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greetings all....


allow me to go straight to the point


i'm requesting a new script which shows the METAR report of a specific area in every hour and placed in the Personal Message section.


hope you take it under advance


Chaao

You mean those cryptic codes like:
KCCA 092355Z AUTO 35005KT 3SM -SN FEW020 SCT025 BKN040 M03/M06 A3027 RMK AO2 VSBY 2 1/2V4
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People might need a little bit more info than what you gave in order to make the script though...

yup....thats called METAR sir....

sorry for the lack of info

That certainly isn't enough enough information...

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Originally posted by matty
That certainly isn't enough enough information...

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That is when you know what a METAR/TAF is
You just insert the "area code" and you receive those "cryptic" messages.
The OP asked for a script that, given the area code, will push the current report to his personal message, updating it hourly. It seems simple.

From your aviation geek:

METAR is essentially a local weather report shorthand.

The first 4 letters of the METAR is the ICAO location code (kinda like the YYZ, LAX, JFK that we see, but a different system), so I guess to whoever is developing the script can just ask for the location code (which often corresponds to a local airport, e.g., CYYZ for Toronto Pearson).

Quick Google search and I found: http://weather.noaa.gov/weather/metar.shtml, which seems to be a reliable source.

Already checked into this. It's be as simple as submitting a query to http://www.firstgov.gov/fgsearch/index.jsp (this is what the form on the link above uses) and supplying it with a few hidden input values. You could then scrape the resulting responseText for the information

Let the user specify the 4-digit/letter code in a prefs windows and bingo. Only problem is that I'm too busy atm to do it

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Originally posted by Spunky
Already checked into this. It's be as simple as submitting a query to http://www.firstgov.gov/fgsearch/index.jsp (this is what the form on the link above uses) and supplying it with a few hidden input values. You could then scrape the resulting responseText for the information

Let the user specify the 4-digit/letter code in a prefs windows and bingo. Only problem is that I'm too busy atm to do it

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whenever you feel comfortable to do it we'll be waiting

thanks for participating broo

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