Animated Weather Forecast For Firefox, Google Chrome

Keeping track of current weather is almost a necessity for most people living in the northern hemisphere, especially in the continental climate zones. Being at work with no access to TV, you may be visiting websites like weather.com often to know the forecast. If you are a Firefox or Google Chrome user, you can get animated weather integrated into your browser with AniWeather.

This Weather Addon for Firefox and Google Chrome browsers sit’s in your browser status bar and gives you weather updates from around the world for more than 70,000 locations. You can add your own location by entering your city and country information or let AniWeather detect your locality automatically(Geolocation feature in Firefox 3.5). Simply hovering over AniWeather’s status bar icons pops up a lively animation of current weather along with the reports. Clicking on the icon displays a flash animation overlayed on your current browser window.

AniWeather is highly customizable with a wide array of display icons and rich graphic reports to choose from. You can also choose the unit’s of your choice for temperature (Centigrade vs. Fahrenheit) and Wind Speed (mph vs. km/h). You can make AniWeather give you live reports every time you launch your browser. Or you can set the time period (every 1, 2, 3, 4, or 8 hours) for getting automatic reports.

Many other appearance settings such as location of AniWeather in your browser (status bar/menu bar/navigation bar/bookmark toolbar), animation size, preview size for graphic reports, mouse hovering delay for preview windows, fading out color etc can be customized.
Here is a demo of AniWeather’s flash animation of New York city’s weather forecast.

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AniWeather works with Firefox 2.0+ and Google Chrome 3.0.193.1+.