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Only HN can be so critical of what is a really cool project. Honestly this is a great _simple_ way to access weather without leaving my terminal. Love the basi

Only HN can be so critical of what is a really cool project. Honestly this is a great _simple_ way to access weather without leaving my terminal. Love the basic ASCII graphics. I noticed it's a LOT faster when I provide the city, probably because it doesn't have to look it up from IP: ``` curl wttr.in/atlanta ``` Nice work.

NmAmDa 4y ago
People on HN should he normally worried about running 'curl' from any untrustworthy sources because that is a security issue. An example -https://www.onsecurity.io/blog/careless-with-curl-dont-be/ https://www.onsecurity.io/blog/careless-with-curl-dont-be/ -
- galenguyer 4y ago
  This talks about concerns with piping curl into bash. It doesn't address any issues with just curling arbitrary data
mekster 4y ago
It's just cool but practically I never check weather until I'm about to leave home and then I'll just check a local weather app on my phone which should give more accurate and detailed info than a service that covers the entire world with presumably varying degree of accuracy.
- nickstinemates 4y ago
  but imagine if you're in a bunker hacking on your fav project, no artificial light and you wonder.. shall i go to the surface? you curl this website and, if tolerable weather conditions, you plan your ascent.
  - hulitu 4y ago
    There isno weather app which gives you the status of nuclear downfall.
    - nickstinemates 4y ago
      we should put top people on this, just in case.
  - justsomehnguy 4y ago
    Than you need a webcam out there, with a thermometer in the field of view. I live in a big city, it could be raining frogs in one part and a happy sunny day in the other and the best thing any weather report could say to me is 'expect rain'. And if I need to go it doesn't even matter what the report says or if I have/have not an umbrella with me. Honestly for the last decade even if I look at the weather report I look not for the current conditions (I have eyes and windows) but what would be in a couple of hours, because temperature difference between 9PM and 3AM could be pretty significant.. and it doesn't even matter in winter and summer. *shrug_emoji*
    - aasasd 4y ago
      > I live in a big city, it could be raining frogs in one part and a happy sunny day in the other and the best thing any weather report could say to me is 'expect rain'. Just in case you haven't seen it: some services provide conditions and forecasts for particular locations with better resolution than ‘the city’, and can show the projected movement of rainclouds. (You'll have to research the services for your country yourself, as I doubt it that my local one is useful for outsiders. But I'd guess that these days many big web services have these features.)
      - justsomehnguy 4y ago
        Well, I have such service, though it's a map with the current rainfall data. Still, after I wrote the previous comment the rain has come. And in 15 minutes there was no rain and the sun shone brightly and in another 30 minutes even puddles all dried up. So the practical usability of such service is quite limited.
        aasasd 4y ago
        I occasionally amuse myself by gawking at the formations of rainclouds in my vicinity, which included stuff from thunderclouds thousands of kilometers across, to jagged clouds bringing alternate rain and sunshine, to again a massive cloud covering this whole region except a circle right around my house. So I definitely can recommend finding such a service with cloud movement and with projection of it into the future—if only for the curiosity value. The one I use is https://yandex.ru/pogoda/maps/nowcast https://yandex.ru/pogoda/maps/nowcast — but I'm not sure if it works in English, and these days perhaps one will prefer not to use Yandex anyway.

NmAmDa 4y ago

People on HN should he normally worried about running 'curl' from any untrustworthy sources because that is a security issue. An example -https://www.onsecurity.io/blog/careless-with-curl-dont-be/ https://www.onsecurity.io/blog/careless-with-curl-dont-be/ -

galenguyer 4y ago
This talks about concerns with piping curl into bash. It doesn't address any issues with just curling arbitrary data

mekster 4y ago

It's just cool but practically I never check weather until I'm about to leave home and then I'll just check a local weather app on my phone which should give more accurate and detailed info than a service that covers the entire world with presumably varying degree of accuracy.

nickstinemates 4y ago
but imagine if you're in a bunker hacking on your fav project, no artificial light and you wonder.. shall i go to the surface? you curl this website and, if tolerable weather conditions, you plan your ascent.
- hulitu 4y ago
  There isno weather app which gives you the status of nuclear downfall.
  - nickstinemates 4y ago
    we should put top people on this, just in case.
- justsomehnguy 4y ago
  Than you need a webcam out there, with a thermometer in the field of view. I live in a big city, it could be raining frogs in one part and a happy sunny day in the other and the best thing any weather report could say to me is 'expect rain'. And if I need to go it doesn't even matter what the report says or if I have/have not an umbrella with me. Honestly for the last decade even if I look at the weather report I look not for the current conditions (I have eyes and windows) but what would be in a couple of hours, because temperature difference between 9PM and 3AM could be pretty significant.. and it doesn't even matter in winter and summer. *shrug_emoji*
  - aasasd 4y ago
    > I live in a big city, it could be raining frogs in one part and a happy sunny day in the other and the best thing any weather report could say to me is 'expect rain'. Just in case you haven't seen it: some services provide conditions and forecasts for particular locations with better resolution than ‘the city’, and can show the projected movement of rainclouds. (You'll have to research the services for your country yourself, as I doubt it that my local one is useful for outsiders. But I'd guess that these days many big web services have these features.)
    - justsomehnguy 4y ago
      Well, I have such service, though it's a map with the current rainfall data. Still, after I wrote the previous comment the rain has come. And in 15 minutes there was no rain and the sun shone brightly and in another 30 minutes even puddles all dried up. So the practical usability of such service is quite limited.
      - aasasd 4y ago
        I occasionally amuse myself by gawking at the formations of rainclouds in my vicinity, which included stuff from thunderclouds thousands of kilometers across, to jagged clouds bringing alternate rain and sunshine, to again a massive cloud covering this whole region except a circle right around my house. So I definitely can recommend finding such a service with cloud movement and with projection of it into the future—if only for the curiosity value. The one I use is https://yandex.ru/pogoda/maps/nowcast https://yandex.ru/pogoda/maps/nowcast — but I'm not sure if it works in English, and these days perhaps one will prefer not to use Yandex anyway.