pymetar

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Version: 329976 (ubuntu - 24/10/10)

Section: 1 (Commandes utilisateur)

NAME

pymetar - query METAR information and display it in a user-friendly way

SYNOPSIS

pymetar [station]
pymetar --help
pymetar --version

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.nws.noaa.gov/tg/siteloc.shtml

OPTIONS

--help
Display the usage screen and quit.
--version
Display the version number of pymetar and the pymetar library and quit.

AUTHOR

pymetar was written by Tobias Klausmann <klausman-pymetar@schwarzvogel.de>
This manual page was written by Uli Martens <uli@youam.net> for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others). 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 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