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.TH "PYMETAR" "1" "February 2011" "" ""
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.SH "NAME"
\fBpymetar\fR \- query METAR information and display it in a user\-friendly way
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.SH "SYNOPSIS"
\fBpymetar\fR [station]
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\fBpymetar\fR \-\-help
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.P
\fBpymetar\fR \-\-version
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.SH "DESCRIPTION"
Use pymetar to retrieve METAR (METeorological Aviation Report) information from the internet provided by the NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) and display it in an plain text format\.
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Call pymetar with the name of the METAR station you want to query\. You can get the four\-letter specifier of a station near you from http://www\.nws\.noaa\.gov/tg/siteloc\.shtml
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.SH "OPTIONS"
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\fB\-\-help\fR, \fB\-h\fR
Display the usage screen and quit\.
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\fB\-\-version\fR, \fB\-v\fR
Display the version number of pymetar and the pymetar library and quit\.
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.SH "AUTHOR"
pymetar was written by Tobias Klausmann \fIklausman\-pymetar@schwarzvogel\.de\fR
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This manual page was written by Tobias Klausmann using ronn, a Markdown to roff converter\.
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Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the same terms as pymetar itself (the GNU General Public License, Version 2 or later)&\.
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.SH "ENVIRONMENT"
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.TP
\fBHTTP_PROXY\fR
Set this variable to your HTTP proxy daemon to accelerate consecutive runs of pymetar\. The name of the variable is case insensitive, you can also use http_proxy or HTTP_Proxy if you like\. The syntax for this variable is http://username:password@proxy\.yourdomain\.com:port