Meteorologist Classic
Meteorologist Classic is a free, open-source weather application for macOS that displays current conditions and forecasts for tracked locations. It runs as a lightweight menu-bar utility and integrates with multiple weather data sources including OpenWeather, AccuWeather, the US National Weather Service, WeatherAPI, Visual Crossing, Weatherbit and WeatherStack. The app supports Apple's Location Services for automatic coordinate detection and geocoding for address lookup. Meteorologist Classic maintains compatibility with older Mac systems going back to macOS 10.6, and is actively maintained by volunteers in the open-source community.
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1 suggestionMeteorologist Classic runs under Rosetta 2 today but has a critical limitation: Rosetta 2 blocks access to Apple's Location Services, so automatic location detection will not work on Apple Silicon Macs even though the app itself launches. The project is actively maintained (version 1.8.4 is current) but there is no native Apple Silicon build available yet. Given that Apple is removing Rosetta 2 in macOS 28 (late 2027), you should contact the project maintainers via the SourceForge page to ask whether a native build is planned. In the meantime, the app continues to function if you manually enter location coordinates or use one of the geocoding-enabled weather services (AccuWeather, OpenWeather, or WeatherAPI with SNI-capable systems), just without Location Services automation. If you need a native Apple Silicon alternative now, consider Cardhop or the official Apple Weather app bundled with macOS, though neither offers the same level of customisation and multi-location tracking that Meteorologist Classic provides.
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