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NOTAM: get METAR weather readings on your command line!

METAR.sh

$ ./metar [airportcode] $ ./metar --help

Simple shell script to get METAR readings on your command line!

• cURLs weather.noaa.gov to get the forecast
• defaults to KRNT (my home airport) if no arguments are specified
• desgined to work with TextBar to put METAR into your osx menubar

How to read a METAR

• Wunderground METAR tutorial
• METAR wiki page
• METAR decoder tool
• METAR mysteries (explains some of the acronyms and history)

Example:

$ ./metar KRNT
KRNT 161553Z 12007KT 10SM -RA OVC036 07/06 A2965 RMK AO2 SLP046 P0003 T00720061

Which expands to...

Location: KRNT
Day of month: 16
Time: 15:53 UTC
Wind:  True direction = 120 degrees, Speed: 7 knots
Visibility: 10 Statute Miles
Weather: Light Rain 
Clouds: Overcast sky , at 3600 feet above aerodrome level
Temperature: 07 degrees Celsius
Dewpoint: 06 degrees Celsius
QNH: 29.65 inHg

metar's Issues

No longer works because of NOAA

The script does not work anymore, because NOAA changed there service. Maybe fix it? Would be very kind of you.

New URL of NOAA

Use this URL, the one in the script is dead.

CURLURL="http://tgftp.nws.noaa.gov/data/observations/metar/stations/"