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This just crossed my mind:

Screenscraping sucks. The real way to do this is to decode the raw METAR observation by hand. This is not a trivial task, mainly because they look like this:

KDSM 252054Z 15008KT 10SM -TSRA BKN034 BKN065 OVC080 20/19 A2979 RMK AO2 WSHFT 2020 TSB07RAB08 SLP080 TS NE-E-S MOV NE OCNL LTGICCC P0040 60049 T02000189 55021

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