Weather Forecasting Application

The problem

Most weather widgets are noisy. I wanted a one-screen view: today, the next few hours, the week — no ads, no nags, no scrolling.

The approach

• Tkinter UI with a custom theme; everything sized in em-equivalents so it scales cleanly across DPI settings.
• OpenWeatherMap API wrapper with on-disk caching to avoid hammering the free-tier rate limit.
• Background thread for network calls so the UI never blocks.

Outcome

• A reliable everyday tool I still use.
• Practical experience tuning a desktop Python UI for responsiveness — useful background for later Flet and Streamlit work.