For the past few days I have noticed that Hamweather's Metar uploads are getting current "top of the hour" data at 15 minutes past the hour for the Metars that I download*. This is around 20 minutes earlier than I have been getting current data since I have been using Hamweather (which was after VWS no longer was able to get the NOAA downloads).
I sure hope this continues!
*KSNA, KLGB, KPSP, KTRM, KEED.