ASCII weather app for the terminal
Check the Weather
After saving .wegorc
, you can call up the weather forecast as a normal user by typing wego
. The program references the file you just edited. If you want to discover what the weather is like elsewhere, enter wego <locatio> <[country]> <[days]>
in a terminal window (Figure 3). If you do not specify a number, Wego starts with the current date and gives a preview for the next two days.

Sometimes you need to play around a little and possibly omit the country or switch to a larger city nearby. This is true especially for sparsely populated or remote areas.
Along with cities, Wego also accepts IATA codes for airports. For example, wego BER
gives you the weather forecast for the notorious Berlin Brandenburg airport (still incomplete), and wego NRT
gives you Tokyo Narita. This feature can be useful: For example, typing LAX is faster than typing Los Angeles.
Alternatives
Other tools are available for displaying the weather at the command line. Another tool called Ansi-weather is quickly installed and offers useful options [2]. Because Ansi-weather comes with an API key, you won't need to complete online registration in order to use Ansi-weather. Using the Python Weather-CLI script [3] or the plain Weather [4] is even easier.
The fastest approach, however, is probably finger <city>@graph.no
. This variant only requires that the finger utility is installed, which is the default for many distributions. The slightly cryptic output does require some patience and practice when you come to interpreting the information (Figure 4).

Conclusions
Checking weather has never been faster: Press F12 to drop the Yakuake [5] terminal, then type wego
– you'll get to the weather in less than one second. Wego's ASCII art also has its charm. Command-line veterans will love this handy weather app, and Wego is also great for users who only occasionally launch a terminal.
Infos
- Wego: https://github.com/schachmat/wego
- Ansiweather: https://github.com/fcambus/ansiweather
- Weather-CLI: https://github.com/brianriley/weather-cli
- Weather: http://fungi.yuggoth.org/weather/
- Yakuake: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yakuake
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