Public bug reported: The NWS has taken the system that weather relies on offline, thus the text products will need to be recovered from some other URL and parsed.
$ weather --version weather 2.0 $ weather -i KLAX WARNING: the --id option is deprecated and will eventually be removed Searching via station... [caching result Los Angeles Interntl Airport, CA, United States] weather error: failed to retrieve http://weather.noaa.gov/pub/data/observations/metar/decoded/KLAX.TXT HTTPError: HTTP Error 404: Not Found METAR Data might be recoverable here: https://www.aviationweather.gov/metar/data?ids=KLAX&format=raw&date=0&hours=0 See: NOUS41 KWBC 011148 CCB PNSWSH Service Change Notice 16-16 Corrected National Weather Service Headquarters Washington DC 748 AM EDT Mon Aug 1 2016 To: Subscribers: -NOAA Weather Wire Service -Emergency Managers Weather Information Network -NOAAPORT Other NWS partners and NWS employees From: Luis Cano Director, Office of Operational Systems Subject: Corrected: Termination of the NWS Weather.Noaa.Gov (WNG) Web Service effective June 15, 2016 Corrected to add updated links for radar monitoring web pages as follows: WNG Current Site Data Link Replacement Links -------------------------- ----------------- weather.noaa.gov/monitor/radar3 http://radar3pub.ncep.noaa.gov weather.noaa.gov/monitor/radar2 http://radar2pub.ncep.noaa.gov Corrected to change disable date to August 3, 2016 The NWS will eliminate the web service found at the following address effective August 3, 2016: http://weather.noaa.gov Comments on this change were requested via the following notice: www.nws.noaa.gov/os/notification/pns16-05decommissioning_web.htm After addressing all questions, comments and feedback, a decision was made to terminate the service. This legacy web site was launched over a decade ago to provide accessibility to NWS weather products for the general public. The WNG website will be decommissioned as part of the NWSTG Re-Architecture project. The WNG web site is obsolete because NWS weather.gov site is now the primary hub for NWS web services and data products. A list of options available for obtaining weather data normally found via the WNG URL is provided below. WNG Site Data Link: Alternative Links ------------------ United States Weather: http://weather.gov Radar Graphics: http://radar.weather.gov Weather Maps: ftp://tgftp.nws.noaa.gov/fax http://tgftp.nws.noaa.gov International Weather: https://www.aviationweather.gov/metar Aviation Weather: https://www.aviationweather.gov United States Weather: http://weather.gov Marine Weather: http://weather.gov http://opc.ncep.noaa.gov WNG Site Data Link: Replacement Links ------------------ CURRENT REPLACEMENT weather.noaa.gov/monitor/radar3 http://radar3pub.ncep.noaa.gov weather.noaa.gov/monitor/radar2 http://radar2pub.ncep.noaa.gov For questions or comments on this notice, please contact: Kevin Conaty NOAA/NWS/IDP NRT PM Silver Spring, MD 20910 301-427-9169 kevin.con...@noaa.gov National Service Change Notices are online at: http://www.nws.noaa.gov/om/notif.htm NNNN ** Affects: weather-util (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1621179 Title: weather can not get data To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/weather-util/+bug/1621179/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
