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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.yourdomain.com:port

                                 February 2011                      PYMETAR(1)