• After witnessing the continued decrease of involvement in the SpotterNetwork staff in serving SN members with troubleshooting issues recently, I have unilaterally decided to terminate the relationship between SpotterNetwork's support and Stormtrack. I have witnessed multiple users unable to receive support weeks after initiating help threads on the forum. I find this lack of response from SpotterNetwork officials disappointing and a failure to hold up their end of the agreement that was made years ago, before I took over management of this site. In my opinion, having Stormtrack users sit and wait for so long to receive help on SpotterNetwork issues on the Stormtrack forums reflects poorly not only on SpotterNetwork, but on Stormtrack and (by association) me as well. Since the issue has not been satisfactorily addressed, I no longer wish for the Stormtrack forum to be associated with SpotterNetwork.

    I apologize to those who continue to have issues with the service and continue to see their issues left unaddressed. Please understand that the connection between ST and SN was put in place long before I had any say over it. But now that I am the "captain of this ship," it is within my right (nay, duty) to make adjustments as I see necessary. Ending this relationship is such an adjustment.

    For those who continue to need help, I recommend navigating a web browswer to SpotterNetwork's About page, and seeking the individuals listed on that page for all further inquiries about SpotterNetwork.

    From this moment forward, the SpotterNetwork sub-forum has been hidden/deleted and there will be no assurance that any SpotterNetwork issues brought up in any of Stormtrack's other sub-forums will be addressed. Do not rely on Stormtrack for help with SpotterNetwork issues.

    Sincerely, Jeff D.

Realtime raw METAR feed

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Is there any online source for raw METAR data straight from NOAA, or does this require something like a NOAAPort setup? I'd imagine a realtime feed via the internet would be too resource-intensive for them to offer everyone. I'm looking for a full set of all METAR site data nationwide in real time. Any third-party vendors that might offer something like this?

Dan
 
Those hourly files are pretty good, I use them for bulk data. They are usually complete a few minutes after the hour, but once and a while it will take longer. When I really want rapidly updating data, you can hit the adds.aviationweather.gov site.

http://aviationweather.gov/adds/met...on&hoursStr=most+recent+only&submitmet=Submit

The hourly obs are usually in by HH:58 or 59. Each metar is pretty tiny, so I have never run into problems with data limits. These servers are used to handling entire model run output, so metars are small by comparison.
 
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