Brolly - Plain-text weather forecast for York
Show HN: Brolly, a plain-text weather forecast site
Brolly is a minimalist weather forecast site that delivers essential meteorological data in a clean, plain-text format. Designed for users who prefer speed and simplicity over cluttered interfaces, it provides real-time conditions, hourly breakdowns, and weekly outlooks for specific locations like York. The platform features detailed metrics including temperature, wind speed, UV index, air quality, and pollen levels, all presented through intuitive ASCII charts and text. Perfect for developers, terminal enthusiasts, and anyone seeking an ad-free, distraction-free way to check the weather instantly.
Brolly offers a refreshing, plain-text weather forecast that strips away the noise to deliver just the essential data you need.
- smnscu
I was thoroughly confused at why the website was showing the weather for York. Since I studied there (and it's straight up a lovely place), I visit quite often and subsequently check the weather. I thought I had set it but couldn't remember doing so. As someone else said, this being text-based makes it particularly digestible to LLMs. Out of curiosity, I looked up weather MCPs and stumbled upon this: https://github.com/weather-mcp/weather-mcp
- karteum
FWIW, I vibe-coded https://meteo.karteum.ovh/ a few months ago for my own use-case (it interfaces with open-meteo.com. Click in the map to add points, and click in the point to get details)
- ji_reilly
It's already saved to home screen. Love the simple text interface.
- winterscott
This is actually a great format for LLM consumption too.
Structured, concise weather information without unnecessary UI noise is much easier for agents to parse and summarize.
A JSON endpoint or an MCP server on top of this would be an interesting extension.
- speerer
Love it. This reminds me of wttr.in, but with the benefit of interactivity and that it works much better on mobile. I also happen to often use terminals in a narrower aspect, so wttr.in doesn't work perfectly for me. It'd be very cool if a curl call to your site rendered a terminal text view!