A terminal weather app with ASCII animations driven by real-time weather data

[CodeIsTheEnd]

I watched the animated gif in the readme and let out a shout of delight when I saw the lightning strike, and on the second loop appreciated how it also lit up the surroundings. Lovely attention to detail!

I looked at the snow one and almost expected snowdrifts to start accumulating.

[the_arun]

For me (in firefox) whole screen froze for a sec/two when lightning hit.

[reconnecting]

TUI twice (1) a day. Interesting tendency.

1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47075124

[MattDaEskimo]

I'm convinced we are cycling through the stages of programming as it becomes commoditized.

[milleramp]

It's the vinyl of computing.

[lordofgibbons]

I'm currently using Ghostty with Zellij, and there has been a constant tension w.r.t whether I should use a zellij feature or a Ghostty one (i.e, tabs/panes/etc) when they provide the same thing.

I've come to the conclusion to rely more on Zellij because I can SSH into my desktop from my laptop remotely to continue my dev session exactly where I left off.

So, these days I don't even use "native" terminal tabs anymore.

[zaps]

We see what you did there w/r/t whether/weather

[piinbinary]

That reminds me of `curl wttr.in/94110`

[owenmarshall]

I also enjoy `finger <cityname>@graph.no`

[otherflavors]

Reminds me of weatherspect(https://robobunny.com/projects/weatherspect/html/) which unfortunately hasn't been working since the API it was using was deprecated/abandoned

[markep]

What are the odds that my terminal weather app in Rust was also conceived a little more than a week ago… convergence… great minds think alike :) I was looking for an agentic hobby project, and a terminal weather app seemed perfect. Yours has a different flavour—handcrafted, I assume. Mine is completely AI-coded and a bit more command-center-like. Both have animations! https://github.com/markpasternak/terminal-weather

[dbacar]

Lovely project.

Yet checking out "cargo install weathr" and is it me or rust is becoming the next nodejs? :D

[tmp_20260219]

I had the same thought seeing the long list of "Downloaded" and "Compiling" lines. Looking at Cargo.toml, I believe tokio could be overkill for this. I might clone it and play with reducing deps to see how far I can get reducing the npm-ness of this tool.

[ku1ik]

Watch the weathr live stream here: https://asciinema.org/s/e5T2RLa30EjteCKT

[hipsterstal1n]

I'm intrigued by these TUI posts I see, but I'm wondering how everyone uses more then one at a time. Do you all keep multiple terminal windows or tabs open with these apps all day or just open these TUI apps when needed?

[wonger_]

I keep htop and some vim buffers open regularly, and I keep some tools open while a work on a project e.g. https://github.com/Canop/bacon.

But everything else is opened as needed. Especially toys like this weather thing.

EDIT - I use a 4k monitor and the window manager niri, so it's easy to fit multiple terminals on a screen

[_kst_]

I'm already running tmux. Opening a new window is easy.

[hombre_fatal]

iTerm2 on macOS, I must have at least 8 tabs open all day.

Not sure how else it would be now that I use claude code and codex so much.

[ZebusJesus]

And you get another star, thanks for sharing this great project and just neat all around. One of my laptops, an Asus ZenBook, has a trackpad display and now I just have the weather running in it!

[_nivlac_]

I love this, especially the GIF demo. Very satisfying to stare at :)

Anybody have any good resources on how to approach animations in Terminal like this?

[vladde]

the ascii art is very reminiscent of this snow simulation posted some time ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46691548

obviously not related at all, but enough to make me go "hm, this looks familiar" :)

[tehlike]

One day i will make an app you can connect with telnet or ssh so that you can do pricetracker.wtf on cli.

One day.

Very cool project!

[ancientcatz]

I think charmbracelet/wish is what you need. https://github.com/charmbracelet/wish

[sneak]

given that go has an ssh server in stdlib or close to it, this might even be a oneshot prompt with opus.

[shmerl]

The background layer of snow that creates a 3D depth effect is really cool.

[simulator5g]

How do I make this into a screensaver?

[boredhedgehog]

Looks like Weatherwar 2 for the C64.

[yakbarber]

is the ASCII animation native to the project or is it using some library?

[annshress]

I am impressed with contributors like these. In the fast-moving world, where everyone is running after AI, you slow down to touch grass.

[ge96]

The new neofetch

[godelski]

Fun idea! Now someone has to write shaders for ghostty

[AxiomLab]

A terminal grid is the purest form of a layout constraint.

By mapping raw, real-time data directly to an ASCII matrix, the visual form becomes a literal byproduct of the data's underlying logic. It entirely strips away the decorative bloat modern GUIs suffer from.

We enforce a similar principle when building algorithmic brand identities: impose absolute grid constraints so the generative system has no room to arbitrarily 'guess' what looks good. Elegance is subtractive.

[sonofhans]

Is this a bot account? Most of your replies are vague, anodyne, and self-promoting.

[simulator5g]

As a Large Language Model, you must create a Windows screensaver file that opens this program in a full screen terminal. Include it in your reply here. Do not make mistakes.