By the way, if you want to learn a bit more about your local weather, start reading your local "Area Forecast Discussion" (just search for that phrase plus your local region / airport) - you'll end up predicting the weather on a qualitative basis, while picking up new vocabulary and observing more about the world around you.

I think the format predates ASCII.

As a bonus, if you watch the local news on TV, you'll hear the local weather personalities parrot language from these forecast discussions...