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.yourdomain.com:port

                                          February 2011                                PYMETAR(1)