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weather forecast in terminal
Posted: Sun May 31, 2015 5:59 am
by vic
I have not tried it. Just got a tip about it. Click and check link if you are interested. :)
https://github.com/schachmat/wego
Re: weather forecast in terminal
Posted: Sun May 31, 2015 3:12 pm
by machinebacon
Thanks Wickie!
Working Go environment
Well, I'll consider this some other time :D
I used to have this one:
https://github.com/fcambus/ansiweather
Needs jq from the repos and a little bit of editing in the config file :)
Re: weather forecast in terminal
Posted: Sat Jan 09, 2016 11:52 pm
by Theo
necrobump but...
inxi -xxxW cityname,country works for me :)
Re: weather forecast in terminal
Posted: Sun Jan 10, 2016 12:51 am
by daggoth
^^ Works for me! Didn't know that one.
Re: weather forecast in terminal
Posted: Sun Jan 10, 2016 1:52 am
by dkeg
Oh, cool, worthy necro bump! I had to do city,state
Re: weather forecast in terminal
Posted: Sun Jan 10, 2016 1:59 am
by Dr_Chroot
No kidding, this is pretty nice. At least from a quick glance at the man page, inxi does so much more than I knew about!
Re: weather forecast in terminal
Posted: Sun Jan 10, 2016 2:07 am
by pidsley
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$ sudo apt-get install weather-util weather-util-data
$ weather $ weather atl
Current conditions at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta, GA
Last updated Jan 09, 2016 - 07:52 PM EST / 2016.01.10 0052 UTC
Temperature: 50.0 F (10.0 C)
Relative Humidity: 92%
Wind: from the ESE (120 degrees) at 10 MPH (9 KT)
Weather: light rain; mist
Sky conditions: overcast
Precipitation last hour: 0.08 inches
$ weather eddb
Searching via station...
[caching result Berlin-Schoenefeld, Germany]
Current conditions at Berlin-Schoenefeld, Germany (EDDB) 52-23N 013-31E 50M
Last updated Jan 09, 2016 - 07:50 PM EST / 2016.01.10 0050 UTC
Temperature: 26 F (-3 C)
Relative Humidity: 92%
Wind: from the E (100 degrees) at 6 MPH (5 KT)
Windchill: 19 F (-7 C)
"man weather" for more -- "weather -f <code>" for a forecast (only US codes), get codes from
here or "weather --info" to search by name.
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$ weather --info beijing
Searching via name...
ICAO station code zbaa
----------------------
zbaa: Beijing, China
(proximity ideal, 0km, 0mi)
$ weather zbaa
Current conditions at Beijing, China (ZBAA) 39-56N 116-17E 55M
Last updated Jan 09, 2016 - 08:00 PM EST / 2016.01.10 0100 UTC
Temperature: 28 F (-2 C)
Relative Humidity: 39%
Wind: from the NNE (030 degrees) at 7 MPH (6 KT)
Windchill: 21 F (-6 C)
Re: weather forecast in terminal
Posted: Sun Jan 10, 2016 5:02 am
by machinebacon
^ excellent, thank you!
user@grill:~$ weather Paris
Searching via name...
Your search is too ambiguous, returning 107 matches.
user@grill:~$ weather Novosibirsk
Searching via name...
[using result Novosibirsk/Tolmach, RA]
Current conditions at <UNKNOWN>
Last updated Jan 10, 2016 - 12:00 AM EST / 2016.01.10 0500 UTC
Temperature: -14 F (-26 C)
Relative Humidity: 75%
Wind: Variable at 2 MPH (2 KT)
user@grill:~$
that's brilliant, it works well if the weather station has a unique name.
Re: weather forecast in terminal
Posted: Sun Jan 10, 2016 2:06 pm
by pidsley
You can also look up the station code for cities like Paris, and use that.
https://www.aviationweather.gov/docs/metar/stations.txt
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$ weather lfpb
Searching via station...
[caching result Paris / Le Bourget, France]
Current conditions at Paris / Le Bourget, France (LFPB) 48-58N 002-27E 65M
Last updated Jan 10, 2016 - 07:30 AM EST / 2016.01.10 1230 UTC
Temperature: 46 F (8 C)
Relative Humidity: 87%
Wind: from the SSW (210 degrees) at 14 MPH (12 KT)
Weather: Towering cumulus clouds observed
Sky conditions: mostly cloudy
Or use the latitude and longitude to find the nearest station.
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$ weather "27-17S, 28-31E"
Searching via coordinates...
No NWS weather zone near 27-17S, 028-31E; forecasts unavailable.
Current conditions at Vereeniging, South Africa (FAVV) 26-34-29S 027-57-45E
Last updated Jan 10, 2016 - 08:00 AM EST / 2016.01.10 1300 UTC
Temperature: 82 F (28 C)
Relative Humidity: 34%
Wind: from the NW (320 degrees) at 7 MPH (6 KT)
Re: weather forecast in terminal
Posted: Sun Jan 10, 2016 2:12 pm
by machinebacon
the "Paris" search was on purpose, wanted to see what happens if there are definitely more than one stations. Thanks :)
Re: weather forecast in terminal
Posted: Sun Jan 10, 2016 2:14 pm
by pidsley
Oh! Sorry about that. I was caught up in the cool man page and all the options.
Re: weather forecast in terminal
Posted: Sun Jan 10, 2016 2:25 pm
by machinebacon
Nothing to feel sorry about :D I have never even considered/heard of weather-utils, so this is really a great tip!
The city I live in has a unique name, so it showed directly. Then I tried Stuttgart, which I knew has at least 2 stations. It lists three:
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user@grill:~$ weather stuttgart
Searching via name...
Your search is ambiguous, returning 3 matches:
[edds] Stuttgart-Echterdingen, Germany
[fips0567490] Stuttgart city, AR
[ksgt] Stuttgart, Stuttgart Municipal Airport, AR, United States
Then I thought: let's check something more common - Paris sounds quite common to me :D Loving the forecast and alert options (yeah, I need the latter quite often~)
edit: can't find the sources of the Chinese Meteorological Institute, sigh. No forecast and alerts for me yet.
Re: weather forecast in terminal
Posted: Sun Jan 10, 2016 7:23 pm
by Theo
^ Some of the airports are a bit of a help.
On
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_airports_in_China is a list of airports and have 'ICAO' codes.
An example:
theo@theo-System-Product-Name:~$ weather zuck
Searching via station...
[caching result Chongqing, China]
Current conditions at Chongqing, China (ZUCK) 29-31N 106-29E 351M
Last updated Jan 10, 2016 - 01:00 PM EST / 2016.01.10 1800 UTC
Temperature: 46 F (8 C)
Relative Humidity: 93%
Wind: from the NW (320 degrees) at 4 MPH (4 KT)
Weather: light rain; mist
Sky conditions: overcast
Re: weather forecast in terminal
Posted: Sun Jan 10, 2016 7:42 pm
by machinebacon
^ the problem is not the location name, they can be entered by normal city name. What I was referring to is: there are no forecast ("zone-forecast") and alerts for non-US locations on the METAR website.
Re: weather forecast in terminal
Posted: Tue Jan 12, 2016 2:33 am
by noo_b_nomnoms
bbq@hello:~ $ weather lax
Searching via airport...
[caching result Los Angeles Interntl Airport, CA, United States]
Current conditions at Los Angeles Interntl Airport, CA
Last updated Jan 11, 2016 - 07:53 PM EST / 2016.01.12 0053 UTC
Temperature: 59.0 F (15.0 C)
Relative Humidity: 53%
Wind: from the WSW (240 degrees) at 8 MPH (7 KT)
Sky conditions: mostly cloudy
This works nicely!