On Wednesday 19 October 2016 00:33:29 Peter Ludikovsky wrote: > 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 > And replaced by what?
I did find that quoted phrase in my searching, but not that Change Notice 16-16. itself. But using that phrase, I did find it, and the request for comments that was published a few months before, along with some contact names, one of which has now been sent a query about its replacement. Thanks 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.TX > >T 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.TX > >T 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 Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>