Metar Question...

[Gulfbreeze]

Par,

I just noticed something a little odd, When I select my home town of Waveland, MS it returns the closest Metar station is Gulfport, MS, which is not right, for Waveland, or Bay St. Louis, MS our Metar is Stennis Airport Metar ID: KHSA. I used the www command to make sure it was there, and it showed up on the link site. But when I go to change the Metar station, in Yowindow...it defaults back to Gulfport. How do I change to my local Metar, since yowindow wants to return me to the default station?

GB

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[ikarus1969]

Par,

I just noticed something a little odd, When I select my home town of Waveland, MS it returns the closest Metar station is Gulfport, MS, which is not right, for Waveland, or Bay St. Louis, MS our Metar is Stennis Airport Metar ID: KHSA. I used the www command to make sure it was there, and it showed up on the link site. But when I go to change the Metar station, in Yowindow...it defaults back to Gulfport. How do I change to my local Metar, since yowindow wants to return me to the default station?

GB

(ikarus1969: i hope you don't mind but please take care to post in the right forum so you will be "serviced" asap. Thank you!)

I had no problem changing the metar-station:
i entered the other code and no matter if i pressed Enter immediately or clicked the OK-button the other metar-station is used for getting the weather.
Also after quitting YoWindow and restart it, the other metar was still used (and not the default).
I forgot to mention that i'm using RC 429.


Despite that Gulfbreeze is of course right:

Waveland: 30.29N, 89.38W

Default Metar regarding YoWindow:
KGPT: 30.41N, 89.08W
distance to Waveland ~20 miles (~32km)


Nearest Metar regarding Gulfbreeze:
KHSA: 30.37N, 89.46W
distance to Waveland ~7 miles (~12km)

So maybe Pavel can change the default-metar for Waveland?

[par]

Unfortunately KHSA is an unreliable weather station.
Right now it reports the current weather that was measured 7 hours ago, that is why we have excluded it from YoWindow
http://en.allmetsat.com/metar-taf/europe.php?icao=KHSA