In a previous article, Peter said:
website their script rips the data from A lot of this goes on - the
NOAA ARL site has been modified to require the human interpretation of
a graphic, to prevent automated weather data ripping.

Not so with the NOAA ftp site. The perl script that generates
http://xcski.com/~ptomblin/taf.html gets the TAFs and METARs connects to
ftp://weather.noaa.gov/data/forecasts/taf/stations/ and
ftp://weather.noaa.gov/data/observat...etar/stations/

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