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submitted 3 weeks ago by Dave@lemmy.nz to c/newzealand@lemmy.nz

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[-] TagMeInSkipIGotThis@lemmy.nz 3 points 2 weeks ago

speaking of weather, if you have access to a terminal*, I discovered this the other day:

curl wttr.in/<your region here>

you can use lat/long, or town/city names - though obviously you'll need to append _ if there's more than one of them in the world.

I'd happily swap a couple days of our sun for a couple days of proper rain - ideally on even numbered days so I can still take advantage of watering my veges on the odd numbered :) Its 9am here and already cracked 21C with average temps hovering around that until Monday evening.

(*if not just browse to it like normal its just slower)

[-] Dave@lemmy.nz 1 points 2 weeks ago

That's amazing! Also works roughly without the region by using your IP address: https://wttr.in

[-] TagMeInSkipIGotThis@lemmy.nz 2 points 2 weeks ago

Ah interesting, if it can't work out where you are it just shows the coldest permanent settlement :)

[-] Dave@lemmy.nz 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Weird! How did you test that?

Edit: or did you mean if it's a rough location around multiple settlements, rather than what I assumed which is that it can't find you on earth and shows you the coldest settlement on earth.

[-] TagMeInSkipIGotThis@lemmy.nz 2 points 2 weeks ago

I was just trying various options / and when it it couldn't find something it returns this location's weather:

Weather report: Oymyakon

                Freezing fog
   _ - _ - _ -  -34 °C
    _ - _ - _   ↓ 4 km/h
   _ - _ - _ -  0 km
                0.0 mm

With a note:

 We were unable to find your location
 so we have brought you to Oymyakon,
 one of the coldest permanently inhabited locales on the planet.
[-] Dave@lemmy.nz 1 points 2 weeks ago

Haha wow, neat! Of course it's in Siberia 😆

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