If you’re curious about what the weather’s going to be like, Windows 11 allows easy access to weather information by adding it to your taskbar. you may either utilize the Weather application or the Weather widget to know about the weather without getting up from your computer.
To add the weather widget to your taskbar, you may either enable Widgets from settings or you can pin the Weather application to the taskbar.
Before you begin, ensure to log in with your Microsoft account. Without a Microsoft account, the Windows 11 Widgets will not work. If you don’t have a Microsoft account, you may create one from theofficial website.
Enabling Widgets will add a weather report to your taskbar by default. It will show the current weather and the average temperature of your location as its icon. Clicking on it will show various news articles and other widgets, including a weather widget.
If your Widgets toggle bar is grayed out, it is probably disabled from Group Policy Editor. To fix this issue, you will have to enable the Allow Widgets option from Policy Editor.
Also, your taskbar alignment will affect your Widgets icon. If your taskbar alignment is at the left, you will get a small weather icon with the temperature at the top. If your taskbar alignment is at the center, the Widget icon will show your weather, temperature, and a brief statement about the current weather.
When you select the Widgets icon (weather report), it will show you various news articles and all your widgets in random order. The weather widget usually stays at the front, but sometimes you may need to scroll down to see it. So, you may pin the weather widget to make it always accessible from the top.
Furthermore, pinning the weather widget will make it display more information like the different weathers expected in a certain time range of that day.
Your weather widget should now be pinned to always stay on top. If you want more information about the current and future weather conditions, select theSee full forecastoption.
Using Microsoft Weather Application
The MSN Weather application comes preinstalled in Windows 11. you may also pin this application to add weather in the taskbar. While the pinned Weather application doesn’t show any information outwardly, you can easily open it to view weather information.
The MSN Weather application will likely show the Weather forecast of Washington, DC. This is because Washington is set as the default location for MSN Weather. If you live outside of DC, you will need to enable theAlways detect my locationoption to get the weather forecast of your location.
If you don’t want to utilize the Windows 11 default Weather application, you may use other third-party applications that support the same feature. There are a variety of applications like Weather 14 days, Weather Radar, and Weather Bar that you can use to add weather to the taskbar.
