During earlier times predicting the weather conditions was done by gazing towards the skies and viewing the cloud patterns and majorly relied on specific patterns of the wind and clouds along with observing the sun and other related observations. Over the years, these experience accumulated in forming standard viewpoints; however this greatly differed from what we have nowadays that involves usage of several modern equipment and machinery and satellite imagery that provides an accurate and precise picture of the atmosphere. Multiple news channels and other sources provide the user with the requisite information on weather updates and observations and which is why a tool like Crawler Weather 4.2 can be of good use to such service providers as well as to personal users as it works intuitively to provide the latest information.

Crawler Weather opens with a neatly arranged interface with the chief options placed at the left panel and the main screen showing the details of the weather information as provided to the user. The user can get detailed and timely weather updates and maps and even traffic news for a hometown and view the graphic forecast and much more. The free of cost Customizable Crawler Toolbar enables the user to have access to games, downloads and e-cards and even enables accessing 3D screensavers and slideshow. The user can also get different animated cursors on a huge gallery and select from large and attractive wallpapers and even customize tabs to access MS Office applications such as Excel and Word. It also consists of some enhanced and advanced plug-ins like MP3 player to access web radio service and even record favorite tracks being played.

To conclude, Crawler Weather 4.2 certainly works as a useful and practical utility that forms an important part of any news service provider and hence gets a rating of 3.5 points for its suitable utility value.