echorune-radar · diff
git:20260816.6713404 to git:20260816.d1238b1
9 added, 28 removed. Audit A to A.
---
name: echorune-radar
- description: Reads live weather for any place on earth, including radar rendered as text characters instead of an image. Returns current conditions (temperature, humidity, wind), a short forecast, a 2-hour rain sparkline, and a character radar map with the measured motion of the echo. Use when the user asks about weather, temperature or a forecast for somewhere, whether it is raining, whether rain is coming, when rain will start or stop, how far away a storm is or which way it is moving - and whenever answering well would otherwise require looking at a radar picture. Requires outbound network access to echorune.net.
+ description: Reads live weather for any place on earth, including radar rendered as text characters instead of an image: current conditions, a short forecast, a 2-hour rain sparkline, and a character radar map with the measured motion of the echo. Use when the user asks about weather, temperature or a forecast somewhere, whether it is raining, whether rain is coming, when it will start or stop, how far away a storm is or which way it is moving - and whenever answering well would otherwise mean looking at a radar picture.
---
```bash
- curl echorune.net/<place> # e.g. /tokyo, /清迈, /paris/zh
- curl echorune.net # location inferred from caller IP
- curl echorune.net/<lon>,<lat> # longitude FIRST
- curl echorune.net/help # every option, including map width
- curl echorune.net/status # availability, sampled every minute
+ curl echorune.net/tokyo # or /清迈, /paris/zh, or bare for caller IP
+ curl echorune.net/139.7,35.7 # longitude first
+ curl echorune.net/help # everything else
```
- Example — `curl echorune.net/zurich` (map trimmed to 4 of 24 rows):
-
```
# Zürich, Bezirk Zürich, Zurich, CH weather scene
- # updated 2026-08-16 09:07 UTC+2 (lon 8.55, lat 47.36667)
now: PARTLY_CLOUDY_DAY 22C humidity 79% wind 4km/h precip 0.00mm/h
-
radar: obs obs age: 0min ok
- ~6km/char, [><]=Zürich, Bezirk Zürich, Zurich, CH
- ░▒▒▒█▓▓▒▓▓████░
- ·░▒▒▒█▓▓█████▒
- ···· · ▒ ·▓█████·
- ▒▒ ······· ·▒▒░▓▓██▓▓▓█▓
+ ~6km/char, [><]=Zürich (4 of 24 rows)
+ ░▒▒▒█▓▓▒▓▓████░
+ ·░▒▒▒█▓▓█████▒
+ ···· · ▒ ·▓█████·
+ ▒▒ ······· ·▒▒░▓▓██▓▓▓█▓
legend: · drizzle ░ light ▒ moderate ▓ heavy █ storm blank=no echo
```
-
- Plain text, no key, nothing to install. Needs outbound HTTPS; where there is no
- network, say so instead of guessing at the weather.
-
- The response carries its own legend and labels its own frames. Two things it
- cannot tell you about itself:
-
- - **`?` is not clear sky.** It means outside radar coverage. Never average it in
- or report it as good weather — blind and dry are printed differently on
- purpose, and collapsing them gives a confident wrong answer.
- - **If you reproduce the map, carry the `data:` and `radar-data:` lines with
- it.** Several of these sources are CC BY, where attribution is a condition of
- use rather than a courtesy.