Original plugin by Joan
Downloads forecast data from NOAA servers and sets x-plane wind and cloud layers using forecast data for the current time and world coordinates.
Sandy Barbour Python Interface
Wgrib2: The plugin comes with wgrib2 for common os OSX, win32 and Linux i686 glib2.5
Wgrib uses cygwin on windows but the .dll is provided on the bin folder and there's no need to install it.
Install Sandy's Python Interface
Copy the zip file contents to your X-Plane/Resources/plugins/PythonScripts folder.
The resulting installation should look like:
X-Plane/Resources/plugins/PythonScripts/noaaWeatherResources/
X-Plane/Resources/plugins/PythonScripts/PI_noaaWeather.py
X-Plane/Resources/plugins/PythonScripts/EasyDref.py
2015 NOAA Patch by qwerty2k2: Original Post, added as of commit f4e36dc
Interactive desktop tool for easy access, manipulation, and visualization of earth science data and wgrib2 builds for diverse platforms. Link
Some info on what X-Plane does with METAR data: Winds