Free hourly weather forecast software for linux

Weather Forecast for Plone provides a product that will display weather information.
Weather Forecast for Plone is a small product that let your Plone site shows the weather forecast using the weather.com wether service retrieval.
Plone Weather Forecast contains:
- one portlet that will be (by default) placed at the end of the right column.
- one configlet that will easily let you enters all the configuration information Weather Forecast needs to run.
Weather Forecast for Plone has been design with a cache system: the weather service will not be asked on every request on your site.
Weather Forecast for Plone is translated in english, french, spannish, italian and dutch. You can participate to this project by sending a translation of your tongue.
Enhancements:
- Fix index handling when values are changed via ZMI

Better Weather contains a couple of scripts using normal KDE and Linux tools to provide better display of weather info than KDEs weather applet. It downloads the information from the US national weather service and maps from weather.com. Two launchers on the main menubar bring up the window separately. Full details and instructions are in the readme.

This is a solution that worked for me, not being a coder. You have to make it work for you. Its an idea and a set of tools. Its also US-centric, but someone may take the idea and make it work just as well anywhere. I hope someone finds it as useful as I do.

WHAT IT DOES

The tools I wrote are two *very* simple bash scripts. The script, localwx.sh, invokes the python weather utility, and downloads the current weather conditions and forecast in text format from the weather service. It stores the information temporarily in a text file (I chose the desktop as the directory in which to save it.) It then "reads" the text file into a kdialog box. When the "ok" button is clicked, the temporary file is deleted.

The other script, wxmap.sh, downloads a current local weather map image using wget, saves it temporarily to the desktop, and calls Kview to display it. When Kview closes, the temporary image file is deleted.

HOW I DID IT

The man pages for "weather," "kdialog," and "wget" were useful for determining which options to use. The script for weather forecasts has to be edited to receive the data for the users current location. My nearest airport is PDK, so my ID was "KPDK." The rest is straightforward enough. To make the weather map script work, you can go to weather.com or your local tv station website and copy the image location for the weather map they use. It can be pasted into the script.

Once the scripts were edited to suit, I made them executable (chmod +x filename), copied them to /usr/local/bin, and created a launcher for each in my main menubar. Describing the process is a lot more difficult than actually doing the work!

Liquid Weather is a superkaramba theme and desktop applet for displaying weather information and forecasts. You need superkaramba to run it and the kde desktop.
Liquid Weather ++ displays weather information in a compact and easy to read format - its pretty too.
Main features:
- Detailed information about the current weather situation;
- Detailed weather forecasts for 5 days;
- Hourly weather forecasts for the next 12 hours;
- Data available from weather.com or BBC;
- Translated into several languages;
- Displays multiple weather maps;
- View latest earthquake data;
- Receive notification of major storms in your area;
- Several iconsets and backgrounds available;
- Two different layouts - simple and detailed;
- Monitor up to 5 webcams;
- kxdocker plugin built in;
- Configurable update delay;

Because weather is important to you everyday... weather.com offers you instant local weather conditions, alerts, radar in motion, satellite maps, and forecasts all within your Firefox browser.

1-ClickWeather is a Firefox extension which enables users to quickly view current weather conditions and up to 5 days of forecast information within the browser and allows for instant access to detailed and customized weather content through clickable icons. All weather data in provided by weather.com.

In addition, the extension features color coded severe weather alerts from the National Weather Service and links to unique features available from weather.com.

All of the weather information displayed by 1-ClickWeather relates to a user-selected geographic location. This information includes:

Weather Videos - pre-selected weather video from weather.com. Choices include Top Story, Severe Weather Outlook, European travel forecast, US national forecast or a choice of one of four US regional forecasts.

Radar - animated in-motion Doppler radar image pre-selected by the user from one of nine US regions.

Satellite - satellite map pre-selected by the user for a defined international geographic region. Choices include Europe, Russia, Asia, Middle East, Africa, Canada, Mexico, Central America, and South America.

Quick Launch - up to 16 user-defined quick launch links to unique content on the weather.com website, including local 36-hour forecasts, local 10-day forecasts and links to customized lifestyle content such as Personal PetCasts, Baseball Game Day Forecasts and PollenCasts.

wmweather project provides a monitor on a 64x64 mini window that displays the current weather.
The weather reports are received from NOAAs National Weather Service, that is the same source that pilots use.
INSTALLATION
On Debian systems, install the Debian package: type
# dpkg -i wmweather_*.deb
or run
# apt-get install wmweather
Otherwise you have to compile the program first: change into the src/ subdirectory, type
$ ./configure --help
$ ./configure
$ make
and then
# make install
as root. The program may be uninstalled using one of the commands
# dpkg -r wmweather
# make uninstall
Note to BSD users: Make sure the following ports are installed: devel/gmake, and devel/libgnugetopt, and use gmake instead of make above.
Suggestions, how to improve the autoconf part of wmweather, are always appreciated.
Enhancements:
- This release corrects the dewpoint calculation.

Weather::Bug is a Perl module that can get realtime weather where available.

SYNOPSIS

use Weather::Bug;

my $w = get_live_weather( KCMI );
print "It is $w->{temp} degrees in $w->{location}n";

Weather::Bug uses data from aws.coms live Java weather applet. Not all available stations report live data, however. If the station closest to you does not report live weather data to aws.com, you are probably better off using one of the other Weather:: modules from CPAN.

Disclaimer

This Perl module is not endorsed or supported in any way by AWS Convergence Technologies. "WeatherBug" is their trademark.

USAGE

get_live_weather($station_id [, $units])

Weather::Bug exports only one funcion, get_live_weather. The first argument is the station ID. You can find the ID of a station near you at this page:

http://www.aws.com/aws_2001/asp/getLiveWeather.asp

If you get a list of sites, click one to view current conditions. Look at the URL of the link that says "Live Broadcast JAVA." The part of the URL that reads "?id=XXXX" is your station ID. For example, my old high school in Fredericksburg, Iowa, is FRDRC.

The units argument defaults to American, and supports these values:

0 American
1 Metric
2 American, but pressure in millibars

This function returns a reference to a hash in scalar context, or a hash in list context. The keys of the hash are as follows:

last_updated
date
temp
wind_direction
wind_speed
max_wind_direction
max_wind_speed
precip
precip_rate
pressure
humidity
max_temp
min_temp
site_name
dew_point
heat_index
monthly_rain
temp_change
humidity_change
pressure_change
location
max_humidity
min_humidity
max_pressure
min_pressure
max_precip_rate

Be aware that not all stations report all of these items. Units are stripped from all measurements and rates.

WeatherMaker project is a commandline program to generate weather reports for RPGs.

WeatherMaker is a commandline utility to generate weather reports for role-playing games set in Earth-like worlds. It is not meant to be either an accurate or a precise simulation of climate, but it should give plausible results for the season, terrain, and climate requested.

Forecastfox is a Firefox extension to get international weather forecasts from AccuWeather.com, and display it in any toolbar or statusbar with this highly customizable and unobtrusive extension.

Why the switch from Weather.com to AccuWeather.com?

Several factors contributed to us switching our data provider from Weather.com to Accuweather.com. The "Terms of Use" for the feed from Weather.com, was very restrictive. It kept us from implementing some of the things we hope to implement. They had also warned us that they were changing the feed and that we were in breach of the license (25,000 users max on the public XOAP weather.com feed). They offered another feed we could use, which would have limited the amount of data we received. At the same time several companies were contacting us about using their data. Accuweather.com was the most responsive, and provided us with greatest flexibilty and room to grow.

Please note that version 0.7.5 and higher "pings" our server when it is installed or uninstalled. No information is sent other than what version is being installed or uninstalled, and on what program (Mozilla vs Firefox). We simply increment a value in a database everytime it gets pinged so that we can have a rough estimate of the number of Forecastfox users. You can see the statistic page that we use at http://forecastfox.ensolis.com/logs/status.php. By knowing how many users we have and how many users upgrade, we will have a better idea of what we need to work on. For example, we will know if we should spend time supporting Mozilla and Netscape, and if we need to support migrating/upgrading from early versions. Thank you for understanding.