Downloads
Get Accessible Weather Center
Free, for everyone, with no account and no cost. The browser version needs nothing installed at all — the desktop builds add background running, tray notifications and offline assets.
Run it in your browser
This is the full application, not a trimmed-down preview. It asks for a US ZIP code the first time and remembers it in that browser afterwards.
Launch Accessible Weather Center (opens in a new window)
Works in current Chrome, Edge, Firefox and Safari. Weather Radio and the audio mixer need Web Audio, which all four have had for years.
Desktop builds
Linux
| File | Size | Published | SHA-256 |
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| assets-backgrounds.tar.gz | 227.1 MB | 7 Aug 2026 |
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| assets-data.tar.gz | 78 KB | 7 Aug 2026 |
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| assets-fonts.tar.gz | 13.9 MB | 7 Aug 2026 |
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| assets-icons.tar.gz | 137.9 MB | 7 Aug 2026 |
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| assets-inbox.tar.gz | 1.2 MB | 7 Aug 2026 |
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| assets-logos.tar.gz | 159 KB | 7 Aug 2026 |
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| assets-music.tar.gz | 476.3 MB | 7 Aug 2026 |
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| assets-narration.tar.gz | 341.3 MB | 7 Aug 2026 |
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| assets-sfx.tar.gz | 4.5 MB | 7 Aug 2026 |
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| assets-sounds.tar.gz | 532 KB | 7 Aug 2026 |
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| assets-themes.tar.gz | 56.8 MB | 7 Aug 2026 |
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The builds are unsigned — here is what that means
Code signing certificates cost money every year, and this is a personal project given away for free, so the installers are not signed. Your operating system will say so. That warning is accurate and you should not be in the habit of ignoring it — but here is what it looks like and what to do.
- Windows
- SmartScreen shows “Windows protected your PC” and names an unknown publisher. Choose More info, then Run anyway.
- macOS
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Gatekeeper refuses an unsigned, unnotarized app. After copying it to Applications, run:
xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine "/Applications/Accessible Weather Center.app" - Linux
- AppImage needs the executable bit:
chmod +xthen run it. The.debinstalls normally.
If you would rather not take that on faith: the build workflow (opens in new tab) is public and produces these binaries from the source in the open, and every published file here is listed with its SHA-256 so you can verify what you downloaded.
The media library
The full experience — period fonts, weather icons, background art, the recorded narrator clips and the music — is about 1.3 GB and is not bundled into the installers.
The application runs perfectly well without it. You get system fonts, no background music, and screen-reader narration for everything. It is an enhancement, not a prerequisite, and if you are here for the accessibility rather than the nostalgia you may never want it.
If you use the browser version you need none of this. The library is already served from this site, so the web app (opens in a new window) has the fonts, art, narration and music without downloading anything. The archives below are for the desktop builds, which do not bundle them.
Where it goes:
| Platform | Location |
|---|---|
| Windows | %APPDATA%\accessible-weather-center\assets |
| macOS | ~/Library/Application Support/accessible-weather-center/assets |
| Linux | ~/.config/accessible-weather-center/assets |
What is in it, and the rights position
The library is fan-sourced. The MIT-licensed fan-project material — the WeatherStar fonts, the condition icon sets, and the TWC and NOAA marks from the ws4kp (opens in new tab) and OpenStar (opens in new tab) projects — is clearly redistributable.
The rest is not so tidy: the narration clips, the production music, the broadcast-derived background art, and four commercial typefaces (Frutiger, Interstate, Akzidenz-Grotesk and Helvetica Neue) whose licences do not cover redistribution. They are here because this is a non-commercial recreation of material that is otherwise gone — but that is a position, not a licence. If you hold rights in any of it and would rather it were not here, say so and it comes down.
Build it yourself
Node 18 or newer, and a checkout:
git clone https://github.com/churst90/accessible-weather-center.git
cd accessible-weather-center
npm install
npm run dev # development server
npm run build # production build
npm run dist:linux # or dist:win / dist:mac — installers in release/It costs nothing
No licence, no subscription, no upsell. If it turns out to be worth something to you, a donation is the whole business model.