Right now I am using yaWP and it doesn't work. It says it's thunderstorming outside and I can assure you it is not. I'm just looking for some general weather widget recommendations for KDE.

kweather

or conky

I ran into an issue the other day with yAWP, but I found a work around. I like to use the Wunderground Weather server, but two or three days ago it stopped working with yAWP. I switched to Accuweather and got better results. Perhaps the pages on Wunderground have changed again; it's a great weather server, especially with those unofficial, but fast "rapid fire" Personal Weather Server (PWS) locations all over the region, but the downside is that the pages you get from the Wunderground tend to change a lot more often than other commercial weather servers. Accuweather seems to be delivering pretty reasonable service lately.

Like others say, kweather is another option if you just can't get yAWP working to your satisfaction, but you may want to use Accuweather sites before giving up on it.

I do use accuweather, but for whatever reason it's not really giving me accurate weather. I've tried quite a few others from kde-look.org and none of them work properly.

I can't seem to locate kweather. It's supposed to be in toys, but all I can find is these cli apps kweatherreport and kweatherservice which seem to do absolutely nothing. I remember using it in Slackware 12.? and it worked fine.

I use yAWP with accuweather and I agree. It works but isn't terribly accurate and is slow to update. Forecasts are OK but it is often off by a considerable margin on current outdoor temps, which is something that I'm interested in.

As far as accuweather being the most accurate source, I can agree (for Germany/Bavaria) too. What is disappointing, however, is the fact that yaWP stopped working. None of the sources finds any location, it just waits endless with a dialogue "yaWP is retrieving a list of cities from the internet...".

This affects both the versions 0.3.3-1 (which can be installed from debian/testing),
0.3.3.-2 (debian/unstable) as well as 0.3.4, downloaded and compiled from http://kde-look.org/content/show.php...&content=94106. I already spent hours reinstalling different versions, at no avail.

On the other hand, for Northern Bavaria there is a simple source with excellent forecast data (http://www.wetterochs.de/wetter/wettermail_inhalt.html), and many similar regional sources should exist elsewhere.

It would not be too difficult to read and extract the relevant information using a Python script. So if anybody knew a tutorial for fellows with moderate programming skills (i.e. Python, not c++; or even better a comprehensive and customizable sample source weather plasmoid (or additional dataengines for existing plasmoids), more KDE users could start to contribute themselves.

The existing "hello python plasmoid" howtos I found yet (e.g. linked on http://forum.kde.org/viewtopic.php?f=64&t=21263) are too simple for that by far.