Once downloaded, AccuWeather sits in your taskbar and can be opened up or placed on the desktop if you’d like to see the current conditions or a 5-day forecast. You can also store essentially an unlimited number of locations (AccuWeather says “up to 65,000”) and toggle between them, providing you a convenient way to make small talk on long distance phone calls.
Probably the best thing about AccuWeather’s app is that it’s Adobe Air, versus the more cumbersome downloads offered by competitors. That means it will run on Windows, Mac, or Linux, and also work when you're without an Internet connection (with the most recent data pulled from AccuWeather).
So far as I can tell, there is also no advertising attached, though AccuWeather does encourage click-thrus to its website for more detailed forecasts by only providing the basic weather information in the application.
AccuWeather’s Adobe Air application can be downloaded here.
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