Now You Can Check the Weather Without Leaving Facebook

Weather.com is powering the weather information on the social network

Facebook doesn’t want its users leaving the social network to get information on their local weather.

The social network began testing weather updates in the U.K. in News Feed in its iOS and Android applications last April, and Facebook confirmed to Sarah Perez of TechCrunch that an updated version of that weather feature was rolled out to about 95 percent of its users worldwide this week. It is also available via desktop.

Users will start seeing weather updates atop their News Feeds, or they can access the weather information via the flagship apps’ More menu.

The weather data comes from Weather.com,

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