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Tom’s Hardware
Tom’s Hardware
Technology
Mark Tyson

Weathr app turns the Linux terminal into a live weather display — background ASCII animated real-time weather show is powered by Open-Meteo

An ASCII animated real-time weather show forms the terminal backdrop.

Though you might appreciate the clean, unfussy minimalism of the Linux terminal, it can also be extensively customized using a few lines of code, as shown in our guide. However, developer Veirt has pushed things far beyond giving the CLI a new lick of paint with Weathr. This is a Rust-based app that teleports real-time ASCII art-based weather animations to your terminal backdrop.

An ASCII animated real-time weather show forms the terminal backdrop (Image credit: Veirt on GitHub)
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