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The location I have it set is specifically inside the United States, not Australia.
What do you think prompted this?
The weather display on my Windows 8 laptop also says "Clear", but it also isn't prompted by incorrect region settings as well.
Just to confirm, if you click the wrench icon, you confirm the location is correct? If you click the arrow (larger) icon, does the gadget change display, or still backwards? Have you tried closing the gadget, then reopening it? If none of this is relevant, you might try turning the windows gadget platform off, then back on.
Windows Features - Turn On or Off
Scroll down to Windows gadget platform, untick, reboot, and go back and tick it.
Beyond that, confirm correct computer time, and format, location, and locale settings
Region and Language - Change
A Guy
Well, sometimes a Windows Update makes a bad habit of breaking the gadgets or make them go away entirely so I have to run a Microsoft Fix-It. Everyone's all talk about the vulnerability in Windows Sidebar and Gadgets that could allow remote-code execution.
I'd run the system File Checker. It's possible you have a corrupt dll(s)
SFC /SCANNOW Command - System File Checker
If no joy, navigate to
C:\users\(User Name)\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows Sidebar
Do you see a (any) Cache folder? It may be due to cached info for some reason?
Have you tried setting it to another city in the same time zone and seeing if it updates that weather correctly?
A Guy
InformationStopping Windows Sidebar and Gadgets
Deleted the cache folder -- DONE
Verifying fix ... FAILED
Removing only the defective cache file -- COMPLETED
Stopping background tasks...
- Sims2EP8.exe
Running System File Checker... COMPLETED (2 passes)
Restarting Windows Sidebar and Gadgets ... FAILED
Used Restore Desktop Gadgets option -- COMPLETED
Verifying fix -- FAILED
Setting a different city/town for that gadget ... DONE
Verifying fix -- COMPLETED
Finished.