METAR

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METARs are issued hourly unless significant weather changes have occurred.

A special METAR, S-P-E-C-I, can be issued at any interval between routine METAR reports.

Example METAR KGGG 161753Z Auto 14021G26 3-4SM, plus TSRA, BR, BKN008, OVC012CB, 18-17, A2970, RMK, PRESFR.

The great advantage of the graphically displayed airmet slant segment boundary box is the pilot can see the extent of the area that the report covers.

The pilot does not need to manually plot the points to determine the full extent of the coverage area.

Graphical METARs.

METARs can be displayed on the multifunction display.

And...

The bride's brother was an airline pilot, and she said that the METAR weather said it was going to stop raining during this time and that time.

And so I literally, I said, okay, we're going to roll with this.

And what ended up happening was miserable.

We also have Carl Tauber, my neighbor to the South who says it's 64 degrees and sunny in the people's Republic of Rhode Island.

Uh, Over in Discord, we have Evils who says that his METAR has got all sorts of numbers in it, but it seems like he's a little below standard.

Warren Jones, my neighbor to the north, says it's 68 degrees Frankenstein in his living room with no wind and a snoring dog.

Perfect.

So he basically analyzed meta reports, meta as in meta R, like pirate Facebook, or the weather guys, which provide...

Sorry, what? They're called M-E-T-A-R.

Oh.

would provide hourly weather updates with the aviation industry and compare them with odds on online betting platforms such as Polymarket, which you referenced earlier, Andrew.

About 15 minutes prior to the accident, the ASOS reported a wind shift with a peak hourly wind of 180 at 26 knots.

At 1353, the ASOS generated a METAR that reported in part winds 190 at 17, gusts 26, visibility more than 10 miles with thunderstorms, scattered cumulonimbus at 2,000, and a broken ceiling at 4,800.

I read this a couple of times, and I wondered why in the world a tower was landing aircraft on runway 30 with such an enormous tailwind component.

About four minutes before clearing this flight to land, another aircraft requested a wind check and was told the winds were 190 at 19, gusting 22.

The captain had been hired six months before the accident, and while he was an experienced 737 pilot, he'd logged only about 150 hours on the 767.

The FO had 2,800 hours of total time and about 800 hours on the 767.

One minute before the accident, the Miami ASOS again generated another METAR with the wind 190 at 17 gusting to 26, visibility of 10 plus with thunderstorms.

About a minute and 42 seconds before the crash, the FO began making comments to the captain regarding the aircraft's excessive speed.

Surface aviation weather observations.

Surface aviation weather observations, M-E-T-A-R, METARs, are a compilation of elements of the current weather at individual ground stations across the United States.

The network is made up of government and privately contracted facilities that provide continuous, up-to-date weather information.

Automated weather sources, such as the Automated Weather Observing Systems, AWOS, Automated Surface Observing Systems, ASOS, Air Route Traffic Control Center, ARTCC facilities, as well as other automated facilities, also play a major role in the gathering of surface observations.

Normally, these differences are minor but necessary to accommodate local procedures or particular units of measure.

This discussion of METAR will cover elements used in the United States.

METARs are issued hourly unless significant weather changes have occurred.

A special METAR, S-P-E-C-I, can be issued at any interval between routine METAR reports.

you're receiving actual National Weather Service radar composites.

METARs and TAFs, pilot reports, SIGMETs, AIRMETs, convective outlooks, all downloaded to your cockpit display from either a satellite link or ground-based broadcast stations, updated every few minutes.

The strategic value of that is enormous for a cross-country pilot.

You can see what is building 400 miles ahead before it is relevant to your immediate situation.