Google Your Zipcode for Weather

by on Mar 28, 2007 | 3 comments

A lot of people seem to really like one of the hundreds of variations of weather checking programs. Personally, I hate them because they are [sometimes] a conduit of spyware or advertising popups and suck up resources.

The easy, no frills way I prefer to check the weather is going to Google and searching:

weather [my zip code]

Google then displays today’s forecast plus the next 3 days. This way you don’t have to hassle with annoying programs (yes, I am biased against these) and you can get the information just as quick.

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  • brodie

    I can’t get this to work.
    typing into google:

    weather [11201]

    just brings up weather websites, not an actual forecast.
    Am i doing something wrong?

  • http://132solutions.com jfaulkner

    Type it without the [ and ] and then click “I’m Feeling Lucky”. I noticed I did not include you had to click this button in the tip, my mistake.

    1. Enter: weather 11201
    2. Click “I’m Feeling Lucky”

  • Luis R

    Doing it from the search bar of Internet Explorer will provide web site results with a four-day forecast at the top of the results.

    Good tip but keeping your favorite weather page localized for your place in Favorites also works wonders. That’s what I do.

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