ASCII weather app for the terminal

Days of Thunder

Article from Issue 187/2016
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Other applications have found less complex ways of showing the weather in a terminal, but none is as attractive as Wego.

People love to check out the weather forecast, but some users prefer to avoid the many web-based services, where you first need to search for the forecast amid all the advertising or switch to the desktop and face the weather through a Plasmoid or Conky widget. Users who always have a terminal open will appreciate the attractive Wego option for presenting the weather in a command-line window.

The Wego weather app [1], written in the Go programming language designed by Google, uses ASCII art to display the weather forecast for the next one to five days. In this case, using the terminal does not mean poor visuals or a lack of functionality. In this article, I'll take a closer look at Wego and briefly investigate the alternatives.

Weather Forecast

Wego delivers information on the temperature range, wind speed and direction, visibility, and the likelihood and amount of precipitation (Figure 1) for up to five days in advance. The information is SSL-encrypted for transmission to the local computer.

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