Get latest weather reports from weather stations worldwide
The information comes from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association's raw data source.
require 'metar'This prints the latest weather report for Portland International Airport:
station = Metar::Station.find_by_cccc('KPDX')
puts station.report.to_sThe parser needs to know the full date when the reading was taken. Unfortunately, the METAR string itself only contains the day of the month.
Use Metar::Raw::Data and supply the date as the second parameter:
metar_string = "KHWD 280554Z AUTO 29007KT 10SM OVC008 14/12 A3002 RMK AO2 SLP176 T01390117 10211\n"
raw = Metar::Raw::Data.new(metar_string, reading_date)
parser = Metar::Parser.new(raw)Use Metar::Raw::Metar - the library will choose the date as the most recent
day with the day of the month indicated in the METAR string:
I.e. on 11th April 2016:
metar_string = "KHWD 280554Z AUTO 29007KT 10SM OVC008 14/12 A3002 RMK AO2 SLP176 T01390117 10211\n"
raw = Metar::Raw::Metar.new(metar_string)
raw.time.to_s # => "2016-03-28"
parser = Metar::Parser.new(raw)station = Metar::Station.find_by_cccc('KPDX')
parser = station.parser
puts parser.temperature.valueList countries:
puts Metar::Station.countriesFind a country's weather stations:
spanish = Metar::Station.find_all_by_country('Spain')Translations are available for the following languages (and region):
- :de
- :en
- :'en-US'
- :it
- :'pt-BR'
Thanks to the I18n gem's fallback mechanism, under regional locales, language generic translations will be used if a region-specific translation is not available. I.e.
I18n.locale = :'en-US'
I18n.t('metar.station_code.title') # station code
See doc/metar_format.
By default, the parser runs in 'loose' compliance mode. That means that it tries to accept non-standard input.
If you only want to accept standards-compliant METAR strings, do this:
Metar::Parse.compliance = :strict