La climatology It is something that we are always interested in knowing, and more so now when we are in the middle of winter. Forecasts are always necessary to develop certain activities of our daily life. For this reason, we are going to see some of the best apps to check the weather from our favorite GNU / Linux distribution and thus be aware of all the current forecast and the days to come.
Currently, with mobile devices Like smartphones and tablets, the truth is that we usually have apps on these devices to check the weather, but you may also prefer to have this type of application for your PC and thus consult it from it. Well, here we list some of the best applications for your distro:
weather
It's a good one weather app for Linux, and a favorite of many people. Its interface is quite simple and intuitive, allowing you to consult humidity indices, wind speed, sun position, temperature in various units, etc. In addition, like the others, it is open source and free, and one of its advantages is that it can be installed easily, since it is packaged as a universal package (Snap) if we want it ...
OpenWeather
For GNOME Shell lovers, they have an app that integrates well with this environment, is minimalist and offers a good alternative to consult weather forecasts. It allows to show the forecasts for several locations if we want, it supports several types of units to show the measurements, it shows humidity indices, position of the sun, wind, pressure, rain, etc.
Cumulus
It is an open source weather app that makes use of Yahoo! Weather, one of the popular sites where people often check the weather in some countries. It will be in charge of obtaining the location and offering the forecasts for that area. In addition, it supports measurements of temperature, wind, etc. in different units that can be configured according to the use of imperial units, or the International System, etc.
Coffee
This app can offer you a weather forecast of up to 5 days, and they are constantly updated. In addition to the forecast or forecast for those days, we will also have a detailed summary of the forecast for the current day, showing the data in a simple way in its graphical interface. AND Coffee It will offer you something that others do not offer, and they are some news headlines of the day, so that you are also informed of what is happening ...
curl
And this is my favorite, because it avoids installing other major packages and offers you the information of your area where you live automatically. You just have to execute the following command and the information will appear in the terminal in a «graphic» way, although based on text ...
curl Wttr.in