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		barbazoo on Sept 27, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The Geeks way of checking what the outside wheathe... If you're in the US, go to https://aviationweather.gov/metar and pick your nearest station. For instance LA https://aviationweather.gov/metar/data?ids=KLAX&format=decod.... That gives you the current conditions. If you want to parse it, get the raw METAR string and parse individual components such as temperature. Not a fun thing to do though.

joezydeco on Sept 27, 2022 [–]

There are plenty of premade libraries, especially in Python, that are ready to use and adapt.

https://github.com/python-metar/python-metar

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