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It could be argued that you don't need an ascii icon for "sunny", etc.

Just one codepoint would do! Basic weather symbols like SUN (U+2600) and RAIN (U+2614) have been in Unicode since 1993. More detailed 'emoji' have been added in recent years.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miscellaneous_Symbols

[2] i.e. http://emojipedia.org/fog/ etc

the CLI application[1] that this is based on has an "emoji" frontend[2] that does just that

1: https://github.com/schachmat/wego

2: http://cl.ly/1w3b45242k3R

Ok, but then it's not ASCII art; it would be Unicode art.

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