Weather in your terminal, with ANSI colors and Unicode symbols

Obligatory reference to the awesome Powerline[1]. If you don&#x27;t want to use Python there&#x27;s also tmux-powerline[2] and vim-airline[3].<p>I&#x27;ve been using these for the last couple of years.<p>[1] <a href="https://github.com/Lokaltog/powerline" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;Lokaltog&#x2F;powerline</a><p>[2] <a href="https://github.com/erikw/tmux-powerline" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;erikw&#x2F;tmux-powerline</a><p>[3] <a href="https://github.com/bling/vim-airline" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;bling&#x2F;vim-airline</a><p>EDIT: typo, spacing and autocorrect :&#x2F;

I put ansiweather in the AUR[1] for Archlinux users.<p>[1] - <a href="https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/ansiweather-git/" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;aur.archlinux.org&#x2F;packages&#x2F;ansiweather-git&#x2F;</a>

We&#x27;re dyin&#x27; over here in the Seattle area: Current weather in Redmond =&gt; 282.77 °F<p>Maybe try metric? Current weather in Redmond =&gt; 282.77 °C<p>Perhaps it doesn&#x27;t know about Redmond, WA. Let&#x27;s try Seattle: Current weather in Seattle =&gt; 286.5 °F<p>It also seems to think it&#x27;s sunny in Seattle right now. Umm, no.<p>EDIT: ah, no space after the comma in your location, otherwise it thinks you&#x27;re on the surface of Venus.

I am thinking more and more about moving back to a text-only interface - previously I was very happy with mutt, tin, lynx (and links and w3m), centericq, etc, but only bash and vim stuck with me.<p>Yet with the advent of unicode, there are fewer needs for a graphical interface - stay for a weather app. A clutter-free desktop consisting of mostly bash, along with gnu screen (or the likes) and ssh (or the likes) to remotely connect to home, now that would be efficient!<p>Even better - a few weeks ago, I found out that for math stuff, stata on OSX can be used with a command-line.<p>[PS: As usual Frederic, totally awesome :-)]

For April Fools&#x27; I released cloudyfs -- weather reports in your file system. Its pretty primitive, but functional. Pardon my haskell, it&#x27;s lousy.<p><a href="http://github.com/bhickey/cloudyfs" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;bhickey&#x2F;cloudyfs</a>

<p><pre><code> % cat ~&#x2F;.ansiweatherrc location:Pittsburgh,Pa units:metric jim@lilly &#x2F;home&#x2F;jim&#x2F;projects&#x2F;external&#x2F;ansiweather (master)[0] {+00% 58C} Mon 2013-10-21 15:39:50 0 % .&#x2F;ansiweather Current weather in Pittsburgh =&gt; 17.68 °C ☀ - Humidity =&gt; 33 % - Pressure =&gt; 1014 hPa jim@lilly &#x2F;home&#x2F;jim&#x2F;projects&#x2F;external&#x2F;ansiweather (master)[0] {+00% 59C} Mon 2013-10-21 15:39:52 0 % cat ~&#x2F;.ansiweatherrc location:Pittsburgh,Pa units:imperial jim@lilly &#x2F;home&#x2F;jim&#x2F;projects&#x2F;external&#x2F;ansiweather (master)[0] {+00% 58C} Mon 2013-10-21 15:40:00 0 % .&#x2F;ansiweather Current weather in Pittsburgh =&gt; 61.89 °F ☀ - Humidity =&gt; 47 % - Pressure =&gt; 985.97 hPa </code></pre> Interesting that the humidity and pressure are different when using different units (err, the humity and pressure are in the same units regardless of the units setting, but the values are different).

Did not work for me with the default .ansiweatherrc. I had to remove the fetch_cmd:... and use curl -s instead and then it worked.<p><a href="https://github.com/fcambus/ansiweather/issues/3" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;fcambus&#x2F;ansiweather&#x2F;issues&#x2F;3</a><p>Thanks for this, I had written a script to pull the weather from another site and placed it in my conky. It works but is quite ugly.

.&#x2F;ansiweather: line 76: jq: command not found<p>If you run into that on ubuntu, there does not appear to be an ubuntu package for jq. Binaries and source are available at <a href="http://stedolan.github.io/jq/download/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;stedolan.github.io&#x2F;jq&#x2F;download&#x2F;</a>

How often does it make a http request? Every time PS1 is printed?

The author obviously does not live in California. I rarely check the weather since I know that it will be more or less the same as yesterday , or the day before, or the day before that...

I realize this is a weird question, but I&#x27;ve never understood the point of having an applet show you the current weather. Does your home have no windows?

Most of us weather&#x2F;radio nuts in the US have been doing something similar for over a decade or more. There&#x27;s several scripts written in Perl or Python that grab data from NOAA. (Or you can just program your ICOM with the local frequency and script it to respond to the CLI...)

I need this as an emacs extension. Would fit right next to my nyan cat progress bar.

Ack! I love this, so lightweight. I don&#x27;t mean to do a pony request here, but can anyone think of an easy way to get this into a garden-variety windows 7 desktop, like through a rainmeter script or news ticker?

Alternatively, <a href="http://robobunny.com/projects/weatherspect/html/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;robobunny.com&#x2F;projects&#x2F;weatherspect&#x2F;html&#x2F;</a> ;)

Reminds me of a project a friend of mine did recently for the hackMIT hackathon: <a href="http://hackmit.challengepost.com/submissions/18025-bashwunderground-b8" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;hackmit.challengepost.com&#x2F;submissions&#x2F;18025-bashwunde...</a> Has ASCII-art, but I don&#x27;t think he&#x27;s put the source up anywhere.

This is great!<p>I just made a pull request to add the ability to see the forecast for the upcoming week as well: <a href="https://github.com/fcambus/ansiweather/pull/11/files" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;fcambus&#x2F;ansiweather&#x2F;pull&#x2F;11&#x2F;files</a>

I had to use an underscore for a space in my city name in the config file. It would be nice if it linked to the list of city names available. But I think the program is pretty awesome!

Great to see the weather in the title bar of my xterm, I often don&#x27;t have the strength to look out the window.

Nice idea !<p>Now I can have a weather icon in my prompt.

Disappointed<p><pre><code> _( )_ _ _( )_ _( )_ (_________) _( )_ \ \ \ (_________) \ \ \ \ \ \ \</code></pre>