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10.4: Use the Weather widget from non-USA locations
Authored by: snurre on May 29, '05 11:52:07AM

When I first tried the Weather widget it was set to "Stockholm". Naturally, I assumed this was Stockholm, Sweden. But the results from the widget were very wrong quite often, so I really disliked the widget.

Then I noticed that by clicking on it, I could access the AccuWeather website and get lots of information about the weather in Stockholm. But what I also found out from going to that homepage is that it was actually sending me info about the weather in Stockholm, ME. The "ME" part was not showing up on the back of the widget, so most swedish mac users are probably very angry at this stupid weather widget. In stead of the swedish weather, I was getting the weather in North America.

The easiest way to fix this is to simply flip the widget by clicking on the little i in the bottom right corner, place the cursor after the name of your city, and press enter. This will get you a list like this:

Stockholm, ME
Stockholm, NJ
Stockholm, SD
Stockholm, WI
Stockholm, Sweden
Stockholm/bromma, Sweden

...and then simply click on the one you want, then click "done" and wait for the widget to update (it takes a few seconds). I recommend everyone to do this. As you can see, there are quite a lot of cities with the same name.



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