GRABWEATHER(1)

NAME
GrabWeather - retrieve weather conditions from the National Weather Service

SYNOPSIS
GrabWeather StationID

DESCRIPTION
This Perl-script retrieves the current local weather conditions from the national Weather Service (NWS), converts the data into a text-format and stores the result in a plain text file. GrabWeather requires the 4-character METAR station code as the first and only command-line option. GrabWeather originated from wmWeather and has been adopted for use with bbweather. For a wealth of information on the METAR/TAF system, , look at http://metar.noaa.gov/ for NOAA's National Weather Service METAR/TAF Information page. To determine what your station ID is use the lookup utility at http://www.nws.noaa.gov/tg/siteloc.shtml. Note that you will need the 4-letter code, and not the 5-digit code.

REQUIRES

wget
    http://sunsite.auc.dk/wget/

Perl
    http://www.perl.com

FILES
~/.wmWeatherReports/StationID.TXT

BUGS
If you run into any problems, if you encounter bugs, or if you have any other comments on this program, please don't hesitate to contact the author.

SEE ALSO
wmWeather(1), bbweather(1)

AUTHOR
Michael G. Henderson <mghenderson@lanl.gov>