Re: Many problems concering Weather Underground and WeatherB
Forecasts will differ between all weather providers. That’s how it has always been. Nothing new there.
Here’s a current comparison between WeatherBug and Weather Underground:
http://s27.postimg.org/47rhibl5b/Compare.jpg
The forecasts are not 100% the same, but they are very close. I’m expecting you would see similar minor differences if you did the same comparison with other weather providers.
The Bradley International Airport weather station seems to be showing okay data at the moment:
http://s4.postimg.org/blmfzyr3d/Current.jpg
Since neither of us upgraded to a new version of Weather Watcher since then, that only leads me to believe one of the following occurred at the time of your screenshot:
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The airport (the weather station owner) was having technical difficulties and stopped reporting weather data to WeatherBug.
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WeatherBug was having technical difficulties and stopped reporting weather data to their weather data feed.
In either case, it’s usually an issue that only time can resolve. Some weather stations are more stable than others. Fortunately, there are a few other WeatherBug stations in that area that you can switch to.
FYI, airport weather stations are usually not the most reliable weather stations. Most (if not all) don’t report current conditions in real-time.
Everytime there’s an update to this program, I always fear that something else will get broken in the process.
Weather Watcher, like most other software, relies on a lot of moving parts that is does not control. Something could be broken in Windows, someone could configure a Windows setting in such a way that negatively affects Weather Watcher, IE could be broken, the Internet could be down, the weather data source could be down, the weather station itself could be unavailable, etc. All of those things considered, Weather Watcher is probably one of the most stable weather programs you’ve ever used (perhaps a reason why you’ve used it for so long). When problems do arise that I’m able to fix on my end, they are almost always fixed within hours – and probably before you even noticed they were broken.
While I don’t support old versions of Weather Watcher, I do make them available in case anyone ever wants to roll back:
viewforum.php?f=67
Also, you did not note which version of Weather Watcher you’re using. My screenshots were taken with Weather Watcher 7.2.11.
