WeatherBar for Windows 7 offers an alternative way of displaying weather information on the operating system. The weather software displays relevant information directly in the Windows 7 taskbar, so that it is not longer necessary to minimize windows to see the current weather report.

When you start the portable software for the first time, you will need to change the default location. This is done with a click on the edit icon in the main program interface.

Just enter your city and country, the program should pick the right location based on the data.

The main program window displays the current weather conditions and the weather forecast for the next three days. Besides that you get information about the current humidity and wind speed and direction.

Users can switch to the metric data format in the program options. The program indicates the current weather conditions in the Windows taskbar when minimized.

The icon indicates the current condition, the color the humidity levels.

A right-click on the program icon displays the application’s jumplist that lists the current weather conditions and forecast as tasks in the window.

WeatherBar is a handy, lightweight weather reporting software for the Windows 7 operating system. No information are provided if the program is compatible with previous versions of windows. The program would however lose much of its functionality if it is compatible under those versions of Windows as well.

Windows users can download WeatherBar from the project website over at Codeplex.

Weather Watcher Live tries to fill that gap by providing updated weather information throughout the day.The update interval can be anything from realtime to a period between five minutes and five hours. The interval does not only depend on your settings but also on the update frequency of the Weatherbug or local weather station.

The main window of Weather Watcher Live displays hourly forecasts, the current temperature and a wealth of other information like high and low temperatures throughout the day or the humidity level.

A lot of settings can be changed just like in the Weather Watcher application from the same company. Units can be displayed in the system used in your country, for example Fahrenheit or Celsius for the temperature. The options are also the place where at least one town name or zip code has been entered before the application can be used.

The main window can be minimized and most information can be displayed in a system tray popup by hovering the mouse over the Weather Watcher Live icon.

Almost everything can be enabled or disabled in that popup to suit your needs. In addition to the weather updates severe alerts are displayed for the United States as well. Those alerts can be filtered to include or exclude specific phrases.

Weather Watcher Live is currently available as a very early beta. It ran stable on my system but the official forum had some posts about problems that users encountered.

Once that is done weather forecasts for today, tonight and tomorrow are displayed with information such as temperature, felt temperature, humidity, visibility, dew point, sunset and sundown. It is possible to display temperatures in Fahrenheit or Celsius as well as to convert other values as well.

A quick lookup on websites such as weather.com will do it for most users who just want to get a quick weather forecast but those users who rely on weather forecasts and check them regularly will love Weather Watcher.

A nice feature is the ability to add a satellite view of a region that auto updates itself in a set interval.

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After that you have to configure weather for me by adding the city that you want the weather forecast for and some other settings. You can choose between English and Metric units and opt to save the forecasts. You will have to supply a city code to the program which can be obtained by visiting the my forecast website and entering the city of your choice. Every city has a code in its url that starts with city= ; the number behind that is the city code which needs to be added to weather for me.

The last step would be to click on the button download weather now to my ipod which will download and add the weather information to your iPod. Weather for me has a autosync option which is a command line parameter. To be able to autosync the iPod with the latest forecasts you have to create a shortcut of the file and add the parameter -sync to it. You still need to add it to the autostart of windows to be able to do it automatically.