Are you a 24×7 command line guy? Chances of not switching to X console in your linux distro are more for you. Here is a command line weather report tool for you. This tool helps you to plan for your week-end trip while you are compiling some junks. It is easy to get it. Here is how I got this weather-util tool version in Ubuntu 10.04.

How to install it in Ubuntu?

$ sudo apt-get install weather-util

How to use this tool?

Here is a sample usage to get weather report of San Jose, CA.

$ weather –forecast –no-conditions –city=san_jose –st=ca City Forecast for San Jose, CA Issued Thursday afternoon – Jul 15, 2010 Thursday night… Low 61, 0% chance of precipitation. Friday… Sunny, high 90, 0% chance of precipitation. Friday night… Low 62, 0% chance of precipitation. Saturday… Sunny, high 88. Saturday night… Low 59.

You can find your city and state argument in http://weather.noaa.gov/pub/data/forecasts/city/

It is up to you to have a small script to list down your favorite areas. Hope it may be useful for you!