Seeing a nice US weather map is very easy with the terminal. If you have an MPV installed, view a high-resolution weather map using this command.
(jcartwright@2403-4800-25af-b00--2) 192.168.1.5 Downloads $ mpv https://radar.weather.gov/ridge/standard/CONUS-LARGE_loop.gif --loop
(+) Video --vid=1 (gif 3400x1600 5.000fps)
VO: [gpu] 3400x1600 bgra
V: 00:00:01 / 00:00:03 (30%) Cache: 0.4s/1MB
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This will open a lovely looping GIF. This works very well to get the weather conditions at a glance.
Another example is a smaller map centred on Indianapolis.
(jcartwright@2403-4800-25af-b00--2) 192.168.1.5 Downloads $ mpv https://radar.weather.gov/ridge/standard/KIND_loop.gif --loop
(+) Video --vid=1 (gif 600x550 2.750fps)
VO: [gpu] 600x550 bgra
V: 00:00:00 / 00:00:03 (24%) Cache: 0.6s/332KB
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This is a neat Linux trick.
Get a nice weather report for Indiana in a table.
(jcartwright@2403-4800-25af-b00--2) 192.168.1.5 Downloads $ curl wttr.in/IND?u Weather report: IND \ / Partly cloudy _ /"".-. 60 °F \_( ). ↖ 19 mph /(___(__) 9 mi 0.1 in ┌─────────────┐ ┌──────────────────────────────┬───────────────────────┤ Mon 25 Mar ├───────────────────────┬──────────────────────────────┐ │ Morning │ Noon └──────┬──────┘ Evening │ Night │ ├──────────────────────────────┼──────────────────────────────┼──────────────────────────────┼──────────────────────────────┤ │ \ / Partly Cloudy │ \ / Partly Cloudy │ Overcast │ \ / Partly Cloudy │ │ _ /"".-. +48(41) °F │ _ /"".-. +55(50) °F │ .--. +57(53) °F │ _ /"".-. +57(51) °F │ │ \_( ). ↖ 18-30 mph │ \_( ). ↑ 19-23 mph │ .-( ). ↖ 20-31 mph │ \_( ). ↖ 22-37 mph │ │ /(___(__) 6 mi │ /(___(__) 6 mi │ (___.__)__) 6 mi │ /(___(__) 6 mi │ │ 0.0 in | 0% │ 0.0 in | 0% │ 0.0 in | 0% │ 0.0 in | 0% │ └──────────────────────────────┴──────────────────────────────┴──────────────────────────────┴──────────────────────────────┘ ┌─────────────┐ ┌──────────────────────────────┬───────────────────────┤ Tue 26 Mar ├───────────────────────┬──────────────────────────────┐ │ Morning │ Noon └──────┬──────┘ Evening │ Night │ ├──────────────────────────────┼──────────────────────────────┼──────────────────────────────┼──────────────────────────────┤ │ _`/"".-. Patchy rain ne…│ _`/"".-. Patchy light d…│ \ / Sunny │ Overcast │ │ ,\_( ). +53(48) °F │ ,\_( ). +60(59) °F │ .-. +53(48) °F │ .--. +44(37) °F │ │ /(___(__) ↑ 22-33 mph │ /(___(__) ↑ 22-26 mph │ ― ( ) ― ↗ 21-25 mph │ .-( ). ↗ 16-23 mph │ │ ‘ ‘ ‘ ‘ 6 mi │ ‘ ‘ ‘ ‘ 3 mi │ `-’ 6 mi │ (___.__)__) 6 mi │ │ ‘ ‘ ‘ ‘ 0.0 in | 77% │ ‘ ‘ ‘ ‘ 0.0 in | 100% │ / \ 0.0 in | 0% │ 0.0 in | 0% │ └──────────────────────────────┴──────────────────────────────┴──────────────────────────────┴──────────────────────────────┘ ┌─────────────┐ ┌──────────────────────────────┬───────────────────────┤ Wed 27 Mar ├───────────────────────┬──────────────────────────────┐ │ Morning │ Noon └──────┬──────┘ Evening │ Night │ ├──────────────────────────────┼──────────────────────────────┼──────────────────────────────┼──────────────────────────────┤ │ \ / Partly Cloudy │ \ / Sunny │ \ / Sunny │ \ / Clear │ │ _ /"".-. +35(26) °F │ .-. +39(33) °F │ .-. +46(41) °F │ .-. +41(37) °F │ │ \_( ). → 11-14 mph │ ― ( ) ― → 10-11 mph │ ― ( ) ― → 11-13 mph │ ― ( ) ― → 5-11 mph │ │ /(___(__) 6 mi │ `-’ 6 mi │ `-’ 6 mi │ `-’ 6 mi │ │ 0.0 in | 0% │ / \ 0.0 in | 0% │ / \ 0.0 in | 0% │ / \ 0.0 in | 0% │ └──────────────────────────────┴──────────────────────────────┴──────────────────────────────┴──────────────────────────────┘ Location: Indiana, USA [40.3270127,-86.1746933] Follow @igor_chubin for wttr.in updates
This is a very nice 3-day forecast.
Using curl to return weather information is very neat.