Comments on: Whither the weather? Linux CLI solutions https://gregladen.com/blog/2010/10/07/whither-the-weather-linux-cli/ Fri, 15 Feb 2019 21:42:52 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.8 By: lordroid https://gregladen.com/blog/2010/10/07/whither-the-weather-linux-cli/#comment-713025 Fri, 15 Feb 2019 21:42:52 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2010/10/07/whither-the-weather-linux-cli/#comment-713025 hi BIG POST SO NICE

]]> By: taba https://gregladen.com/blog/2010/10/07/whither-the-weather-linux-cli/#comment-588544 Tue, 22 May 2018 00:22:35 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2010/10/07/whither-the-weather-linux-cli/#comment-588544 BIG POST SO NICE

]]> By: ?????? ???? https://gregladen.com/blog/2010/10/07/whither-the-weather-linux-cli/#comment-588543 Tue, 22 May 2018 00:21:54 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2010/10/07/whither-the-weather-linux-cli/#comment-588543 BIG POST

]]> By: hotrider!! https://gregladen.com/blog/2010/10/07/whither-the-weather-linux-cli/#comment-524336 Mon, 21 May 2012 20:48:58 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2010/10/07/whither-the-weather-linux-cli/#comment-524336 After struggling getting the right Metar data and weather station info configured for weather-util ( I know nothing about weather ) and after seeing the data on http://weather.noaa.gov/pub/data/observations/metar/decoded/ is plain text I decided to write an extremely simple script to give me the basic functionality I need.

First go to weather.noaa.gov find the closest station to your location and the four letter “id”. Go through the http://weather.noaa.gov/pub/data/observations/metar/decoded/ index and find your four letter id??.TXT this file provides the up to date weather info. Then I wrote this script-

# Make a executable text file named weather with script and save in /usr/bin (substitute your four letter id everywhere I used mine KRIV.TXT)

#!/bin/bash
readfile=/tmp/KRIV.TXT
function downWinfo {
wget -O /tmp/KRIV.TXT weather.noaa.gov/pub/data/observations/metar/decoded/KRIV.TXT
}
downWinfo &> /dev/null
echo “Local Time: `date`”
cat $readfile
exit 0

Now just type weather in a terminal and it will display current weather information.

]]> By: John Jones https://gregladen.com/blog/2010/10/07/whither-the-weather-linux-cli/#comment-524344 Mon, 01 Nov 2010 18:07:16 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2010/10/07/whither-the-weather-linux-cli/#comment-524344 I wanted to “split” my weather forecast script into four Quadrants matching my Terminal Size (80 x 24)

The weather data is handled by conkyForecast, a python script by kaivalagi found at http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=869328
(Conky NOT required to use it!)

Script is at http://pastebin.ca/1978836
Screenie is at http://i771.photobucket.com/albums/xx360/E522260/Screenshot-trans.png

Changing terminal resolution doesn’t change the output. I’d need help with that detail.

Enjoy!
Peace.

]]> By: Greg Laden https://gregladen.com/blog/2010/10/07/whither-the-weather-linux-cli/#comment-524343 Thu, 07 Oct 2010 20:34:39 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2010/10/07/whither-the-weather-linux-cli/#comment-524343 Nemo, I do, actually. (Do more.) See: http://tinyurl.com/24psyze

I had some little problems with maximus, funny behavior, but it did essentially work.

Tomorrow, I’ll be posting on accessing my Google Calendar with the command line. You’ll love it.

]]> By: Nemo https://gregladen.com/blog/2010/10/07/whither-the-weather-linux-cli/#comment-524342 Thu, 07 Oct 2010 20:04:49 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2010/10/07/whither-the-weather-linux-cli/#comment-524342

… I’ve got my laptop maximally configured to provide real estate to any app that opens on it.

You could do more. On my desktop, I have everything on a single Gnome panel (vs. the usual two), and that one is set to auto-hide. On my netbook, I use a netbook-oriented distro that includes the Maximus window manager, which eliminates the panels as well as auto-maximizing.

I also have two fewer toolbars in my Firefox. But I still lose almost a quarter of the vertical screen space, until I hit F11.

]]> By: Greg Laden https://gregladen.com/blog/2010/10/07/whither-the-weather-linux-cli/#comment-524341 Thu, 07 Oct 2010 19:07:31 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2010/10/07/whither-the-weather-linux-cli/#comment-524341 Plus, that site has the mouseover comments, which may be the info you are REALLY looking for. Will lynx get at them? I assume they are hidden in the javascript or something.

]]> By: Greg Laden https://gregladen.com/blog/2010/10/07/whither-the-weather-linux-cli/#comment-524340 Thu, 07 Oct 2010 19:04:34 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2010/10/07/whither-the-weather-linux-cli/#comment-524340 I was thinking the tags might be useful. For example, I wrote a script that would mine a science domain for species names, recognizing them as having two or three words surrounded by em codes. When pointed at a site like Animal Diversity Web, it did very well, virtually no errors, since emphasis typeface is almost never used there unless for a species name.

In your case, a particular unique div may include all the stuff you are looking for.

]]> By: James McCann https://gregladen.com/blog/2010/10/07/whither-the-weather-linux-cli/#comment-524339 Thu, 07 Oct 2010 18:57:06 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2010/10/07/whither-the-weather-linux-cli/#comment-524339 lynx renders the text with –dump, which is what I want. Does wget have a text rendering feature? I don’t think so but I could be wrong. If the page were XML I’d think about Pyxie, but I’d prefer not to deal w/ parsing the tags.

I think the MM5 data these maps are based on is publicly available, but that would be non-trivial although not hard. It is a fun idea, but I already have tons of personal coding projects to work on.

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