Z Weather made its debut in October 2005 with its first beta version, just one month after Joomla was born.  Now, 3 years, 3 products and 6 major beta releases later (and several more minor ones),  the first production version of Z Weather is now available.  Version 6 incorporates many enhancements suggested by users, including easier creation of locations, choice of 24, 12, or 3 hour forecasts, and better memory handling. We have also revamped the Z Content website, which now includes a forum where Z Weather users can communicate with the auther and with each other.  To download this release of Z Weather, click on the download link at the website.

Version 6 supports version 1 of Joomla and version 1.5 of Joomla in legacy mode.

The Version 6 Beta 4 release of Z Weather now supports the use of a cron job to update the weather data in the background. Available in previous Joomla 1.0 releases of Z Weather, the cron job in Version 6 Beta 4 update weather data in the background for either Joomla 1.0 or Joomla 1.5 sites.  The cron job feature provides better site performance because website visitor sessions are no longer needed to retrieve the weather data from the National Weather Service.  The cron job can now run either on the same host as the web server or from a separate host.  See the readme file for the cron job for installation instructions.

Read more: Z Weather Version 6 Beta 4 Released, Cron Job Now Supported

NOTICE:  If you use the current observation feature of Z Weather, you may have noticed the current observation has stopped updating. The reason for this is the NWS has moved the observation data to a different location on the server Z Weather uses to retrieve the data. Version 6 Beta 3 of Z Weather resolves this issue and is available for download by clicking here.  If you wish to update your Z Weather installation manually, you can modify the components/com_zweather/zweather.class.php file and look for the following line:

Read more: Current Observation Fix