Realtime raw METAR feed

[Dan Robinson]

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

 

[mikedeason]

The closest I've found has been the hourly cycle files:

http://weather.noaa.gov/pub/data/observations/metar/cycles/

 

[MClarkson]

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.