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Meteorologist is a simple interface to weather provided by weather.com. Meteorologist provides the ability to show the weather in the main menu or the dock, each displaying more detail in a pop-up menu, whose contents are customizeable from the preferences. You can also change several of the appearance settings for the dock, in addition to setting whether to display temperature data in Celsius or Fahrenheit. The source code is available.
Version 1.4.8: Fixed Weather Icon bug.
Mac OS X 10.3.9 or later.
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| Meteorologist User Reviews (295 posts) | Write A Review |
 | Jul 21 2008 |
MONOCLAST This is a great application that does a great job of keeping you updated about weather conditions, and is very stable and relatively bug-free. The user interface - in particular the preferences - could use some work in terms of better organization and usability, but what is there works. One gripe I have with this application is for several releases now it's polluted the system log with entries like these: Jul 21 12:36:57 mono Meteorologist[191]: Fetching URL: http://www.weather.com/weather/mpdwcr/tenday?locid=USTX0225 Jul 21 12:41:55 mono Meteorologist[191]: Fetching URL: http://www.weather.com/outlook/travel/businesstraveler/local/USTX0225 Jul 21 12:41:55 mono Meteorologist[191]: Fetching URL: http://www.weather.com/weather/mpdwcr/tenday?locid=USTX0225 Jul 21 12:41:55 mono Meteorologist[191]: Weather.com URL: http://www.weather.com/outlook/travel/businesstraveler/local/USTX0225 And it does this each time it checks for updated weather, which means my logs typically have over FIVE HUNDRED such entries a DAY! For instance, here's the count for today (and the day is far from over): # cat /var/log/system.log | grep Meteorologist | sort | wc -l Obviously having these messages interspersed with critical messages in the log makes casually scanning the logs for other pertinent information a pain in the ass. In fact, i typically have ti filter the Meteorologist messages out to view my logs efficiently, which means viewing them through the command line and using grep to filter. This may not bother the developer, but it's surely irritating to others. I realize this is a freeware application, and I'm not giving it a bad rating for this; but I really hope the author will stop logging unimportant data like this to the system log in a future update! Put this stuff in the console log if you must, but keep it out of our system logs, please!
(Version 1.4.8) | |
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 | Sep 6 2007 |
MAJESTIK The "Add City" button is grayed out on my MacBook Pro, running 10.4.10.
(Version 1.4.8) | |
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| Sep 6 2007 |
KNADA I just checked - 'Add City' works fine on my MBP running 10.4.10.
(Version 1.4.8) | |
| Sep 6 2007 |
MAJESTIK Ok, I deleted the Metro plist which i guess was there from the previous version i had 1.4.5. "Add City" is working now. | |
 | Sep 5 2007 |
BVILA 1.4.6 didn't work for my international cities but 1.4.7 doesn't work for me for any cities. All US cities and all International cities are Question Marks. Thankfully I could revert to the old version and at least have the US cities working again. I have an Intel Mac. Not sure if that has anything to do with the problem.
(Version 1.4.7) | |
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| Sep 5 2007 |
MACUPDATE ADMIN Try deleting the .plist file (preferences file) for Meteo and then launch Meteo again.
(Version 1.4.7) | |
| Sep 5 2007 |
GEORGE PAPHITIS There is a known bug in this latest release. Weather icons not showing for all cities. Developer is aware of this and will release a fix very soon. There is a long thread at this SourceForge forum: http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=268087
(Version 1.4.7) | |
| Sep 4 2007 |
DRADRIENYOUELL v1.4.7 update has Meteo working again, I love the Menu Bar weather. Thanks Joe Crobak and I donated in monetary appreciation. No problem with so-called memory leak on Intel Mac Pro in 10.4.10 | |
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| Sep 3 2007 |
MACUPDATE ADMIN Yes, this version still has a bad memory leak. In a very few minutes it went from using 32MB RAM shortly after startup to 60MB RAM currently. That's a show-stopper. Too bad, because the thing works well otherwise.
(Version 1.4.7) | |
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| Sep 3 2007 |
E_COMMERCE Perhaps that's after its first check? Unless it leaks memory constantly (which I don't see across days/weeks of use) then it's a non-issue.
(Version 1.4.7) | |
 | Sep 3 2007 |
MACUPDATE ADMIN If you'd have read earlier posts to these reviews for Meteo you'd know this is an ongoing issue.
(Version 1.4.7) | |
| Sep 3 2007 |
MAULRAT never personally had a problem with a mem leak here ... its been constant at 20MB (22.6 to be precise) for months and months with no change with this version. guess I'm lucky?
(Version 1.4.7) | |
| Sep 3 2007 |
MACUPDATE ADMIN Which Mac and which version OS X are you using? MBP 2.33 GHz, 10.4.10 here. And I've found no other memory leaking apps on my rig. Maybe Meteo doesn't like Intel Macs... I dunno.
(Version 1.4.7) | |
| Sep 3 2007 |
MAULRAT could be an intel issue I suppose ... I'm on a Dual 2GHz PowerPC G5 using 10.4.10 (4.5 GB ram).
(Version 1.4.7) | |
| Sep 3 2007 |
MRCHIPS I'm running Meteorologist v1.4.6 still and Activity Monitor reports Meteorologist is using 23.28 MB of Real Memory and 368.03 MB of Virtual Memory. That's about where it was roughly 9 hours ago when I restarted my Mac (for an unrelated reason). I'm running on a Mac Pro 2.66GHz with 10.4.10
(Version 1.4.7) | |
| Sep 4 2007 |
MACUPDATE ADMIN Ok, this is odd... I decided to fire it up again and after an hour or so it is only eating 11MB RAM (10.9MB to be exact). Go figure.
(Version 1.4.7) | |
| Sep 4 2007 |
MRCHIPS I forgot to mention in my previous reply that I'd noticed Meteorologist was using something between 40 and 50 MB when I checked before the restart. But it had been running for about a week before that so there might be some slow leak... I've just tried clicking a few things on its menu and can get the "Real Memory" to go up to about 30 MB, but it goes back again. It seems the floor now is around 26 to 27 MB and is stable there... "Virtual Memory" is at 370.13 MB (was 368.03 MB in my previous post), so not much change there... I'm going to keep my eye on this for a few days, but so far it seems ok. BTW this is still with v1.4.6 but based on these results I think I'll go ahead and try v1.4.7. Thanks for the feedback!
(Version 1.4.7) | |
| Sep 4 2007 |
MACUPDATE ADMIN OK, I shutdown my Mac last night (thunderstorms) and then booted it this morning, I have Meteo set as a Login Item... that was an hour ago and Meteo is eating 272MB RAM, and I have not touched it. I must say again, no other apps on my MBP have any recognizable/detectable memory leaks.
(Version 1.4.7) | |
| Sep 4 2007 |
MACUPDATE ADMIN Since my last post, I have: Trashed all Meteo-related files And it is now eating 41MB of RAM currently, this is just too strange, the app never behaves the same way twice. I'm done with it, adios Meteo.
(Version 1.4.7) | |
| Sep 7 2007 |
MACUPDATE ADMIN Tried version 1.4.8... no joy. Still eats RAM like crazy over time. Tried on my MBP 2.33GHz and my old iBook, same deal. Both running 10.4.10.
(Version 1.4.8) | |
| Sep 11 2007 |
HIGHFOLIOLIP The leak is here as well - but not as extreme as the others. What I've noticed is: At startup (automatic login; ver. 1.4.6) memory use is around 10.3 MB. Access the preferences and use goes to 11.83 - and stays there. Update the weather and it climbs to 12.5, and trickles down (now at 12.05MB 5 min. after a manual update of two cities). For me this is not a major issues (upgraded Quicksilver, 1.5 GB ram), so for now Meteo stays - at 1.4.6. What disturbs me is that it absolutely will not stop checking for a new version - no matter how many times I uncheck the preferences box. Ugh! FYI - another 5 min. and mem. use holding at 12.04 MB - virtually no change. Just manually updated and mem. use is at 12.12 MB and holding. Admin - how many cities do you track and how often do you update? Just wondering if you track a lot of locations and your machine runs 24/7 you may have a lot of little leaks if you update at 15 min. intervals as I do. That doesn't make the memory issue OK but it may explain it a little.
(Version 1.4.8) | |
| Sep 11 2007 |
MACUPDATE ADMIN Tracking only one city, the one I live in. I gave up on Meteo, as I have said. The leak is just too huge (upwards of 120 MB of RAM usage within an hour or two). I don't really *need* the software, but I thank the developer anyway.
(Version 1.4.8) | |
| Sep 11 2007 |
Thanks for the quick response; I'll stick with 1.4.6 for the time being. That is one massive memory leak.
(Version 1.4.8) | |
| Sep 11 2007 |
MACUPDATE ADMIN Your experience with the latest version may be much different, you may not experience a memory leak... I've tried all the usual stuff with Meteo to get it to stop leaking (deleted .plist, ran all my utilities) to no avail, and I do not experience any other leaks in any other of my apps. I always watch for leaks very closely.
(Version 1.4.8) | |
| Sep 3 2007 |
HERVé 5 fixes menubar icon :-) best in town!
(Version 1.4.7) | |
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| Aug 26 2007 |
ARGMAC International locations are not working again. At least major South American cities aren't working again. It's a pity, since this program used to be the best.
(Version 1.4.6) | |
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| Aug 23 2007 |
UMIJIN I've used this app for a long time, and love it. However, the city problem has resurfaced again. That is, foreign city's weather doesn't show up any more, even though you can add them to the menu. I live in Japan, maybe it's only for Japanese cities.
(Version 1.4.6) | |
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| Jul 22 2007 |
MUDFLAPPER I love this app, but I've recently noticed, using Activity Monitor, that it's using upwards of 120MB of memory. Yes, real memory, not virtual memory. There's got to me a memory leak somewhere, right? Anyone else have this problem?
(Version 1.4.6) | |
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| Aug 14 2007 |
RICHARD TAYTOR Yes, it leaks badly (not a new problem). I run a cron job which relaunches it and other such leakers.
(Version 1.4.6) | |
| Aug 14 2007 |
MUDFLAPPER Yeah, that's a shame. LOVE the app. Care to share your cron script?
(Version 1.4.6) | |
| Jul 18 2007 |
MACXTER Works fine here on an iMac Core2Duo. Thanks a lot for the updade.
(Version 1.4.6) | |
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