The Weather midlet is a Java application for mobile devices to check the weather conditions in different locations. Download the new measurement and forecast data any time using the Refresh menu item. There are different views in the Weather midlet and you can change the views with the Up/Down navigation buttons. In the bottom-left corner you'll find the elapsed time from the last data source refresh. It's measured not from the refresh button press on the phone but the refresh of the real computed/measured data on the server. The Autorefresh option makes it possible to refresh the meteorological data automatically in regular intervals. Currently there are three main views:

Overview

You can check the current weather conditions in your locations on the same screen with this view. Basically this is a list with the selected cities and the current conditions of those locations.

Forecast

This is a four days forecast for one location at a time. You can change the location with the Left/Right navigation buttons. For each location you can check the high and low temperature and precipitation levels forecasts for the next four days.

Current conditions

You can see the current detailed weather conditions for each location. Change between locations with the Left/Right navigation buttons. The following data is available on this screen (from top to down):

• Temperature
• RealFeel™ temperature
• Wind direction and speed
• Pressure value and tendency
• UV index
• Relative humidity
• Precipitation levels
• Sunrise and sunset times

You can use this midlet in conjunction with the Sunclock midlet. If you already use the Sunclock, the Weather will import your city settings from it. Otherwise you will get the default city set. You can modify the cities with the Cities menu item or you can search locations on the internet using the Search menu. For better city search results sometimes it's needed to add the country code after the city name. For example if you want to locate Halle, DE you should use the query string "Halle DE" because there are a lot of American cities with similar name so the search for "Halle" wouldn't work. It is possible to change the units between metric and American system. There is an update function where you can check any software updates using the Update menu item. The Help and About functions will display the usual information screens, getting help, checking version and so on.

If you find layout problems you may check the other available variants using the 'Variant' function. This function doesn't change the layout immediately; it just sets your required variant if you will make an 'Update' in the future. If you changed the preferred variant, the system will allow the update even if there isn't a newer version available.

You can find the description of the DST rules on the tech page of the Sunclock midlet website.

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Warning! Weather midlet requires a GPRS, EDGE or similar phone based data connection that offers Internet access.

• Thanks to Michael Sylvie and AccuWeather.com for the detailed and free weather data service
• Thanks to Tamas Majoros for webhosting, svn hosting, geocoding script adopting and general support and testing
• Many thanks to Jyri K for the high quality Shiny weather icons
• Thanks for the article to the great Hungarian Sony Ericsson portal the www.SEria.hu
• Thanks to vgm8383 for the beautiful photo which can be found on flickr and which became the base image of the header above
• Thanks to Magenta Ltd. for the great MgOpen typefaces
• Thanks to the hostip.info team for the IP geolocator service
• Thanks to Jen Vander Heide for correcting the website text
• Thanks to Geo IP Tool for additional IP locator service
• Thanks to NotePage Inc for the rss2html php module
• To Greg Bulmash who made the neat mobile browser detection function
• Thanks to Frederik De Bleser who created the outstanding NodeBox concept which helped me to create some vector graphics
• Geocoding service based on Web Services by Yahoo! and on Google Maps API services
• Thanks to extended geocoding scripts for science
• Thanks to Carl S. Moore for extensive beta testing, detailed bug reports and suggestions
• Thanks to Phred from Boston for the support, bug reports and testing
• To Justin Koivisto's cool script supplies the PNG transparency under IE6-
• Thanks to Frédéric Linard and Rafael Roset Arisso for the donations and support
• Thanks to the ImageMagick team for the cool image processor
• Thanks to Jim Lyles for the outstanding Bitstream Vera typeface
• Thanks to Thomas Fuchs for the supercool Textorize font rendering utility
• Thanks to Georgia Jobusch for discovering the BlackBerry MDS connection bug