Weather Dashboard Tip

May 5th, 2005 Posted by Brett

It annoyed me that the weather dashboard widget only seemed to work with Australian capitols, so i found a way around it.

The widget itself uses the weather info from AccuWeather.com. If you go to the page manually and do a search there is actually a LOT of other weather info sources that arnt listed by default in the weather dashboard widget.

So, to make the dashboard weather widget work, just do a manual search on the webpage and bring up the details. Then look at the URL and at the very end is something like zipcode=AU;QU;ROCKHAMPTON%20AIRPORT;

Copy the part after zipcode= (without the last semi-colon) and paste it in the dashboard weather config where it asks for a zip code and it should update itself to show the weather. :)

So for Rockhampton, You pick the Rockhampton Airport location and the string to copy is AU;QU;ROCKHAMPTON%20AIRPORT, paste that in the zipcode of the dashboard widget and away you go :)

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