Miracles...after a few months of being weatherless and checking back here on a whim and seeing Weather Vane still listed, I've tried it again and it's working! For now? Thank you.

Yep, I think it's DOA...I sent Spike a note too but haven't heard back either.

Goodbye Weather Vane. Thanks Spike.

The download link and web site are not working.

Weather Vane has a concise, easy to read display that makes for quick checks of the weather. I compared it to WeatherDock in Activity Monitor, WeatherDock used 0.2% CPU and Weather Vane used 0.0% (obviously these readings were inbetween weather updates).

And as an added bonus, it runs as a 64 bit app on my PPC Mac which means we won't have to listen to LIBERTYFORALL1776 complain about it not yet being 64 bit. Thank goodness for small favors!

If Spike is looking for a new server, he might look into BBC's met service. It's used by many Linux apps.

He could also develop this app in such a way that it doesn't depend on one server.

I wonder why he hasn't implemented a feature in which users may designate a server. Along with this, it would be better if the app didn't freeze up if it can't connect to a server. Meteorologist, for example, just shows the app icon if it can't connect.

Meteorologist, btw, has also had this server problem many times. I switched to Weathervane because, up to now, the weather server there has been reliable.

I'm having the same issue. Weather Vane has stopped working for me as well. I use it on my G4 laptop. I also hope it will be fixed soon.

WV has pooched, again. Displaying "Fetching forecast" and "null,null", the same as last time the feed was disabled by a data provider. Deleting preferences had no effect, and issue exists on three different networks, so assuming it is not a localised issue.

I received this email from the developer this morning.

"Weather Vane's adoption by Mac users has been a very successful over the last four years. So successful that AccuWeather can't handle the load. They receive over 100,000 hits a day from it. They wanted me to pay for the feed, which I cannot/will not do. There are other feeds available and I'll have to retool Weather Vane to use one of them. I hope to have this done by this Sunday, so please be patient and sorry for the inconvenience."

Hi... no, I have not received a response. I wrote an e-mail on their web site, but have not heard anything. This is what I have done on my Mac:

In the menu bar, I chose quit. I then deleted both the application and the preferences for Weather Vane. I then installed a fresh version of it; however, it still reads "Null Null" in the menu bar. I don't know what is happening with them.

I then downloaded another application called "Weather Dock" and installed it. It's a little tricky to set up the preferences on it, but I worked it out. Thus far, it is working fine on my Mac. I set it up to put a desktop icon in the lower right corner of my screen, giving me the weather icon and current temp. Since I have a large monitor, it also appears in my menu bar. You may want to check it out as a possible replacement for Weather Vane, which I still like. If you have any other questions about setting up Weather Dock, should you decide to go with it, I'd be happy to help.