display a weather gif in terminal

weather.sh

#!/bin/sh

DOWNLOAD_DIR=~/Downloads/weather
REGION=txgulf

# make download dir if not available
if [ ! -d "$DOWNLOAD_DIR" ]; then
  mkdir -p $DOWNLOAD_DIR
fi

# set loop counter
COUNTER=0

# remove old files
rm -rf $DOWNLOAD_DIR/*.gif
rm -rf $DOWNLOAD_DIR/*.txt
rm -rf $DOWNLOAD_DIR/*.png

# replace URL with your region
wget -P $DOWNLOAD_DIR "http://archive.wfaa.com/weather/images/core/animated-loops/comp/880x495/${REGION}_anim.gif"

#rename file to map.gif
mv $DOWNLOAD_DIR/*.gif $DOWNLOAD_DIR/map.gif

# expand gif and convert to png
convert -coalesce $DOWNLOAD_DIR/map.gif $DOWNLOAD_DIR/map.png

# display extracted images as ASCII
for i in `ls $DOWNLOAD_DIR/map-*`; do
  img2txt -W 75 -H 30 $i > $i.txt
done

while [ $COUNTER -lt 5 ] ; do
  for i in `ls $DOWNLOAD_DIR/map-*.txt`; do
    clear
    cat $i
    sleep 0.5
  done
  let COUNTER=COUNTER+1
done

Add terminal size autoscaling/detection:

WIDTH=`tput cols`
HEIGHT=`tput lines`
img2txt -W $WIDTH -H HEIGHT $i > $i.txt