Weather App Bug Found

[Edward Kirk]

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An interesting bug has been found in the iPhone's popular weather app. Those of us that live in moderately warm climates probably wouldn't have noticed this, but one user living in the much colder climate of Alaska found that the weather app has a bug where it will not display temperatures below 0 degrees fahrenheit.<!--break-->

According to one user on the <a href="http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1299780&tstart=0" target="_blank">Apple Discussions board</a>, “I live in Alaska. The temps here have all been below zero F or more than -18C but the weather reported on the iphone never goes below zero F. right now it is -13F and going to Yahoo says this but the iphone shows 0F. ”

The weather app does seem to be capable of reeding temperatures below 0 degrees, as they show up normally in the extended forecast, but the current forecast won't go below 0.

[via <a href="http://www.iphoneatlas.com/2007/12/20/iphone-weather-app-cant-display-below-zero/" target="_blank">iPhone Atlas</a>]

[Amoore1011]

That's Interesting...i am hoping apple fixes this and also makes the weather button on the homescreen real-time....so have it say the actual temp of a default location chosen by you and have the sun change to whatever condidtion it is at your defualt location. Also if it is at night have it still display the temp. but also what moon phase it is for that night. Have all this available in the settings menu beucase some people might want longer battery life but others may want this feature...it is pretty neat...hopefully apple comes up with something like this!!!

[*quicknik]

I mean the REAL problem is that someone would actually LIVE where the temperatures get below zero! Ick!

[shayanoh]

Are you sure this is a bug with weather app?
For me it's currently -2 degrees centigrade and it's correctly shown in the weather app. I'm on firmware version 1.1.1.
May be it's a bug with Yahoo's server-side scripts!

[Fred]

This is a bug in the Yahoo RSS feed, not the iPhone. Add this feed to your reader and you'll see the same problem: http://xml.weather.yahoo.com/forecastrss?p=USAK0170&u=f