Scripts I wrote to manage weather alerts and data

syncMETAR.sh

#!/bin/bash
# Used to sync METAR data for Airports I want updates from.
# All data can be fetched via FTP but that's a waste of bandwidth.

curl --silent "http://weather.noaa.gov/pub/data/observations/metar/stations/{KFTY,KATL}.TXT" -o "/var/www/weather.noaa.gov/pub/data/observations/metar/stations/#1.TXT"

tweetMETAR.sh

#!/bin/bash
# Tweet METAR data using the ruby gem `t'.
# https://twitter.com/METARKFTY

PATH=/usr/local/rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p194/bin/
t update "`cat /var/www/weather.noaa.gov/pub/data/observations/metar/stations/KFTY.TXT | tail -n 1`"

txtMETAR.sh

#!/bin/bash
# Send METAR data to a phone.
# Works well as a morning cronjob: 0 9 * * * /path/to/txtMETAR

cat /var/www/weather.noaa.gov/pub/data/observations/metar/stations/KFTY.TXT | tail -n 1 | mail [email protected]