Awesome tip for such a craptastic morning here in Boston. I came in sick to work this morning and I’ll be honest- I have no real work to do so I’ll probably be queuing up some post for the week. Before I do that it seemed fitting to share a little tip to collect weather updates into iCal. Here’s the step by step:

First, go to Weather Underground and type in the city state or zip for the forecast you want in your iCal and hit Return.

In the resulting page, there’s a link towards the top right that says “Add to Favorites” which is right next to the “ICAL” and “RSS” buttons. Right click on the “ICAL” button and choose “Copy Link” (“Copy Link Location” if you’re in FireFox).

Next, open iCal and choose Calendar > Subscribe… from the menu bar.

Paste the link you copied into the “Calendar URL” field provided and hit Return.

Now, just rename the calendar “weather” or something and choose how often you’d like it to auto refresh. I set mine to every day. Once you’ve done that, click OK.

Now you should have a suscribed calendar that lists each day’s weather as an all day event. Double clicking the events will give you the full weather description and a link to the website. It should look a little like this: