On Tue, Mar 17, 2026 at 7:00 PM Karen Lewellen wrote: > > Hi All, > For those who do not know, weather-util is a Linux program that can, when > presented tie airport code, provide current weather conditions and > forecasts. > Because Environment Canada has removed their phone weather service, I am > seeking an equivalent of weather-util that provides basic just the facts > information, but for areas outside of the united states. > For example, if I provide the program with the Toronto Person airport code, > yyz, it gives me a forecast for western New York State instead. > Ideas for something comparative?
A search for "toronto airport weather" gives me this link: https://weather.gc.ca/en/location/index.html?coords=43.693,-79.357 which is a web page, so if you want text without all the html wrapper stuff try wttr.in with the airport code - eg: $ curl wttr.in/yyz Weather report: yyz Shower in vicinity .--. -7(-14) °C .-( ). → 22 km/h (___.__)__) 24 km 0.0 mm ┌─────────────┐ ┌──────────────────────────────┬───────────────────────┤ Tue 17 Mar ├───────────────────────┬──────────────────────────────┐ │ Morning │ Noon └──────┬──────┘ Evening │ Night │ ├──────────────────────────────┼──────────────────────────────┼──────────────────────────────┼──────────────────────────────┤ │ .-. Light freezing │ .-. Light freezing │ _`/"".-. Light snow │ \ / Clear │ │ ( ). -10(-18) °C │ ( ). -7(-15) °C │ ,\_( ). -7(-14) °C │ .-. -9(-15) °C │ │ (___(__) → 28-33 km/h │ (___(__) → 28-32 km/h │ /(___(__) → 24-29 km/h │ ― ( ) ― → 15-21 km/h │ │ ‘ * ‘ * 2 km │ ‘ * ‘ * 10 km │ * * * 10 km │ `-’ 10 km │ │ * ‘ * ‘ 0.1 mm | 100% │ * ‘ * ‘ 0.0 mm | 0% │ * * * 0.3 mm | 100% │ / \ 0.0 mm | 0% │ └──────────────────────────────┴──────────────────────────────┴──────────────────────────────┴──────────────────────────────┘ ┌─────────────┐ ┌──────────────────────────────┬───────────────────────┤ Wed 18 Mar ├───────────────────────┬──────────────────────────────┐ │ Morning │ Noon └──────┬──────┘ Evening │ Night │ ├──────────────────────────────┼──────────────────────────────┼──────────────────────────────┼──────────────────────────────┤ │ \ / Sunny │ \ / Sunny │ Overcast │ Overcast │ │ .-. -6(-9) °C │ .-. -3(-8) °C │ .--. 0(-5) °C │ .--. -1(-5) °C │ │ ― ( ) ― ↑ 9-12 km/h │ ― ( ) ― ↑ 13-16 km/h │ .-( ). ↑ 18-24 km/h │ .-( ). ↑ 15-21 km/h │ │ `-’ 10 km │ `-’ 10 km │ (___.__)__) 10 km │ (___.__)__) 10 km │ │ / \ 0.0 mm | 0% │ / \ 0.0 mm | 0% │ 0.0 mm | 0% │ 0.0 mm | 0% │ └──────────────────────────────┴──────────────────────────────┴──────────────────────────────┴──────────────────────────────┘ ┌─────────────┐ ┌──────────────────────────────┬───────────────────────┤ Thu 19 Mar ├───────────────────────┬──────────────────────────────┐ │ Morning │ Noon └──────┬──────┘ Evening │ Night │ ├──────────────────────────────┼──────────────────────────────┼──────────────────────────────┼──────────────────────────────┤ │ Overcast │ Overcast │ Mist │ _`/"".-. Moderate rain …│ │ .--. +1(-3) °C │ .--. +3(0) °C │ _ - _ - _ - 3 °C │ ,\_( ). +2(1) °C │ │ .-( ). ↗ 10-15 km/h │ .-( ). → 11-15 km/h │ _ - _ - _ → 13-19 km/h │ /(___(__) → 8-14 km/h │ │ (___.__)__) 10 km │ (___.__)__) 10 km │ _ - _ - _ - 10 km │ ‚‘‚‘‚‘‚‘ 10 km │ │ 0.0 mm | 0% │ 0.0 mm | 0% │ 0.0 mm | 0% │ ‚’‚’‚’‚’ 0.7 mm | 100% │ └──────────────────────────────┴──────────────────────────────┴──────────────────────────────┴──────────────────────────────┘ Location: Toronto Pearson International Airport, Britannia Road East, Malton, Ont., Peel Region, Ontario, L4W2P7, Canada [43.6781255,-79.6321235335026] Follow @igor_chubin for wttr.in updates Regards, Lee
