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