Bear’s Journal

I have wanted to put some basic weather info on the main page and knew
that I could always parse the data that comes from NOAA National Weather
Service — it is structured text. Some google-crawling later I found a
number of perl and python projects — after all if I have had the idea
then most likely a couple dozen other people have also had the idea.
From a flexibility point of view I picked “pyMETAR(python METAR parsing library)”:http://www.schwarzvogel.de/software-pymetar.shtml

A first pass of working with the pyMETAR library looks very promising.
The author has done an excellant job of abstracting the details of a
METAR report.

Until I finish that bit of glue code I’ve added two basic NOAA NWS links
to tide me over.

_Update_: I’ve written some glue code to retrieve the weather report and
generate a file that is now included in the right side menu - woohoo!