Check for a white christmas

Looks for snow in the daily forecast for the next 10 days.

Preview

Scripting Actions

Location, Location

Location

Passes the specific location to the next action (or as a magic variable). Result Location Requires Access to your location

Location, Weather

Get Weather Forecast

Gets an hourly or daily weather forecast at the specified location.

Location, Weather

Get Details of Weather Conditions

Gets a specific piece of information from the weather conditions passed into the action.

Control Flow, Scripting

Repeat with Each

Takes a list of items as input, and runs the contained actions once for each item in the list.

Control Flow, Scripting

Tests if a condition is true, and if so, runs the actions inside. Otherwise, the actions under “Otherwise” are run.

Documents, Text Editing

Change Case

Changes the case of the text passed into the action to UPPERCASE, lowercase, or Title Case.

Documents, Text

Text

Passes the specified text to the next action.

No-ops, Scripting

Nothing

This action does nothing and produces no output. It is useful to separate blocks of actions, or to ensure that no input is passed to the next action.

Items, Scripting

Count

Counts the number of items, characters, words, sentences, or lines passed as input. Note (from Apple, for real) This is just like the Count in Sesame Street, but instead of a vampire, it’s a Shortcuts action.

Math, Scripting

Calculate

Performs a number operation on the input and returns the result.

Lists, Scripting

Get Item from List

Returns one or more items from the list passed as input. You can get the first item, the last item, a random item, the item at a particular index, or items in a range of indexes.

Documents, Text Editing

Combine Text

Joins text together, inserting the separator between each join.

Lists, Scripting

List

Allows you to specify a list of items to be passed to the next action.

Documents, Previewing

Show Result

Shows the specified text in Siri or in an alert.

Extra Details

Link to Run Shortcut

shortcuts://run-shortcut?name=Check%20for%20a%20white%20christmas

Link to Open Shortcut

shortcuts://open-shortcut?name=Check%20for%20a%20white%20christmas

AppleScript code

tell application “Shortcuts Events” run shortcut “Check for a white christmas” end tell

Public, Shortcuts, Siri Shortcuts

Custom Shortcuts

New in the Shortcuts Library: Christmas shortcuts

Check out my collection of Christmas shortcuts, including automations for playing holiday music to smart home setups, checking for snow to counting the days down.

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