sat

by Ray Patrick
(other software)

View weather satellite imagery from your command line!

Download:

I host sat at my Git server. To download sat, simply run:

If you'd prefer to view weather satellite imagery in your browser, check out my ultralight Web-based version here.

Name

sat - GOES weather satellite imagery on the command line

Synopsis

sat SITE IMAGERY_PRODUCT [-i, --interactive] [-u, --url]

Description

sat is a tool that searches for imagery of a slice of the Western hemisphere as viewed by the GOES-East and GOES-West satellites, then retrieves one of 5 different imagery products: black & white infrared, color infrared, visible light, water vapor, or a composite of water vapor and black & white infrared.

Options

SITE

GOES satellites really image an entire hemisphere at once, but weather information customers are usually interested in smaller regions. The full-disk GOES image is divided into slices centered on certain geographical regions or features. SITE is the geographical region or feature that the view is centered on. May be one of the following:

• abq: Albuquerque, NM
• ak: Alaska
• alb: Albany, NY
• aus: Austin, TX
• bwi: Baltimore, MD
• carib: Caribbean
• clt: Charlotte, NC
• cod: Yellowstone
• den: Denver, CO
• dtw: Detroit, MI
• evv: Evansville, ID
• gulf: Gulf of Mexico
• hi: Hawaii
• ict: Wichita, KS
• las: Las Vegas, NV
• lit: Little Rock, AR
• lws: Leniston, ID
• mgm: Montgomery, AL
• msp: Minneapolis, MN
• pir: Pierre, SD
• tpa: Tampa, FL
• wmc: Winnemacca, NV
• us: Contiguous United States

IMAGERY_PRODUCT

GOES satellites have instruments that collect across several spectral bands in both visible light and infrared. IMAGERY_PRODUCT specifies which spectral band you want to see imagery from. May be one of the following:

• irbw: Infrared (black & white)
• ircol: Infrared (color)
• irnws: Composite of B&W infrared and water vapor
• vis: Visible light (site must be in daylight)
• wv: Water vapor

[-i, --interactive]

Requires dmenu. Allows interactive fuzzy-search input rather than manually typing sites and imagery codes.

[-u, --url]

Just print the URL of the image to stdout rather than opening it with mpv.

Bugs

Report any bugs to ray@raypatrick.xyz.

License

GPLv3

Author

Written by Ray Patrick in 2021.
https://raypatrick.xyz
ray@raypatrick.xyz

See Also

mpv(1) dmenu(1)

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