Dear N4KHQ, Felix, and WeatherCat troubleshooters,
It is usually several hours of none use when Weather Underground stops accepting data and WC gets the current status hung as starting.
If this is happening when the computer is idle one thing to look into is the computer's energy saver settings. For starters, make sure that AppNap is disabled for WeatherCat. Select the WeatherCat application from the Finder and do a
Get Info on it. That should bring up a dialog box like this:
Make sure the check box marked on this example is indeed checked. WeatherCat attempts to prevent macOS from enabling App Nap, but caution is the better part of valor.
Next take a look at your system energy saver settings:
Make sure that the computer going to sleep is set to never and that the hard disks will not be powered off.
If this doesn't work, there is still one more recourse. Other WeatherCat users have had similar problems that it turned out where caused by the Mac going to sleep even if the macOS settings were supposed to preclude it.
http://athena.trixology.com/index.php?topic=2526.msg24555#msg24555In such cases there is a free program that has reliably solved the problem. It is called Amphetamine and it really does prevent your Mac from going to sleep - period! Here is the link to the App on the Mac App Store:
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/amphetamine/id937984704?mt=12&ign-mpt=uo%3D4 Hopefully one of these measure will solve your problem. Please let us know what remedies you try and what are the outcomes.
Cheers, Edouard