BBC Weather
by sadler (community developer)description: 3 day forecast for UK postcodes and towns, from the BBC Weather feeds, via Yahoo Pipes. Go to http://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/5day.shtml and enter your postcode - then look for you area's weather id on the end of the URL - ends with id=<weather id>. Enter this number into the configuration widget.
preview of 'BBC Weather' app
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Comments
doctor_regtools
– January 28 2010
Thanks for the update - sadly I don't have a flash development environment so can't help. I'm using the yahoo weather widget instead for now.
sadler
– January 26 2010
Sorry for the delay, I am afraid that I do not have access to a Flash development environment at the moment to update this widget, I would be prepared to give the code to someone who does - but there is actually not much to it. BBC relaunched their weather feeds a while back, which means that new users will not be able to get this to work, existing users should be ok as BBC redirected all old id's to new URLs.
doctor_regtools
– January 26 2010
Does anyone know how to contact the author (sadler) to see if it's possible to get this widget fixed? I'm very keen to have a weather widget but this one doesn't work right at the mo, and the weather channel widget doesn't seem to work for the UK. Thank you
doctor_regtools
– January 26 2010
Thanks Evsdd - that really helped. The instructions need updating - and as you said, this widget doesn't work properly any more
CoolHandLuke
– January 13 2010
Thanks Evsdd. I think the developer lives somewhere without fog.
Evsdd
– January 08 2010
The alternative BBC URL http://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/mobile/index.shtml worked for me. The widget doesn't seem to support all of the weather icons now in use though ('Light snow showers' and 'foggy' appear as blanks - 'sunny' and 'cloudy' work).
pjogden
– December 26 2009
Looks like the BBC website has changed and the widget no longer works - is their a fix on the way?
estherwakeman
– December 25 2009
The URL doesn't give an ID number at all. I am in the UK.
weaselboy
– November 10 2008
Hmm seems to have stopped working at the weekend :( Maybe the BBC have changed something?
jcornaglia
– May 22 2008
Thanks in advance
sadler
– May 22 2008
Ignore my reply - I can see that you provided the URL which is for Paris. I will see if I can get a change made to support the world= replies. This will allow the widget to support non-UK cities.
sadler
– May 22 2008
what city did you try? - i have really only tested it to work with UK cities/postcodes - I can try and do an extension to allow the 'world wide' forecasts to work.
jcornaglia
– May 22 2008
Hi, I have just try to use this widget, but when I got to this link http://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/5day.shtml and I search my city... the url reply is : http://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/5day.shtml?world=0040 and not id= ?
squirrellypoo
– May 21 2008
hooray! thanks for this - the other weather widget's UK forecasts were terribly inaccurate.
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