It’s the news budding meteorologists have been desperate for! Okay, maybe not, but if dumbed-down and easily accessible weather watching is your bag we can report that as of right now the Wii Forecast Channel has gone live.

Things are a bit clunky at the moment, but we daresay the bumps will be smoothed out shortly. Nevertheless those with the saint-like powers of patience to wait for the service to load up can view the state of the weather up and down the UK and, more compelling in a geekish kind of way, across the world thanks to a very nifty and fully-spinnable three-dimensional globe interface. It’s a great way to randomly select your next holiday destination too.

All that’s missing, then, is a suitably glamorous or engagingly mad presenter for all this climate-related fun ‘n games. Surely there’s some kind of Mii avatar solution to be worked into the equation here? Well we can dream, can’t we? In the meantime users will need to update their consoles to obtain this handy service. Simply click on the channel in the main menu in order to do so. Oh, and the current weather in Timbuktu? Scorchio!