I don't know, but I have the exact same problem, mine quit working too.  Been playing with everything on my system since yesterday.  Glad it's not just me.  This means it must be NOAA that is goofing up something, or a windows update.  Are you using winxp.

Since SysMetrix hasn't received an update is a couple of years this may well be the end of it.  It was a nice program.

Hey, Yes, still using Win XP, and Windows 7 and makes no difference... there are some sites that work.  Alice TX, works, but almost everywhere else gives back this parsing error.

Thnx for the quick response..

lol...I tried Alice, TX and mine works too...man that ain't right...I'd rather none of them work, that just pisses me off...weird problem, why would that site work and non of the others.  This has become an obsession now...I am hooked, gotta find out whats going on here..lol

The problem seems to be with NOAA, they changed their format.  If you look the report from Alice, TX is old, from Dec 24, 2009.  The others with Parse errors are current.  Seems the only way this is gonna get fixed is if the programmer of sysmetrix makes us a fix.  Not likely since he hasn't done anything with it since 2004..lol

I emailed NOAA and sent the metardata.txt file as well as attached a text file with the parse error.  You're like me, I won't quit until it's fixed! 

Cool.  I realize metars are the official current weather for most locations, but hadn't thought of them in 'desktop gadget' terms.  I wonder if there's any that'll provide near-complete aviation forecasts?  Like with TAFs, Airmets, prog charts, and the like.

Same trouble with sysmetrix here under XP SP3

i checked www.xymantix.com for an update to the problem to see if the programmer was aware of this.  I emailed him via the link from his website.  The SysMetrix site says the last update was '05 with the possibility of SysMetrix 4.0 coming out in '06.  I know he hasn't worked on it in a while and most likely has other committments.  Windows 7 widgets, and Yahoo widgets still work, but get their data from other sources. With any luck Decker might update the software (possible patch?). Whaddaya say?  Please?  I really do use SysMetrix and weather is important to me. I run my own greenhouse and am an avid gardener.

thanks in advance! 

Citizen Machinehd

Ya I thought of that, but it's not likely to happen, but worth a try.  I am hanging my hat on the URL option he programmed in, gonna research maybe an alternate site for the weather info.  He said for advanced  users see if I can get it to work that way.  Will keep you'll posted.

SirBedwyr: If you right click on the SysMetrix skin you are currently using, and scroll down to "Weather" and pop that menu out to "Show more information", you will (or would have) see lots more data.  Not quite aviation level, but a lot more detailed info.

os1smith:  I see that about the old data.  Oak Harbor, WA works too but the data is from 2007!  lol

LMAO...I put in Oak Harbor and my weather display for weather age says 834 days old....lol...maybe someone needs to look out a window or some thing and update that thing...lol

I have the same problem, but I think its with NOAA.  I went to NOAA.gov and entered several locations near me and didn't get a weather report for any of them. Maybe they will get the problem repaired shortly. 

Well guys it is diffinately a format change on the part of NOAA.  I dig up my old METAR reports here is the last four days, I went back about 20 reports. now my sysmetrix weather worked a few days ago and you can clearly see a difference in the reports with the inclusion a few days ago  of the CIG tag in the report and the inclusion of the runway info, which I think is what is giving the sysmetrix grief, because it doesn't know what to do with that new info.

KLRF 030155Z AUTO 06006KT 10SM CLR M03/M10 A3040 RMK AO2 CIG 140 RWY07 SLP299 T10301099

KLRF 030055Z AUTO 07007KT 10SM CLR M03/M09 A3040 RMK AO2 CIG 180 RWY07 SLP299 T10251093

KLRF 022355Z AUTO 07006KT 10SM BKN180 M02/M09 A3040 RMK AO2 CIG 160 RWY07 SLP299 T10181092 10016 21018 50001

KLRF 012255Z AUTO 06007KT 10SM FEW160 M01/M09 A3040 RMK AO2 SLP300 T10111093

You can goto the NOAA site and check out the FAQ, there is alo going to be a new HTTP site to get this info, the HTTP that sysmetrix uses as a default is going away soon.  Which would not be a big deal since we can change the URL but we can't change how sysmetrix reads the data...which SUCKS.

That's new?  Runway and extended pressure comments have been part of AWOS for years now.