METARs on Firefox Bookmark Toolbar

[JoeSelch]

Just found a nifty way to put abbreviated METAR info on the Firefox Bookmark Toolbar... using the Microsummary feature of Firefox 2.x.

http://web.sigkill.com/noaa-metar-microsummary/

If you're a little bit geeky, you can figure out how to get this to work. A few notes:

• When the author instructs to "bookmark as normal," he means to use Ctrl-D to bring up the bookmark window to bookmark the NOAA METAR page.
• It doesn't handle gusting winds properly, so I made an inelegant edit to the XML file to display the wind string the way it always is in a raw METAR:
  • The file will be in your Firefox Data\profile\microsummary-generators folder, after installation.
  • Open in editor and scroll down to the "Do some munging on the base wind string" section.
  • Change the select statement to: select="$metarWind"

Of course, geekier geeks with more spare time than I, can really tweak this microsummary into something super...