Forecastfox Weather

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

by keith2468 on July 4, 2008 · permalink

I installed 0.9.7.6 a couple of days ago.

It works great for Canada, including small towns in Canada. You can easily set it to use our metric units.

This is a great little tool for Firefox. I set mine up to be unobtrusive, but to give a full forecast when scrolled over.

After you get the profile set up for one location, save the profile. E.g. CalgarySummer.

To setup another location or season, recall your favorite profile, save it as a new name, change the location, and re-save it.

If you are going to have the profile changing a lot, add the profile name to the Current Conditions display, so you can see at a glance which profile it is.

To save others time experimenting, I used these settings:

*** Current conditions ***

Display:
[t] [flik+short] [tmp+short]

Tooltip Title:
Readings taken at [tm]:

Tooltip Label:
[t].[nl]Feels Like Temp: [flik+short].[nl]Real Temp: [tmp+short], Humid:[hmid].[nl]Wind: [windt] at [winds+kmh] gusts to [windgust+kmh].[nl]Precip: [precip+mm], BarPrs: [bard].[nl]UV: [uvt], Sun Rise: [sunr], Sun Set: [suns].[nl]Moon: [moont], Moon Rise: [moonr], Moon Set: [moons].[nl][dnam].

*** Today's Forecast ***
Display:
[sday]: [tmp]

Tooltip Title:
[day] [partn] Forecast for Today (U/D [tm]):

Tooltip Label:
[tlong].[nl]Hi FL Temp: [rlfeelhi+short] Low FL Temp: [rlfeellow+short].[nl]Hi R Temp: [hi+short] Low R Temp: [low].[nl]Prbty of Thunder Storm: [tstorm].[nl]Wind:[windt] at [winds+kmh] gusts to [windgust+kmh].[nl]Precip: [precip+mm].[nl][dnam].

*** Extended Forecast ***

Display:
[sday]: [tmp]

Tooltip Title:
[day] [partn] Forecast (U/D [tm]):

Tooltip Label:
[tlong].[nl]Hi FL Temp: [rlfeelhi+short] Low FL Temp: [rlfeellow+short].[nl]Hi R Temp: [hi+short] Low R Temp: [low].[nl]Prbty Thunderstorm: [tstorm].[nl]Wind: [windt] at [winds+kmh] gusts to [windgust+kmh].[nl]Precip: [precip+mm].[nl][dnam].

Remember to save the profile so you can get it back. Then customize the settings to suit you and your local units of measurement. Then re-save your profile.

In summary, great little tool. I'll be using it a lot.