diff --git a/gulp/publish-frontend.mjs b/gulp/publish-frontend.mjs
index f2d3f30..6293480 100644
--- a/gulp/publish-frontend.mjs
+++ b/gulp/publish-frontend.mjs
@@ -1,4 +1,3 @@
-/* eslint-disable import/no-extraneous-dependencies */
 import 'dotenv/config';
 import {
 	src, dest, series, parallel,
@@ -58,15 +57,6 @@ const jsVendorSources = [
 	'server/scripts/vendor/auto/suncalc.js',
 ];
 
-// Copy metar-taf-parser separately since it's an ES module with locale dependencies
-const metarVendorSources = [
-	'server/scripts/vendor/auto/metar-taf-parser.mjs',
-	'server/scripts/vendor/auto/locale/en.js',
-];
-
-const copyMetarVendor = () => src(metarVendorSources, { base: 'server/scripts/vendor/auto' })
-	.pipe(dest(`${RESOURCES_PATH}/vendor/auto`));
-
 const compressJsVendor = () => src(jsVendorSources)
 	.pipe(concat('vendor.min.js'))
 	.pipe(terser())
@@ -210,7 +200,7 @@ const buildPlaylist = async () => {
 	return file('playlist.json', JSON.stringify(playlist)).pipe(dest('./dist'));
 };
 
-const buildDist = series(clean, parallel(buildJs, compressJsVendor, copyMetarVendor, copyCss, compressHtml, copyOtherFiles, copyDataFiles, copyImageSources, buildPlaylist));
+const buildDist = series(clean, parallel(buildJs, compressJsVendor, copyCss, compressHtml, copyOtherFiles, copyDataFiles, copyImageSources, buildPlaylist));
 
 // upload_images could be in parallel with upload, but _images logs a lot and has little changes
 // by running upload last the majority of the changes will be at the bottom of the log for easy viewing
diff --git a/gulp/update-vendor.mjs b/gulp/update-vendor.mjs
index 550ff21..2dbc215 100644
--- a/gulp/update-vendor.mjs
+++ b/gulp/update-vendor.mjs
@@ -1,4 +1,3 @@
-/* eslint-disable import/no-extraneous-dependencies */
 import { src, series, dest } from 'gulp';
 import { deleteAsync } from 'del';
 import rename from 'gulp-rename';
diff --git a/server/scripts/modules/utils/metar.mjs b/server/scripts/modules/utils/metar.mjs
index 98b371e..97359b1 100644
--- a/server/scripts/modules/utils/metar.mjs
+++ b/server/scripts/modules/utils/metar.mjs
@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
 // METAR parsing utilities using metar-taf-parser library
 import { parseMetar } from '../../vendor/auto/metar-taf-parser.mjs';
+// eslint-disable-next-line import/extensions
+import en from '../../vendor/auto/locale/en.js';
 
 /**
  * Augment observation data by parsing METAR when API fields are missing
@@ -14,7 +16,7 @@ const augmentObservationWithMetar = (observation) => {
 	const metar = { ...observation };
 
 	try {
-		const metarData = parseMetar(observation.rawMessage);
+		const metarData = parseMetar(observation.rawMessage, { locale: en });
 
 		if (observation.windSpeed?.value === null && metarData.wind?.speed !== undefined) {
 			metar.windSpeed = {
diff --git a/ws4kp.code-workspace b/ws4kp.code-workspace
index 67581ec..2069d89 100644
--- a/ws4kp.code-workspace
+++ b/ws4kp.code-workspace
@@ -44,7 +44,8 @@
 			"mwood",
 			"unmuted",
 			"dumpio",
-			"mesonet"
+			"mesonet",
+			"metar"
 		],
 		"cSpell.ignorePaths": [
 			"**/package-lock.json",
@@ -82,4 +83,4 @@
 			"j69.ejs-beautify",
 		]
 	}
-}
+}
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