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Re: mws vs metar data, nsw 1, metar 0

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When you visit the URL it's fetching there's a notice that the service
is no longer available:
"In Accordance with NWS Service Change Notice 16-16 this service has
been discontinued."

Regards,
/peter

Am 19.10.2016 um 05:32 schrieb Gene Heskett:
> METAR is a std data format that has been used for many years. I've been 
> using a gkrellm, with its plugin gk-weather for about a decade, but I've 
> just become aware that the last time I got valid METAR data from the 
> airport about 20 miles northeast of me was on July 28th.
> 
> So as a double-chk, I installed the metar program from the wheezy repo.
> It reports:
> 
> gene@sheldon:~$ metar -v KCKB
> Retrieving URL 
> http://weather.noaa.gov/pub/data/observations/metar/stations/KCKB.TXT
> METAR pattern not found in NOAA data.
> 
> So I switched to a slightly closer airport in Buchannon wv, and get the 
> same response.
> 
> gene@sheldon:~$ metar -v KW22
> Retrieving URL 
> http://weather.noaa.gov/pub/data/observations/metar/stations/KW22.TXT
> METAR pattern not found in NOAA data.
> 
> Poking around on the NOAA.gov main site, there is no mention of it being 
> discontinued that is easily searched for.
> 
> Anybody have a light to shine on this?
> 
> Thanks everybody.
> 
> Cheers, Gene Heskett
> 

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mws vs metar data, nsw 1, metar 0 Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2016-10-19 05:40 +0200
  Re: mws vs metar data, nsw 1, metar 0 Peter Ludikovsky <peter@ludikovsky.name> - 2016-10-19 06:40 +0200
    Re: mws vs metar data, nsw 1, metar 0 Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2016-10-19 11:10 +0200
      Re: mws vs metar data, nsw 1, metar 0 Darac Marjal <mailinglist@darac.org.uk> - 2016-10-19 11:20 +0200
        Re: mws vs metar data, nsw 1, metar 0 Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2016-10-19 14:10 +0200
          Re: mws vs metar data, nsw 1, metar 0 Darac Marjal <mailinglist@darac.org.uk> - 2016-10-19 14:40 +0200
            Re: mws vs metar data, nsw 1, metar 0 Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2016-10-19 16:10 +0200
              Re: mws vs metar data, nsw 1, metar 0 Darac Marjal <mailinglist@darac.org.uk> - 2016-10-19 16:20 +0200
                Re: mws vs metar data, nsw 1, metar 0 Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@debian.org> - 2016-10-19 17:20 +0200
                Re: mws vs metar data, nsw 1, metar 0 Darac Marjal <mailinglist@darac.org.uk> - 2016-10-19 17:30 +0200

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