This app will allow you to connect a Twitter account to a METAR reporting station.
Which station would you like to begin tweeting? ICAO (beginning with K) codes, please.
Why Twitter? Why METARs?
METARs are valuable information to pilots, and can be useful for anybody willing to learn how to decode them. The standard phraseology results in a very concise but detailed picture of the weather in a location. I've seen very few METARs in my experience that went over 140 characters.
Why Twitter? Because it's a free service that will also offer the ability to get text messages for selected accounts. If you're going to be flying, you can tell Twitter to push those updates as SMSes to your phone. If you need to watch the weather for another reason that can be useful as well.
It's also useful for historical data - need to know what the weather was a few hours/days/weeks/? ago? As long as the reports have been tweeted that far back you can retrieve them. I personally will use this when I want to make a note about weather conditions in my logbook after a flight.
Besides, why not?
Keep this going
This project requires its own dedicated infrastructure that is beyond my ability to subsidize for very long. If you find it useful, please consider contributing toward keeping it online. Infrastructure costs will likely be about $25/mo in the beginning. If you include your Twitter screenname you'll get a shoutout on the site, or you can request to be anonymous.
Note: None of this information is intended nor provided for navigational use. Use a properly certificated provider instead.
10/01/2010
Site launched.