METAR reports are meteorological weather reports for aviation. metar is a
small program which downloads weather reports for user-specified stations and
optionally decodes them into a human-readable format.
Aviation weather stations are commonly referred to by ICAO designator. The
ICAO is the International Civil Aviation Organization, a international
standardization body for civil organization. For example, KJFK is de ICAO
identifier for John F. Kennedy Airport in New York, New York, EHAM is the ICAO
identifier for Amsterdam Schiphol Airport, The Netherlands, etc.
OPTIONS
metar requires at least one station identifier to run. A full list of ICAO
stations is available for download at
http://weather.noaa.gov/data/nsd_bbsss.txt.
