1. The heart and soul of modern long-range weather forecasting is the numerical model, of which there are dozens scattered among the world’s weather centres. Many are global in nature, but only a few enjoy unrestricted distribution, specifically those from the U.S.
2. Anticipate and mitigate changing weather conditions by accessing global weather forecasts and observations in WeatherDesk for better business, mission and operations decision-making. WeatherDesk offers web applications, data services and information reports to.

WeatherDesk offers information products, web applications and weather data services to support diverse customer needs and workflows. Fast and flexible. Weather is constantly in a state of change. WeatherDesk provides the means to access highly reliable, rapidly changing data and visualizations.

WeatherDesk features:

• change the background based on the current weather conditions;
• optionally change the background based on the time of day. This supports 4 variations: day/night, day/evening/night and morning/day/evening/night;
• supports most Linux desktop environments, including Cinnamon, GNOME, Unity, Xfce, LXDE, LXQt, Pantheon, MATE, and more;
• automatically detects your current city using ipinfo.io. In case this fails or you simply want to use a different city, you can manually specify the city as a command line argument
• you can specify the image format, update interval, and more.

Installing and using WeatherDesk

1. Download / install WeatherDesk


After this, you can simply use 'weatherdesk' in a terminal to run the tool.
2. Download the FireWatch WeatherDesk wallpaper pack
But wait, we're not done yet! That's because you'll also need some wallpapers to change based on current weather conditions and the time of day.
The wallpapers must be named according to some naming rules and placed in the ~/.weatherdesk_walls/ folder for WeatherDesk to pick them up. To make this easy, the WeatherDesk GitHub page points to a pack called FireWatch, which already contains images named according to the WeatherDesk rules.
To create the ~/.weatherdesk_walls folder, download the FireWatch WeatherDesk wallpaper set and extract it into the ~/.weatherdesk_walls folder, you can use the following commands:
3. Run WeatherDesk

That's it. Now you can simply run 'weatherdesk' in a terminal and the app should automatically change your wallpaper based on the current weather conditions and time of day, using the FireWatch wallpaper pack:
If you want to use different wallpapers, you must rename them according to the WeatherDesk naming rules and place them in the ~/.weatherdesk_walls/ folder.

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By default this will use the 'day / evening / night' variation. To use the 'morning / day / evening / night' variation (for more info about this, run 'weatherdesk --info'), run it like this:
If you want WeatherDesk to change the wallpaper based on current weather conditions every time you login, make sure to add it to your startup applications (in Ubuntu with Unity, launch Startup Applications, click 'Add' and use 'weatherdesk' as the command).
© NASA/NOAA Suomi National Polar Orbiting Partnership via Stephen A.Wood/Maxar This satellite image captured February 16, 2021, shows snow cover in the lighter white areas across the US. You can also see clouds in the brighter white areas above north-central Texas and up the Gulf Coast up toward Tennessee. NASA/NOAA Suomi National Polar Orbiting Partnership via Stephen A.Wood/Maxar

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• The US is covered in snow because of the deadly winter storm that left millions without power.
• The Weather Channel reported that 73% of the country was covered in snow on Tuesday.
• Satellite images show almost the entire US blanketed in snow.
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Satellite images from NASA/NOAA satellites provided by Maxar show how the massive winter storm has blanketed the United States with ice and snow.

On Tuesday, 73% of the country was coated in snow, according to the Weather Channel. And the cold weather continued on Wednesday as CNN reported that frigid weather struck the south and central parts of the country that have been most impacted by brutally cold conditions.

As of Thursday, Maxar's WeatherDesk provided imagery showing three-quarters of the country covered in snow:

© Weather graphics © 2021 Maxar Technologies. This snow depth image generated by Maxar's WeatherDesk on February 17, 2021 shows snow cover extending over three-quarters of the continental US. Weather graphics © 2021 Maxar Technologies.

Residents across the country, especially in the South, have endured freezing weather and power outages. As of Wednesday afternoon, nearly 3 million people in Texas are still without power, according to PowerOutage.us. Oregon, Kentucky, Louisiana, and West Virginia are other states highly affected by the outages.

At least 20 people have died in frigid weather-related incidents in Texas, Oregon, and Mississippi. Texas local news station KXAN tweeted that FEMA and the White House are stepping in to provide 'power generators to Texas and are working to move diesel for power backup, in addition to blankets.'

Austin Energy tweeted that consumers should be 'prepared to not have power through Wednesday and possibly longer.'

The storm has even disrupted the distribution of the COVID-19 vaccine, as sites had to close due to the weather.

© NASA/NOAA Suomi National Polar Orbiting Partnership via Stephen A.Wood/Maxar You can see snow in the lighter white areas covering the US in this satellite image captured February 16, 2021, and clouds in the brighter white areas, such as in the Gulf of Mexico. NASA/NOAA Suomi National Polar Orbiting Partnership via Stephen A.Wood/Maxar

The New York Times reported that the East and South are set to endure another winter storm through Friday.

According to WABC-TV, the Tri-State is already preparing for the storm ahead and expects between 5-10 inches of snow.

—National Weather Service (@NWS) February 17, 2021

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'Snow and ice is forecast for a broad swath of the US through Friday night,' the National Weather Service tweeted Wednesday. 'Many of these areas have recently experienced significant impacts from wintry precipitation already this week.'