# The idea

Yr.no has a brilliant hour by hour view. A simple picture where you get all info you need for planning your next 48 hours.

They also give out all their weather data for free! Having a special fascination for the command line, I wondered if I could represent the same information in a basic, ASCII, 80x22 terminal.

# Development

Earlier I’d made my first telnet service for keeping an eye on the status of the office coffee pot (coffee.graph.no / telnet graph.no). After that, I pondered for a while on how to allow for choosing location via such a limited protocol. I did not want to make a service that had to be used by hand, like wunderground, which I discovered later, but one that could be used in an automated sense.