Yahoo widgets weather?

I have this and I live in Lincolnshire UK. It shows my town on the widget but where does it get its information from? Soemtimes its wrong. It could be sunny outside but raining on the widget.

Yahoo widgets weather?
As far as I know, the met office has people who take official readings in certain locations and only at certain times during the day - it may only be once a day in some cases. Yahoo uses The Weather Channel to provide their info, so it would not be unreasonable for them to use the same info as released by the met office - this is just a possiblity though - if you really want to know for definite, e-mail the weather channel, their website is: http://uk.weather.com/





The readings may not be taken from your exact location either - the readings for my area are taken from the next town away, which is about 9 miles away and a lot lower in altitude which can make a lot of difference, such as us being snowed in and them having sun.





If you want to get a more accurate local weather reporting device, try getting a digital weather centre, as they report pressure, temperature (outside and inside), hygrometer (humudity), plus other things like an atomic clock, the times of the sunset/sunrise and moonset/moonrise etc. I used to use the Yahoo weather widget, but now I rely on my weather centre for the exact same reasons as you outlined in your question.
Reply:There is a known issue with the feed that the Weather Widget uses which causes the time to be off for certain non-US timezones. So, you are likely looking at the right forecast for your location but at the wrong time (because the Widget thinks "now" is a different time than it actually is). The Widgets team is aware of this issue and working on a resolution.