Progress MesoWest portion of README

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@@ -55,8 +55,8 @@ Configuration File
 The configuration file is separated into two parts, the
 [nrcs]/[mesowest] portion, and the [infoex] portion.
 
 The configuration file is separated into two parts, the
 [nrcs]/[mesowest] portion, and the [infoex] portion.
 

-The [nrcs]/[mesowest] values describe which NRCS SNOTEL site's data
-you're after.  See the next section in this README for instructions on
+The [nrcs]/[mesowest] values describe which weather station's data
+you're after. See the next section in this README for instructions on

 obtaining these values.
 
 The [infoex] values describe your credentials for the InfoEx automated
 obtaining these values.
 
 The [infoex] values describe your credentials for the InfoEx automated


@@ -131,13 +131,25 @@ into InfoEx.
 Finding your MesoWest values
 ----------------------------
 
 Finding your MesoWest values
 ----------------------------
 

+MesoWest has great documentation which can be found here:
+
+https://developers.synopticdata.com/mesonet/v2/getting-started/
+

 To complete the [mesowest] configuration section, you must fill in the
 attributes of the MesoWest station ID from which you want to import
 To complete the [mesowest] configuration section, you must fill in the
 attributes of the MesoWest station ID from which you want to import

-data.
+data. Here are the steps to do that:

 
 

-Here are the steps to do that:
+1. Firstly, get set up with MesoWest's API by going to the above
+   'Getting Started' link. Once you're set up, you can copy a token from
+   the MesoWest web portal into your configuration file's `token` value.
+
+2. Next, you will want to find the Station ID for the MesoWest weather
+   station of interest and copy it to the `stid` value.
+
+3. Finally, you must choose what data types you want to push into
+   InfoEx.  MesoWest refers to these as 'field names' and a list is
+   available here:

 
 

-Field names are listed here:

 https://developers.synopticdata.com/about/station-variables/
 
 The MesoWest API supports on-the-fly unit conversion, so that can be
 https://developers.synopticdata.com/about/station-variables/
 
 The MesoWest API supports on-the-fly unit conversion, so that can be


@@ -145,6 +157,17 @@ specified to infoex-autowx via the configuration option `units`. This
 can be either 'english' or 'metric', with 'english' meaning imperial
 units as used in the United States.
 
 can be either 'english' or 'metric', with 'english' meaning imperial
 units as used in the United States.
 

+For example:
+
+`token = (token id)`  
+`stid = OD110`  
+`desired_data = air_temp,snow_depth`  
+`units = english`
+
+indicates that I'd like to import "Temperature" and "Precipitation
+accumulated" from the MesoWest station at Santiam Pass, OR, into InfoEx,
+and that I want that data in imperial units.
+

 Version History
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 Version History
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