Re: [gembud] Where art thou METAR site metadata?

• To: gembud@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
• Subject: Re: [gembud] Where art thou METAR site metadata?
• From: Shane Young <jeopardytempest@xxxxxxxxx>
• Date: Sun, 21 Feb 2010 14:35:53 -0800 (PST)

Oops, sent this to Jeff accidentally instead of gembud...

Daryl, if I were in your shoes, I would then throw the lat/lon data through a 
script that uses lat/lon to determine timezone...
It looks like 
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/41504/timezone-lookup-from-latitude-longitude
 has promising information.

 - Shane

> > From: Jeff Lake - Admin <admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Subject: Re: [gembud] Where art thou METAR site
> metadata?
> > To: "daryl herzmann" <akrherz@xxxxxxxxxxx>,
> gembud@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Date: Tuesday, February 16, 2010, 3:07 PM
> > Probably should have added this page
> > http://weather.noaa.gov/tg/site.shtml
> > 
> > has the key for the data
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > ----- Original Message ----- From: "daryl herzmann"
> <akrherz@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> > To: <gembud@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Sent: Tuesday, February 16, 2010 2:17 PM
> > Subject: [gembud] Where art thou METAR site metadata?
> > 
> > 
> > > Well howdy folks,
> > > 
> > > Anybody wish to purchase some snow? I have a
> bunch for
> > sale here in Iowa. Oops, that was not the purpose of
> my
> > email.  A number of moons ago, I spammed this list
> > attempting to find metadata on which time zone a METAR
> site
> > was in, so to make sense of the DSM timestamps [1]. 
> I
> > struck out! Undaunted, I am back again wondering where
> in
> > the world can I figure out where in the world some of
> these
> > METAR sites are located.
> > > 
> > > My current favorite lookups to find metadata
> are:
> > >  http://www.airnav.com
> > >  http://www.rap.ucar.edu/weather/surface/stations.txt
> > >  http://www.locationidentifiers.org/location-identifier-list.csv.txt
> > >  http://weather.gladstonefamily.net/site/K???
> > > 
> > > But alas, none of those sites have information
> on
> > where a site like KBAN
> > > is.
> > > 
> > > SAXX60 KWBC 161800
> > > METAR
> > > KBAN 161756Z AUTO 00000KT 10SM FEW085 M02/M07
> A3021
> > RMK AO2 SLP244^M^M
> > >      T10221067 11022 21089 50003
> > TSNO=^M^M
> > > 
> > > Ah yes, the Gladstone Family site knows about
> this
> > one.  Whew, but there are others! Like all these
> fancy
> > pants military sites with KQ** IDs, where can I get
> my
> > greedy hands on metadata for those sites?
> > > 
> > > How can any of you sleep at night knowing that
> some
> > data might be slipping through our wonderful LDM
> feeds
> > unprocessed?
> > > 
> > > daryl
> > > 
> > > [1] 
> > > http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/mailing_lists/archives/gembud/2009/msg00044.html
> > > 
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