But.. all is not lost. They have activated HTTP access to an older site which contains the METAR data in the same format.
The METAR information is used in the Saratoga template set for current conditions (all WX software plugins except Weather-Display) and for the wxmetar.php page.
A new version of get-metar-conditions-inc.php (V1.14 23-May-2016) is available on the updates page Query for Base-*,Plugin-* 23-May-2016 or direct download here
The URLs used are changing
from: http://weather.noaa.gov/pub/data/observ ... <ICAO>.TXT
to: http://tgftp.nws.noaa.gov/data/observat ... <ICAO>.TXT
Please do your updates before June 15, 2016 -- the weather.noaa.gov site will be taken offline then and your conditions and metar displays will cease to function on your website if you have not updated the get-metar-conditions-inc.php script to V1.14. The V1.14 script works NOW and will work after the NWS site decommission.
Thanks to Wim for reminding me about this upcoming change so we (collectively) can be ready.
Best regards,
Ken
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NOAA NWS decomissioning weather.noaa.gov website June 15
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Re: NOAA NWS decomissioning weather.noaa.gov website June 15
Thank you for the update Ken.
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Re: NOAA NWS decomissioning weather.noaa.gov website June 15
Ken,
As a novice website user I'm not sure if I need to take any action regarding this change. I have the banner in my sig and the Cumulus-supplied NOAA pages.
Will these continue to work after 15 June without any action on my part?
As a novice website user I'm not sure if I need to take any action regarding this change. I have the banner in my sig and the Cumulus-supplied NOAA pages.
Will these continue to work after 15 June without any action on my part?
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Re: NOAA NWS decomissioning weather.noaa.gov website June 15
If you're using the Cumulus-supplied HTML templates, then there's nothing for you to update. The updates apply to the Saratoga or Leuven PHP templates (or to any other PHP scripts that retrieve/process METAR data from weather.noaa.gov website).
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