Weather in F42?

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Couls someone suggest a trhe best weather program/applet/whatever ?

While it’s straightforward in Debian although it requires registration with a weather service, I couldn’t find any weather thingie working in Fedora 38 and I gave up. IIRC, no cities were configured so how one could setup that is beyond my comprehension.

I used to pull data from NOAA but they started to block Linux users - YMMV:

https://tgftp.nws.noaa.gov/data/observations/metar/decoded/CYQB.TXT →

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I don’t want anything fancy with maps, 14 days. All I want is the weather for the day, humidity, temperature, precipitations chances, hour by hour. I’m a cyclist and can ride 50-80 kms a day so I found it helpful to forecast rain, excessive heat for the next 3-4 hours.

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NOAA is under pressure to decrease their public services (so people have to use one of the private weather services).

The link works for me (cyclist in Nova Scotia), but I rely on weather radar from Environment Canada to avoid rain squalls. NavCanada has METAR data, but I don’t see a decoded format. There is METAR-TAF and https://www.baeldung.com/linux/checking-weather-from-the-command-line.

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Hi,

Thanks for your reply.

I too rely on radar data to avoid rain: Cartes: Radar - MétéoMédia

I have meteo and gnome-weather installed and neither have this granularity for rain or humidity. I get good results with curl http://wttr.in/CYQB but not enough granularity (houlry preferred).

Will probably experiment with those requiring registration. I’d prefer not to have to use a browser whenever feasible.

Ansiweather was mentioned but there seem not to exist any equivalent in the F world.

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What is wrong with the cinnamon spice applet?

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I’ve installed this on my Mint box and works great it’s on the Flathub.org generic Linux distro if that works for you? Seems to be pretty accurate.

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Adopting it :slight_smile: Thanks!

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Hi,

Pretty!

Thanks for the suggestion!

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You’re welcome! It’s got a nice interface to it and seems to be accurate on where I’m at so figured I’d mention it. It’s got a lot of info in it.

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How to debug it? It stops updating itself after a 2-3 hours and restarting it does nothing but displaying actualizing…

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There was a newer version. Seems I had an older one. Open-meteo added. Previously using Openweather. Strange but cinnamon applets seem to require a periodic manual update. Updated sticky notes applet while I was there.