Weather in Terminal
It’s no secert, I love the terminal and would happily spend my days tapping away in a non graphical user interference world, but sometimes you need to refer to information which displays in picture format.
Weather apps and website go to great lengths to show pleasing ‘weather’ images in the highest possible resolution or even animated scenes, but Wttr strips it all down to raw information able to be shown in the terminal and its cool af!
On MacOS or Linux based terminal emulators - or even using Termius SSH’ing in to another machine - the command…
curl http://wttr.in
Will bring up the weather forecast for your IP’s location - for a more detailed forecast based on your actual location or somewhere you’re planning on visiting add ‘/yourlocation’ to display the correct weather, in my case the command would be
Wttr.in is the brain chain of Igor Chubin over on Github, who has also created the ultimate Terminal cheat sheet.
Wttr.in output can be expanded by using the command, curl v2.wttr.in/yourlocation its currently an experimental version showing a lot more data about the current day and historical data.
If the moon is more your thing, curl http://wttr.in/moon will display the moon phase.
I love everything about the wttr.in service and what igor has created, quick fun and simple weather from the Terminal window!
