Embedded Files
The most fully decoded format available in the weather interface is called, appropriately enough, Metarfulldecode. It presents the weather elements in plain, easy-to-read sentences. Two problems: the weather report is not always decoded correctly, and if you're looking at a lot of observations that's an awful lot of words to have to wade through.
Here's a typical decoded observation from Sept. 4, 1996, from METARFULLDECODE:
METARFULLDECODE> clt 12z The weather observed at CHARLOTTE (CLT) at 06:50 AM CDT was: The skies were overcast The weather reported was a thunderstorm, heavy showers of rain, moderate showers of rain and mist. Temperature: 66F (19C) Dewpoint: 66F (19C) Relative Humidity: 100% Winds from the NW (330 degs) at 10 mph. Pressure: 1015.2 millibars. Altimeter:29.99 inches of mercury and rising. The prevailing visibility was: 4.0 miles. The amount of precipitation recorded in the last 3 hours was 0.72 inches. The amount of precipitation recorded in the last 24 hours was just a trace.
Nice, easy to read, but rather wordy and limited, and also slightly wrong. Can you spot the errors? (hint, some are trick questions)
Check the answers below that are True then check your answers:
Report abuse