Rainmeter weather is not working
Tuesday, March 24, 2026 by Chasbo | Discussion: Help
Rainmeter weather is not showing anything. Very depressed.
Reply #2 Wednesday, March 25, 2026 4:31 AM
Hmm, both the METAR (for current conditions) and the MSN (current conditions + 5 day forecast) feeds are still working for the Winstep weather module.
RainMeter is probably using a Weather.com feed and that is normally behind a paywall.
Weather feeds have been a real headache. The Winstep weather module originally supported NOAA (METAR), Google, Yahoo, Weather.com, and MSN for redundancy, but one by one those services were either shut down or moved behind paywalls, leaving only METAR and MSN still usable.
Reply #3 Wednesday, March 25, 2026 4:55 AM
Hmm, both the METAR (for current conditions) and the MSN (current conditions + 5 day forecast) feeds are still working for the Winstep weather module.
RainMeter is probably using a Weather.com feed and that is normally behind a paywall.
Weather feeds have been a real headache. The Winstep weather module originally supported NOAA (METAR), Google, Yahoo, Weather.com, and MSN for redundancy, but one by one those services were either shut down or moved behind paywalls, leaving only METAR and MSN still usable.
Is there any way to switch RainMeter's feed? Plenty of our folks use it...
Reply #4 Wednesday, March 25, 2026 5:03 AM
Is there any way to switch RainMeter's feed? Plenty of our folks use it...
Messenger:
Jorge: I think it depends on the script the widget is using... if the widget doesn't allow him to edit that, he will have to ask the author. Also, even if he can change the script, if the widget is using weather.com changing it to MSN will not help, as the format of the data that needs to be parsed is completely different.
Reply #5 Wednesday, March 25, 2026 5:59 AM
Dang, This is not good news. I always have rainmeter weather running. I hope there is a fix soon.
Reply #8 Wednesday, March 25, 2026 12:38 PM
Not in Ohio, USA None of the weather skins i have work.
Reply #10 Wednesday, March 25, 2026 2:48 PM
Not working in the USA it would seem. I don't know why.
Reply #11 Thursday, March 26, 2026 10:31 AM
Chuck, I am not seeing anything mentioned on Rainmeter's website either.
Reply #12 Friday, March 27, 2026 6:03 AM
Might be interesting if you downloaded and installed Proton VPN (free and excellent), so you can emulate being outside the USA...
Reply #13 Friday, March 27, 2026 9:09 AM
Might be interesting if you downloaded and installed Proton VPN (free and excellent), so you can emulate being outside the USA...
Yes, that'll work...the person in the USA will be able to get the weather feed for China...
Me thinks it's like real estate....location, location, location...![]()
Reply #14 Friday, March 27, 2026 9:29 AM
Might be interesting if you downloaded and installed Proton VPN (free and excellent), so you can emulate being outside the USA...
Yes, that'll work...the person in the USA will be able to get the weather feed for China...
Me thinks it's like real estate....location, location, location...
Since Rainy' weather works in Norway and Israel by using the VPN the weather service will supply Valparaiso, IN weather while Chuck pretends he's in wherever outside the USA ...say, Norway.
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Reply #15 Friday, March 27, 2026 9:37 AM
I have asked around in the RM community by PM to some experienced skinners and hopefully I can update you with some news shortly. Stay tuned.
Reply #17 Friday, March 27, 2026 10:34 AM
Juast a long shot, but have any of you tried to go into settings and change the code for the location like you would do with any new downloaded skin? Weather.com and/or others may have changed their codes for locations in the US.
Reply #18 Friday, March 27, 2026 10:57 AM
Juast a long shot, but have any of you tried to go into settings and change the code for the location like you would do with any new downloaded skin? Weather.com and/or others may have changed their codes for locations in the US.
An intresting thought, Jan..
Reply #19 Friday, March 27, 2026 4:39 PM
Just got a message from xenium-ART:
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xenium-ART
Hi! The problem is solved by updating the User Agent.
I updated my weather skins about 2 days ago.
I still need to update the suites that also contain weather skins.
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What you need to do to fix each single skin that's not working, is open the weather skin folder and there you must open the folder named @Resources. There you will find a file called Variables.inc. Open it with Notepad and add the line in blue in the [Variables] section:
UserAgent=Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:149.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/149.0
Your variables.inc should look someting like this after you have saved it:
; Do NOT change this file unless you are sure you know what you are doing !!!
; ========================================================================
[Variables]
Latitude=40.7143528
Longitude=-74.0059731
APIKey=71f92ea9dd2f4790b92ea9dd2f779061
UserAgent=Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:149.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/149.0
URL=https://api.weather.com/v3/aggcommon/v3-wx-observations-current;v3-wx-forecast-daily-15day;v3alertsHeadlines;v3-location-point;v3-wx-forecast-hourly-12hour?format=json&geocode=#Latitude#,#Longitude#&units=#Units#&language=#Language#&apiKey=#APIKey#
Reply #20 Saturday, March 28, 2026 12:34 PM
My coding is different. I do have resources but it doesn't look like the one you have. On mine there is no API or URL or Latitude and Longitude.
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Reply #1 Wednesday, March 25, 2026 3:28 AM
Sounds like what happened with Winstep's module, Chuck. Can you switch it to METAR as in Winstep's weather module? If not, maybe Jorge would know how to accomplish that.