Google now does the Quickest Weather Forecast on the Web
In the ongoing attempt to make nearly everything available through the Google search field, they’ve just added the ability to request the weather through it. Yeah, I know, there are plenty of places to go and get the weather on the web. But, this is the quickest.
To get current conditions and a forecast just type in the word “weather” followed by either a zip code or a city. If not a unique city name, follow if with a comma and state abbreviation. For now, it displays only United States weather.
For example, to see the weather in Honolulu, just key in “weather honolulu”. You’ll get the following display:
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Notice just below the weather forecast is the first search result. It’s wunderground.com because that is the service that is providing the weather to Google. Having it always the first result makes getting further details on the weather report easy since you can simply click that link to get a full page of weather for the requested area from wunderground.com
But wait, there’s more! You can also use Google SMS to send a text message to the U.S. five digit shortcode 46645 (GOOGL on most mobile phones) followed by your meteorological query.
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Hi,
It is not working for me, is it because I am from france? Or is it discontinued?
Regards
Bastien:
Please be more specific and maybe I can help.
I believe the Google SMS Weather website says it only works for US.
Hahaha, wow. Now this is a cool little feature. I’ve read a modest amount about Google Hacks, tricks, etc., but I have never seen this one. Good work Mark!
Google SMS only works in the US (read the FAQs)
But it does say they’re “working hard to make it available when and wherever you’re on the go”, so there’s hope yet for me in the UK and Bastien in France.
Woo hoo!! Good work finding this, Mark!
This is cool. I was most impressed because the link below the weather was to the weather station in Camarillo. I live in Thousand Oaks, and on weather.com it defaults to Van Nuys, which is really nothing like TO in terms of weather. Anyway, so it works good! Thanks Mark.
Great, but would be even greater if it had a switch for celsius (hate these non SI units)
Hi
it doesn’t work for our SMS Service.
because of our SMS Service ,doesn’t work properly for it’s own Duty(Sending Message),So what do you think?
Iran’s SMS Service dosen’t Support!!!!!
but Thanks!!!!
It works fine. You will find however, that you need to include the state as well for most cities, as follows: weather kirkland, WA
Otherwise, you just get a bunch of links and no forcast.
Please tell me — why so few international, multiple location options? I’m in NYC and I like to check out the weather in my favorite places around the world, as well as my own.
Your options don’t come close to MSN’s Foreca weather gadget. I’m almost tempted not to switch to Google as my homepage for this reason …
Forecast for Finland from Google?
Hi,
I have embeded this whether gadget into my website, and able to get the whether details of the desired city/state. by default it shows New York’s details and I change it to Florida and got the detials of it. now I refresh the page and it shows me the details of New York and thats what I dont want…. it should show the details of Florida…
I want it to maintain the state where the user left…. So can anyone help me in maitaining the state in this Whether gadget.
loads of thanks from me…
Nagesh