ASCII Art Weather

Yes, it does return ANSI when you curl/wget the address.

Slight tweak watch --color "wget -O - http://wttr.in/Palmerston_North -q" Not that its going to need to update that much, its just, well it makes me feel like it's more accurate that way.

I much prefer weather via finger using graph.no:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11106354

https://0p.no/2014/12/13/graph_no___weather_forecast_via_fin...

And the command:

    finger london@graph.no

Which produces this:

                  -= Meteogram for united_kingdom/england/london =-                
    'C                                                                   Rain (mm) 
    17                                                                   
    16      ^^^   ------^^^^^^                                           
    15   ^^^   ---            ^^^                                        
    14^^^                        ^^^                                     
    13                              ^^^                                  
    12                                 ^^^                               
    11                                    =========            ===   ^^^ 
    10                                             ============   ===    
     9                                            '  |                   2 mm 
     8                                      |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |    1 mm 
      _11_12_13_14_15_16_17_18 19 20 21 22 23 00 01 02 03 04 05 06_07_08 Hour
    
       SE SE  S  S  S  S  S  S  S  S  S  S SE  S  S  S  S  E SE SE  S SW Wind dir.
        1  2  5  4  4  4  5  4  4  4  3  3  3  2  3  2  1  0  1  2  1  3 Wind(mps)
   
   Legend left axis:   - Sunny   ^ Scattered   = Clouded   =V= Thunder   # Fog
   Legend right axis:  | Rain    ! Sleet       * Snow

So it's 16'c with a light cloud cover until 1pm, clear until 4pm after which it gets a little cloudy again, some rain between 11pm and 7am, which is very light and heaviest around 2am.

That is the equivalent of this:

https://www.yr.no/place/United_Kingdom/England/London/hour_b...

Which has, for me, proven to be the most accurate and informative weather forecast.

And if you just want to use the latest meteogram image:

https://www.yr.no/place/United_Kingdom/England/London/avanse...

Also: Weather available via HTTPS! I dislike how the vast majority of apps on mobile devices use location for reporting local weather but do so over HTTP and leak location data. BBC, I'm looking at you.

If you're on Android there's a great widget that makes using any other weather app pretty redundant for most cases:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=widget.weather...

I thought this will be something based on METAR codes...

"This is a web frontend for a console weather application wego, using it as a backend."

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9545180