Here’s a small but handy feature of Outlook 2013. Do you know that you can get the weather for the next few days (in all your favourite cities) displayed at the top of your Calendar?
Here’s how you can:
- Set how the temperate is displayed
- Choose what towns/cities temperature you are interested
Turning Weather On and Setting Celsius or Fahrenheit
We live in Fiji where we use the metric system. I just can’t get the feel for what is a hot or a cold day any other way. Here’ what you need to do to change the units used to display the temperature if you need to.
- Click File-Options
- Click on Calendar
- Scroll down to Weather
- Make sure that Show Weather on the calendar is ticked and click on Celsius.
- Click OK.
Choosing Your Favourites Locations
What location’s temperature is being displayed? Use the following steps to add your location and to add other cities too if you want. I like to add locations that I will be travelling to soon as it helps me get a sense if how cold or hot it will be.
Go to your Calendar:
- Click on the drop-down arrow next to the name of the city where the weather is displayed (In the image above, you can see my home town Suva is shown)
- Click Add Location (from the list of options in the drop down).
- Enter the name of the city town followed by a comma and the name of the country (e.g. New York and press Enter (or click on the magnifying glass)
- Select the name of the city from the Search results.
The new city will be added to the list and its weather forecast for the next few days displayed. You can change between your list of cities by using the drop down arrow.
Do you find the weather feature in Outlook 2013 useful? Are there other “hidden” Outlook features that you use? Let us know by leaving a comment below.
(I personally find the temperature display useful in planning my afternoon golfing. It’s also useful to know the expected weather in places I will be travelling to… helps me to mentally climatize myself before the trip).
