WeatherSpect v1.6
by Kirk Baucom <kbaucom@schizoid.com>
http://www.robobunny.com
WeatherSpect provides a reasonably accurate simulation of what the weather looks like outside, in ASCII art. It includes rain, snow, lightning, sleet, and hail. The windspeed and cloudiness are reflected in the velocity and quantity of clouds. There are trees that age, reproduce and die over the course of an hour, and a sun and moon that follow the actual sun and moonrise. There's also a dancing turtle.
Installation
WeatherSpect is a single perl script, so all you have to do is make sure it's executable and put it somewhere convenient, like /usr/local/bin or /usr/local/games.
Requirements
You must have the Term::Animation and Weather::Underground modules, which you can get from http://www.cpan.org. The Term::Animation module also requires the Curses module, which you can also get from CPAN.
Contributors
Kevin Ferree (http://chavo-one.com):
ASCII art for: trees, clouds, pacman, chicken, turtle, rabbit and bird
Hayley Wakenshaw (http://www.bornsquishy.com/flump/index.html):
Original versions of ASCII art for: elephant, snail, cars, ducks and rabbit
Usage
Before weatherspect will work, you have to create a config file for it. Running it with the -c option will prompt you for info to create a config file in ~/.weatherspect.
weatherspect [-f <config_file>]
weatherspect -c [-f <config file>]
weatherspect -h
-h Print this help message
-f <file> Supply a config file to use instead of the default
-c Generate a config file
While weatherspect is running, the following commands are available:
q Quit
u Force an update of weather data
r Redraw. Note that this will remove all objects
and recreate them, probably in different places. It
is intended to be used after resizing the screen.