I’m having a weird issue with the weather widget in my Plasma panel notification area.
The widget keeps showing a question mark/loading state for a long time before eventually displaying the weather information.
Also, is anyone else currently experiencing this or has experienced it before? I’m asking because I’m considering opening a bug report, but I always try to research first so I don’t waste the developers’ time with duplicate or known issues. So far I haven’t found anything related on bugs.kde.org.
Probably more an issue with wetter.com
I don’t know, it sucks anyway - I can find my location in the website, but the widget search sucked and I just don’t bother, it’s never accurate anyway 
I found the cause of the issue on my system.
It turned out to be broken or partially working IPv6 connectivity. After disabling IPv6, the weather applet started loading almost instantly again.
Apparently some applications were trying IPv6 first, timing out, and only then falling back to IPv4. That also explained why:
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speedtest-cli was showing connect timeouts,
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yt-dlp was taking forever to start,
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and some other network-related apps were randomly slow.
Regular web browsing still looked normal because browsers handle IPv4 fallback much more aggressively.
So if anyone else runs into this, it may be worth testing with IPv6 temporarily disabled. That’s something I’ll need to check with my ISP.