My computer really wants to ensure that I know about the weather in Washington. To fix it I’m going to need to log in to my account, which then shows me the wrong location’s weather on the darn Start menu tile too: There ya go, the weather in Washington D.C. To start, I have the weather shown on my lock screen, so I see the wrong weather basically immediately, even before I log in to my account: Fortunately that’s not particularly difficult to accomplish. The issue is that you have to grant permission to the Weather application on Windows to access your location. Not sure why we’d see different cities, but the good news is that it doesn’t really matter because the fix is the same either way. On my Windows system, however, the default location for weather on my computer is actually Washington, D.C., not Seattle. On my Mac systems and iPhone, the default weather location is Sunnyvale, California, the headquarters of Apple Computer. That can also be stymied by using a Virtual Private Network (VPN) like my favorite, ExpressVPN, which effectively spoofs your location to pretend you’re somewhere else in the world for privacy and security purposes. Different operating systems seem to default to different locations when their weather app doesn’t know your actual location.
