On Tue, 2026-03-17 at 20:08 -0400, Karen Lewellen wrote: > Hi Chime, > Indeed. Niagara falls is western New York state. sharring a border > with > Ontario. > That is likely the nearest city to yyz, that the program can provide. > unclear about the duckduckgo reference however? > > Still makes my first question stand as well. A weather utility that > realizes the rest of the world has weather too? > Wonder what it would provide if I used the airport code for John > Lennon > International? >
I took a shot at this, too. Based on the desire to still find another weather utility, I tripped over "ansiweather" on the Internet. After installing, I checked "man ansiweather" for usage which provided this sample command which includes emoticon-type feedback: $ ansiweather -l "Toronto" -u imperial -s true -f 5 -d true Toronto forecast: Tue Mar 17: 29/18 °F ❄ - Wed Mar 18: 35/18 °F ☁ - Thu Mar 19: 38/30 °F ❄ - Fri Mar 20: 36/30 °F ❄ - Sat Mar 21: 40/32 °F ☁ Somewhere while installing it, I saw a reference to this initiative: https://openweathermap.org/api NOT ideal for my personal usage (aka liking), especially relying on pictures of clouds and sun, so I went back to weather-util, my own favorite for many years. I asked DuckDuckGo if they could help me help a Debian User access Toronto via weather-util. DDG said: +++ BEGIN DUCKDUCKGO QUOTE To add Toronto weather forecasts to the weather-util program on Debian, the user can create or edit the ~/.weatherrc file to include an alias for Toronto. They should add a section like this: [Toronto] City = Toronto ID = CYTZ St = ON +++ END DUCKDUCKGO QUOTE So I tried that then ran "weather -f Toronto" which semi-failed but in a useful way: WARNING: the city/id/st options are now unsupported in aliases Searching via name... Your search is ambiguous, returning 8 matches: [cytz] Toronto Island Airport Automated Reporting Station, Canada [cyyz] Toronto Pearson Int'L. Ont., Canada [fips1978600] Toronto city, IA [fips2020771075] Toronto township, KS [fips2071050] Toronto city, KS [fips3977112] Toronto city, OH [fips4603963740] Toronto town, SD [fips4663740] Toronto town, SD Next running "weather -f cyyz" got me what seemed to be a credible forecast for something in the vicinity of Toronto, Canada. It's not a perfect match to ansiweather's output but does seem to be almost reasonably similar. I'd like to further help with this regarding why a command of some kind that was working is now failing. Might not be able to help but am willing to dig a tiny bit further. That "~/.weatherrc" in DDG's tip had never been generated for me. A ~/.weather exists. It's where I can see NOAA websites. I messed around with those values years ago when NOAA reorganized their own website. Can't remember if putzing around with that or a similar file worked before Jeremy officially updated weather-util to the new NOAA layout. If typing in "weather -f Toronto" doesn't work for others for whatever reason, it'd be nice to be able to addend something to e.g. ~/.weather (or weather.py??) for other countries, if necessary. Just thinking out loud.. Cindy :) -- Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with birdseed! *
