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Questions tagged [weather]

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Will cold weather break my laptop?

Situation: It's -5 °C outside and I'm bringing my laptop to school in my bag. I spend a lot of time walking outside in the cold. Then I go into the school where it's 25 °C and fire up the laptop immediately. Note, I'm not using the laptop while…
Stefan Monov
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How can I force "news and interests" to only show weather on the taskbar?

Up until yesterday my "news and interests" taskbar item only ever showed the weather as an icon and some text (20°C Mostly cloudy). Today it's cycling through my usual weather, a blue icon with the text "breaking news" and various exchange rates…
Richard
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How can I keep a PC dry outdoors?

I'm planning on having an outdoor LAN-party, not in the rain but you know how water condenses on everything.
Jakob Cosoroaba
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How to get weather via cmd in Windows 8.1 using cURL?

How do I get weather results using cURL, assigning a variable to it for later use? Something like: # This doesn't work and is only a reference for what I want: set mytemperature= curl www.yahoo.com/(mycity)/weather.temperature echo…
batchcoding____s
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Weather Logging Software on Windows Home Server

I'm looking for some weather logging software that I can run as a Windows Home Server add-in, or as a service on my Home Server, so I don't need to log into my Home Server to log weather data. I have an Oregon Scientific WMR918 weather station, and…
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Install the default weather gadget on Windows 7

I have uninstalled the default weather gadget by accident (right-click any gadget and press "uninstall"). Now I want to get it back (the 3rd party gadgets don't seem as attractive as the standard one), but I don't know how. Unfortunately, this…
ralien
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Cannot get Weather widget to display on lock screen (WIndows 10)

I am currently running a Windows 10 Pro desktop machine (21H1, build 19043.1288) and cannot get the Weather app to display detailed status info on the lock screen. I have configured the appropriate settings in Settings > Personalisation > Lock…
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Can I make this PowerShell Script accept commas?

The following powershell script outputs the results twice when there is a comma. It separates the strings as two entries. How can I make it treat it as one string instead of two? Function Get-Weather { [Alias('Wttr')] [Cmdletbinding()] …
Mark Deven
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Human readable text for current weather condition

I am looking for a command line program that takes the current weather condition from a website and prints it out in a human readable format. Actually, I have a Linux box which is connected to my TV and is always on. Sometimes the TV is not on but…
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How can I change the Windows 11 taskbar weather to Celsius _without_signing in to widgets

I would like the taskbar weather widget to use Celsius instead of Fahrenheit. However, I don't want to sign in just for this feature to work. Is there a way to configure this somewhere in the system? Going into Weather app and changing the setting…
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Can't add Windows 10 weather tile to start menu

I don't know how, but I've made only one weather tile for specific place disappear and there's no option to pin it to start menu again. What I can choose from is this while others have those. There's no tile for this location pinned at the moment.
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How to add another city in Windows 8's Weather

How can another city be added on Windows 8's Weather, so simply like on the iPhone? (The reason why we need that is, sometimes we live in a city and need to commute to a different city to work, or we may wonder how the temperature is like for…
nonopolarity
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How do I display only weather info in Windows 10?

The weather card in the taskbar is pretty useful but I don't care about the news articles it keeps showing me, is there a way to only see the weather or important info?
Claire Chibrax
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Is it safe to use a computer during a storm?

Is it safe to use a computer during a storm that might involve lightning discharges? I'm talking about normal every day usage like browsing the web and gaming, not stuff like installing OS or BIOS updates. I'm mainly worried about permanent damage…
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Is there a standard for specifying weather-related preferences?

I find over and over again that weather applications and web sites default to temperatures in °F and wind speeds in mph. My local standard (which is "local" in most of the world, I believe) is °C and m/s. Is there any standard for specifying this? …
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