Description:
Weather Watcher is your personal Windows mobile weather station. Automatically retrieve the current conditions, hourly forecast, daily forecast, detailed forecast, severe weather alerts (US only) for over 77,000 cities world-wide.
Features:
- Forecasts available for 77,000+ cities world-wide.
- Current weather conditions.
- 46-hour forecast.
- 10-day day/night forecast.
- Severe weather alerts from National Weather Service (US only).
- 18+ weather unit conversion choices.
- Zoomable radar/satellite map (radar not available in all locations).
- Skinned interface/forecasts.
- Data usage stats.
Installation:
- Install the .NET Compact Framework 2.0 on your mobile device.
- Download and copy the CAB to any location on your mobile device. Tap the CAB on your device to start the Weather Watcher installation program.
For Smartphone users, please download this software here (v1.0.3 - 199 KB) or its mirror here.
Update Description:
v1.0.8:
- FIXED: Celsius temperature conversion in the detailed (daily text) weather forecast.
v1.0.7:
- ADDED: "Map" view to display a zoomable radar/satellite map (radar not available in all locations). The map image will zoom in when clicked. See the "Map" section of the Weather Watcher Mobile Options to customize the map settings.
- CHANGED: Tweaked the weather data processing methods to process the weather data faster.
- FIXED: Tweaked the left/right and toggle/arrow key captures to prevent the forecast views from skipping over the next view when navigating with the keys.
v1.0.6:
- FIXED: Broken links at the bottom of the forecasts.
- FIXED: Hourly forecast was not showing the correct day name for the 3rd day when more than 2 days were displayed.
- FIXED: Last updated/downloaded date conversion issues.
v1.0.5:
- FIXED: Moon phase captions were not always displaying correct phase in the Current view.
- FIXED: Weather Watcher Mobile installer now installs an icon in the Programs folder.
v1.0.4:
- FIXED: Options window now properly resizes to fit the height of your screen.
v1.0.3:
- ADDED: Ability to use any Pocket IE supported image format (e.g. JPG, PNG) for the Forecast Icons.
- CHANGED: Focus is automatically given back to the forecast area after navigating through the forecasts by using the left/right toggle button.
- FIXED: Skin dropdown choices in "Skins" tab of the Weather Watcher Mobile Options were not displaying on Windows Mobile 2003.
v1.0.1:
- ADDED: New settings to the "General" tab of the Weather Watcher Options to allow the last downloaded time and/or the last updated time (at weather.com) to be displayed at the bottom of the forecasts.
- CHANGED: When switching cities from "Menu" --> "Change Active City...", Weather Watcher will load the last downloaded weather data for the selected location. If the "Automatically update forecasts when active city is changed" check box is checked in the "Cities" tab of the Weather Watcher Options, then the weather will automatically update instead of loading the last downloaded weather data.
