WeatherBug

Thursday, Mar 25, 2010

Get live, local weather conditions in Firefox with WeatherBug. Featuring forecasts, radar, and severe weather alerts from WeatherBug’s community of neighborhood weather stations.

What’s the weather like where you are? Here in the Bay Area, the long and rainy Winter seems to be giving way to Spring tulips and lots of sunshine. But, since April showers are less than a week away, I’m paying more attention than ever to my trusty WeatherBug Firefox Add-on.

WeatherBug is a simple add-on that shows your local weather. To get started with WeatherBug, you will be prompted to “set your location” upon install.

Once you set your location, WeatherBug will appear in the bottom-right section of your Firefox status bar. From here, WeatherBug provides you with live weather from your city (52.2 F in SF) and a 3-day snapshot of your forecast represented by weather-themed icons.

WeatherBug can provide weather conditions for cities all around the world, so whether you’re in San Francisco, Seoul, or London, you can use it to plan your days accordingly. Just click on the gear icon labeled with a green “i” to change your location settings.

Clicking on the temperature (52.2F) or any of the weather-themed icons will display a module showing more details about the 3-day forecast.

So, don’t get rocked by the weather and give WeatherBug a try.

Note: WeatherBug is an ad-supported add-on and has been tested and confirmed to not contain malware.

Post from Julie Shin Choi who prefers sunny blue skies on crisp Autumn days to just about any other kind of weather. See all posts by Julie Choi.

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  1. Objectivist

    You guys rock . And those at mozilla – u r fabulous i dint and wont find a better browser ever. we love you

    March 25th, 2010 at 9:02 am

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  2. JMV

    Personally, I prefer Forecastfox. It has a much wider selection of locations and it’s very easily customizable, besides offering zero clutter.

    March 25th, 2010 at 1:05 pm

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    1. WeatherBug’s Better

      Unfortunately though, it’s using default airport weather stations, is updated “whenever” and doesn’t even come CLOSE to being as accurate. It’s a simple matter of timeliness of updates and the number of neighborhood weathers stations.

      My nearest Forecast fox weather station is 10 miles away…that’s not value friend. ;)

      March 25th, 2010 at 1:49 pm

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      1. FeRD

        Shill much?

        March 25th, 2010 at 8:05 pm

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      2. Zac

        Forecastfox’s nearest station is 7 miles from me and Weatherbug’s is 12. Depends on where you are friend.

        March 26th, 2010 at 2:58 am

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  3. Jean A. Wheeler

    Thank you I think I will enjoy this.

    April 2nd, 2010 at 8:27 am

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  4. phil tovell

    installation error [WeatherBug - Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.4; en-US; rv:1.9.2.3) Gecko/20100401 Firefox/3.6.3]

    April 2nd, 2010 at 3:55 pm

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  5. shannon darger

    I am so disappointed in the new format. I cannot even watch the weather video anymore. You should have put your money into rachael. It was more visible and friendly. I used to watch it everyday with my children at homeschool. We will be finding another weather video for our daily weather. :(

    December 29th, 2010 at 5:56 pm

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