METAR is a std data format that has been used for many years. I've been using a gkrellm, with its plugin gk-weather for about a decade, but I've just become aware that the last time I got valid METAR data from the airport about 20 miles northeast of me was on July 28th.
So as a double-chk, I installed the metar program from the wheezy repo. It reports: gene@sheldon:~$ metar -v KCKB Retrieving URL http://weather.noaa.gov/pub/data/observations/metar/stations/KCKB.TXT METAR pattern not found in NOAA data. So I switched to a slightly closer airport in Buchannon wv, and get the same response. gene@sheldon:~$ metar -v KW22 Retrieving URL http://weather.noaa.gov/pub/data/observations/metar/stations/KW22.TXT METAR pattern not found in NOAA data. Poking around on the NOAA.gov main site, there is no mention of it being discontinued that is easily searched for. Anybody have a light to shine on this? Thanks everybody. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>
