kweather configuration help

[Eric B]

Forgive and ignore last message, left it un-subjected by mistake, 
realized just after I clicked on send.


Before I start, please forgive odd formatting...  not sure how to 
quote HTML in Eudora.  I'm using my windows machine to send this.

I wanted to take a look at kweather.  So I did some configuration and 
playing around.

First off I wanted to know what a METAR was and what the codes were:
The following is quoted from: http://www.weather-watch.com/

>METAR stands for Meteorological Airport Report. METARs are a letter 
>indicating region and then three letters indicating location as 
>assigned by the International Civil Aviation Organization 
>http://www.icao.intl .  Some of the more common regions are
>CXXX- Canada
>EXXX- Northern Europe
>KXXX- United States
>A list of worldwide METARs with such information as longitude, 
>latitude, elevation, etc.... can be found 
>http://adds.aviationweather.noaa.gov/metars/stations.txt  and 
>http://www.nws.noaa.gov/tg/siteloc.shtml.
>For much more information about METARs Federal Meteorological 
>Handbook http://www.nws.noaa.gov/oso/oso1/oso12/fmh1.htm

I Checked out the sites listed and discovered that kweather wants the 
ICAO 4 character ID (3rd column) as the argument.
In other words, to get data from Los Angeles international, you use 
the command:  kweather klax

Interestingly enough, it seems like many of my local, Indiana, USA 
METARs are "broken".  They are reporting that they "need 
maintenance."  I plan on doing more research on this.

I hope this information helps some folks out there trying to use kweather.

Eric