Weatherly

Have you ever been in the office when a boring weather conversation starts? And even though you hate everything about that sort of conversation, you start feeling bad about not joining? So you begin to listen for an opportunity to jump in. Suddenly your colleagues start talking about how the weather will be in Amsterdam this weekend, and you know that this could be your cue, if only you could find the information quickly enough and triumphantly say: “Ha, Karen, you are wrong, it will surely rain during your holiday, because my awesome Chrome weather extension told me so!”

Yeah, you’ve probably never been in such a situation, because it would be very silly. Still, you could use the Chrome extension named Weatherly to get proper information about the weather.

As soon as you install it, you realize that Weatherly is not only well-designed, but also offers a lot of information. When you open the extension’s interface, you receive not only the current temperature and atmospheric conditions in your location, but also information about humidity, pressure and visibility. You can also see the highs and lows of the day, a 7-day forecast and the exact sunrise and sunset times.

The add-on automatically detects your location, but you can easily search for the weather in other places (such as your next travel destination), or you can set Weatherly to display another preferred location. You can also switch between the Celsius and Fahrenheit temperature scales.

While Weatherly is certainly not one-of-a-kind, it’s still an informative and unobtrusive extension. Even when you don’t open its drop-down window, the icon in the Chrome bar will display the current temperature.

The only tiny issue I have is that there’s a very short (but still perceptible) loading time whenever you want to access the main interface. It’s understandable, since there’s a lot of information to display, but one would expect a weather tool to be lightning fast (pun intended). Other than that, Weatherly can be considered a worthy addition to your browser.