Will The Weather Be Unbroken?

It's Raining On My Parade!!!

March 20, 2014 11:45 AM from

Well, I have bad news. As of today, all my weather widgets and gadgets have stopped working. Worked fine yesterday. Today, nothing. They just sit there, won't refresh, can't change location, no forecast.

Philly0381 alerted me to the situation this morning. If anyone knows anything, or has working weather, please say so here.

I'm guessing we've lost the Weather Underground feed. Bummer.

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Reply #1 March 20, 2014 11:52 AM from

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I would add that this was on Windows 7 Home Premium 64 bit SP1.

Reply #2 March 20, 2014 11:57 AM from

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Update....one of my gadgets has a notice that says "site unavailable".

Maybe the feed is just down and will return. Maybe not. We'll see, I guess.

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Reply #3 March 20, 2014 12:39 PM from

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Yes it's broken right now. Good thing rainmeter weather is working.

Reply #4 March 20, 2014 1:15 PM from

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the Weather Underground feeds for current observations and forecast i use with Rainmeter work just fine.

it's the geolookup api that stopped working. you can either hope for it to come back, or change your widgets to use natural language queries instead of location codes.

example of a feed using a natural language query:

http://api.wunderground.com/auto/wui/geo/WXCurrentObXML/index.xml?query=San%20Francisco,%20California

more sophisticated would be using a geocoding service like Google Maps or OSM's Nominatim to get lat/lon coordinates and use those in the query. let me know if you want to know more about this, but i guess it might be a waste of time to go into details here.

Reply #5 March 20, 2014 1:28 PM from

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I have the same problem. None of the weather widgets or gadgets work on my computer either. I'm using Windows Vista 32-bit Home Edition. But not only your widgets, Redneck, ALL the other ones as well, Chasbo's, etc. I was about to post a message about it but then I saw your message. I'm glad I'm not the only one experiencing this. What, did the server decide to wait until the first day of spring to cut everyone off. I'm pissed!

True Rainmeter's weather is working, but they don't have all the matching skins that you made. I like to get everything matching or close to matching my WindowBlinds skins. Oh well, let's hope they fix the problem.

Reply #6 March 20, 2014 1:28 PM from

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UPDATE: The DX Weather Widgets/Gadgets seem to be working now. The link/feed must of just been down.

Reply #7 March 20, 2014 2:00 PM from

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Confirmed....working again!! $\o/$ $\o/$ $\o/$ $\o/$ $\o/$ $\o/$

Reply #8 March 20, 2014 2:52 PM from

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You can Skype me Red for the weather! More snow on the way! Minnesnowta!

Reply #9 March 20, 2014 10:38 PM from

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Mine is back working again too! It came back about 4 o'clock this afternoon.

Reply #10 March 20, 2014 11:12 PM from

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