Capturing weather data from Airports

[Thejesh GN]

All airports broadcast weather data (both on internet and on radio waves). We can capture the one from internet available in the  METAR[1] format. It looks like

VOBL 121000Z 30008KT 270V330 6000 SCT015 SCT020 FEW025CB 33/20 Q1012 TEMPO 5000 TSRA RMK CB SW S SE

Optimized for transmission :) You can decode quite easily.

Check the bangalore airports (BIAL)[2]  info. I am scraping it every fifteen minutes. It will be available online[4] in addition to my personal weather station data

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/METAR

[2] http://aviationweather.gov/adds/metars/?station_ids=VOB&std_trans=standard&chk_metars=on&hoursStr=most+recent+only&submitmet=Submit

[3] http://www.metarreader.com/

[4] https://github.com/openbangalore/weather

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