Now in Six Languages

September 9, 2026

Weather Nerd 2.3 is out in French, German, Spanish, Italian and Dutch. That's the whole app, the widgets and the App Store listing. French comes in two versions, one for Québec and one for France.

The right words

Weather has a lot of jargon and every country has its own. So before translating anything I built a glossary for each language out of what its weather service actually publishes: Environment Canada, Météo-France, the DWD, AEMET, ItaliaMeteo and KNMI. Blowing snow is poudrerie in Québec and chasse-neige in France. A model run is a passe in Montréal and a run in Paris. Model names stay the way their agencies write them. If you already read your country's forecasts, the app should sound familiar.

Two Frenches, and your own clock

Québec and France don't just pick different words. Québec writes 15 h 05, France writes 15:05. France puts a space before a question mark and Québec doesn't. So they ship as two separate translations. Canadian devices get Québec, everyone else gets France.

Formatting follows your region in every language. Chart axes read 15 h in Québec, 15 Uhr in Germany and 3p.m. in Mexico, and decimals get a comma where they should. Units haven't changed. They were already set by region, not language.

Switching

The app follows your device language. To run it in a different one, go to Settings → Apps → WxNerd → Language on iOS, or System Settings → General → Language & Region → Applications on the Mac.

Something read wrong?

That's about 1,600 strings per language and I'm sure some of them are off. If a word isn't what your local forecasters would say, or a label doesn't fit its button, tell me through support. Name the language and the screen and I'll fix it.

Also in 2.3

A daily brief that starts with the big picture and works down to your spots, a fall colours layer for Canada on the weather map, and map controls that are easier to reach. The rest is in the changelog.