Weather is Everywhere
Us Minnesotans lurrrvvvvvvvvvv to bring up weather as a conversation starter.
But besides being one of the most universal subjects on the planet, knowing the weather can also come in handy when you’re planning your work schedule for the week, dressing the kids for school, or perhaps meeting friends for a patio drink before it gets too cold.
But I can just check my phone app.
Or navigate to weather.com or just do a google search. It’s true – finding the temp is pretty easy as it stands. However, there are hidden temperatures you can access that sometimes make life a little easier.
Calendars
Outlook
This one is easy to activate. Head to your File tab, then Options. Select Calendar, scroll all the way to the bottom to make that box into a checkmark!
It’ll just show you the upcoming forecast, but still. Handy.
Damn you, Google, for getting rid of this feature! It used to be as easy as changing a calendar setting, but instead, you have to engage a third-party app to include it. The one that worked the easiest and didn’t require a subscription is here. It’ll redirect you to add a calendar to your cal of choice or you can subscribe to it (which is what I did in this case).
It adds another calendar layer you can turn on/off. And the event includes some weather details.
A workaround is to subscribe to your Google calendar from Outlook. Or, you can add a weather app to your browser.
Chrome
There are a whole lot of options in Chrome. Right now, I’m using this Chrome extension which displays the temperature where the rest of my extensions live.
Clicking on the extension opens up a window that gives you a bit more information.
Some Chrome weather extensions come with tab start pages (the page that loads when you open up a new tab). We’ll talk about new tab pages at some point, but here’s an idea of what that looks like.
I’ve got more than one location on here, which is handy if you’re commuting or have family/friends outside your area.
Windows 10
I’m a PC user so you generally won’t be getting Mac instructions from me. 😉
Windows 10 gives you an option to display the local weather in your taskbar.
If you have a newer system, this might be displayed already. If you don’t see it, right-click on your taskbar. Hover over “News and interests” and select “Show icon and text.”
When you click on the temp, you’ll notice it gives you a whole bunch of other data – you can customize some of that if it annoys you. Note that clicking on the “see full forecast” button will take you to MSN weather…via Edge, of course.
Where else have you found the weather?
