# Weather Report Manual

The Weather Report Applet downloads weather information for a given location from the internet and displays the temperature and a symbol representing the current weather conditions in the panel. When clicked on, more information is given, such as the forecast, the time of sunrise and sunset, wind direction, pressure, and more. All units are customizable.

2005
Davyd Madeley
2004
Angela Boyle
2002
2003
2004
Sun Microsystems
1999
2000
Spiros Papadimitriou
1999
2000
Dan Mueth
GNOME Documentation Project

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Davyd
Madeley
GNOME Project

    davyd@madeley.id.au

Angela
Boyle
Sun
GNOME Documentation Team
Sun Microsystems
Spiros
Papadimitriou
GNOME Documentation Project

    spapadim+@cs.cmu.edu

Dan
Mueth
GNOME Documentation Project

    d-mueth@uchicago.edu

Version 2.12
March 2005

Davyd Madeley

Version 2.10
March 2005

Davyd Madeley

Version 2.8
September 2004

Angela Boyle

GNOME Documentation Project

Weather Report Applet Manual V2.4
February 2004

Sun GNOME Documentation Team

GNOME Documentation Project

Weather Report Applet Manual V2.3
January 2003

Sun GNOME Documentation Team

GNOME Documentation Project

Weather Report Applet Manual V2.2
August 2002

Sun GNOME Documentation Team

GNOME Documentation Project

Weather Report Applet Manual V2.1
July 2002

Sun GNOME Documentation Team

GNOME Documentation Project

Weather Report Applet Manual V2.0
March 2002

Sun GNOME Documentation Team

GNOME Documentation Project

GNOME Weather Applet
2000

Spiros Papadimitriou spapadim+@cs.cmu.edu

Dan Mueth d-mueth@uchicago.edu

GNOME Documentation Project

This manual describes version 2.12 of Weather Report.

## Feedback

To report a bug or make a suggestion regarding the Weather Report applet or this manual, follow the directions in the GNOME Feedback Page.

## Introduction

### Weather Report

Shows Weather Report. Contains a weather icon and current temperature

The Weather Report downloads weather information from the U.S National Weather Service (NWS) servers, including the Interactive Weather Information Network (IWIN) and other weather services. You can use Weather Report to display current weather information and weather forecasts on your computer.

If your computer is located behind a firewall, you must use a proxy server to access the weather servers. To configure the GNOME Desktop to use a proxy server, use your preference tools to specify the network proxy server for Internet connections.

Weather Report displays the following information for the default location, or a location that you specify:

- A weather icon that represents the general weather conditions. See .

- The current temperature.

### Weather Icons on Panel

Icon | Description
--- | ---
Stock Sunny Stock Night | It is clear and fine.
Stock Few Clouds Stock Night Few Clouds | It is partly cloudy.
Stock Cloudy | It is cloudy.
Stock Fog | It is foggy or overcast.
Stock Rain | It is rainy or wet.
Stock Snow | It is snowing.
Stock Storm | It is stormy.

### To Add Weather Report to a Panel

To add Weather Report to a panel, right-click on the panel, then choose Add to Panel. Select Weather Report in the Add to the panel dialog, then click OK.

## Preferences

The preferences dialog is accessed by right-clicking on the Weather Report in the panel.

### Weather Report menu

Context menu

### Changing to Particular Location

#### Location Preferences

Location Preferences

When you add the Weather Report to a panel for the first time, the application displays the weather for Pittsburg, Pennsylvania by default. To display the weather for a different location, perform the following steps:

1. Right-click on the application.

2. Choose Preferences from the application popup menu. The application displays the Weather Preferences dialog.

3. Select the Location tab. The Location tabbed section contains a list of geographical regions, subregions, and specific locations.

4. Click on the arrow next to a region to display the subregions in the region.

5. Click on the arrow next to a subregion to display the locations in the subregion.

6. Click on a location. While the application retrieves the weather information for the new location, the tooltip "Updating" is displayed when you point to the icon.

7. Click Close to close the Weather Preferences dialog.

You can already try searching by entering the name of your city into the Find field. Be aware that for cities close together, or for cities with no airport you may have to pick a nearby city in the region.

### Updating Weather Information

To update the weather information that the Weather Report displays in the panel, right-click on the icon, then choose Update.

To automatically update the weather information at regular intervals, perform the following steps:

1. Go to the right-click menu and select Preferences.

2. In the Weather Preferences dialog under the General tab, select the Automatically update every ... minutes option.

3. Use the spin box to specify the interval at which the Weather Report retrieves updated information from the weather server. The default is to check every thirty minutes.

4. Click Close to close the Weather Preferences dialog.

### Changing Units

#### General Preferences

General Preferences

Go to the right-click menu and select Preferences. In the Weather Preferences dialog under the General tab, select the units of measurement you want to use.

A number of different measurements are available, including metric, imperial, SI and others. The choice Default will use what we think is the default for your region, based off your chosen locale.

## Details

To view detailed weather information, right-click on the Weather Report, then choose Details. The Weather Report displays the Details dialog. The Details dialog contains the following default tabbed sections:

- Current Conditions

- Forecast

- Radar Map (optional)

### Current Conditions

#### Weather Report Details

Weather Report details

The Current Conditions tabbed section displays the following information:

City | Location to which the current weather conditions apply.
Last update | Time at which the weather conditions were last updated on the weather server.
Conditions | General weather conditions.
Sky | General sky conditions.
Temperature | Current temperature.
Dew point | Temperature at which dew forms.
Humidity | Percentage of moisture in the atmosphere.
Wind | Direction and speed of the wind.
Pressure | Atmospheric pressure.
Visibility | Range of vision as determined by the light and atmosphere conditions.
Sunrise | The calculated sunrise time for your location
Sunset | The calculated sunset time for your location

Sunrise and sunset times are calculated locally from latitude and longitude information stored on your computer. Some conditions, such as refraction of light through the air, are hard to model. Resultantly, the calculated values for sunrise and sunset may be off by up to 10 minutes.

### Forecast

The Forecast tabbed section displays a forecast for the location for the immediate future, usually the next five days.

Forecasts are only available for some locations in the U.S.A, Australia and the United Kingdom.

### Radar Map

By default, the Radar Map tabbed section is not displayed in the Forecast dialog. Weather Report downloads the radar maps from www.weather.com. If the radar map is not available from www.weather.com, Weather Report displays a question mark. To go to the www.weather.com web site, click on the Visit Weather.com button.

To enable the radar map, perform the following steps:

1. Go to the Weather Preferences dialog by selecting Preferences in the right-click menu.

2. In the General tab, select the Enable radar map option.

3. By default, Weather Report downloads the radar maps from www.weather.com. Select the Use custom address for radar map option to display radar maps from an alternative Internet address. You must type the address in the Address text box.

Most locations do not define a default radar map, especially outside of the U.S.A. Many locations will require you to specify a custom URL, if you wish to have a radar map.