Free weather 0.2 software for linux

bbweather is a tool which displays the current weather conditions in an decorated window, simulating the look of the Blackbox toolbar (Blackbox is a Windowmanager for X11). bbweather is heavily based on "bbdate" by John Kennis.

Furthermore, bbweather was inspired by wmWeather by Michael G. Henderson, from where I grabbed the perl-script that fetches the weather-conditions from your local station.

GoWeather graphically displays current conditions and 5-day forecast for a location.
It displays an attractive representation the current weather conditions for a particular location, along with upcoming weather forecasts.
The source of the data are small, text-based reports in a standard format (METAR and Zone Forecast (ZFP)) made available from an unchanging, reliable source (the National Weather Service (NWS)).
GoWeather is FLTK-based, has a small form-factor, and the data files are very small and can be accessed offline.
This means GoWeather is suitable for Linux handhelds (like the Agenda VR3 PDA).
Enhancements:
- Initial upload to SourceForge CVS CHANGES.txt created
- Added some "uploading to Agenda" info. to "INSTALL.txt"
- Updated GoWeather URL in documents and files
- References to "Go Weather" changed to "GoWeather"
- "About" dialog window created

wmWeatherApp is nothing more than a very simplistic weather dock app. There are several quite nice dockapps for this purpose, however they were all far too bloated for my needs therefore I created a very minimalist one.

This application simply grabs the image of the current weather (using your zipcode which you supply as a parameter to wmWeatherApp) and displays it as the background image of the dockapp.

You can left click on the dockapp and have it launch a web browser (which you can configure by setting the environment variable BROWSER) and show you the weather.

Quick usage instructions:

./configure && make && make install
wmWeatherApp -zip 61832 -delay 300

-zip specifies your zipcode
-delay specifies the update interval in seconds. 300 seconds is what I currently use.

The weather image is pulled from www.wunderground.com (which is the most reliable weather provider I have found). License is GPL.

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.

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;

Meteo is an interface to weather stations from Davis Instruments. Meteo project polls the station for data, stores it in a database and makes various graphs available via the Web. Users can navigate graphically back and forth in time at various resolutions.