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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)