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AccuWeather.com
In addition to this cool free widget for your blog or website, AccuWeather.com offers the weather via e-mail alerts, twitter and tumblr, web browser extensions and widgets for your desktop. This widget is available in multiple themes and 9 different sizes for more than 3 million locations around the world and is available in English and Spanish. Caution. Do not try to put more than one of these widgets on a single web page or blog; they become confused and refuse to work properly. I wanted to show several examples here, but these doohickeys just refused to give me that luxury.
Weather.com
The
Weather Channel's website, Weather.com,
has three different free widgets available for blogs, websites
and social networking sites. In addition, there is an iGoogle
gadget, a Vista sidebar gadget and an Apple dashboard widget.
The
following is an example of the most complex widget, The
News/Breaking Weather Widget. The other
two, with several themes, colors, shapes and sizes to choose from, are
smaller
and more basic showing just local weather conditions and alerts.
WeatherBug
On
WeatherBug.com,
you can find several styles, shapes and sizes of web
widgets that display live local weather conditions as well as severe
weather alerts. All have that cute little weather bug on
them. :-) Weatherbug
also
has desktop widgets.
Show My Weather
Show
My Weather's
free weather widget comes in one very simple style
which can be customized to a limited extent. This widget
works only for the USA and Canada. An interesting fact, this widget did
not recognize my city by "zip code"--I had to type in "city, state". I
don't know if this is a universal glitch in the program, but if it does
not take your "zip", try the "city/state" option.
WeatherForBlog.com
At WeatherForBlog.com
they offer one widget that is simple but customizable with cute
background pictures. You can make sizes 300 x 250 or a
skyscraper 160 x 600.
