An ASCII version of http://www.yr.no/sted/Norge/Oslo/Oslo/Oslo/time_for_time.html. Created to be run by a finger server.
The service can be used in the following ways:
finger [email protected]
- norwegian city namefinger [email protected]
- norwegian postal codefinger [email protected]
- international city name. These are not hourly. Only data for every 6 hours available.o:oslo
to get a one-liner for use in screen, tmux, scripts.finger <city name>[email protected]
(forecast from 5 hours ahead in time, max:26)finger <city name>%[email protected]
(forecast every 2 hours instead of every hour)finger <city name>[email protected]
(set screenwidth. default 80. other widths may be ugly)finger @graph.no
- for more information
- Finger is supported on all major platforms (Windows, OS X, Linux, FreeBSD, Android, ...). Open up your terminal (or cmd.exe on Windows).
- If you don't have finger available, but have some standard shell tools, try one of the following:
echo oslo|nc graph.no 79
telnet graph.no 79
(and then type oslo)
$ finger [email protected]
-= Meteogram for norway/oslo/oslo/oslo =-
'C Rain (mm)
19------
17 ------
15 ---
13 ---
11 ---
9 ---
7 ^^^=== ^^^
5 ===--- ^^^
3 | ------^^^^^^ ^^^ 2 mm
1 | | ^^^^^^^^^ 1 mm
15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 00 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 Hour
SW SW SW W NW NW NW W W W W SW SW SW S S S S S SW SW SW Wind dir.
3 2 2 3 3 3 3 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 3 6 7 6 7 7 Wind(mps)
Legend left axis: - Sunny ^ Scattered = Clouded =V= Lightning # Fog
Legend right axis: | Rain ! Sleet * Snow ' High uncertainty
Weather forecast from yr.no, delivered by the Norwegian Meteorological Institute
and the NRK. Try "finger @graph.no" for more info.
For the U.S., thanks to a comment at http://osxdaily.com/2016/02/18/get-weather-command-line-finger-graph/:
finger [email protected] | sed "s/'C/'F/" | sed 's/^ \?-\?[0-9]\+/{\0{/' | awk -F{ '{if($2 != "") printf "%3i%s\n", $2*1.8+32, $3; else print $1;}'
-= Meteogram for norway/oslo/oslo/oslo =-
'F Rain (mm)
77
73
69 ---
66 ^^^=--=--
62 ^^^^^^
59--- ^^^
55 =--^^^=--^^^^^^ =--^^^
51 ^^^=--=--^^^ =--
9 =-----
7
20 21 22 23 00 01 02 03 04 05 06_07_08_09_10_11_12_13_14_15_16_17 Hour
SE SE SE SE SE SE SE SE NW NW NW NW NW SW SW SW SW SW SW SW SW SW Wind dir.
2 2 1 2 2 2 2 2 0 1 0 1 1 1 2 2 2 1 4 4 4 5 Wind(mps)
Legend left axis: - Sunny ^ Scattered = Clouded =V= Thunder # Fog
Legend right axis: | Rain ! Sleet * Snow
If you like the service, or want to report bugs, suggestions, etc, please drop me a line at [email protected].
Thanks to selbekk and karnival for pull requests.
- Please checkout https://github.com/ways/pyyrlib to project directory.
- Please checkout https://github.com/ways/pyofflinefilecache to project directory.
- debian packages:
python-mysqldb
- BUG: o: doesn't show full location name
- BUG: Too tall for windows default window size.
- BUG: Temperature sometimes runs of scale in not-hourly mode.
- BUG: Uncertain-rain overwrites the out-of-scale value on top.
- FEATURE: Add arguments to get weather in different format:
- i:0458 to get an iconic view. ("Fullscreen" or small?)
- IMPROVEMENT: improve 0458%3
- IMPROVEMENT: add text to o: ( "cloudy", "thunder", etc).
- FEATURE: Include warnings (obsforecast). Example:
<forecast>
<text>
<location name="Oslo">
<time from="2012-06-28" to="2012-06-29" type="obsforecast">
<title>Thursday and Friday</title>
<body>
<strong>Oslo:</strong> Fredag ettermiddag lokalt store nedbørsmengder.
</body>
</time>
<time from="2012-06-29" to="2012-06-30">
<title>Friday and Saturday</title>
<body>
<strong>Østlandet:</strong> Sørøstlig bris, kortvarig liten kuling i Ytre Oslofjord. Noen regnbyger. Fra i ettermiddag sørlig bris, sørvest frisk bris på kysten. Etter hvert skyet eller delvis skyet, stort sett oppholdsvær. I morgen sørlig bris. På kysten sørvest frisk bris som øker til liten kuling utpå dagen. Skiftende skydekke og enkelte regnbyger. Perioder med sol, særlig nær kysten.
</body>
</time>
</location>
</text>
</forecast>
- See https://github.com/ways/pyyrlib for TODOs in library.
- FEATURE: allow wind in kmh, mph.
- FEATURE: allow temperature in F.
- Source - https://github.com/ways
- Announced - http://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/ouday/retro_weather_forecast_finger/
- News article - http://nrkbeta.no/2012/04/06/old-skool-vaervarsling/
- LittlePrinter plugin from Berg Hack-a-day - http://twitpic.com/a298vv http://www.flickr.com/photos/knolleary/7473137758/in/photostream/
- https://hackerb.it/2016/02/15/mit-finger-wetterdaten-abrufen/
- https://twitter.com/ihsandogan/status/699148352940810240?s=03
- http://osxdaily.com/2016/02/18/get-weather-command-line-finger-graph/
- http://localhost.exposed/2016/02/17/command-line-access-to-weather-data/
- http://lifehacker.com/get-a-quick-weather-forecast-with-a-terminal-command-1760639048
- http://ben.hamilton.id.au/how-to/get-the-weather-from-the-command-line
- https://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20160404
- http://osarena.net/meteorologikes-provlepseis-sto-termatiko-sas