* Martin Spott -- Thursday 26 February 2004 12:45:
> I thank you very much for implementing real weather and proxy support.
> This is really a great improvement !
I'm quite happy about it, too. It really gives a special feeling to
start from ULLI with the real, actual weather from there, or to fly
around the SF bay and see the weather change. (BTW: I did only write
the SGMetar class and the metar program (i.e. the fun parts), while
Erik and Curt did the less trivial and less funny things. :-)
> As far as I learned, rain and snow don't show up in METAR messages as a
> weather phenomenon, do they ?
Yes, they do, and even thunderstorms/lightning:
$ src/Main/metar efhk # that's Helsinki
INPUT: 2004/02/26 11:20
EFHK 261120Z 16013KT 3500W -SHSN FEW012 BKN014 M00/M03 Q0993 0415//80 1519//83
5419//84 TEMPO 8000
UNUSED: TEMPO 8000
METAR Report
============
Airport-Id: EFHK
Report time: 2004/2/26 11:20 UTC
3.5 km W 2.2 US-miles W
Wind: from the SSE (160�) at 24.1 km/h 13 kt = 15 mph = 6.7
m/s
Temperature: 0�C 32�F
Dewpoint: -3�C 26.6�F
Rel. Humidity: 80%
Pressure: 993 hPa 29.32 in. Hg
Weather: light showers of snow
Sky condition: few clouds at 1200 ft 370 m
broken clouds at 1400 ft 430 m
Runway 04: damp, 26-50%, friction: 0.80
Runway 04R: damp, 51-100%, friction: 0.84
Runway 15: damp, 51-100%, friction: 0.83
m.
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