The most commonly requested feature we get from users is weather.
And so today I am happy to announce the launch of iBegin Weather.
Simple and fast loading, it gives you the weather you quickly need. Some links:
Toronto Weather
RSS feed for Toronto Weather
Put Toronto Weather on your website/blog.
Weather will be tightly integrated into the new version of iBegin.
1 | Robert
Is it possible to display us-weather on my site in metric units?
2 | Ahmed Farooq
Robert - at this time US defaults to F and Canada defaults to C. I will look into adding that option.
3 | Ari Doucette
First, thanks a lot for the free weather widget!
I only have 1 issue with it:
It does not display today’s forecast (only current temp and forecast for next 3 days). I’d like to know what today’s forecast is from the weather. I can get current conditions with a quick glance out the window…
Thanks again for offering this service!
Ari
4 | Ahmed Farooq
There was a design choice - we wanted to keep it simple, and most people were interested in either current and/or forecast. Very few were interested in today’s forecast.
So we decided it was better to not have it but to keep it a lot simpler this way.
5 | Jeff
We put your weather on our site, but we find that a lot of times if will show the current weather, say for Saturday, then if will show the forcast for Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday and skip Sunday. Is there an issue with time zone here? I can’t find any setting for that. Also, I notice that your weather box disappears from our site a few times a day and then will be back an hour later or so. Any ideas about what is going on? I can not find any documentation on your site. Other than that, it works well and we like the simplicity of the display. Thanks.
6 | Ahmed Farooq
Jeff - we had a few hiccups (the disappearing act), but they should be okay.
I will take a closer look at the date jumping issue.
7 | Jeff
Thanks Ahmed. My post above seemed to dwell on a couple of negatives, but we really feel the module is fantastic. It is the easiest and cleanest we have found and we absolutely love it on our site. Thanks so much for providing it.
8 | Ahmed Farooq
September 12th, 2007 at 3:50 pm
Awrighty Jeff - it took us a while, but the date jumping for ‘tomorrow’ should be now fixed 
9 | Richard
Could you tell me what source you use for your weather? We live in the mountains of Colorado and really like your weather module because it distinguishes different conditions and forecasts between towns geographically close. Do you use a network of local sources to gather information and forecasts or a national weather service?
Thanks for your time and efforts.
10 | Ahmed Farooq
Richard - we have an enterprise feed we subscribe to for US/Canada/worldwide weather information.
11 | chris
November 26th, 2007 at 11:53 pm
We have tried to integrate your html code for the weather widget on our site but it is not changing for the current conditions. It only shows the conditions at the time we created the html code for insert. Can you please explain if this is a bug or why the widget may not be refreshing correctly? Here is the page we are trying to use it on. Thanks.
12 | AhmedF
November 27th, 2007 at 12:48 am
Chris - I’m sorry, it was a temporary bug. Everything should be running smoothly in <60 minutes
13 | chris
We are currently using your weather widget all over our site! It is a great resource for our biz. One small request though. Some locations available do not have a 3-day forecast available. Is it possible to fix this? Would you like for me to provide the locations without forecasts? Thanks for this great resource!
14 | AhmedF
December 5th, 2007 at 10:39 pm
Glad you like it Chris.
Unfortunately some stations just don’t report enough data for us to build a three day forecast. If you give me a few examples I can check more closely for you.
15 | Tom
I definitely like the weather widget, I want to just display the very minimalist setting just the temperature and icon for my website. But I still see that a centered text “Toronto, ON Weather” still displays.
Is there a way to turn that off somewhere in the source? The text is clashing with my CSS scripts, displaying different color choices and font size. Making it very difficult to make it do what I want it to do.
16 | Ahmed Farooq
Not an option right now Tom - it would be good to support it, but we have a lot more other pressing issues on our plate to deal with first.
17 | Tom
Great thanks for the feedback, I’ll have to troubleshoot around this problem then.
18 | Tom
Actually the one answer you might be able to give me is, how does the “title text” that can’t me removed gather its CSS. Every page I put it on, the color changes.. if I knew the tag name associated to that text, I could figure where the problem is?
