Why a leader wants this and an app cannot give it
A reading you have to go and open is a reading you check when you remember to, which is usually after somebody has told you there is a problem. The whole argument for ambient weather is that it costs a glance — and a glance has to happen where the eyes already are. On a desk, that is a browser tab.
It is deliberately small. Collapsed, it is a symbol and a name. It does not notify, it does not badge, it does not interrupt and it has nothing to scroll. If the team's sky has not changed, it has nothing to say and says nothing.
What it does
It shows the groups you picked. Up to eight, chosen in the app — the team channel, the two others you actually watch, and the city you are in. Pressing the sky puts a chevron either side of it to walk between them.
It casts. One tap, blind, from the row of five symbols. Reading without casting would be a problem rather than a feature: in weathr, saying how you are is what keeps a group's sky moving for you, so an overlay that could only read would freeze within a day and send you somewhere else to fix it.
It draws the same reading the app does. The gradient and the symbol come from the same code as the app's, so following the pill into weathr lands you on the picture it was showing. What it does not carry is the animated scene, on purpose — that costs eight megabytes, and something injected into every page you browse is the last place in weathr that should pay for it.
What it does not do
It never reads the page. It draws on top of the page and takes nothing from it. Which sites you visit is not sent anywhere and is not something weathr can learn.
It never signs you in. There is no password in it and no sign-in form. You sign in to weathr in the ordinary way, in a tab, and the app hands the extension a credential for your account alone. Signing out throws it away.
It reveals nothing the app does not. Blind casts, no per-person dashboard, no report, no export. A leader glancing at the pill sees exactly the sky everybody in that channel sees.
How to get it
You cannot yet, and that is the honest answer. The extension is built and has not been published: an extension that can draw on any site goes through a Chrome Web Store review, and weathr has not been through it. There is nothing to install until it is listed, and this page will carry the link on the day it is.
Meanwhile the app itself runs in any browser and does everything except the glance, and the live demo needs no account at all. The Android app, with a home-screen widget you can cast from without opening anything, is what is being built next.
Questions
Is the weathr Chrome extension available yet?
It is built and it is not yet published. Chrome reviews extensions that can run on every site, and weathr has not been through that review. Until it is listed there is nothing to install from the Web Store, and the app in the browser does everything except the glance.
Does the extension read the pages I browse?
No. It draws a pill on top of the page and reads nothing from it. The page it is sitting on is never sent anywhere, and weathr never learns which sites you visit. The only requests it makes are to weathr, for the groups you picked.
Can my employer see what I cast from the extension?
No more than from the app. The extension casts blind, which hides who and never the mood, and there is no per-person dashboard anywhere in weathr for anybody to look at. Your leader sees the same sky every other member of the channel sees.
Is there a Firefox, Edge or Safari version?
Not today. The extension is built for Chrome's extension platform, which Edge also runs, but only Chrome has been tested. Firefox would take the same code with a different handshake, and Safari would need repackaging. Neither is done.