sWeather: View Weather Forecast in System Tray

These days weather is so unpredictable, perhaps because of the global warming. But whatever the reason may be, it makes life much easier if you check weather conditions and forecast before you step out of your house. The sWeather app for Windows is a small application that can display current weather conditions for one or more places in your Windows system tray. It gathers the weather data from the reliable Yahoo! Weather site.

You can download sWeather from the Skwire Empire website. The download is a portable application packed inside a ZIP archive. After extracting the downloaded ZIP file to a folder, you can double-click on sWeather.exe to run it. The sWeather application places an icon in the notification area of Windows and shows a window displaying weather conditions for Codyville, ME.

sWeather: View Weather Forecast in System Tray

You can add more locations and remove Codyville, ME location from the configuration window which can be opened by selecting Options → Configure from the menubar. You can also press the F3 hotkey to open the configuration window. In this window, you can search for a location and then double-click on the found location to add it to the locations list. There are various other options like temperature units, showing temperature in the system tray, auto-starting with Windows, start minimized, close to system tray and more.

sWeather: View Weather Forecast in System Tray

The system tray notification icon is updated every 60 minutes (1 hour) by default. But you can change the settings to update it more often. One icon inthe system tray icon shows the current weather conditions while the second icon in the system tray shows the temperature of the selected location. If you click on the temperature icon, then it would show the main sWeather window displaying the full weather forecast.

sWeather: View Weather Forecast in System Tray

sWeather is a simple application that resides in your system tray and continues to fetch and inform you about the current weather conditions in your area. This app is great if you work for long hours on your desktop computer. It can keep your well informed about the current weather conditions as well as the weather forecasts of your city.

You can download sWeather from http://skwire.dcmembers.com/.