As this suggests, AccuWeather is the default weather provider for Alexa/Echo – and this isn’t something you can change, unfortunately. When you login to the Alexa app, you’ll probably see that it gives the weather for your town, and “” underneath. Wait, what? There’s no rain clouds in the sky, and multiple weather tools say it’ll be dry all day – so what gives? I then ask Alexa what today’s weather is like, and it’ll tell me that there’s a chance that it’ll rain. Something that’s always annoyed me about my Alexa weather forecasts is that I check the BBC Weather news, and it’ll say that today is sunny/cloudy with 0% chance of rain: A BBC weather screenshot showing the sunny (but cloudy) weather forecast in Cwmbran.
Changing Alexa’s weather source to get more reliable weather Otherwise you’ll be stuck wondering why your Echo keeps giving the weather for the wrong town, even though your Amazon account – and the Alexa app – both list the correct overall address. Or, at least, ask you if you wanted this to happen. The only thing I wish Amazon changed, however, is to detect when you’ve moved house and automatically change any Echo’s which have the same address/zipcode as your old one. Many people buy an Echo for a relative, but register it to their own account because that relative might not have an Amazon account, or they don’t feel confident to configure it all themselves.Įqually sometimes people have multiple homes – whether that’s a log cabin for the spring, a holiday home for the summer, or a winter hideaway.īeing able to configure an address for each Echo therefore does make sense, otherwise the weather forecasts would be incorrect in those other homes. But whilst this behavior might seem weird at first, but it actually makes sense. Having different addresses per Echo device, so that when you move house you’ll still get the old address’ weather, seems really odd and incorrect. Why does Alexa have different locations per Echo device? In this case, don’t worry – you have updated all the addresses/zip codes you need to change (for that device), and it will get the weather correct for your town soon enough. I have noticed that, after updating the device location, the corresponding Echo can sometimes switch back to the old town for a day or two. Simply saying “Alexa, what’s the weather today?” will work fine.
Phew, no more saying “Alexa, what’s the weather like today in ?“.
Amazon weather forecast full#
Scroll down to “Device Location” and you’ll see the zipcode – or full address – of your last house: The device location for a particular Echo device.Ĭhange this, click ‘Save’ and now Echo will get the weather correct for your town.
So go to Devices in the bottom right, click on “Echo & Alexa” and go into your first Echo. As it happens, there’s a third place that you must change for Alexa to finally get your weather correct for your town!Īnd somewhat annoyingly, you must change for this every single Echo device you own. So you’ve probably made sure that your address is now correct in your Amazon account, but the weather is still wrong.Īs a result, you may have gone into the Alexa app and gone to Settings -> Your Locations, and made sure that ‘Home’ is up to date too: The overall Alexa app location (which is different to an Echo’s location)īut guess what? The weather town is still wrong. If you’ve moved house, you’ll probably have noticed that your Echo devices still give you the weather for your old town. 2.1) Why doesn’t Alexa allow you to change the default provider? Fixing Alexa’s incorrect town location for weather
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