Weather Widgets Not Working

Me, too, hasn't worked for several days - the widgets are there, but blank.

Fixed:

weather widget not working: Apple Support Communities

Don't know why it says "FIXED" in the previous post. It's only fixed if you have an Intel machine, upgrade to Snow Leopard or higher and hack around in the system files.

Don't get me wrong... I'm messing around in the system all the time and use the Terminal frequently. But I don't have an Intel machine.

If someone knows how to correct this for Tiger users, it would be appreciated.

However, while playing around with this I found out several things. The AccuWeather widget also used the "panther" addresses mentioned a couple posts up. Apparently those URLs were used by AccuWeather's servers for some reason (why there were nearly 100 different URLs that varied only by 2 or 3 numbers, boggles my mind). However as of this afternoon (11/15/2011) the addresses AccuWeather and the Apple Weather widgets used, suddenly changed, and they have now returned to the wu.apple and apple.accuweather addresses.

The problem, the standard weather widget still fails to receive weather data and stays blank with just the degree symbol in the corner, and several dashes for temperatures. The AccuWeather widget does work (though it went to an edgesuite address once already for some reason). I hate the thing as it is very hard to read and harder to figure out what the abstract symbols are at the size they are with the backgrounds they are on.

Why they are playing games with the addresses, I don't know. And the several hundred other addresses the standard Weather widget was going to (the ones at the questionable locations), still hasn't been explained.

Again, can someone please help us find a correction for non-intel machines, or at least let us know if Apple will correct this where the problem lies... at the server end?

I'm running Apple's weather widget again just fine on my PowerBook G4 on Tiger. All it takes is the appropriate few kilobytes of system files copied from an Intel Mac running Snowy or Lion.

Copied WidgetResources folder over from Snow Leopard and repaired permissions. Still a no-go.

Should I have copied the actual widget from SL too?

Hey all!

It's working again!

To be clear: I gave up on trying to do the "fix" described earlier and put the old "widgetresourses" folder back in place. It appears somebody at Apple or Accuweather fixed this on the back end.

Very cool. I'd become quite addicted to that nice little widget.

(BTW. I noticed it was missing a day on the iPhone version today, so must be there's been some tinkering going on...)

Thanks for your notification! Now I, too, have these weather widgets back in working order. On my computer with Tiger they're giving up-to-date information.

Would it be possible for someone to sum up in a simple fashion where we are here? I'm running 10.5.8, my old weather dock is not working, and the wunderground widget doesn't seem to open.

Thanks.

Summary:

Tiger and Leopard weather widgets stopped working a week or so ago. Something either Apple did, or Accuweather which appears to provide the feed, was undone for those versions but not Snow Leopard or Lion.

Other weather widgets for OSX provided by third parties (Accuweather, Weather Underground, something-orange mentioned on the Leopard discussion on this topic) do function, but many prefer the original versions that came with the operating system. Somebody on the Leopard forum also posted a system files hack using Snow Leopard's WidgetResources to get the old widgets to work. Some people got this to work, others didn't.

Yesterday (Nov. 17, 2011) the old widgets started working again (thank-you whoever at Apple or Accuweather!). Whatever had been undone was back up and running. I double checked this as I write and all 3 weather widgets I have installed (Accuweather's, Tiger's, Weather Underground's) are working. I should note that my Tiger version still has the modifications recommended on the Leopard forum but others who had not applied this modification reported the old widget working yesterday.

If you're having problems with all weather widgets (even third party) then it sounds like some problem unrelated to the ones others were having. Have you tried repairing permissions on your computer, or simply restarting the computer?

Thanks for this update. I never realized how much I loved my accuweather widget!

Yes, I can confirm that the issue has now been resolved with the Apple servers. The widget now works (on Tiger), and actually is jumping to the correct two addresses, instead of the massive list of odd addresses it was accessing two weeks ago.

Considering how many different threads about this were started (and probable bug reports), I don't think they had any choice but to get someone to correct it.

…and thanks, to whoever actually did.