Monitor Your Weather with Weather Watcher Live

Aug. 11th, 2008 By Travis Quinnelly

Sometimes I’m stuck in the office and don’t have opportunity to check the weather outside. So I’m just sitting there oblivious to the storm brewing outside. Singer’s program Weather Watcher Live is a great take on a weather application for your desktop.

Weather Watcher Live

Weather Watcher Live is your personal, real-time Windows desktop weather station. View real-time weather conditions in your neighborhood from WeatherBug weather stations, or as reported by NWS.

Current Conditions Weather Watcher Live is able to automatically retrieve current conditions hourly forecasts even severe weather alerts. You can even always view the current conditions by hovering your mouse over the Weather Watcher Live system tray icon.

Like most weather applications you can set it up to automatically retrieve weather data at set intervals and even change what you’re system tray icon shows at any given time. This great application even has a ton of contributors livening up the interface by supplying icons and skins.

Weather Watch Live currently only works on later builds of Windows. 98 and above.

Features

  • Weather as reported by WeatherBug and NWS
  • Forecasts available for thousands of cities world-wide
  • Current weather conditions
  • 60-hour forecast
  • 7-day day/night forecast
  • Severe weather alerts from NWS (US only)
  • 700+ weather maps
  • Easy access to weather news, cameras and photos
  • 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

Weather Watcher Live

You can check on skins, plugins and random support by checking out the forums on The Singer’s Creation website.

What other good weather applications do you use? Let us know…

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4 Comments Add Comment
2008-08-12 12:00:22

Hooray for Hershey, PA :)

2008-08-12 16:16:50
Andy

I think the best site for weather info is http://www.wunderground.com. I have on my toolbar saved with my zip code, 17050 — actually near Hershey. Click on the radar screen to customize your view and create a loop of the past few minutes radar images. Very accurate innfo.

Andy

2008-08-13 03:58:56

I love Mike Singer’s work.

And I’m also part of the Wunderground webcam network.

Cuts both ways, I guess.

2008-08-16 01:48:44
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