When I browse through add-ons of…almost any kind, really… menu bar, dock, Firefox plugins, Wordpress plugins… one kind that shows up very frequently is weather reporting plugins. Everyone seems to really want to know what the weather’s going to be like. Now when you live in New England, I get it, because the weather could veer off into the twilight zone with pretty much no warning, but when you live in the San Francisco bay area, you’ve got a pretty good confidence level that tomorrow’s weather is going to be like today’s, which was like yesterday’s - except for that catastrophic, freeway-slicking “rain shower” that may happen thrice a year… I suppose even people in the San Francisco area want to know what the weather will be like.

My favorite weather widget is WeatherPop. It lives in the menu bar under MacOS X and unobtrusively lets me know what’s going on right outside my window, and what to expect.

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