Mavericks - Dashboard Weather Widget stopped working

In the past, it has been a server problem.

"No cities found" in Dashboard Weather Widget

If you're stuck with the back of a widget that is "no cities found" and can never be "done", by hovering holding the option key you get the X in the upper left and can remove the broken widget.

All you need to do is REFRESH the widget by selecting it and pressing "cmd R"

Oh good..It's not just me.

I reimaged my iMac, and can't get the Widget to choose my city.

If I boot into the old image, it's fine.

If I go to my Macbook, it's fine.

I've tried moving the preferences from those to the new mac image, but it does nothing..

I've tried editing the preference file live, nothing.

I have other weather widgets, but I do rather like the simple interface of the stock one. 😢

Todd I agree with your last statement. It is / was a very well designed and also very functional widget. Compared to several others it presents only the essentials, in a well-done (simple yet pleasing) design, and very accurately too.

Unfortunately the alternative choices among weather widgets is quite limited, especially if you need them across the world. I am now exploring Android weather apps (on my phone) as a permanent replacement. There are better choices there.

The ones I'm using are Weatherbug's (http://weather.weatherbug.com/support/weatherbug-mac-widget.html) and Fair Weather (http://ch4productions.com/dashboard/)

Fair Weather looks similar to the Apple one..not as nice, bu functional...it grabs from NOAA .

Weatherbug's isn't as clean and quick glanceable like Apple's, but it offers a lot of info, and rather than give general weather for a zipcode, it gets pretty fine tuned, based on wehre they have...whatever's. Mine is centered on a school about 2 miles from my house, so about as close as outside my door as you can get.

They'll do until/if the Apple one works again...assuming Dashboard even survives the week.

Thx for the suggestions - will explore

Weather bug refuses to let me download the Mac-OS widget - it keeps redirecting me to the Windows version ⚠

Fair Weather is functionally OK, but only for US zip codes......

I actually got weather bug from the apple widget page: https://www.apple.com/downloads/dashboard/information/

Woo! Mine did too! Thanks for notifying the thread!!!

I had the same problem recently with any city on "El capitan". After lots of debugging I observed that it has to do with the headers that the WidgetClient sends when requestion weather data and the chance that the returning data requires more than two TCP/IP packager. That's why sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't, because it depends on the network connection.

I modified the Widget code and now it seems to work always. You can look at the solution at:

https://github.com/gonzalorodrigo/osxcalendarwidget

...and it's happening again as of yesterday (February 28), not only with the Weatherbug widget but the Yahoo Weather Channel one as well. Bumping this thread to document how long it takes to fix it. This is about the fourth time this has happened -- I suspect a temporary outage at whatever location sends out the data both widgets use.