Comment 11 for bug 219688

I can confirm the behaviour described for this bug.

I think the real bug is that the applet does not appear to make further attempts to download weather info if it initially fails. However, I've never left it for more than about ten minutes before changing the temperature or wind speed unit and changing it back again to coax it into downloading, so for all I know it might recheck every 15 minutes.

An annoying bug; although if I'm honest it's easy enough to just look out the window instead.