How to get current WEATHER information
To get the current weather forecast type:
add weather
weather -f bos
You can get the forecast for any city by replacing bos with the
appropriate three letter airport code. For other options to the
weather command, including current weather info, type:
man weather
To see a full-color satellite photo of the most current weather
conditions in the U.S., you have several choices. Type:
attach weather
to access these maps. The file /mit/weather/README indicates where the
various images may be found. The locker is currently structured as
follows:
Directory Contents
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RADAR/ Boston radar images taken every 3 hours
SATELLITE/infrared/ Last 24 hours of infrared satellite images
SATELLITE/visible/ Last 12 hours of visible satellite images
SURFACE/ Last 6 hours of surface analysis & national radar
MISCIMAGES/ Miscellaneous images
INFO/ Various informative text files and FAQs
*bin/ Executable programs
man/ Manual pages for installed programs
A separate README file resides in each image directory, giving
brief descriptions of the images therein. Also, the following
links make it easy to view the latest image in each series:
/mit/weather/RADAR/latest
/mit/weather/SATELLITE/infrared/latest
/mit/weather/SATELLITE/visible/latest
To display one in your background, you can also do:
xv -maxpect -root -rmode 5 -quit /mit/weather/.../latest &
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