What skin do people CURRENTLY use for weather?

[jwideman]

I've searched, with no success, for a weather skin that currently works. I don't care what service it works with, so long as it works. I've looked up "location code" and all that jazz, and the URL never matches what I get from any of the services.

[Scolex]

I use VClouds Weather 2

[jwideman]

Tried that one. Tried many that use weather.com. They all seem to expect a location code that weather.com no longer uses and a bit of research tells me that weather.com broke everything, long ago. So how did you manage to get things working right?

[Augusstus]

I'm using VClouds Weather 2, as well, and never had any problem with it. The thing is, I'm getting my area code from another very useful rainmeter skin, called: 'Signal Source by Xcitement'. This is basically a world map that shows your location on this map from your IP address, and once you move the cursor over your identified location, it shows the weather area code as a pop-up text box.

Every time I switch location, this map finds me on the world map, so I just type in the new code in VClouds Weather and it's working always.

[Waldensamkeit]

I use VClouds 2 as well and previously I used Simple Weather Update. Tried out a few others but always came back to VCLouds.

Regardless of which skin I use though, (except accuweather which just will not work[for me]) I have never used anything but my zip code and have never had any problem with that.

[JpsCrazy]

except accuweather which just will not [work for me]

99% sure that's dead to Rainmeter because of users abusing their services.

And personally I use 10 Foot HUD or The F***ing Weather depending on my background. I'm actually using VClouds right now because it was designed for the Newspaper Desktop.

[Seahorse]

My own which uses weather.com as it seems to support places off the beaten track such as where I live...

[jwideman]

Okay, thanks for the replies. Zip code works.

[Scolex]

If you want to find weather for another place and you don't know the zip you can use this
http://xoap.weather.com/search/search?where=EnterCityHere
you will be taken to an xml page with a list of all codes for given city name
for example there are 2 other Tuscolas (my home town) and I get this
<search ver="3.0">
<loc id="USIL1186" type="1">Tuscola, IL</loc>
<loc id="USMI0837" type="1">Tuscola, MI</loc>
<loc id="USTX1381" type="1">Tuscola, TX</loc>
</search>

[Falconer]

If you want to find weather for another place and you don't know the zip you can use this
http://xoap.weather.com/search/search?where=EnterCityHere
you will be taken to an xml page with a list of all codes for given city name
for example there are 2 other Tuscolas (my home town) and I get this
<search ver="3.0">
<loc id="USIL1186" type="1">Tuscola, IL</loc>
<loc id="USMI0837" type="1">Tuscola, MI</loc>
<loc id="USTX1381" type="1">Tuscola, TX</loc>
</search>

Sweet. I might have a go at making a little skin that uses this...