Re: New weather site

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

"Tom Corser" <to...@to...> writes:

> Quoting Martin Geisler <gim...@gi...>:
>>http://tgsv5.nws.noaa.gov/oso/site.shtml
>>
>>There I downloaded a list of all stations that have an ICAO - there's
>>6257 stations in that list, but I'm still missing information about
>>187 stations!
>=20
> Ive downloaded the list from NWS - but out of all the locations,
> including my 10,000 locations, only about 3000 seem to want to
> return any data!

I know... but you should only expect to have about 4500 stations
reporting data - there was 4518 METAR reports available from the NWS
yesterday when I checked.

With 'available' I mean that you could download a report from the
station here:

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

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