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by sramsay 1297 days ago
I suppose this is as good a time as any to plug noaa, a CLI tool that can give you the current conditions and forecast, but also allows you to retrieve any product the US National Weather Service produces. It’s way geekier than the above, but perhaps more useful for some.

https://github.com/sramsay/nowa/

(I am also the author of wu, which was a popular cli tool for the Weather Underground API. I had to discontinue that when they closed free access to their API. That was written in Go; this one is written in C).

1 comments

Thank you for wu and this too, Please enlighten me on why nowa is written in C, would you?
As always, you should feel free to rewrite in whatever Better Language™ you prefer.
The usual reasons, I suppose (speed, portability, ubiquity . . .) Do you mean as opposed to Go?