This is an Informational only report.

I have been in lengthy discussions with the people at Weather.com

Due to excessive use of the XML feed and their latest tracking update for their XML Feed.

Weather.com will officially pull the plug on the XOAP URL that weather.com skin users currently utilize.

I am in communication to develop an amicable solution.

Please review forum posts to keep updated on this issue.

The current consensus is to drop Weather.com for AccuWeather.com, but my immediate concern is for the thousands of Rainmeter users that are about to get an un-usable skin.

First of all, Before to XOAP is service for a registered user, and the ID and the key was needed for REGULAR use. However, even if it did not add these parameters, it was working until now. In other words, we should know that we have used XOAP without permission.

Now, We do not need to persist in API like XOAP. Although API is convenient, there is much rules. so if we think comprehensively it may be wiser to use general RSS as source rather.

Anyway, because such a trouble will not occur in the future, the skin builder (especially, official skin) should select generality and a high permanent source. As an official site, I think that we should not present the user a lot of weather information sources. Because the correction work according to the change of the specification of the weather site increases. The weather site that an official site adopts is enough by the best one site. It is better to leave the other choices to each skin builders.

Understood and agreed.

But I will still make the attempt to restore this service.

I will be in contact with the people at Weather.com, and if a reasonable agreement based on their service can be found great. If not we still have many choices ie. AccuWeather, Weather underground, Yahoo, and several others

Let us see where this goes.

I am under the impression that Weather.com is making a move to increase income via advertising, and regulating down an old unregulated XML.

It is exactly what I would do.

If they agree great, if not, their loss