Terminal Weather

Weather in terminal.

So I was watching a video by Luke Smith today in which he showcased a neat thing you can do in the terminal that I had no idea existed.

wttr.in is a weather service that displays in an ASCII format with a simple curl command.

$ curl wttr.in/London

Produces the following:

Weather

Very simple and fast.

Script.

I made a quick shell script (if you can even call it that) for personal use on my machines named weather by using a text editor, in my case vim.

#!/bin/sh

curl wttr.in/London

Make it executable and move it to /usr/bin/ with

$ chmod +x weather
$ sudo mv weather /usr/bin/

Job done. Just typing weather gives me a forecast right in the terminal.

For a rundown on other features of the program click here or run

$ curl wttr.in/:help