touchtheSky

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by johnnysaucepn

V1.14 Mar 9, 2006 0:43:27 AM

International weather reports, in detailed, compact and mini modes. Automatically updated, Powered by AccuWeather.

Version 1.14 now available!

Only one minor bugfix in this version - upgrade is recommended before the release of Opera 9.5:

touchtheSky is a comprehensive weather display, featuring:

International coverage - just type your town name and search
Always up-to-date - data gets retrieved and updated every half-hour from Accuweather.com
Temperature
Windspeed
Satellite images
Air quality, including humidity, pollen levels, and UV levels
Moon phases
5-day forecast
Mini mode - always have it available in the corner of your screen!
Metric or US units
Actual temperature or AccuWeather RealFeel
Switchable skins, conforming to Opera Style guidelines
Animations can be disabled for slower CPUs
Automatic notification when software updates are available
Checked for compatibility in Windows, Linux and Mac OS

Data officially licensed from AccuWeather - thanks to all at AccuWeather for their help and support! Developed in fully-valid XHTML and CSS.

Read the Scotsman.com news article about ttSky here!

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Hi, thanks for a great widget. Can someone help me with this......I live in XXXXX, XXXXXshire, UK. When I put the town into the widget I get two results, both in the same area. Comparing them they show most often the same weather with small variations to observations and forcasts. If I go from forcast to Accuweather, the forcast is the same for both and indeed Accuweather only shows one town, not two as I get in the touchthesky widget.

How can I find out where the stations are so that I can select the closest one to were I live and why is there a difference?

Many thanks, Wadadli4Sun

By Wadadli4Sun, # Mar 15, 2008 0:48:50 AM

DOasn't work with Opera 9.5, needs updates?

By SiMcarD, # Feb 22, 2008 9:23:49 PM

Need some upgrade to work with opera 9.5

By JEskandari, # Feb 6, 2008 3:08:25 AM

I like TouchTheSky except for one mysterious problem: it seems very reluctant to get fresh weather data after the mac laptop has been asleep for a while. For example right now it is 10:20 am, and the laptop has been alive and lit up for about 15 minutes, yet the widget still has the weather dated "current time 9:13am, last update 8:53". I can't seem to find any keystroke or button press that will force it to get fresh data, so I'm looking at weather data 1.5 hours old, which around here can mean a huge difference. How can I force it to wake up and get fresh data?

By DeAnander, # Feb 3, 2008 6:22:18 PM

I do also get this error message on every Opera start. Ok, I could turn off the update feature, but I don't want to.

By gun, # Jan 15, 2008 4:51:12 PM

I have an issue with ttsky - every time I launch Opera it comes up automatically (so far so good). However, it comes open with an error message about not being able to update. But it did update, as evidenced by the date and time I see once I close the error message. How do I fix it? (Note: just got Opera and the widget within the last week.)

Otherwise, terrific widget!

By kirstena, # Jan 9, 2008 4:14:44 PM

I like this widget, but would find it much more useful if I was able to choose metric temperature BUT with windspeeds in MPH (there is already a choice between kph or m/s so I'm sure this could be added).

I am British and we never properly converted to metric, so we measure temp only in Celcius but speed only in MPH!

By thegizmo, # Jan 3, 2008 4:53:27 PM

Doesn't work in Opera Kestrel builds. The other widgets i've tried all work fine. The latest Opera build where ttSky works seems to be v9.25.

By RainyShadow, # Dec 27, 2007 5:19:02 PM

I'd like to add another request to show the actual and reelfeel temps at the same time. In places like where I am [Manitoba, Canada] the difference between actual and perceived gives a quicker and better impression of the actual weather than looking at the real temp, wind speed, et al. Great work, though!

By dex Otaku, # Dec 18, 2007 11:29:55 PM

Does not work for Sweden, although Accuweather has the location:

http://www.accuweather.com/world-index-forecast.asp?partner=accuweather&traveler=0&loccode=EUR|SE|SW021|G%F6teborg

By sackese, # Dec 9, 2007 10:48:46 AM

Terrific

By hicham6o, # Nov 30, 2007 10:53:02 PM

Great widget -
I'd like to see it remember the last places you entered, so you can flick between them easily.

By orlp, # Nov 19, 2007 10:17:40 AM

mm...I think this widget is good...at least at that time

By nickgreek, # Nov 16, 2007 11:01:25 PM

....How use this thing?....fu.....

By nickgreek, # Nov 16, 2007 10:25:49 PM

Hi! I just love this widget, it's awesome! Very useful and good looking.

But I noticed something: my friend and I both have this widget and we were on msn one day and I told her to check the weather on Touch The Sky - she did, so did I (we were making some plans). It turns out, widget showed different temperature for her and me. At the same time (for the same place of course). And sometimes I notice it says it's, let's say, raining, and rain:

a) is not there (BUT! it starts raining after a while)
b) rain stopped but widget still shows it

But I still like this widget...if only few things (mine and what other people said) could be changed, it would be perfect!

Great work!

By SoundOfVision, # Nov 13, 2007 8:27:55 PM

I have a problem with this widget:
In the forecast tab wind speeds have a conversion problem: in US units it shows NW at 35 mph with gusts of 74 mph, while in metric units it shows NW at 15m/s OR km/h and gusts of 33 m/s OR km/h !!! (correct values from AccuWeather.com are 49km/h - 107 km/h).

By BlueTemplar, # Nov 11, 2007 0:35:45 AM

@Scorpio75: I live in "Umlaut"-city, too ;-) (Mülheim)
For Accuweather try "Furth" with a vocal instead of the Umlaut. For me, it works.
BTW, greath widget, thx to the developer

By h-as, # Nov 5, 2007 0:18:48 AM

this widget looks great, but the data i get turns out not to be correct. i live in ljubljana (slovenia) and right now there is some 6 degrees C difference between the temperature shown through the widget and the actual temperature, making the widget rather useless as a reference point. pitty!

By kvisnar, # Nov 1, 2007 6:49:44 AM

@JolietJake1, the time data comes from Accuweather, which gets it from your local weather monitoring station. Perhaps the monitoring station hasn't changed, or hasn't uploaded data to Accuweather recently? What area are you in?

By johnnysaucepn, # Oct 29, 2007 2:05:25 PM