Re: New weather site

[Martin G. <gim...@gi...>]

Martin Geisler <gim...@gi...> writes:

> I don't know how many of the new stations actually produce METARs,
> but it seams that there are many dead stations... We should probably
> ask the NWS for their list of active stations so that we can provide
> an accurate list.

I've now retrieved a directory-listing of=20

  ftp://weather.noaa.gov/data/observations/metar/stations/

which is where the METARs are stored by the NWS. There are 4518 files
in that directory. Some of the files are quite old - they haven't been
modified this year! After those files are removed there's still 4203
METARs left.

I then compared the ICAOs with the ICAOs in stations.csv and found
that we know the names of 3429 of those stations. In other words:
there are 774 METARs from unknown stations at the NWS.

How is it going with your refreshing of your locations database, Tom?
With 10,000 ICAOs, then we ought to be able to find our missing 774
ICAOs there...=20

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