Wednesday, 11 July 2007 METARs Downloader is a METAR/SPECI data processor that you can use to produce weather content for a web site or web cam. It can also be used as a personal weather tracking tool by persons or organizations without a web site or web cam.
METARs Downloader produces Thirty Five , (35) output items from the METAR data it downloads from the NWS servers. Thirty Three, (33) of these outputs are available as charts, images, or text files which can uploaded by the program to be used as web site content. Of those thirty three data items eleven are available as text output only. These are the chart data files, weather log file, raw METAR data, and raw TAF data. The software also has a extra feature for those who are in a marine environment, a built in NDBC - (N)ational (D)ata (B)uoy (C)enter browser where you can access data reported by C-MAN stations and buoys in the network.