Weather info with metar

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Jun 16, 2016
10:16 AM EDT 

$sudo apt-get install metar
To see the current weather observations in Nome, Alaska: 

$ metar -d paom
PAOM 161353Z 03003KT 10SM BKN250 04/04 A2999 RMK SLP156 T00440039 VIA AUTODIAL
Station       : PAOM
Day           : 16
Time          : 13:53 UTC
Wind direction: 30 (NNE)
Wind speed    : 3 KT
Wind gust     : 3 KT
Visibility    : 10 SM
Temperature   : 4 C
Dewpoint      : 4 C
Pressure      : 29.99 "Hg
Clouds        : BKN at 25000 ft
Phenomena     :


Here's the full list of metar station codes:

http://www.aviationweather.gov/static/adds/metars/stations.txt

Of course, I'm a 'need official data' nut... so, I only get my 'external' weather data from the government certified weather stations. Since I know the data are supposed to be observations filtered by trained persons, I feel I have more confidence in the data in order to have a better comparison to my own data.

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