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Re:Show HN: Brolly, a plain-text weather forecast site on Sunday July 26, 2026 @09:04PM (#49064019)
Seeing a text-based weather report takes me back about 34 years! In 1992, I was finishing my Ph.D. in neuroscience at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill. During breaks from dissertation writing, I spent a fair amount of time on the lab computer. One project that I undertook for fun was writing a Bourne shell script to access data from Weather Underground. While this project never led to 15 minutes (or even nanoseconds) of fame, the shell script did get used by a number of other sites.

It's great to see that there's still a use for plain-text weather!

I've got a pretty extensive RSS feed collection that I've built up over the years. Sadly, more and more have disappeared or stopped updating.