Changing Echo's Weather Location

Setting up my new Amazon Echo was pretty straight forward, except for one thing.  After Echo was all set up, I asked her: "Alexa, what's the weather?"  She then gave me the weather for...Kirkland, Washington.  Which would be fine if I lived in Washington, but doesn't do me much good in the San Francisco Bay Area.

It took a little rooting around to fix this.   I figured for sure it would be under Settings,  and settings does have listings for Sports Update, Traffic, Calendar - but no Weather.

Well it's there, but mysteriously, to update Weather, you have to click on your Echo's name, in my case "David's Echo".

Then, it's an easy-to-change location setting.  I typed in my address and zip, saved it, and Alexa now correctly reported my local weather.

Where's the Amazon Echo?

I wanted to get an Amazon Echo around Christmas time - good luck.  Amazon itself was out of stock for the next three weeks!

One option was other retail locations.  My brother found one at Home Depot of all places. 

Amazon's list of retail locations for the Echo:

• ABT: 1-888-228-5800
• Bed Bath & Beyond: 1-800-GO-BEYOND (462-3966)
• BJ's Wholesale Club (Members Only): 1-866-425-7932
• Brookstone: 1-866-576-7337
• Fred Meyer: 1-800-576-4377
• Fry's: 1-408-350-1484
• HH Gregg: 1-800-284-7344
• Home Depot: 1-800-HOME-DEPOT (466-3337)
• P.C. Richard & Son: 1-877-727-1909
• Radio Shack: 1-800-843-7422
• RC Willey: 1-888-584-5156
• Sears: 1-800-697-3277
• Staples: 1-800-STAPLES (782-7537)       

This doesn't mean they are universally available at these stores.  When I called Bed, Bath & Beyond, they had never heard of the Echo.

Although the stores may be out, sometimes their online outlet may have an Echo.  I ended up getting mine at Staples' online store, three weeks ahead of when I could get it from Amazon.