Get weather in Google Calendar, iCal

The web site Weather Underground offers iCal and RSS feeds of local weather that you can subscribe to in your Google Calendar or iCal.

Simply enter your zip code (if you live in the USA) or city name and country (if you don’t) into the search box at the top of the site’s front page.

iCal and RSS buttons appear at the top right under the ad banner. Command-Click on the iCal one and copy the link location. Command-Click in iCal’s calendar window, select Subscribe and paste the URL into the dialog that appears. All done.

You get a series of All Day events providing a forecast of the week ahead:

Personally I get all the weather I need from a Dashboard widget, but I understand how it would be useful to see the “Monsoon” bubble for the day on which you are entering details of the upcoming family BBQ.

You can do the same thing in Google’s Calendar by following the instruction in the post on Lifehacker from which this tip is lifted.

And you can easily use the RSS feed to get the same information into your news aggregator.

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This entry was posted on Saturday, 3 June 2006 at 12:51 am and is filed under Not Apple Mail, iCal. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

5 Responses to “Get weather in Google Calendar, iCal”

consumer_q says:

3 June 2006, 2:30 am at 2:30 am

This is a very keen idea!

The utility to me of subscribing to weather on iCal is that I actually use the Calendar on my iPod, and I also sync iCal with my mobile phone. This calendar will allow me to have a reasonably current weather forecast at my finger tips.
Ted Pavlic says:

3 June 2006, 2:35 am at 2:35 am

Nice. This is one of the nice things about 30 boxes. I was waiting to find a good iCal/RSS feed that did the same thing. Good find!
John Rowen says:

3 June 2006, 8:07 am at 8:07 am

I agree that the Dashboard widget has everything you really need. I just find that Weather Underground typically seems to be more accurate w/their forecasts…

Thanks for the find!!
Ted Pavlic says:

3 June 2006, 8:13 am at 8:13 am

Keep in mind that lots of people turn off their Dashboard.

Of course, if you use Firefox, you can get all of this information through ForecastFox (WeatherFox)…

But still, it’s especially nice to have weather above 7 iCal days, especially if you are looking at your iCal every day anyway. Just consolidates things.
The View From My Feet says:

12 September 2006, 7:07 am at 7:07 am

Weather on Your Calendar…

My office-mate just turned me on to something that I find has been available at least since June 2006 (from what I’ve seen in a few blog posts)….