PYMETAR(1)PYMETAR(1)NAMEpymetar - query METAR information and display it in a user-friendly way
SYNOPSISpymetar [station]
pymetar--help
pymetar--version
DESCRIPTION
Use pymetar to retrieve METAR (METeorological Aviation Report) informa‐
tion from the internet provided by the NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmo‐
spheric 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.nws.noaa.gov/tg/siteloc.shtml
OPTIONS--help, -h
Display the usage screen and quit.
--version, -v
Display the version number of pymetar and the pymetar library
and quit.
AUTHORpymetar was written by Tobias Klausmann klausman-pymetar@schwarzvo‐
gel.de
This manual page was written by Tobias Klausmann using ronn, a Markdown
to roff converter.
Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document
under the same terms as pymetar itself (the GNU General Public License,
Version 2 or later)&.
ENVIRONMENT
HTTP_PROXY
Set this variable to your HTTP proxy daemon to accelerate con‐
secutive 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:pass‐
word@proxy.yourdomain.com:port
February 2011 PYMETAR(1)
