Weather Decoder
I started playing with “taf decoder” again, and decided to add a translation of the “Metar” (current weather report) as well as the “TAF” (forecast) for the airport. What we now have is
WEATHER DECODER v:1.0
Weather decoder is a php script that will run on any php enabled web server. A little simple editing will allow you to present the viewer with a list of airports. On submit, the script fetches the details of the weather for that airport from the National Weather Service in the USA and translates the coded formats to display a current aviation weather report and the aviation forecast. Although these are a specialised form of weather report and forecast (e.g. no forecasts are made of temperature or amounts of rain because these are not very relevant to aviators) they are detailed and usually accurate and the data is easily available.
The script is open source – mostly written from scratch by me, but borrowing from previous similar projects by others (details in the readme and commented in the script).
To see what it does: click here. To download the script and readme in zip format: click here
Please feel free to comment!