I am pleased to announce the source release for Conditions – a suite of fast command-line programs for retrieving weather information from Weather Underground.
https://github.com/sramsay/conditions
Conditions consists of six commands (more on the way):
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conditions reports the current weather conditions.
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forecast gives the current forecast.
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alerts reports any active weather alerts.
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slookup allows you to determine the codes for the various weather stations in a particular area.
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astronomy reports sunrise, sunset, and lunar phase.
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almanac reports average high and low temperatures, as well as record temperatures for the day.
I’ve compiled it on both Linux and OS X without incident. Since this is a source release, you’ll need a working Go compiler. I will release binaries for several platforms soon.
I wrote conditions in part because I am a weather geek and CLI nut, but partly to explore the Go programming language. Go, I’ve discovered, is basically a re-imagined C – all the low-level, high-octane joy with all the irritations removed. I’ll try to write a blog post about that sometime soon.
In the meantime, I hope you enjoy Conditions. Patches and bug reports warmly welcomed on the GitHub site.
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