epaga / rain-forecast

Gives a simple rain forecast based on data by forecast.io

rain-forecast

Gives a simple rain forecast based on data by forecast.io and using the Python wrapper by Ze'ev Gilovitz and Tim Heckman.

• The bars are the probability of there being precipitation at the given time.
• The description on the right is the strength of the precipitation if there is any.

1. Create your API key at http://developer.forecast.io
2. Enter the API key in weather.py
3. Replace the latitude/longitude values with where you want the rain forecast for.
4. Run weather.py

Requires Python 2.7 or higher

Example output:

13 ███████                                            moderate
14 ██████                                             moderate
15 ██████                                             moderate
16 ███████                                            moderate
17 █████████                                          moderate
18 ██████████                                         moderate
19 ███████████                                        moderate
20 ███████████                                        moderate
21 ██████████                                         moderate
22 █████████                                          light
23 ██████                                             light
00 ████                                               light
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License for weather.py

Do whatever you want as long as you don't hold me liable for anything.

License for Python wrapper (forecastio.py)

License (BSD 2-clause)

Copyright (c) 2013, Ze'ev Gilovitz, Tim Heckman All rights reserved.

Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met:

• Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.

• Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.

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