10.4: Use the Weather widget from non-USA locations

May 03, '05 12:55:00PM

Contributed by: Anonymous

Tiger only hintI had some problems entering my location in the Weather widget under Tiger. It seems like it does not support non US locations out of the box. At least I was not able to find a way by just entering "City, Country" and other variations.

I checked the javascript source and found a way to make it work:

  1. Go to accuweather.com
  2. Click on World
  3. Select your region
  4. Enter your location
  5. Press Go
Move your mouse over the link matching your location in the search results. Look at the end of the target URL in Safari's status bar, and you'll see a parameter called zipcode. This is what needs to be entered in the weather widget's location field to make it work.

For Zurich in Switzerland this parameter is EU;SW;Zurich;. I entered this "zipcode" in the Weather widget, and it now works as expected. I think it is pretty self explanatory as to how the format works. You can ommit the trailing semicolon if you like.

[robg adds: I can't confirm the problem or the solution -- please post any comments one way or the other...]

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