On Fri, 28 Dec 2018 11:19:37 -0500, Wolf K wrote:

On 2018-12-28 09:25, J.B. Wood wrote:
Hello, all.* I'd been using (albeit Russian) a Win7 gadget
"WeatherCenter" for several years without a hitch until about a month or
so ago.* I'd been getting weather updates from "theweathernetwork.com"
but the gadget can also be configured to connect to weather.com,
accuweather.com, weatherunderground.com or weatherbug.com.* The gadget
is now unable to establish connection with any of these sites and it
doesn't appear to be a firewall issue on my end.* Does anyone know how
to get this gadget working again or know of an alternate Win7 desktop
gadget/widget that works?* Thanks for your time and comment.


If you can stream your local radio (or TV) you can probably get to their
weather forecast page, which will be at least as good as a weather
widget for local forecasts and may be better.

And the NOAA (weather.gov) is better still, IMHO. When storms are
pending, and broadcasters like the Weather Channel are warning of a
snowpocalypse, weather.gov takes a more measured tone, usually
predicting lower winds and less precipitation than broadcasters, and
usually coming closer to what actually happens.

And weather.gov has a nice line graph of almost a dozen measures,
hour by hour, over the next 48 hours. So you can tell how warm it
will be at any time of the coming day, what the chances are of rain
or snow at any time, how much rain to expect in intervals, etc.

And you can customize the forecast to your exact location. We have
microclimates around here, so the forecast for the airport (which is
what I get if I just enter a zip code) is significantly different
from the forecast at my house.

I've got a Chrome bookmark on my phone, and a Firefox one on my PC,
for my "extremely local forecast".

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