This handy little widget shows you the current weather for your city, or for any other major city in the world (and many minor ones, too). You can also get a four-day weather forecast.
Just flick over to the Settings pane, and the widget is at center stage. It gives a quick summary of the current temperature, the projected high and low for the day, and whether it’s sunny, cloudy, raining, or snowing.
The first time you use the Weather widget, it most likely won’t show the weather for your current city; it may show a different location instead. With a few taps, though, you can change that:
Tap the Weather widget. It shows the current weather, and the forecast for the next four days.
Press the Menu key, and then tap Settings. The widget displays the city for which it’s currently showing the weather. Tap the – button to delete that location if you don’t want to use it.
Tap the green + button to add a new location. From the screen that appears, type the city name or Zip code of the city, and tap the Search button. The Droid 2 finds the city and adds it to your list of cities. Tap Done. The widget now displays the weather for your current city. You can add multiple cities this way.
Note
You would expect that because the Droid 2 has the ability to find your current location, it would automatically see where you are, and then tell the Weather widget to display the weather for that city. Expect all you want; it doesn’t do that. Maybe in the next version, but for now you’ll have to configure it manually.
Now that your city is set, tap the widget to see more detail about the current weather, including the forecast for the next four days. If you’ve asked the widget to display the weather for more than one city, just flick over to it. A small outward-pointing triangle appears on the right if you’ve asked the Droid 2 to show more than one city. If there are no arrows to the right, there are no more cities to show. And if you’re flicking through your cities, and there are triangles on both sides of the widget, it means there are cities on both sides to flick to.
There don’t appear to be any links to tap in the widget to get more information, but don’t be fooled; there are two:
Tap Extended Forecast, and your browser launches and sends you to AccuWeather.com for more details about the forecast for your current location.
Tap any of the days toward the bottom of the display, and you see the forecast for the current day at 6 a.m., 12 p.m., 6 p.m., and 12 a.m. You would expect it to show the forecast for the day you tapped, but it doesn’t. Instead, it shows it only for the current day. To get back to the four-day forecast, tap again.
There’s not a lot you can change about the Weather widget, but there are a couple things. With the Weather widget displayed, tap the Menu key and select Settings. You’re back on the screen that lets you add cities. To change the order in which the cities are displayed, tap the up or down arrow next to a city. Whichever city is at the top is the one the widget displays initially. To change the display between Celsius and Fahrenheit, select either (near the top of the screen).