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+This tool can be used to create well-formated excel-spreadsheets from the data provided by the weather station of [Nürnberg Flugfeld](http://umweltdaten.nuernberg.de/wetterdaten/messstation-nuernberg-flugfeld.html) (and potentially any other station using the same format).
+It automatically downloads and combines the data of the last 6 months and outputs a single Excel-File with multiple sub-tables.