Just an update, I've removed this hack because I found it to be slowing down, the loading of my frontpage, a lot.

Same here Ian, I just removed it from my site this morning. Seems like stuff went to hell when MSNBC changed from AccuWeather for The Weather Channel.

I still have the hack on my site, I just no longer have it on my index.php page.

Good hack though.

Correct, it's slowing down and so i removed it.

I've noticed it slows my page down too, but it only seems to be something like 0.3 seconds or so. Occasionally when the weather isn't available it seems to slow it down a little more, but that isn't very often. Was it slowing your sites down more than that?

Mine's still working quite quickly - no discernable changes really.

It works correctly WHEN the local weather is available froom MSNBC / Weather.COM however if its not available my users are seeing a 25 to 75 second wait before the page comes up.

I have to say that this is happening to me now - there is a bit of delay before the page loads, about 60 seconds on average...

Yea, I've noticed that it slows down even more now when the weather isn't available from MSNBC. At least I have mine set where I can easilly turn it off in my admin CP, so if I happen to notice it delaying things I can switch it off for a few minutes. :)

getting a problem i click the Force Update button and it goes to blank page whats up :(

@ wolfe - missing template? Make sure all your templates are inserted.