ngrib

Download and plot of weather data directly from NOAA using bash.

Prerequisites

First of all, as usual, every Linux system needs a general update:

sudo apt-get update

To execute the program you need to install wgrib2 for Linux users. For Windows users I added wgrib2.exe and needed .dll files. Other softwares needed to be installed like gnuplot min. v6.0:

sudo apt-get install gnuplot

Then you need to install libgfortran for Linux users

sudo apt-get install libgfortran5

If you want to obtain Excel representations of data you need to install Python 3 and pip (python-pip) to avoid error like No module named 'xlsxwriter' and other errors I suggest to launch:

sudo apt-get install python3-pip
sudo apt-get install python3-xlsxwriter
sudo apt-get install python3-openpyxl

For working with the images you need to install imagemagick:

sudo apt-get install imagemagick

If you want to obtain a pdf representation of data you need to install libreoffice7.2 and ghostscript:

sudo apt-get install ghostscript

Usage

You have to insert you coordinates after the bash program name, i.e.:

./ngrib.sh 45.3 22.7

Text Weather Forecast

At the end of the download if you want to see a summary of the weatehr forecast in text format on command line you need to install

sudo apt-get install datamash

sudo apt-get install vsckit

sudo apt-get install csvkit

And start the following sh file:

./weather.sh

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