William Morder via tde-users wrote:

> So do I have to dig into the guts of kweather to change something, or
> should I look elsewhere?

Can you access tgftp.nws.noaa.gov particularly 
https://tgftp.nws.noaa.gov/data/observations/metar/stations/

if you get the error from kweather, it might not have to do with underlaying
networking