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Windows 11 built-in weather app eats more than 1.2 GB of memory just to tell you if it is going to rain or hot today. Hah. Linux and Unix users just type:

curl wttr.in
curl wttr.in/city_name_here
curl wttr.in/nyc
curl wttr.in/moon
curl wttr.in/london

windowslatest.com/2026/08/09/windows-11s-weather-app-uses-5x-the-ram-of-macos-weather-and-it-still-s…

Windows 11 is a memory hog, even Microsoft's Weather uses 1.2GB of RAM, 5x more than macOS Weather

Windows 11's default Weather app is really MSN Weather in disguise, using 5x the RAM of macOS Weather as a WebView2 app that also shows ads.
Abhijith M B (Windows Latest)

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cooldev487

Since curl is available on windows as well, I think a fair comparison would be to check against desktop weather applications available on operating systems running linux.

For instance, on my GNU Guix machine running GNOME, the default weather app just takes around 64MB of ram 😎.

But then features like Suggestion for your day, Maps, 3D maps are not available in most of the weather apps on the other side.

And frankly i like the Unix approach here ;)

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wttr in didn't give the right overnight temperature for my location - maybe due to the data source used, hour cutoff for nighttime, or weather changes since the last data update. So that might be something where Microsoft has an advantage.
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Eggs now in different baskets.

@disorderlyf After using curl wttr.in in an #xfce terminal window (no other terminal windows or tabs open) the task manager showed 53 MB and just after pressing "Enter" to enter the command CPU spikes at 1%.

Edit: XFCE/RaspberryPi OS running on a RPi 5 with 16 GB or RAM.

#xfce @disorderlyf
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Ray McCarthy

I look out the window, or check our own cheap weather station or go to www.met.ie

I hate desktop / toolbar space being taken with weather apps on Windows, Linux or Android.

There is a weather widget in the Linux toolbar/places Clock widget that takes location and displays temp & wind. I don't use it.
On Win10 it was horrible getting rid of all the widgety gunge in the taskbar.

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CohenTheBlue

My shell function, wind speed in m/s (the ?M part):

weather() {
if [ $# -ne 1 ]; then
curl wttr.in/:help
printf "=^=^=About wttr.in/=^=^=\n\n"
echo "Get weather in [location]. Usage: ${FUNCNAME[0]} parameter"
return 1
fi
if ! curl v2.wttr.in/"$1"?M; then
curl v2.wttr.is/"$1"?M
fi
}

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pflegende

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@cohentheblue
fine, but the v2 version everytime does not fit in the terminal with this "dot - rendering." (since some years, I mean)

Some solutions?
Tried T and A Parameters but does not help.
this, it, is such a nice feature the v2, worth to do it also better on the screen

😊👋

@CohenTheBlue