pymetar - query METAR information and display it in a user-friendly way
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Description
Use pymetar to retrieve METAR (METeorological Aviation Report) information from the internet provided by
the NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) and display it in an plain text format.
Call pymetar with the name of the METAR station you want to query. You can get the four-letter specifier
of a station near you from http://www.aviationweather.gov/metarEnvironment
HTTP_PROXY
Set this variable to your HTTP proxy daemon to accelerate consecutive runs of pymetar. The name of
the variable is case insensitive, you can also use http_proxy or HTTP_Proxy if you like. The
syntax for this variable is http://username:password@proxy.yourdomain.com:port
August 2018 PYMETAR(1)
Name
pymetar - query METAR information and display it in a user-friendly way
Options
--help, -h
Display the usage screen and quit.
--version, -v
Display the version number of pymetar and the pymetar library and quit.
Synopsis
pymetar [station]
pymetar --help
pymetar --version
