Recommendations on an accurate weather gadget?


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For years I used the weather gadget from Yahoo Widgets and now I'm trying to find a good one for W7. Every one I try has a different temperature. I was just wondering if I could get recommendations on the weather gadgets that everyone uses.

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None. I am capable of looking out the window and/or turning on the weather channel.

Ever heard of a little thing called a 'forecast'? Helps for those times where you want to, you know, plan things in advance with friends and family. Guess that wouldn't apply to someone living in their parents' basement.

All sarcasm aside, I use the weatherunderground one. It seems no more or less accurate than the others, just like how it looks.

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That's quite a range there (48 degrees to 63 degrees). What you should probably do is try to find out which one is actually getting its data from the source nearest you (I know that for my area, there are generally two different airports that report data to the weather services, and they are on opposite sides of town). Usually most of these programs have some way to find this out.

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Ever heard of a little thing called a 'forecast'? Helps for those times where you want to, you know, plan things in advance with friends and family. Guess that wouldn't apply to someone living in their parents' basement.

All sarcasm aside, I use the weatherunderground one. It seems no more or less accurate than the others, just like how it looks.

Ever hear of a thing called weather channel (which I mentioned) ?? You think they only show current weather?

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Ever hear of a thing called weather channel (which I mentioned) ?? You think they only show current weather?

Ok, jokes aside; why be a dick? Seriously. Just answer the guys question, or get on with your life. No reason to be a smartass, and if you have nothing to offer by way of answering his question, then don't post.

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Ok, jokes aside; why be a dick? Seriously. Just answer the guys question, or get on with your life. No reason to be a smartass, and if you have nothing to offer by way of answering his question, then don't post.

I'm not. I did answer. I feel it is a waste to run something on my pc that is readily available elsewhere. He's looking for an app, I'm suggesting none. Why constantly run something on your pc when a radio, tv, or web link can feed you the same data?

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I'm not. I did answer. I feel it is a waste to run something on my pc that is readily available elsewhere. He's looking for an app, I'm suggesting none. Why constantly run something on your pc when a radio, tv, or web link can feed you the same data?

He wants one. You run none. He didn't ask for opinions on if he should, he wants to know, from those that use one, what they use. Which means you have nothing to contribute. Bye.

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^ Win

I have used the default gadget that comes with Windows Vista & 7 and it seems to be accurate, judging by the forecast shown on the weather channel. As some one pointed out

above, I think your best bet is to match up the gadget that reports the closest forecast to a TV source such as the local news or something. That would be the way I do it.

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I'm not. I did answer. I feel it is a waste to run something on my pc that is readily available elsewhere. He's looking for an app, I'm suggesting none. Why constantly run something on your pc when a radio, tv, or web link can feed you the same data?

Why make it more effort by turning on the tv finding the channel, waiting for your areas forecast to be read out. Switching the radio on, waiting for your areas forecast to be read out. Opening your browser, finding the website. Why not just have it on the desktop where you can glance at it whenever you need to without messsing around looking for remotes, switching on tv's (which also uses more power, more power=more money) switching on radios, opening browsers etc...

Go away.

Back on topic, I use whichever one has a decent source behind it.

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Ok, jokes aside; why be a dick? Seriously. Just answer the guys question, or get on with your life. No reason to be a smartass, and if you have nothing to offer by way of answering his question, then don't post.

+1 (Y) Be a part of the solution plz.. the guy asked smth coz he is confused.. if you can't help him out then just shut it and read another thread..

The best way to go abt it is to compare the temperatures on each of them to CNN or Weather Channel for a week and then choose the one that is the most accurate. I know for a fact the MS one is ****. I couldn't find anything good so stopped using the MS one. Don't have any such gadgets now..

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He wants one. You run none. He didn't ask for opinions on if he should, he wants to know, from those that use one, what they use. Which means you have nothing to contribute. Bye.

It's cool. Im usually the first person to tell someone to go look out the window. But I still want instant temps lol.

Wow, you must be sweating with those high temperatures.

The heat right now is perfect for me. It gets up to 120 in the summer.

Have you tried this one? ... CobbNZ weather gadget

This one links up to amateur weather stations all around the world ..

Thanks, checking it out now. Sounds cool.

Edit: Can't find any stations in my area. :(

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The default weather gadget works fine. Just right click your desktop, select gadgets, slide it off onto the desktop, expand it to show 3 days forecast and put your zip code into tools.

It is also optimized for Win7 low ram/CPU usage, whereas other 3rd party apps can suck u dry.

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I prefer Wunderground.com generally.

And Rohdekill, by the way, do you have the uncanny ability to know the temperature and the forecast just by looking outside?

Reason why Weather Gadget > WEather channel. It's always accessible and there fore you, rather than waiting several minutes for weather channel to display your local forecast.

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Ok, jokes aside; why be a dick? Seriously. Just answer the guys question, or get on with your life. No reason to be a smartass, and if you have nothing to offer by way of answering his question, then don't post.
I'm not. I did answer. I feel it is a waste to run something on my pc that is readily available elsewhere. He's looking for an app, I'm suggesting none. Why constantly run something on your pc when a radio, tv, or web link can feed you the same data?
He wants one. You run none. He didn't ask for opinions on if he should, he wants to know, from those that use one, what they use. Which means you have nothing to contribute. Bye.

Can believe people are getting hot under the collar about a weather gadget. :D

Anyway, surely the gadget is only as good as the site it's getting it's info from. When I have run one(on object dock), it used accuweather.com.

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Reason why Weather Gadget > WEather channel. It's always accessible and there fore you, rather than waiting several minutes for weather channel to display your local forecast.
C'mon now; several minutes? I don't use weather gadgets because they provide old temperatures and limited radar, if any. It takes me 6 seconds to load up my local forecast on weather.com, where I get access to better temperature data, better forecasts, hourly weather predictions, and the best animated radar overlay on the web.
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Actually, I used Forecast Fox. Stuff I need is instantly accessible.

I lived in Florida long enough to know what the weather of the day would be like in general, so I haven't had the need for daily forecast.

but I'll have to say Wunderground's gadget is pretty decent enough. It provides radar, it provides somewhat, extended current condition, and three day extended forecast. that's pretty decent for a weather gadget and it's why I like Wunderground, not to mention they're pretty good with reporting weather, especially hurricanes.

Weather Gadget, of course, isn't the end all, be all of weather reporting, it's a neat little tool that gives you instant access to the basic information, radar, and all the other goodies. Why go to a website, or wait for your TV (and radio, wow someone actually uses that for weather checking?) for basic information when you got all that right there on your desktop. Hell in windows 7, it's easier to see, since all you need to do is to move your mouse cursor to the bottom left of the screen and there you go, you see the temperature and current weather.

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