Summary
Halo is a small utility that keeps you on top of the latest weather forecast.
If you’re looking for other good weather applications, check out our Weather Group Test. Many of the software tools retrieve their weather data from the OpenWeatherMap no charge weather API. This lets you access current weather data for any location including over 200,000 cities.
Website: github.com/cijo7/Halo
Support: Documentation
Developer: Cijo Saju
License: MIT License
Halo is written in Python. Learn Python with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
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| Typhoon | Provides real-time weather updates and forecasts |
| Weather | Monitor the current weather conditions |
| Halo | Weather software written in Python |
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“The free plan limits the historic weather data to the previous day.”
Could one not save the date each day in one’s own database and then plot the historical data from that stored data to give a view of changes over the last week or last month?