Yeah mate check em after you land as it is totally useless to know what the weather is doing before you take off???!
Dirty Sanchez,
The question was actually would you check them prior takeoff or
prior landing. Checking a METAR before you land doesn't sound that stupid to me. I don't do it, but it makes sense logically. Maybe you should RTFQ before you criticise.
Wind-up or not, this has generated some useful stuff in what was becoming a totally yawn-inducing forum, at least some of the time.