PYMETAR(1)																PYMETAR(1)

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, -h
	      Display the usage screen and quit.

       --version, -v
	      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 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 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.yourdo-
	      main.com:port

								   February 2011							PYMETAR(1)