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(Note to Admins/Mods: Apologies if this is in the wrong place) Hey folks, I got bored yesterday and usually when I get bored random ideas pop into my head, and one did so, which I thought might be of use to fellow NW members (and the rest of the WX community elsewhere on the internet), maybe not so at this time of year, but definitely during the year it may have potential to be handy. I think the main reason this idea popped into my head, was because earlier this year when various storms were happening and we had quite a few funnel cloud and tornado reports, a lot of people usually refer to METAR reading and I am yet to come across a site that has them all listed in one go. (The US's NWS require you to search each one individually and so do many other places) Which is the reason I decided to make an all-in-one "dashboard" for all the places that hand out METAR readings within the UK. At the moment it seems the METAR data is released every 30 minutes [xx:20 and xx:50] (I will modify my stuff if various stations do release data more frequently), so I harvest all this every 30 minutes and have it cached and then relayed onto a dashboard like so: Now if a METAR reading from one of the stations does not contain any weather information, the station's block will turn black, like so: If however you don't want your screen full of locations reporting no current weather conditions (for whatever reason), then if you clicking "NO WX DATA" in the bottom right corner will switch between showing them and not (however by default I've got them as not showing), then you'll see a more cleaner list of stations: Now, even though in the "legend" at the bottom of the screen some things listed probably will never happen, I've included them anyway. To test my stuff, I entered some "dummy data" and this is how it would look if one of the METAR reports flagged up any of stuff within the "legend" (full view and cleaner view): Then, once a box has been assigned whatever colour corresponds to the event it's reporting, you can click the title or code and a little box will appear showing you the current METAR reading: I am also keeping all the METAR reports too from all 99 stations on the list, and will be adding an option soon to view all the METAR data (only dating back to when I first put this project online). I think I've waffled on a fair bit too much for something quite simple. I hope this is something that people would use (there's no adverts on there and also the design is as simple as simple can be - because I like things to run as quick as they can). Few final things: - The page does automatically refresh (set to every 5 minutes) - The "full" page weighs in at 9.9KB (that's if jQuery is cached, if not 40.8KB), so it won't eat your mobile data - For better viewing (if you have it on a spare monitor), press [F11] to view it fullscreen. Any questions, comments or queries? Pop them below... oh and along with if you have an idea for something else, I'd love to hear it as I've been doing computer and web programming since I was 12 (so a good 15 years) - obviously just a hobby - and I'll see what I can do. UPDATES 10th December 2014 - Wind speed and direction, along with gust speeds also now being reported. - Removed "Dust Devil" from legend. - Added "ORDER BY WIND" option to the legend. - Changed the "NO WX DATA" blocks from black to a grey colour. PREVIEW LIVE VIEW: http://dalehay.me/metar/ "DUMMY" VIEW (Showing what it'd look like if something was detected): http://dalehay.me/metar2/