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Whither the weather?

Maybe it’s because you can get a nicely displayed weather forecast from a dashboard widget, but it seems the freeware weather programs we used to depend on are falling by the wayside.

Meteorologist, which we have recommended in the past, no longer seems to work with Leopard. Double-click the icon and . . . nothing. But what about WeatherPop? Like the snow in spring, it seems to have disappeared.

Still, not everyone likes to get their forecasts in a widget — and, let’s face it, the information you get is sparse. So it was nice to come across a neat little app called Weather Vane.

It displays the temperature and an icon indicating the weather in your menu bar. You can get the forecast for five days by clicking it. And hovering gives you a tool tip with lots more info about things like humidity and pressure. Best of all, you can get weather from cities all over the world.

Posted Friday, July 4, 2008 in

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  1. Click on the city name in the weather widget and it will take you to the Accuweather page for that city, with lots more information. Add more weather widgets for as many cities as you want.

    win39

  2. Cool. I had no idea. Although it could be argued that Weather Vane’s tool tip is a bit more convenient.

    Mark

  3. As a paying customer of WeatherPop, I am extremely pissed that the authors claim that it works in 10.5 and that if there are any issues, they have no time to work on it.

    Melangell





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