1. May 6th, 2006

    Add weather forecasts to Google Calendar

    I like seeing the weather forecast in my calendar, helps me plan out the week. I’ve long observed that rush hour traffic is very rain sensitive, and that going out on cold nights doesn’t seem to happen.

    So I searched high and low (read: Googled around) for an iCal feed that contains a weather forecast. I found a couple, but I don’t live in Australia or the Netherlands. Turns out that inbetween my last search and today, Google added weather forecasts to their calendar.

    Just go the search calendar box, type weather followed by city name of zipcode, and click add. Couldn’t be simpler than that.

    Posted by Assaf Filed in general 10 Comments »

    1. May 7th, 2006

      Tara ‘Miss Rogue’ Hunt

      :(

      I tried, but it didn’t work for me…

    2. May 7th, 2006

      mynx

      didn’t work for me, either. :(

    3. May 7th, 2006

      Assaf

      Searching for ‘weather 94101′ gives me this calendar:
      http://www.google.com/calendar/feeds/pi0r2ej5jqgqbc8d2u1n6rkf4k@group.calendar.google.com/public/full

      So if the search doesn’t work, I bet you can still add this URL.

    4. May 7th, 2006

      Chris

      Didn’t work for me either. Kinda got my hopes up. So now I am doing the same and googling for a calendar feed with the weather from my area.

    5. May 7th, 2006

      Holly Ward

      I think what’s going on is that they don’t have weather calendars yet for all areas. Maybe just major cities? Maybe just 94101?

    6. May 7th, 2006

      Assaf

      ‘weather nyc’ works, if you want to know what’s going on in NY.

      When people reported they had Calendar working the GMail, I had to wait a few days before they added this feature to my account. So maybe they’re slow to add these features to all users.

    7. May 9th, 2006

      cp777

      I heard they are adding more cities and will eventually have all of them. If your city/zip is not listed yet, check again later.

    8. May 9th, 2006

      lanthos

      Actuality it isn’t google thats doing this, it seems to be an independent company.

    9. May 9th, 2006

      Bls

      I wonder when the other cities will pop up? I hope mine is soon.

    10. May 16th, 2006

      Daniel E. Renfer

      If you live in a small city, (like I do) you may need to choose the closest major city to you.

      For instance: “weather westland” or “weather 48185″ didn’t work, but “weather detroit” did.

      Keep that in mind when searching for weather feeds, and just hope that the weather doesn’t vary that much in