WeatherMate V3.4.2    Suggested by Andrew Lee - Updated by Checker on 13 May 2010 2MB (uncompressed) - Popularity score (1670) Website - Screenshot - Download - Comments (15) - Post comment - Permalink

Posted comments:

 GoD: msi2xml didn't work for me. But I used 7-Zip. Since version 4.5.2 you can extract msi files. Then you have to extract the cab file and there are all the files you need [2007-08-07 01:45]

 Gawran: I haven't tryed this app, but there is a similar plugin for Firefox, Forecastfox (http://forecastfox.mozdev.org/) which does the same thing, and updates data from AccuWeather about every half hour. And it's about 500kB, which is much smaller. [2007-09-24 09:44]

 Webfork: Surprisingly feature rich, I'm amazed its freeware. The user interface, forecast, visual options, and ability to synthesize voice to SAY the forecast. Someone was clearly looking to sell this product -- we're lucky to have it for free.

Only negative is that the program while running is bulky: 16 megs system memory for a program that gives you the weather? The program download itself is only around 4 megs. [2007-09-30 13:55]

 Snidely Whiplash: Using Universal Extractor v1.5, msi2xml extraction failed here, however, MSI TC Packer extraction seems to have worked fine... [2007-11-18 10:10]

 Grunt: Wow, this is a really good weather sofware. Highly recommended! [2007-12-12 15:52]

 Cornflower: Only seems to work for U.S. locations. Not in Canada, nor, presumably, elsewhere. [2008-04-03 05:27]

 Gmacri: It's working OK in South America countries
Great Job [2008-04-03 17:24]

 Gidi: Works ok for various international locations. However, when setting to metric unit only the current temp and wind are in metric, while the forecast remains in Farenheit (which is meaningless to anyone who is not American) [2008-04-03 19:51]

 Gmacri: I found that when the weather is updating, it takes lot of resources so the PC freeze. This is a of great consequence for the running programs. I think this fix would be a good idea in the next update. [2008-04-04 16:44]

 Bad Bad!: i havnt even click on option and the thing try to update itself. When updating its soooo slooooow! it freeze my system :(
and there's no way to even stop the thing than to use a process viewer to kill it >:(
i guess its only for America... not so usefull indeed [2008-04-06 14:34]

 mjwiech: You guessed wrong. It's NOT ONLY for America.
And the system will not freeze while WeatherMate updates itself. [2008-07-11 04:10]

 Nerd: This is a really nice weather program except it writes a start up entry to the registry. [2008-10-27 18:06]

 Snidely Whiplash: The start up entry in the registry may be removed by unchecking the "Start with Windows" box in the "Run" settings. Too bad it's turned on by default. [2009-12-05 22:29]

 Grizzly Bear: v3.4 weather forcast text does not always wrap correctly. No scroll bars so forcast greater than 3 lines is truncated. Not very useful for winter weather months here. [2009-12-07 08:30]

 Grizzly Bear: v3.4.2 still truncates forcast details greater than 3 lines. [2010-04-02 05:54]

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