Printing information about the weather on the command line is quite easy on Linux. One way is using the finger(1) command to retrieve a forecast for a certain city.
┌──(john㉿DESKTOP-PF01IEE)-[~] └─$ finger sydney@graph.no -= Meteogram for Sydney, New South Wales, Australia =- 'C Rain (mm) 25 24 23 ^^^ 22 ===^^^^^^ ===^^^ 21=== ^^^=--=--=--=--=-- 20 =--^^^ 19 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ 18 17 16 | | | | | | | | | | 1 mm _10_11_12_13_14_15_16_17_18_19_20 21 22 23 22/01 02 03 04 05 06_07 Hour SE SE SE SE SE SE SE SE SE SE SE SE SE SE SE SE SE SE SE SE SE SE Wind dir. 5 6 6 6 6 6 6 5 5 4 4 4 3 3 2 2 2 2 1 1 2 2 Wind(m/s) Legend left axis: - Sunny ^ Scattered = Clouded =V= Thunder # Fog Legend right axis: | Rain ! Sleet * Snow [Weather forecast from yr.no, delivered by the Norwegian Meteorological Institute and the NRK.] |
This prints a very nice 24-hour forecast of the weather.
Another way is to use the airport information to get a weather report. Type sudo apt install metar and then find the airport code for your city. They may be found here: https://www.world-airport-codes.com/. Then you are ready to check the weather with the metar utility.
┌──(john㉿DESKTOP-PF01IEE)-[~] └─$ metar -d yswg YSWG 202300Z AUTO 08015KT 9999 // NCD 23/11 Q1028 Station : YSWG Day : 20 Time : 23:00 UTC Wind direction: 80 (E) Wind speed : 15 KT Wind gust : 15 KT Visibility : 9999 M Temperature : 23 C Dewpoint : 11 C Pressure : 1028 hPa Clouds : Phenomena : |
Another way is to use the weather utility.
sudo apt install weather-util |
Then run it like this to get weather information.
jason@kaio:~$ weather yswg Searching via station... [caching result Wagga Airport, Australia] Current conditions at Wagga Airport, Australia (YSWG) 35-09S 147-27E 213M Last updated Nov 05, 2018 - 05:00 PM EST / 2018.11.05 2200 UTC Temperature: 66 F (19 C) Relative Humidity: 100% Wind: from the NE (040 degrees) at 7 MPH (6 KT) Weather: rain Sky conditions: overcast |
use the -v parameter for more verbose output.
jason@kaio:~$ weather -v yswg Wagga Airport, Australia (YSWG) 35-09S 147-27E 213M Nov 05, 2018 - 05:00 PM EST / 2018.11.05 2200 UTC Wind: from the NE (040 degrees) at 7 MPH (6 KT):0 Visibility: 3 mile(s):0 Sky conditions: overcast Weather: rain Temperature: 66 F (19 C) Dew Point: 66 F (19 C) Relative Humidity: 100% Pressure (altimeter): 29.77 in. Hg (1008 hPa) ob: YSWG 052200Z 04006KT 6000 RA FEW010 SCT036 OVC064 19/19 Q1008 cycle: 22 |
The ansiweather utility is another way to get a weather forecast from the command line.
Install it like this.
sudo apt-get install ansiweather |
Then run it to get the weather forecast for your city.
jason@kaio:~$ ansiweather -l Sydney,AU -f 3 Sydney forecast => Tue Nov 06: 29/25 °C ☔ - Wed Nov 07: 25/14 °C ☔ - Thu Nov 08: 17/12 °C ☔ |
If the inxi utility is installed, this can also give you a nice weather forecast.
jason@kaio:~$ inxi -wxxx Weather: Conditions: 75 F (24 C) - light rain Wind: From the West at 7 MPH Humidity: 65% Pressure: 29.77 in (1008 mb) Location: Rhodes 02 (AUS) Altitude: 14 m Time: November 6, 9:24 AM AEDT (Australia/Sydney) Observation Time: November 6, 9:00 AM AEDT |
These simple commands are very good for retrieving a weather forecast on the command line. Very useful to have in your .bashrc file to open a forecast when the terminal is opened.
The prettiest way to get a weather report on Linux is to use the wttr.in website. Access is via the curl utility.
┌──(john㉿DESKTOP-PF01IEE)-[~] └─$ curl -s http://wttr.in/sydney Weather report: sydney Shower in vicinity .--. +23(25) °C .-( ). ↖ 20 km/h (___.__)__) 10 km 0.0 mm ┌─────────────┐ ┌──────────────────────────────┬───────────────────────┤ Fri 21 Jan ├───────────────────────┬──────────────────────────────┐ │ Morning │ Noon └──────┬──────┘ Evening │ Night │ ├──────────────────────────────┼──────────────────────────────┼──────────────────────────────┼──────────────────────────────┤ │ _`/"".-. Patchy rain po…│ \ / Partly cloudy │ \ / Partly cloudy │ _`/"".-. Patchy rain po…│ │ ,\_( ). 22 °C │ _ /"".-. +22(25) °C │ _ /"".-. 21 °C │ ,\_( ). 21 °C │ │ /(___(__) ← 21-27 km/h │ \_( ). ← 22-26 km/h │ \_( ). ← 18-24 km/h │ /(___(__) ← 20-29 km/h │ │ ‘ ‘ ‘ ‘ 10 km │ /(___(__) 10 km │ /(___(__) 10 km │ ‘ ‘ ‘ ‘ 10 km │ │ ‘ ‘ ‘ ‘ 0.1 mm | 96% │ 0.0 mm | 0% │ 0.0 mm | 0% │ ‘ ‘ ‘ ‘ 0.1 mm | 75% │ └──────────────────────────────┴──────────────────────────────┴──────────────────────────────┴──────────────────────────────┘ ┌─────────────┐ ┌──────────────────────────────┬───────────────────────┤ Sat 22 Jan ├───────────────────────┬──────────────────────────────┐ │ Morning │ Noon └──────┬──────┘ Evening │ Night │ ├──────────────────────────────┼──────────────────────────────┼──────────────────────────────┼──────────────────────────────┤ │ _`/"".-. Patchy rain po…│ Cloudy │ \ / Partly cloudy │ \ / Partly cloudy │ │ ,\_( ). 22 °C │ .--. +22(25) °C │ _ /"".-. 21 °C │ _ /"".-. 20 °C │ │ /(___(__) ↖ 19-22 km/h │ .-( ). ↖ 20-23 km/h │ \_( ). ↖ 17-22 km/h │ \_( ). ↖ 13-20 km/h │ │ ‘ ‘ ‘ ‘ 10 km │ (___.__)__) 10 km │ /(___(__) 10 km │ /(___(__) 10 km │ │ ‘ ‘ ‘ ‘ 0.1 mm | 72% │ 0.0 mm | 0% │ 0.0 mm | 0% │ 0.0 mm | 0% │ └──────────────────────────────┴──────────────────────────────┴──────────────────────────────┴──────────────────────────────┘ ┌─────────────┐ ┌──────────────────────────────┬───────────────────────┤ Sun 23 Jan ├───────────────────────┬──────────────────────────────┐ │ Morning │ Noon └──────┬──────┘ Evening │ Night │ ├──────────────────────────────┼──────────────────────────────┼──────────────────────────────┼──────────────────────────────┤ │ _`/"".-. Patchy rain po…│ \ / Partly cloudy │ \ / Sunny │ \ / Clear │ │ ,\_( ). 22 °C │ _ /"".-. +23(25) °C │ .-. 21 °C │ .-. 21 °C │ │ /(___(__) ↖ 17-22 km/h │ \_( ). ↖ 18-21 km/h │ ― ( ) ― ↖ 12-18 km/h │ ― ( ) ― ↖ 9-15 km/h │ │ ‘ ‘ ‘ ‘ 10 km │ /(___(__) 10 km │ `-’ 10 km │ `-’ 10 km │ │ ‘ ‘ ‘ ‘ 0.1 mm | 76% │ 0.0 mm | 0% │ / \ 0.0 mm | 0% │ / \ 0.0 mm | 0% │ └──────────────────────────────┴──────────────────────────────┴──────────────────────────────┴──────────────────────────────┘ Location: Sydney, NSW, Australia [-33.8548156,151.2164539] |
This shows a 3-day forecast of the weather in your town.