User Guide

Customize my World Weather homepage

This website provides three different kinds of homepage preferences, including customized, traditional and myfavourites. You can set your homepage preference for future visit in the "Settings" page (default is customized).

• Personalizada: It will display a shortcut navigation of your favourite cities on homepage.
• Tradicional: It will always display a welcome message and introduction on homepage.
• Meus favoritos: It will list out weather forecast information of your favourite cities in a page.

Homepage preference on "Settings" page.

Search city forecast and add to MyFavourites

To search for a city forecast, please enter a city name or related keywords in the search box. The search box will show you a list of cities matching your input keywords. To add a city in MyFavourites, please click on the "Add button"  in the city page.

The following example shows you how to search the city "Warsaw" and add it into the MyFavourites.

The search box is below the top menu of each page.

The "Add button" is near the city name.

Change default city displayed on my customized homepage

You can sort your favourite cities on "MyFavourites" page. Put your home city at the top of the list.

Drag the boxes for changing order.

In the customized homepage, the default city displayed as the first in the shortcut navigation bar.

The forecast box is in the middle of homepage.

Search weather information on map

The map in homepage provides you with a quick way to access the weather information of cities in the website. You can click on the marker of any city on the map to view the forecast and/or climatological information. Alternatively, you can use the map control bar access the weather information of city by either entering the city name in the search box or choosing the city in the Region/Countries selecting menu.

The map control and map is in the bottom left column of our homepage.

Search weather information by Site Map

You can search weather information on "Site Map" page as it can list out all provided regions, countries and cities name.

The tree view of our site map.

Change language

You can change to another available languages at the top right-hand side language menu (see below figure).

The language menu is top right on top white bar.

Use Google Translate for WMO News

All WMO news will be in English by default. You can click on the "Google Translate" button (see below figure) to translate the news into the language of the WWIS website.

The WMO news is in the bottom right column of our homepage.

Use mobile version

You can change the default loading version between desktop and mobile.

• Desktop to mobile: Click the "Mobile" link in the top left on the white bar.
• Mobile to desktop: Click the "Desktop version" link at the footer of the page.

The screenshot of "MyFavourites"(Home) and "Country" page.

You can add cities through the following methods.

• Use right panel: You can search the city by using search box or by using drop down menu. The selected city will be added into My Favourites automatically.
• Select on country page: Click the city and then it will be added into My Favourites automatically.

The screenshot of "Right Panel" and "Country" page.

• For deleting cities: Click the "Cross" button that near the city name and confirm it.
• For changing default city: Click the "Enable sorting" and then start to drag the city to the top of the list. At last, click the "Save" button.

The screenshot of "Edit My Favourites Cities" page.

Forget my location on browser

Different browsers have different settings on geolocation service. If you want your browser to forget the location setting, you can check the official support site of your browser to see how to do it. The following is a list of popular web browser and their official support site. Please enter search keywords like "Location sharing" or "geolocation" to find the instruction on how to forget my location on your browser.

• Chrome: Chrome Help Center
• Firefox: mozilla support
• Safari: Mac Apps Support
• Internet Explorer: Microsoft Support

Share weather information

You can share the weather information through the following popular social networking platforms by clicking the "Share" link on the webpage (see below figure).

• Facebook
• Twitter
• Weibo
• LinkedIn
• Google+
• Email

Social network sharing

Browser compatibility

The World Weather Information Services website is fully compatible with the following browser versions:

• Google Chrome 29 or higher
• Firefox 4 or higher
• Safari 4 or higher
• Internet Explorer 8 or higher

We have worked hard to achieve a high level of cross browser compatibility and on the majority of other browsers and versions, our content should be legible and online forms will also be functional.

If you experience any problems, you may choose to update your browser to the latest version via the appropriate suppliers website:

• Google Chrome Product Home Page
• Internet Explorer Product Home Page
• Mozilla Firefox Product Home Page
• Safari Product Home Page

Browser configuration

JavaScript has to be enabled on your browser to display the World Weather Information Services website.

Cookies are employed by the World Weather Information Services website to save user preferences on their computers. No personally identifiable information would be collected and saved. Users may opt for not accepting cookies by changing browser settings. Under such circumstances, user preferences could not be saved and user experience may be affected.