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Offline Jasiu

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get METAR conditions problem when using API
« on: February 11, 2021, 09:15:45 AM »
As noted in this GitHub discussion:

  https://github.com/weather-gov/api/issues/168

the "latest observation" for a station that is returned from the NWS API is not always a full METAR report. Those that are will have a rawMessage field and a non-empty cloudLayer.

The code currently doesn't check for this and the null result is written to the cache file.

I only tried this out when I saw the GitHub discussion. I don't have $useMetarAPI set true in my code.
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