLAIN ROUND]" template tag was not rounding the temperature properly.

New in Weather Watcher Live 7.0.4 (Aug 12, 2010)

  • ADDED: Stick map images or any GIF/JPG image from your favorite website to your desktop wallpaper. Right-click the Weather Watcher Live system tray icon and choose "Create Desktop Magnet..." to access this feature.
  • CHANGED: Removed dependency on the Microsoft Script Runtime. This dependency was sometimes causing the main Weather Watcher Live window to display as a blank, white window on 64-bit systems.
  • CHANGED: Made various performance-related improvements.

New in Weather Watcher Live 6.1.28 (Feb 12, 2010)

  • ADDED: A few more Tray Tooltip skins (new background images & text sizes).
  • CHANGED: All available alerts are now displayed directly within the main Weather Watcher Live window when the red alert banner is clicked.
  • FIXED: "R-" and "R+" was displaying in the non-skinned tooltip window when a rate of change was available (e.g. 20°FR+).
  • FIXED: On new installations, the Weather Watcher Live window was not tall enough to prevent the bar graphs from overlapping the content in the top part of the window.
  • FIXED: When viewing an international weather station, the hourly slider would appear at the bottom of the main Weather Watcher Live window when "Days" was selected in the "Slider Display" section of the Splendid/Splendid2 skin settings.

New in Weather Watcher Live 6.1.26 (Jan 26, 2010)

  • FIXED: Part of the current condition was sometimes displaying in the "POP" column of the daily forecast.
  • FIXED: Made some changes to prevent the daily forecast from displaying no data when the downloaded weather data was not properly formatted.
  • FIXED: The Weather Watcher Live system tray icon was flashing and reloading when left-clicking the icon to display the main Weather Watcher Live window.

New in Weather Watcher Live 6.1.23 (Jan 20, 2010)

  • FIXED: No data was being displayed in the "DAILY" section of the main Weather Watcher Live window for some weather stations.
  • FIXED: The map image in the "NOW" section of the main Weather Watcher Live window was displaying as a red x when using the new Splendid2 "Map Image Link" skin setting.

New in Weather Watcher Live 6.1.20 (Dec 28, 2009)

  • ADDED: Splendid2 skin setting to set the link for the map in the "NOW" section of the main Weather Watcher Live window.
  • FIXED: The main Weather Watcher Live window was sometimes locking up after changing the settings in the "Conversion" section of the Weather Watcher Live Options window.
  • FIXED: The pressure values in the pressure bar graph in the "NOW" section of the main Weather Watcher Live window now only displays a max of four digits in order to prevent the values from running together.

New in Weather Watcher Live 6.1.18 (Dec 22, 2009)

  • FIXED: The bar graphs in the "NOW" section of the main Weather Watcher Live window were not staying hidden when switching between the NOW/HOURLY/DAILY views and the Splendid2 "Bar Graphs" setting was set to "Hide".

New in Weather Watcher Live 6.1.17 (Dec 21, 2009)

  • ADDED: "Bar Graphs" setting in the Splendid2 settings window to hide/show the bar graphs at the bottom of the "NOW" section of the main Weather Watcher Live window.
  • CHANGED: Made some performance-related changes to improve the processes involved in retrieving the weather data.
  • FIXED: Weather Watcher Live About window now displays proper expiration date for lifetime licenses.

New in Weather Watcher Live 6.1.15 (Nov 3, 2009)

  • ADDED: "Display balloon tip when weather station is unavailable" to "Advanced" section of Weather Watcher Live Options to allow the notification to be suppressed.
  • ADDED: "Display upcoming daily conditions icons in tooltip" to "Advanced" section of Weather Watcher Live Options. If using the hourly icon option, daily icons will be displayed when viewing a weather station that is located outside of the US.
  • ADDED: "Map Zoom Level" setting to the Splendid and Splendid2 skin settings to allow the map in the NOW section to be zoomed to different levels. Click the "SETTINGS" link at the bottom, right corner of the main Weather Watcher Live window to access the skin settings.
  • ADDED: "Low" column in the Daily section of the Splendid2 skin for weather stations outside of the US.
  • FIXED: The slider at the bottom of the Splendid and Splendid2 skins was not displaying icons when Internet Explorer 6 was installed. FYI, the best fix for this issue is to install the latest Windows updates (including all Internet Explorer updates).
  • FIXED: In the Splendid2 skin, the "Currently" icon in the NOW section was displaying the icon for the current day instead of the current condition for weather stations outside of the US.
  • FIXED: Wind speed was always displaying as "0" in the Splend2 skin's wind gauge when the Windows regional settings were using a comma for the tenths place separator.
  • FIXED: If using a Tray Icon skin of PNG images, the current condition icon (if enabled) was displaying the temperature in the system tray instead of the condition icon. To work around this issue, the WeatherBug Tray Icon skin's icons will automatically be used whenever a PNG Tray Icon skin is selected.

New in Weather Watcher Live 6.1.12 (Oct 19, 2009)

  • ADDED: Day names to daily slider in "NOW" section of main Weather Watcher Live window for international weather stations.
  • ADDED: "Tray Icon" dropdown to the "Skins" section of the Weather Watcher Live Options window to allow the icons to be changed in the tooltip window.
  • ADDED: Eight new icon sets. These icons can be selected in the "Skins" section of the Weather Watcher Live Options window.
  • ADDED: New log/export/skin tags: [TEMP ROUND], [TEMP DEGREE ROUND], [TEMP PLAIN ROUND], [TEMP PLAIN NOT CONVERTED ROUND], [TEMP RETURN ROUND], [TEMP PARENS ROUND], [OBSERVED DATETIME], [DOWNLOADED DATETIME]
  • ADDED: Splendid2 forecast skin.
  • ADDED: Click the weather station name at the top, left of the main Weather Watcher Live window to change the weather station.
  • ADDED: When available, the tooltip window will display an up or down arrow to indicate the rate of change for temperature, humidity and pressure. The rate of change is available for most WeatherBug weather stations.
  • CHANGED: When running the Weather Watcher Live installer/uninstaller, Weather Watcher Live will automatically shut down if running.
  • CHANGED: Redesigned "Severe Alerts" section of Weather Watcher Live Options window to allow alerts to be enabled/disabled by type.
  • FIXED: A few of the WSI maps links were pointing to outdated images.
  • FIXED: Made changes necessary to allow new forecast skins to be selected in the "Skins" section of the Weather Watcher Live Options window.
  • FIXED: Celsius temperatures were not displaying tenths when the "Display tenths for Celsius temperatures" box was checked in the "Advanced" section of the Weather Watcher Live Options window.
  • FIXED: When searching for US locations, non-US locations are no longer displayed in search results (and vice versa). This change was made to ensure the selected weather station links to the correct WeatherBug map, and other WeatherBug.com pages.
  • FIXED: Old severe alerts were being cached and displayed after they have expired.
  • FIXED: The barometer gauge was not always displaying the correct color -- indicating an incorrect direction of change.
  • FIXED: The color band on the barometer gauge was not always displaying at the level that matched the value in the center of the gauge.
  • FIXED: Adjusted the timing of the tray tooltip window to prevent it from opening when single/double left-clicking the Weather Watcher Live system tray icon.

New in Weather Watcher Live 6.1.01 (Aug 6, 2009)

  • ADDED: "License" section to Weather Watcher Live Options window to enter/modify the license key needed for the new Weather Watcher Live yearly subscription.
  • FIXED: Dates were not displaying correctly when the Windows short date format included spaces (e.g. 18 Jul 09).

New in Weather Watcher Live 6.0.34 (Jul 9, 2009)

  • ADDED: Tray icon left single-click and left double-click actions to refresh the wallpaper.
  • FIXED: The wind gauge arrow was sometimes a few degrees off due to a rounded error in the Splendid interface.
  • FIXED: Applied fix to display wind speed as 0, instead of 0.0 or .00.
  • FIXED: The wind speed displayed in the "NOW" section of the main Weather Watcher Live window was not converting properly after real-time weather updates were downloaded.

New in Weather Watcher Live 6.0.26 (Jun 2, 2009)

  • ADDED: The latest changes will be displayed when a new version of Weather Watcher Live is installed. These changes can also be accessed from the Weather Watcher Live About window
  • ADDED: An "Auto-detect proxy settings for this network" checkbox has been added to the Advanced --> Internet section of the Weather Watcher Live Options window to automatically import the current IE proxy settings
  • CHANGED: The Tray Icon and Advanced Options menu items automatically expand so they are visible as soon as the Weather Watcher Live Options window is opened
  • CHANGED: Made some changes to the DL.EXE application to resolve Internet connection issues
  • FIXED: If using the wallpaper map feature, Weather Watcher Live will automatically update the URLs for the selected wallpaper map(s) when new maps are installed at startup
  • FIXED: Weather Watcher Live was not releasing object handles used by the DL.EXE application after retrieving the weather
  • FIXED: Updated map list links to fix the maps that were no longer updating
  • FIXED: Wind gauge text was not centering properly for weather stations outside of the US
  • FIXED: The Tray Icon --> Tooltip --> Show Tray Balloon Tip When list changes were not being saved when no other settings were modified and the Weather Watcher Options window was closed
  • FIXED: The Daylight Remaining tooltip item was not calculating correctly when the sunrise and sunset occurred on different days
  • FIXED: The barometer was not being calculated properly when using a conversion other than inches

New in Weather Watcher Live 6.0.22 (May 7, 2009)

  • ADDED: Proxy server and port text boxes to the "Internet" section of the Weather Watcher Live Options window
  • CHANGED: Rewrote DL.EXE application to work around some data retrieval issues created by the recent IE8 and Windows updates. The new DL.EXE application downloads data more quickly and should work for those people who found that Weather Watcher could no l
  • CHANGED: Aligned the "Observed" and "Downloaded" time stamps at the bottom of the main Weather Watcher Live window
  • FIXED: Various GUI issues in the main Weather Watcher Live window that appeared after IE8 was installed
  • FIXED: Weather Watcher Live was continuously attempting to retrieve the weather when no Internet connection was found and no local weather data was available
  • FIXED: The wind values were not converting properly in the "DAILY" section of the main Weather Watcher Live window when a comma was being used as the Windows regional decimal symbol

New in Weather Watcher Live 6.0.18 (Apr 29, 2009)

  • FIXED: Daily forecast was not displaying the daily description when using a weather station outside of the US and the temperature conversion was set to Celsius
  • FIXED: Wind gauge text was not centering properly when greater than three digits

New in Weather Watcher Live 6.0.16 (Mar 1, 2009)

  • ADDED: Option to keep maps as-is when new maps are installed by the Weather Watcher installer
  • ADDED: Severe alert banner to the top of the Hourly & Daily forecasts
  • ADDED: "Hide temperature tenths place" checkbox in the "Tray Icon" --> "Tooltip" section of the Weather Watcher Options window
  • ADDED: "Blend edges of ClearType text" checkbox to "Tray Icon" --> "Colors" section of the Weather Watcher Live Options window to improve the appearance of the tray icon text when ClearType is enabled in Windows
  • CHANGED: Made changes to weather data download process to prevent the cursor from switching to a busy cursor while the data is being retrieved
  • CHANGED: Made adjustments to improve the tray icon background transparency when ClearType is enabled in Windows
  • FIXED: When using the "Update wallpaper when a severe alert is downloaded" option, the wallpaper was updating for severe alerts that were being filtered out
  • FIXED: Barometer rate was not displaying correctly in the "NOW" section of main Weather Watcher Live window when the barometer conversion was set to something other than inches
  • FIXED: Tab order of the controls in the Weather Watcher Live Options window

New in Weather Watcher Live 6.0.11 (Feb 1, 2009)

  • CHANGED: Made adjustments to improve tray icon background transparency.
  • FIXED: Tray tooltip window text was completely removed after modifying the Tray Icon Font settings in the Weather Watcher Live Optons window.
  • FIXED: Tray icon not reverting to previous settings if font/color was changed and Options window "Cancel" button was pressed.
  • FIXED: "Remove Station" button was always disabled in the "Stations" section of the Weather Watcher Live Options window.

New in Weather Watcher Live 6.0.9 (Jan 29, 2009)

  • ADDED: "Display upcoming hourly condition icons" option in the "Advanced" section of the Weather Watcher Live Options window to display the upcoming hourly forecast icons beneath the current conditions icon in the tray tooltip window.
  • ADDED: "Tray Icon" --> "Colors" section in the Weather Watcher Live Options window to change the tray icon text color and background color when the temperature is below freezing or a severe alert is found.
  • CHANGED: Redesigned the Weather Watcher Live Options window to allow for more room for future options.
  • CHANGED: Today's High/Low tray icon tooltip window labels to Forecasted High/Low.
  • CHANGED: Today's Max/Min tray icon tooltip window labels to Actual High/Low.
  • CHANGED: Multiple items can now be selected in the "Tray Tooltip" --> "Show Tray Balloon Tip When" option.
  • CHANGED: WeatherBug maps now open in the Weather Watcher Live map viewer window -- if that option is enabled.
  • FIXED: Made various changes to resolve rounding issues with the temperature bulb on the main Weather Watcher Live window.
  • FIXED: The last map in the list of the "Wallpaper" section of the Weather Watcher Live Options window could not be selected.
  • FIXED: Modified the way the skins are installed in the Weather Watcher Live installer to prevent the skins from attempting to install each time Weather Watcher Live is run on limited user Windows accounts.
  • FIXED: Temperatures were displaying with a double negative sign when the temperature dipped well below freezing.

New in Weather Watcher Live 6.0.6 (Jan 14, 2009)

  • FIXED: Resolved a temperature bulb conversion issue that was introduced in 6.0.5.

New in Weather Watcher Live 6.0.5 (Jan 12, 2009)

  • ADDED: 20 NWS enhanced radar maps covering major areas of the US.
  • FIXED: Rounded km/h wind values to a max of two decimal places.
  • FIXED: Barometer rate was always displaying as a "+" for international weather stations.
  • FIXED: Wind speed was always displaying as 0 on the main Weather Watcher Live window when the wind speed contained a comma.
  • FIXED: Correct temperature was not always displaying in the temperature bulb on lower, right corner of main Weather Watcher Live window due to a temperature rounding error.